a sense of humour or too long in the garden?
Oct 5th, 2007 by Peter Donegan MI Hort
It’s been a long week…. [look closely..?] But, Friday’s here again, summer time eventually came to Ireland![touch wood?!] and if you’re reading this and you’re brain is slightly sore from reading my last two posts - this should cheer you up in time for a weekend being the gardening guru. enjoy!
Top 5 Donegan Landscaping T-Shirt’s
1. vegans like tree stakes
2. Northern Rock - with branches like these who’d want to leave
3. My other t-shirt is clean
4. Higher - an arborist
5. bulbs - solar powered
Top 5 quotes used by Peter
1.“Most people who possess anything like an acre, or half of it, contribute weekly to the support of a gentleman known as the Jobbing Gardener. They should be warned that he is Garden Pest no.1″
C.E. Lucas 1952 - The Small Garden
2.“Gardening requires lots of water, most of it in the form of perspiration.”
Lou Erickson
3.“What a man needs in gardening is a cast-iron back, with a hinge in it.”
4.“I prefer to supervise and empathise”.
Frank Donegan every Saturday for twenty years.
5.“There was a time when the criterion of a good garden was colour…”
Margery Fish 1958 The All Year Garden.
Top 5 Quotes to Peter
1. will I ever get a summer holiday? – sara.
2. You’re just plain dirty - passers by.
3. It’s not easy being green [kermit the frog] - David.
4. You’re famous for something alright - Peters Mam.
5. You’re barking mad - too many names.
Top 5 quotes by Peter
1.You could have married Santa
2. Save a tree - recycle an envelope
3. Fail to prepare - prepare to fail
4. nurses need patience too
5. As soon as it stops raining
Enjoyed the humourous quotes - laugh tonic for gardeners. Now where can I get a cast-iron back hinge?
Jenny,
I’ve let my sense of humour down here Jenny - I know!! and you’re comment is funnier than all of mine.
sunshine in ireland again today
peter
I looked and looked and looked at that picture, and I couldn’t see it! (D’oh!!)
Then someone emailed it to everyone at work as well, and everyone else started rolling around laughing and wiping their eyes. So… I finally had it explained to me and can now see the joke!!
Excellent!