Sunday, 15 May 2022

Shoat Treasure Hunters.


 Number one son bought me a gardening trowel a few years ago and I some how mislaid it and thought I would never find it ever again.  

It was made by Gardena and quite expensive.  Not one of those cheap ones that bend and snap when you hit a stone. 

Like most things you lose they usually turn up again some time. I once lost wire cutters down a field and found them encrusted in rust five years later.  A spray of WD40 and they worked perfect again.

Any road or any way.  I went over the feed our pigs the other day and noticed my blue trowel had been rooted up and lay there waiting for me.

I have been planting some Parsnip plugs with the trowel today where the rogue potatoes grew.  It's a bit rusty and encrusted but perfectly functional.  What clever pigs to find a tool for a fellow digger.


 



10 comments:

  1. Is that how we managed to find teaspoons in the compost heap when we took over our allotment? Ie tools migrate.

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    1. Perhaps the tools need a rest so they hibernate Tigger?

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  2. Amazing the way things turn up sooner or later in the most unusual places. I have mislaid a special scrub brush I use to clean carpets. They're all being cleaned and stored for summer. I've given up looking. It'll turn up. Meantime, I might have to buy another.
    Clever pigs. I hope they got a special buckets of scraps

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    1. Yes Linda I am great believer that things always turn up in the end. They get ration, bread and vegetables and the contents of any jars in the kitchen cupboards.

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  3. Dogs...cats...goats...sons...donkeys...a wife... pigs. Sounds like you are turning into Doctor effing Dolittle! What next? A frigging giraffe?

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  4. I could call the giraffe Lanky after the Lancashire Cricket Club official mascot. We bought some hen chicks last week.

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  5. Hmmmmm... Yes there are some cockerel chicks. They probably support Tottenham?

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  6. The pigs obviously weren't interested in eating your trowel although I am told they'll eat almost anything.

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  7. They love rooting with their noses and trotters. We give them a mixed diet including pig ration but no meat. They even eat the lawnmower clippings. We will have a great new veg plot next year. Unless I get another polytunnel JayCee. Hmmm...🐖🤔

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