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Tales from Titchmarsh

they have ever owned. I can list every greenhouse. There have been 10 of them. The first two were made from polythene and bits of wood my dad had spare from DIY jobs around the house. I would have been about 10 years old at the time of the first and 12 when the second one (with a proper hinged door, rather than a polythene flap) was constructed against the old stone outhouse in the back garden.

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