Amateur Gardening

AG anniversary anecdotes

Bob Flowerdew memories

What instantly comes to mind was the wonderful tongue-in-cheek re-titling of a piece I wrote; on frozen pools and ponds, on letting noxious gases out, and debating whether it was so wrong to smash the ice if that was deemed necessary - “Bob says now’s the time for stunning wildlife”

Another was bumping into the late great Peter Seabrook, another writer, with often polemically different views to mine. In his hands was a glass

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