Earlier in the week I was, for my sins, a panelist at a “Gardener’s Question Time” event in a local garden centre. I was joined by two others whose joint CV’s were extensive and involved phrases such as RHS examiner, lifetime in horticulture, university lecturer, supplier of vegetables to supermarkets, explorer and astronaut*. Luckily neither of them professed cartwheeling expertise so it was just as well that I could fill this gapping hole in the knowledge base. It was a bizarre event, one might say an out of body experience, but for all that not unpleasant. On the whole the audience were a jolly crew with an assortment of questions, some of which I even knew the answer to. Unfortunately none were queries concerning acrobatics of any sort, although I did have the subject covered. You will be pleased to know that I brought a little class to the proceedings by telling my knickers in the seaweed story. Not even the astronaut could trump that!
*fib
Off The Edge Gardening 
I have a fellow Master Gardener who can enter a garden and start naming plants with their Latin names – all of them. Of course, it does help that she worked for many years at a nursery. It certainly does cause you to revisit the state of humility. 🙂
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These are the people who we must suck the brains of (not literally obviously!) 🙂 Always good to mix with folk cleverer than yourself.
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Lovely photo and the idea of you cartwheeling in golden boots still makes me smile.Now about the ‘knickers in the seaweed’ bit,I really would love to know that story………….
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Your wish is my command ….
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Pete and I are also very intrigued: which nickers in what seeweed where?
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Knickers in the seaweed? Do tell us. Obviously the story deserves a wider audience.
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Done, hope was worth the build up!
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I’m another who would like to hear about the knickers in the seaweed story!
Oh, by the way, well done on surviving Gardeners’ Question Time. You are braver than me 🙂
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I was standing in for someone else who couldn’t do it so recommended me, thanks a million! It was nerve jangling.
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Knickers in the seaweed? Marvelous title. I may have to steal it!
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You can of course. It might be a title for a short story writing competition, everyone has to come up with their own version!
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Sounds like it was a fun day afterwards!
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