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Gardening : 2005 - More Melons for Lily
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From: MSN Nicknamelilyannie1  in response to Message 4Sent: 9/1/2005 4:36 PM
Hi, yesterday, 31st August, we had been shopping.  At 4pm, I was strolling along the main road to work when I stumbled on a piece of smashed melon.  I went back to retrieve it and turned it round to see the skin - yes, it was one of our melons!  The shock!  I went up to the shop to show it to my hubby who by now was breathing fire!  He dropped everything, ran back to our house to discover that some dreadful kids have climbed our garden fence and smashed many of these melons.  I don't know what the world is coming to! 
After a sleepless night, I really want to report this intrusion to the local newspapers since these heartless kids have strippped the bark off the trees down by the river - trees that are over 10years old and now are going to die.  They have frightened off a family of ducks which my hubby lovingly fed daily.
Many of the residents along this road have complain to the police, the environmental services- since they went through the bother of building some sort of dam across the river to prevent fish from swimming upstream - all to no effect because we have to catch them on the act - as though we sit on our bums all day!
Feeling better now, but it still hurts that my melons are only half size and they have smashed them up - I could just imagine that little bastard kicking it like a football along the main road!  Besides we only have very few because most of the blooms were males this year.
After considerable thought, I decided that it was just our bad luck and with the attitudes of the kids and must not forget to add the 'parental skills' of the parents round here, it might make the situation worse for ourselves especially since we run a shop and am trying to make a living. 
Next time, if we catch the little so and so, we are going to chuck a bucket full of chicken poo at them!
Excuse - 'Oh we were just fertilising our vegs and we did not see them!'                      Lily


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     re: 2005 - More Melons for Lily   MSN NicknameIced-Gem�?/nobr>  9/7/2005 9:35 PM