Ramblings of the mis-wired....

I used up my typing fingers on the 101 thread! Good to see you all though.  My awkward garden woman leaves me to it mostly but has a habit of appearing ten minutes before I'm due to finish and asking me to do something that is a) going to take longer than ten minutes and b) is not garden related and c) I already have planned out what needs to get done in the last minutes. So every week I come home spitting nails and it just isn't a stress I can deal with anymore but I feel guilty saying I don't want to do because there's no one else and she can't do anything anymore. 

Is it also because you've planned your bravery levels and tgat chat at the end is just when it has began to wear thin? 

Yes, I think my tolerance is used up by then you are right and they don't pay me enough to overrun my time. I've just had enough of it and would rather put my time into trying to find a way to sell my art and it uses me up. For twenty quid...

It sounds like you have a bit of a nightmare landlady with unreasonable gardening expectations, is she aware that she isn't allowed to just turn up when she feels like it, sounds horribly awkward.

Thanks both. xx

Glad you're thinking of strategies for dealing with this Spotty x

Not easy making decisions about how to make our own lives better whilst not doing a disservice to someone else. You're right to take your time. 

I do feel obliged but she is difficult to deal with, I do better than some as I do stand up to her. There are proper gardeners locally but I don't know how easy it is to get one, I've been asked by quite a few people when I'm visible and said no.

I'm thinking I will probably write her a letter explaining things. We'll see. 

Would love to see more of your art btw....

no comment on the landlady...but it is an added stress....but the gravel drive us now raked and weeded to an inch of its life! Until the next breeze shakes a few more pine needles!  X

When you said no one else could do it so you feel obliged to stay on just like with the other garden... are gardeners hard to come by near you? Or do you in some way like having a bit of a routine amongst all the confusion of other things or could you say no I'm stopping after autumn? 

When you said no one else could do it so you feel obliged to stay on just like with the other garden... are gardeners hard to come by near you? Or do you in some way like having a bit of a routine amongst all the confusion of other things or could you say no I'm stopping after autumn? 

Thanks both. xx

Glad you're thinking of strategies for dealing with this Spotty x

Not easy making decisions about how to make our own lives better whilst not doing a disservice to someone else. You're right to take your time. 

I do feel obliged but she is difficult to deal with, I do better than some as I do stand up to her. There are proper gardeners locally but I don't know how easy it is to get one, I've been asked by quite a few people when I'm visible and said no.

I'm thinking I will probably write her a letter explaining things. We'll see.