One more extract from a book I bought in a charity shop in the summer (apologies for the gender stereotyping)…..
The Basic law of Weedlock:
The best training for gardening is marriage.
corollaries;
1. Behind every successful gardener is an astonished woman.
2. About the only way to get a gardener nowadays is to marry one.
3. Gardening is a process by which a man finds out what sort of husband his wife thinks she ought to have married.
Every Wife’s Lament:
Gardening expands to exclude all more interesting possibilities.
Law of The Unwelcome Arrival of Spring:
There is nothing so harrowing to the soul of the average married man as the first growth of lawn grass.
From : ‘Mrs. Murphy’s Laws of Gardening’ – Faith Hines (Temple House books, 1992)
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