I've just come back from Homebase.
I spent longer than I'd like to think debating inwardly the relative merits of different spades.
( Enzyme is powered by sunlight, Sun 3 May 2009, 15:20, 12 replies)

Reminds me of when I got my flat
And being rather proud of having my first toolbox.
(Fredz A graveyard of hopes, a dump of ambition, Sun 3 May 2009, 15:26, closed)

I keep gathering bits of equipment.
I refuse to get a proper toolbox, though - that'd be capitulation. So all the drills and nails and things like that are strewn between the study and the cellar. The painting stuff is in the bathroom. The saw's in the spare bedroom. Christ only knows where I keep the spirit level.
( Enzyme is powered by sunlight, Sun 3 May 2009, 15:42, closed)

Ahhhh....
Spirit levels! The toolbox that came with the flat didn't have one, so I bought one, as we wanted to put up a shelf. Browsing spirit levels in Wilkinsons made me feel very much like my dad....
(Fredz A graveyard of hopes, a dump of ambition, Sun 3 May 2009, 16:37, closed)

Even worse....
I'm genuinely interested in what kind of spade you purchased? Is it good and sharp? The girlie lightweight ones are about as much use as tits on a bull... I like a good heavy one myself.
( Tourette's ( . )( . ) has a monkey hair in her fried egg, Sun 3 May 2009, 16:10, closed)

On the basis that I only have a 7x1' bed...
I reckoned cheap and chearful'd be enough. All I want to do is bring out a bit of the soil so that the wall can be repointed, and then put it back again. I really don't need to do much: a trowel'll do for the actual planting and management.


Oh, god. I've just had my first conversation about garden tools.
( Enzyme is powered by sunlight, Sun 3 May 2009, 16:22, closed)

Oh dear...
if you two are flirting, this is RUBBISH!
( thealternativefact, Sun 3 May 2009, 16:45, closed)

:D
Laughs all round!
( Enzyme is powered by sunlight, Sun 3 May 2009, 16:49, closed)

You must be of wierd proportions
to sleep in a bed of such dimensions!

*is crap at flirting*
( Tourette's ( . )( . ) has a monkey hair in her fried egg, Mon 4 May 2009, 13:18, closed)

Yes, but
did you call it a spade?
(apeloverage committed the vile act of onanism on, Sun 3 May 2009, 18:01, closed)

...
I had considered the merits of adding a LOLracist punchline to the post... but then thought better of it.

Thankfully.
( Enzyme is powered by sunlight, Sun 3 May 2009, 18:10, closed)

Get an enormous one
for the bathroom.

/coat
(Bicycle Repairman "you're also a bit of a wanker", Sun 3 May 2009, 19:21, closed)

Did you pick
the one called Leroy?

/coat
/Hull
( Undercovercarrot got done for gross misconduct on..., Sun 3 May 2009, 22:18, closed)