Every gardener knows this story.
Come the spring it is time to start sowing seeds in pots 🪴and for a short cut, to buy some plants at the local garden centre already in pots🪴. So over the years you accumulate lots of pots🪴. Small pots; 🪴slightly bigger pots; 🪴even bigger pots and heavy pots 🪴you can’t even pick up.
Plastic pots🪴; clay pots; 🪴glazed pots 🪴and stone pots🪴. Pots 🪴with one hole; pots 🪴with lots of holes and a few pots 🪴with no holes. The variety of pots🪴 is endless , which makes stacking them and storing them difficult. Pots 🪴take up a lot of space in the greenhouse and clutter up the garden.
So one of the first gardening jobs of spring is to sort out your pots🪴.
The problem then becomes, what do you do with the pots🪴you don’t want? You can’t give your spare pots 🪴to other gardeners because they already have too many pots🪴🪴🪴🪴. You definitely can’t sell them because new pots🪴are so cheap. Neither can you take them back to the garden centre you got them from, because of cross infection, ?apparently even pots🪴 can get ill. Nor can you put pots🪴in the recycling bin because Daventry District Council don’t want recycled pots🪴.
So you are left with no alternative
🪴🪴🪴 A POTTING SHED 🪴🪴🪴
GrumbleSmiles 
I am shocked, is this a ‘POTTY’ story from a ‘Potty’ individual, or are we all off to the kiln to be ”fired up” and finished with a ‘Glazed Look” of wonderment! wondering where on earth has common sense disappeared too? yesterdays new flashes, alleging that the government were wondering what to do with those ‘BANK PROFITS’ maybe tax them like the energy companies? I wonder, where and when do the government stop?
I am simple keep a bank account to keep my Money safe, from thieves and fraudsters, and to protect me from that ‘Rainy day’. The Nationwide Building Society are buying out /acquiring Virgin Money, yet I note the Virgin share holders are been paid off, with a bonus- Is this a mutual action? I just wonder, or has money and the ownership of it lost its meaning, in this modern world of Electronic banking>
April, what a month? How do you feel readers’ with all these ‘BLOGS# both on this website, and then attached to each ‘BLOG’. WE started off the moth as ‘FOOLS’, now then we were ‘POTTY’ and now I believe we are a ‘SHOWER’!!!!! What on earth does the schemer of this ‘GRUMBLES and SMILES site’ believe we are???? I wonder? However we do give him our/your ‘VOTE’?
However he the person in charge of the site, Dear JOHN, is in not a politician thank goodness!!!!1 Vote On!!!
I am just a ‘ragamuffin’ stirring the ‘POT’.
Potty
I just wonder if I am going ‘POTTY’ or that life is slowly progressing to old age. I can remember a face, but I am then unable to recall a name! So in my retirement village of EXTRACARE, I greet every one with respect either as Young lady of young man, with a most cheerful good morning. I need and respect the independent living within the retirement village, and then the ability to meet and great my fellow residents, and, then if they smile ask politely can I join them in what ever they are doing, coffee/chat / jigsaw making, or volunteering, or if I should wish engage myself in a craft lesson- painting/model making /dress making/knitting/ shop assistant and many more alternatives such as bowls etc.
Personally I joined the village in 2007 at the age of 65, I am now, 81 years. The average age on joining was 62 years, it has slowly over the years increased to 82/3 for one reason or another. What I deeply appreciate as does Molly, my wife, the security, and the ability to be not insular, but quiet in ones’ own apartment from time to time, and then neighbourly, not interfering with the officially- provided organised- help and support available to us all, but request at a cost, or in emergency by a pull cord. Then financially the heating, water, lighting, and maintenance calls all undertaken by Extracare. There are faults in the system, and we do talk to each other Extracare and the residents directly through the village-manager;- via the ‘in house residents association’.
One has to make oneself satisfied this is what one requires as one ages, and with the possible on set of mobility, Alzheimer’s and dementor, one must not run away from the problems old age can bring on, but address them and come to a position where one is happy with ones choice and not frantically worried that the day to day activities, which one may note from one fellow humans, who have not fully thought through the possible problems that old age my bring along.
This site SMILES AND GRUMBLES is a genuine relief where one can unload and scatter the web world with honest feelings about growing old, and once again where we find the ‘WORLD TODAY’ with all our leader, and their thoughts, we may not have the ability intellect to challenge them we have the wit and the ability to ‘VOTE’ I can still read/hear and understand a discussion’s, but partaking in it practically is a little too far? However, I understand politeness and fairness, and recognise honesty, so I am for a vote in this up and coming general election.
PS I note in my opening sentence I comment I mention I do not remember names, but I do remember faces. I am with you if the political message in the individual party information is correct and honest with a photograph of the as to be local prospective MP, one can with a postal vote information make a wise choice!!! All is not lost!!!!