Gardening

I still had that but I didn't use it much as I used lightweight plastic ones. And actually I gave that to David - the heavy one - and he still has it today and still uses it today. It must be...well, we never bought it - it came with the house when we bought the house in Northolt, they left all the gardening tools behind, they were taking over a sweet shop and the tools were no longer necessary, and that was one of the things I inherited.

Well, we had a good supply of farmyard manure on our allotments site, we had about two-hundred and twenty allotments and our trading secretary had a contact with Harrow School and they used to sell their manure. They had horses and so on. We used to...I think, a five yard load was a fiver, that was quite good. They would shoot it at the end of your allotment and I would take a barrow load home at a time, as I needed it, and also Surbiton sewerage works was quite close, I was working at the Surtax Office at that time and I had a car and my friend and I, he was a gardener too, a couple of times a year, would go up there and it was very cheap - about a hundred weight for a pound and you bought the stuff there. That was all sewage that had been treated, and was all in granules. The only draw back was that apparently tomato seeds go all the way through the human body and it has no effect on them, so you'd have hundreds of tomato seeds coming up, but of course they are easy to destroy.