General Chat

We moved to a new build in 1967 when our daughter was 9

Next door had moved in 3 months earlier so had time to sort out back garden the same year

We did remove weeds and dig over the ground and the following year have turf laid


1960,s houses often were open plan fronts but ranch stye dividing fences on back gardens

Sooo next door bought a tortoise and it was free roaming in their back garden but often ended up in ours as it burrowed under the fence
We handed the tort back so many times !

One Sunday in the summer of 1968 our daughter comes in and says can I have next doors tortoise?

Was ?? So went out to speak to neighbours who were well it seems to want to be inyour garden, kids have lost interest and hubby is getting pissed cos it eats the plants he puts in! Food??

So we acquired Harold the Greek spur and he is still with me
Hubby named him Harold cos Harold Wilson was PM and hubby said was slow like him!
Is now over 60 years old and I love him to bits

He has free roaming on an enclosed patio,eats like mad and hibernates in his house on the patio every year

When he wakes every year is phew he is still alive

Have told daughter she gets him back when I pop it !

Daughter is now a grt grandmother!

Wish the site would allow photos on the posts

What a grand age, Shirley :-)

How interesting Shirley! I found one wandering up a road when I was a little girl and mum asked around but no-one claimed him so we kept him. He was always escaping and either flattening dad's rows of young veg plants or eating them. Dad had a soot pile at the bottom of the garden and sometimes I'd see his back legs sticking out of it. We only had him a few years though as he didn't wake up from hibernation one spring. We buried him under the hedge in the front garden and he was called Horace. You have done well keeping yours for so long. I wonder if he has grown much in those 60 years.

AnnX

You couid pick him up in one hand but just putting your palm over him and lifting

Now it’s a two hand lift from each side

He now weighs 12lbs plus :-D

Amazing, Shirley! :-D :-D :-D

My old cat's 16 - and dribbles for England :-(