This is a short story about an elderly gentleman, our next door neighbour, who taught a young lady, myself, all I needed to know about gardening.
Hello My name is Martha, let me tell you a little about myself. I'm 41 years old. I'm a teacher. I have natural long blonde hair, with green eyes, generously size breasts and long sexy legs. In fact I'm only an inch short of six foot; my husband offer calls me his Amazonian Princess because of my height. We'd married quite young when I was 24 and James was just 21.
Anyway, this is a story from quite a few years ago. It was summer time and the weather was rather pleasant for the north of England, with long warm settled day.
But all was not well. I had just been made redundant from my job of 5 years, as a buyer for a mail order catalogue. I'd loved that job, it was my first job from leaving uni, and at the age of 26 I found myself become terribly depressed. Finding a new job was proving very difficult. I decided needed something to keep my mind occupied, I'd have gone crazy at home alone all day on my own. So to keep me occupied my husband, James, suggested I build herb garden. I thought this a great idea. I'd always liked gardening and cooking. That night I sat myself down at the kitchen table and planned out my new garden, with pathways and trellis work.
The next day, Sunday, I took James out into the garden to show him my plans. I was rather excited by the plans and decided to start work on it that week while James was at work. Just then we heard a voice from the side of us, it took us a little by surprise, We looked over to see our next door neighbour Ronnie peering over the fence.
Ronnie was retired and just celebrated his 70th birthday the month before. I always felt a little sorry for him since his wife had died the previous year and he now lived on his own. Having said that he was still a very active man for his age, always out in his garden doing odd jobs, come rain or shine.
"I couldn't help but over hear you talking about putting a herb garden in. I have some plants you can have to help you get started." Ronnie told us from over the fence.
"That's very kind of you Ronnie, that would be much appreciated, thank you." James replied.
"In fact I have some free time on my hands so if you'd like a helping hand, I'd be only to please to come round." suggested Ronnie.
James turned his head to me, "That's up to you babes?"
"Yes why not. The company will do us both good, won't it Ronnie?"
"Aye, it will that." Ronnie nodded.
"Okay, but you must let me pay you for the work you do."
"You most certainly will not!" Demanded Ronnie with a smile on his face. "The occasional brew and the company of the lovely Anne is payment enough for me."
The following week we started on the project. The forecast for the week was good, warm and sunny with only a slight chance of rain on the Wednesday.