Work is going really well. The bruise I have on my backside has been joined by sunburn after I failed to put SPF15 on my lower back, but life is good.
The biggest surprise for me so far has been the reaction to me being a female gardener (and from the odd snob to me being a native British gardener, since this sort of manual labour is seen as the preserve of the Eastern Europeans and Antipodeans). Two people, in passing, have commented. One said it was nice to see "a softer, more feminine touch" (ha - he's clearly never seen me pruning). And another was shocked to see a woman in such a physical job and asked what my husband thought of it all.
Now, the majority of my fellow garden bloggers are women, so I am sure you are all scoffing at the poor chauvinistic people I've spoken to. Some of you are gardening professionals, so I'm interested to know - have you ever had this surprising reaction? Do you smile sweetly whole being patronised, or do you have a pop at the sexist gits?
It's not as if there aren't any prominent female gardeners: Charlie Dimmock immediately springs to mind, and boy are my friends getting a lot of mileage out of comparing me to her!!
The biggest surprise for me so far has been the reaction to me being a female gardener (and from the odd snob to me being a native British gardener, since this sort of manual labour is seen as the preserve of the Eastern Europeans and Antipodeans). Two people, in passing, have commented. One said it was nice to see "a softer, more feminine touch" (ha - he's clearly never seen me pruning). And another was shocked to see a woman in such a physical job and asked what my husband thought of it all.
Now, the majority of my fellow garden bloggers are women, so I am sure you are all scoffing at the poor chauvinistic people I've spoken to. Some of you are gardening professionals, so I'm interested to know - have you ever had this surprising reaction? Do you smile sweetly whole being patronised, or do you have a pop at the sexist gits?
It's not as if there aren't any prominent female gardeners: Charlie Dimmock immediately springs to mind, and boy are my friends getting a lot of mileage out of comparing me to her!!
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