Hi Everyone,

Margarita and Doogle here!

Now, you will have to have a read of our book to find out exactly why we keep hollering  - 'We have lunatics in the garden!'

But, I should be more polite and begin by  introducing you to Doogle, my border collie who I just adore!

Doogle is our hero in the garden. He keeps crows off the new seed beds, the gardener's chickens out of the rose garden and importantly growls at the gardener when he yells at Piggy. He has a load of spunk and attitude (wonder who he takes after), he is handsome and dapper and the perfect gentleman too. Okay, okay....I am going on a bit..

I found Sherry under our favorite tree this morning, enjoying what could only be described as 'one of her less than becoming gutteral chuckles' as she read our cottage secretary's notebook, in particular the entries listed under 'Cottage Chaos'.

There is always a little touch of madness around Rose Cottage and Rose, our secretary, never misses a beat. She is never without her notepad and pencil - and if we say something, do something, not do something etc ... Rose takes a note!!

There is nothing boring or mundane about spending time in the garden with our lot, because not only is there always a noticeable sense of fun about the place, but more often than not, it has been known to border on a little bit of the ridiculous as well.

In our book 'Growing Roses with Sherry 'n Margarita', we highlight and share some of what Rose fondly refers to as 'Cottage Chaos' moments.

However, Sherry suggested that we list a few of those that did not make it into the book.

Enjoy!!...

• I do think that given half a chance Margarita will drive us all a little crazy if the gardener continues to adopt his annoyingly opinionated and vague approach to everything. - Sherry to Rose

• Queen Elizabeth was flattened when our gardener tripped over the Pig ...so another award winning rose bites the dust..I don't trust that man - Sherry to the Twitterverse

• Rose and the gardener having a heated debate about where to plant the Agathaspants (pronouncing as 'aga thas pants')- silly gits, don't they know how to pronounce it correctly..it's Aga pan thus! oh my!! - Sherry to Margarita (who could care less what those two call anything)

• Attracting frogs back into gardens is catching on here - guess who spent 2 hours croaking in the dark last night in support of it - the git! - Margarita, referring to the gardener and talking to the milkman (who by the way does not speak a word of english....a very recent new but noisy neighbor and sweet Italian import he is)

• Folks if you had a gardener that repeatedly yelled out Feed - Prune - Protect as he marched towards your rose garden would you want to get him some help? - Rose the Cottage Secretary to the Twitterverse

• Things are pretty pooey round Rose Cottage right now - worm poo, dog poo, chicken poo, horse poo - at times gardening does have its drawbacks - The Handyman chatting to the Pig and the Scarecrow

• Margarita is convinced that the entire rose garden family are completely dysfunctional....scary thing is...she could be right!!- Someone who knows us!

• The handyman put a big scarecrow in the rose garden - no one told the gardener who came across it late last night - oh dear, will he ever stop screaming? - Rose, the cottage secretary - laughing

• Sherry is not at all happy with the handyman over the scarecrow. The Scarecrow is supposed to scare off the birds ....not the bloody gardener, she said - The Handyman

• Gardener is in his element he just found out there is a species that loves beer just as much as he does - Snails! they just love the stuff ! - Sherry

• Gardener told Sherry that in his opinion Rose Black Spot means an area in a garden that is not good for growing rose - Arrgghhh!- Rose

• Go sprinkle dust on roses to control disease and pests says Sherry - gardener empties vacuum cleaner on the roses..that man is on a death wish! - Margarita

• Oh dear, what planet did that man live on? Customer asked the gardener if he new anything about 'once only bloomers' he starts prattling on about how sad it is for those women who can only conceive once. For the third time Sherry has had to remind him 'once only bloomers' are rambling roses! - The Handyman

• No, No, No! - if you overfeed roses they don't get fat!! they may die! Ok, so which of you is the joker who told the gardener that roses can get obese? - Sherry to everyone at Rose Cottage

• Now, where did you say you have the gardener locked up?' - Sherry to Margarita

• Our handyman bless him bought a 'Worm Farm' for the cottage & went into great detail explaining what they like and don't like. Sherry's face said it all when he told her that worms don't mind a little vacuum cleaner dust sprinkled on their veg! - Rose to the milkman who cant speak a word of english

• Heard Sherry call out - Why is the 'Worm Tea' jug empty? Then, strangely silent the gardener looking stupid asks 'Oh, was that worm tea? yuuck- Margarita to the Twitterverse

• Why would two of the leading rose growers use 'Crap' on their roses? asks the gardener. The man has to go on a very, very long trip...for the last time, it is Carp.. I said Carp... and get reading glasses too - Sherry

• Yes it's true, 'Dry Sherry' has it drawbacks - 'Wet Sherry' on the other hand is now the gardeners death wish. Guess who got wet when the gardener turned the sprinklers on - Margarita, enjoying every bloody minute of it

• Dame of Sark, is she related to the Queen? asks the gardener. Seriously Sherry he has to be on something - he should know its a bloody Rose! - Margarita to Sherry

• Gardener told Sherry her 'Laughter Lines' were looking quite prominent - Oh she was livid, she whacked him on the head with a plastic bucket ... then she remembered it was the new rose group he planted for her that he was on about - Rose to the handyman

• Interesting - did you know that there is Rose Honey, Rose Wine, Rose Jam, Rose Vinegar, Role Oil and Rose Water - so I ask you..Why Not Rose Sherry! - Margarita after a particularly long day in the sun

• Its cultural - Piggy seems to know that the Romans used to sleep on rose petals - The gardener when Margarita ordered him to get the pig off her favorite rose bush

Big Blooming Hugs!

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