« September 2006 | Main | November 2006 »

October 2006

Tuesday, 31 October 2006

We get it

He's a gardener. A 103 year-old gardener, and of course we fellow gardeners can completely relate:

Widower Jim turns out in all weathers to tend a half-acre garden at his local New Inn pub in Stoke Abbott.

Jim, who still has a full driving licence, arrives on his Ferguson tractor carrying all his tools - including a chainsaw.

He refuses to charge more than £3 an hour and, when asked when he's going to retire he jokes: "When I get old."