Digging for answers
MANY older readers might be finding it difficult to manage a big garden especially if they have no one to help them with all the heavy digging. Here is a humorous anecdote of how one old man overcame such a problem:
An 80-year-old man lived on his own, in a little village in Gloucestershire. He wanted to plant up his vegetable garden, but it was difficult as the ground was very hard. His only son Andrew, who used to help, was in prison. The old man wrote a letter to his son outlining his predicament.
“Dear Andrew, I’m very depressed. I will not be able to plant up my vegetable patch. I’m just too old for all the heavy digging. I know that if you were here, you would do it for me, but because of your circumstances I will have to leave it this year and feel very upset that I will not have my usual supply of fresh veg.”
A few days later he received a letter “Dear Dad, whatever you do don’t dig up the garden. I’m sorry to tell you this in a letter but that is where I hid the bodies.”
At 7am the next day detectives and police from the regional constabulary arrived. By noon they had turned over the entire garden but couldn’t find anything so apologised to the old man and left. The next day the old man received another letter from his son.
“Dear Dad, you can go ahead and plant your garden now. I hope that the team didn’t upset you too much but it was the best I could do in the circumstances.”
Carole Gasan, Stroud, Glos