Will today's younger generation start to grow there own

Not to mention all the watering

With the time we now have on our hands you’ll be able to pick the green flies off one at a time by hand Callistemon.

First we need the bean seeds pikachu!

Soap and water. For green fly and for hands.

I need DGD for that, Pikachu, unfortunately we can't see her.

The impression I have of most young people is that their attention span is measured in nano seconds.

That’s surely a little ageist isn’t it?

Who said that Summerlove?
Don't try telling that to all the newly qualified medical staff, all the graduates who won't have their graduation ceremonies and look at a uncertain future after years of study, the young people working at home to try to keep their companies going as well as homeschooling their children!
Etc

Got loads of bean seeds here. Runner beans, French beans, dwarf beans.

I know we should have bought them earlier, we normally do.

Both my girls have grown vegetables but my son doesn’t. I’ve got runner bean seeds from last year’s crop and bought tomato plants and seed packets before the virus took hold.

Lidl had some packs with four different vegetable seeds, compost and growing bags on Wednesday. At least one of our garden centres are offering a delivery service mainly for the vegetable seedlings which is preferable to them being left to rot.

Gardeners world tonight had an item on using various pots and containers to grow vegetables.

There is a waiting list for allotments around here but quite a few plots seem to be overgrown and neglected. Perhaps people will start to question more now that fruit and vegetables will be at a premium.

callistemon
Who said that Summerlove?

Davidhs did yesterday.

Attention span, boys are worst, all they want is new experiences which is not what earning a living is abou, most girls are fairly good.

Do you mean young men and young women? My son and daughter are both in their early 20s and I’m intrigued about this generalisation, knowing both my DCs and their friends of both sexes.

Davidhs speak for your own family.

Or are you referring to 5 year olds, in which a case it could be a reasonable assumption, although not all 5 year old boys have the attention span of only nano seconds.

A nano second is an extremely short unit of time btw. How did you measure it as it is extremely difficult unless you have the correct scientific equipment.

Davidhs I can’t even make sense Of your thought process.

This shouldn’t be about putting other generations down. We all do things differently.

Also, what’s wrong with new experiences? I would think it’s what we all want on some scale? Surely that’s why people go on holiday?

New experiences could include backpacking and working as you go in jobs you may never have thought of. Sadly not possible now.

Davidhs what an incredibly sweeping generalisation! For goodness sake! I thought this was a really good thread up until I read that remark !

Voice of experience of employing teenagers, and it’s not much better at graduate level. It all comes down to the girls want to work and earn their own money, the boys are happy to sponge off parents and hang out.
Any employer will tell the same story

Oh I dunno. Some employers would say that if youre not getting great results out of multiple people, its your leadership not your staff that is lacking

Not this employer Davidh . Sorry you’ve had this experience but you only have to look at how hard young people right across the country are working at the moment, both in paid and unpaid work, to know it’s far from a representative picture of them.

any employer will tell you the same story

It is my family's experience that young local people are rather like that, Davidhs but that those who are travelling or are emigrants, are quite different and hardworking.

Perhaps those who are enterprising move on.

Calli
I would not disagree with that.

Not just in this country

Davidhs Sat 04-Apr-20 12:28:58
Attention span, boys are worst, all they want is new experiences which is not what earning a living is about, most girls are fairly good

I cannot imagine what you base this ridiculous generalisation on, but I wouldn’t try voicing it the next time you are being treated by a junior doctor , nurse or HCA.
Am I allowed to say cojones ?

Absolutely agree MawB ! As the mother of boys I suppose I’m biased but I’ve been in the teaching profession to be absolutely furious about Davidhs awful, sexist generalisation.