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damienj10 · 04-11-2025, 12:28 PM

Running and training for my old man season

Starchychaff · 04-11-2025, 12:31 PM

Late

Starchychaff · 04-11-2025, 12:31 PM

late again

Caspwad · 04-11-2025, 12:39 PM

Have the day off so I'm making money moves

Caspwad · 04-11-2025, 12:39 PM

by making money moves i mean making plans for this weekend

5ympathies · 04-11-2025, 12:50 PM

hungover again

*FaraDian* · 04-11-2025, 12:50 PM

04-10-2025, 02:33 PMFaraDian Wrote: No one had a more attentive audience than old Ham Gamgee, commonly known as the Gaffer. He held forth at The Ivy Bush, a small inn on the Bywater road; and he spoke with some authority, for he had tended the garden at Bag End for forty years, and had helped old Holman in the same job before that. Now that he was himself growing old and stiff in the joints, the job was mainly carried on by his youngest son, Sam Gamgee. Both father and son were on very friendly terms with Bilbo and Frodo.

‘A very nice well-spoken gentlehobbit is Mr. Bilbo, as I’ve always said,’ the Gaffer declared. With perfect truth: for Bilbo was very polite to him, calling him ‘Master Hamfast’, and consulting him constantly upon the growing of vegetables – in the matter of ‘roots’, especially potatoes, the Gaffer was recognized as the leading authority by all in the neighbourhood (including himself).

"There was this Mr. Frodo left an orphan and stranded, as you might say, among those queer Bucklanders, being brought up anyhow in Brandy Hall. A regular warren, by all accounts. Old Master Gorbadoc never had fewer than a couple of hundred relations in the place. Mr. Bilbo never did a kinder deed than when he brought the lad back to live among decent folk."