A prayer for gardeners

God save us from fools who take your best garden fork (full size, not a hand fork) and use it instead of a spade, and when finding an obstruction just keep forcing it (with foot and full weight) until it snaps. 6 month old Fiskars tool and £60 down the drain. Thanks a lot stepson. No one asked him to do that and he didn't enquire which tool is best.
Sorry to nag but I need to let off steam.
Sorry to nag but I need to let off steam.

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Who says he's trying to help me.
I never even asked him,
And now it's a calamity.
My finest fork is broken
It wasn't very cheap,
And now he's gone and bust it
So I'm crying in my sleep.
If you could see your way Lord,
To help me to a win.
The lottery or a scratchcard,
I'm sure it's not a sin.
I'd use the winning money
To buy a fork brand new,
And if they asked me where l got it,
I'd say it's down to You.
Amen.
PS - if it leads to a nicely planted area rather than Hell, you should be doubly grateful
When I moved into a garden the previous owners had
put lots of plants in wrongly, and although I was quite glad
to have so many plantings of shrubs and dormant bulbs
'twas hard to sort it all out, especially one shrub.
It was will be shallow rooted, said my oldest pal.
Just dig around and move it. You can do it, gal!
So out there with my brand new fork to dig around the roots.
Shallow? I should co co - they went down by man foots! (sorry!)
I dug some more with spade and fork and then I hit deep root.
The handle of my brand new fork split underneath my boot!
So when said friend next came to stay, a sculpture I did make.
I leant the broken garden fork just like it was a rake.
Hepworth? Hurst? no - so much better, fork upon the grass,
She laughed and laughed at my daft joke, and fell down on her behind!
@Shrinking Violet
Nice poetry and story.
To be honest, he's lucky I didn't push him into the dyke. It's right there and full this time of year.
I hope the stepson buys you another fork @Bijdezee