It's like being hostage to a fortune. They didn’t need to do much at all, except knock out a wall between two small bedrooms to create a space large enough to fit the family billiard table Jan inherited. Garden was co-writer and performer in the classic BBC radio comedy show, I’m Sorry, I’ll Read That Again (ISIRTA) (1965–1970, and 1973). I’ve had the chainsaw going for eight years,” says Graeme, a man of the land. Graeme’s father, Robert Symon Garden, was an eminent orthopaedic surgeon who created the Garden classification of hip fractures and the Garden screw, used to repair certain hip fractures. Garden was studying medicine during the early seasons of I’m Sorry, I’ll Read That Again, and this commitment made it difficult for him to be a member of the cast during the third season because of a midwifery medical course in Plymouth. Graeme Garden lives in Oxfordshire with his family; his leisure interests include painting and playing the banjo.

Graeme is the third generation of his family to run the dairy farm at Toko. That's not to say I wasn't worried about being a parent - I was absolutely terrified. You have to make sure you hang on to the house, the car and job so your kids have a future. Registered office: 1 London Bridge Street, SE1 9GF. Tea Rooms" and "Daylight Robbery on the Orient Express". Later, he was the voice of the title character in Bananaman (1983), in addition to General Blight and Maurice of the Heavy Mob in the children’s animated television comedy series, which also featured the rest of the Goodies team. If Graeme Garden had taken up his expected vocation and become a doctor, the 72-year-old might well have had his feet up by now. The bonus was the villa, extended by Mel Slinger in keeping with the original house, built about 1910. Garden was educated at Repton School, and studied medicine at Emmanuel College, Cambridge, where he joined the prestigious Cambridge University Footlights Club (of which he became President in 1964), and performed with the 1964 Footlights revue, Stuff What Dreams Are Made Of at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. Behind them, a raised garden is afloat with bright orange and yellow Iceland poppies grown from seedlings bought through a click-and-collect system in lockdown. For most of his life Graeme has been called “Worth” and Jan, in this case is “her” or “hur”, hence Hurworth Country Garden. I liked nothing better to garden, dig holes. Now, they’re ready to share their new garden, which on a sun-drenched Sunday, looks festival ready. 894646. “Yes, I’d be a retired doctor … doing am-dram.” The first cherry tree is already in blossom at the Worthington’s place and it's irresistible to this bee. Tim Garden is vague and thoughtful, and has an interest in science, and wears clothes similar to Graeme Garden. Footlights presidency Personal life and family Graeme Garden is married to Emma and they have a son, Tom. “We love it here because it’s five minutes to town.”. The name for the garden is a play on a pronoun and a nickname. The 1910 villa looks like it has an extra peak, courtesy of Taranaki Maunga. He’s built four pergolas, retaining walls, covered a water tank with repurposed trellis, helped install a classic fountain, cut back and chopped out trees and regularly digs out and moves plants for Jan. “If Jan doesn’t like a plant where it is, it can shift two to three times,” he says of his wife, who’s also a passionate patchwork quilter.
Closer to the deck, five Robinia “Lace Lady” trees stand bare, their branches gnarled like nightmare hands. ISBN 0-907965-49-0 His son John Garden is the keyboardist for the music group Scissor Sisters, and shares songwriting credit on their 2006 album. Later, Garden also wrote for Surgical Spirit (1994). The show was set in an international space station in the near future. Rural couple Jan and Graeme Worthington have moved from Toko to a New Plymouth garden they’ve restored ready for the Taranaki Garden Festival.

She had grown poppies in the front garden, but the bunnies ate them.
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"Yes," says Garden, "but it’s a funny one…". “She could have come home, and I would have said ‘I had a good day’,” Graeme grins. “Been rural all my life,” Graeme says. Born in Aberdeen, Scotland, he grew up in Preston, England. “It was a positive experience for us, but we missed the grandchildren,” Jan says. “I turn 70 the week after the festival.”. Registered in England No. “All the work on the house had been done.”. When they walk or work in the garden, they meet many more friends. The name is especially apt because their home on Carrington Rd is in the Hurworth area.

In 1982 Garden and Oddie wrote, but did not perform in, a 6-part science fiction sitcom called Astronauts for Central and ITV. Painters now sprucing up the exterior have been given strict instructions by Jan to make sure they don’t damage the precious plant. The Goodies - Tim Brooke-Taylor, Graeme Garden and Bill Oddie. This will not be their first time in the festival. The series parodied comic book super-heroes. It may have been a different story if she hadn’t been there. Graeme is on construction, clipping, maintenance and lawns. Funnyman: Oddie found fame in the 1970s as a member of comic trio The Goodies, alongside Tim Brooke-Taylor and Graeme Garden. A Greek-style urn overflowing with succulents is framed by one of Graeme’s self-built pergolas near the front entrance. Graeme Garden is married to Emma and they have a son, Tom.