{"id":34962,"date":"2016-11-19T18:00:06","date_gmt":"2016-11-19T11:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/me-and-my-garden-slugs-you-are-thugs-come-here-and-youre-gonna-get-chewed-up\/"},"modified":"2016-11-19T18:04:52","modified_gmt":"2016-11-19T11:04:52","slug":"me-and-my-garden-slugs-you-are-thugs-come-here-and-youre-gonna-get-chewed-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/me-and-my-garden-slugs-you-are-thugs-come-here-and-youre-gonna-get-chewed-up\/","title":{"rendered":"Me and my garden: \u2018Slugs, you are thugs. Come here and you\u2019re gonna get chewed up\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nWhy former boy band member Abz Love has swapped parties for plants and a pondI love my garden. My mum lives in London and has a 3ft x 6ft balcony, but since my fiancee Vicky and I\u00a0moved here, I\u2019ve got so much space to sculpt and design, to create. It\u2019s doing something to me: it\u2019s making me really calm and happy.I used to be in the boy band 5ive. There were so\u00a0many parties, people wanting your attention \u2013 it was full on. I\u00a0wasn\u2019t prepared for it first time round. My coping mechanism was to get out of\u00a0it by drinking and taking drugs. Now, after half a\u00a0glass of wine, I have to go to bed. Continue reading…
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\nSource : theguardian.com
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