The Name

A few people have asked where the name 'Forking Mad' came from.

Early in 2013 I decided to get serious in the garden -- you can read the About Me page for more on that.

It's fair to say the garden was a little dishevelled -- things had gone a bit wild at the tail end of the previous year and there was much to be done.

One day while tackling an awkward patch of the garden, with my newly purchased garden fork, I stopped for a breath to admire the work so far.  Despite so much enthusiasm and the feeling of burning off thousands of calories there still seemed so much to do.

As I stood there, one hand on my hips, the other on the fork handle I suddenly exclaimed to my audience of none, "I must be forking mad" -- clearly a play on words, or more precisely toning down the expletive.

So there you have it --the phrase stuck in my mind and when I decided a few weeks later to blog about my experiences it was the obvious moniker for the site.