Well hello all. I decided as the forum was getting a re-incarnation I would have one too hence the new name. As I have said in my updated profile I spend most of my gardening time on the allotment & 2 of my ex classmates from the RHS course dubbed me with this name so I thought why not use it? Anyway if it was good enough for Cassius Clay & Prince it's good enough for me. Just caught up with the thread Hosta if you are Johnny come lately I am not sure what it makes me . Like others all snow & Fieldfares have gone I spent yesterday wheeling Horse muck on Plots & now I am suffering heavy cold that the OH had all last week that I though I had avoided. I am at the 5 tissues an hour stage so I am not sure if I will get much more gardening done today. I spent a lot of the downtime trying to get a picture of a Magpie that has learned to hover at the bird feeder. Hope all are well nice to see everyone back. AB formerly Iain R
Hi all. Home again. Everything on here seems to be settling down nicely. So sorry to hear your news Clari, all I would say, is that health must come before everything. I wish I had heeded that advice myself, instead of waiting until I was so ill, that it took years to recover.
How can you lie there and think of England When you don't even know who's in the team
I am impressed by Pat's Husband. Not only running a farm, a firefighter in his spare time, but he makes Pasta from scratch. Does he have Italian origins?
Irish, Manx, and Scottish, Fidget, but no Italian. 😏 he like cooking and watches all the Master Chef etc programs. The pasta with the Lovage was VERY tasty. Of course, if it wasn’t for little old me growing it and introducing him to it’s unique taste, he wouldn’t have tried it. 😉
Chicky, I hope you're having a wonderful time. I'm sure you are!
Pat, the easiest way to tell if a page has been updated since you last looked at it is to refresh it. If you're using a keyboard, hit F5. If that's not possible, look for the Refresh symbol - probably somewhere towards the top - it looks like this: I am rather impatient so refresh pages the whole time - it's my most used button by far!
Clari, I'm sorry to hear what a lousy time you're having. You've had good advice from Dove and a good story from Yvie - I'm sure all will be well in the end. But I know how heartbreaking it is to have a job which was once respected (and paid!) become one that is suddenly perceived as something that can be handed over to volunteers with no consideration for training or experience. It's hard. But you will find something wonderful, probably when you least expect to.
Liri I too wear clothes I've had for 30+ years - even though I'm only 27, of course. I also wear two jumpers of my Dad's that his mother knitted for him. She died in about 1980 I think...
And BL, I'm glad you've found a way round your technical problems. IE was discontinued in 2015 so it's probably best to get used to a different browser, however slowly. Or you could do as I do and switch between lots - I have IE, Chrome, Edge and Firefox on my laptop and use Safari, Chrome and Samsung Internet on various other devices!
No gardening today, just coffee with a friend later. Am off to see a play at the Globe Theatre tomorrow. First time I've been (though I've done the tour). Any tips from anyone who's been? I think it may be a little chilly!
'If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.'
I meant to post a photo of my trusty old Singer sewing machine which was 100 years old last month. I have lots of clothes which are certainly 20 years old + which I wear regularly.
Been quite warm here this afternoon, so have been out spreading chicken manure over a few of the borders. Sadly I am a different shape from 20 years ago, so no old clothes left.
How can you lie there and think of England When you don't even know who's in the team
I've carried on hacking and done some forking and scattered the last of our pelleted chicken manure on a the laurel I've hacked, the magnolia I've forked and the poor tree peony that got all its lovely new foliage frozen to bits by the Beast. The last handfuls went on the hydrangea paniculata shrubs by way of encouragement.
I have a much loved t-shirt from the mid 80s. Sadly only fit for wearing round the house but I just love the vaguely dolman sleeves. I also have a jacket/coat I made in the late 80s. Needs re-lining which I will get to eventually aslike the t-shirt, it is loose-fitting and comfy. One or two shirts too and a 70s M&S maxi skirt which I love as it has little Lowry matchstick people all over it. I am roughly the same shape, just a little (lot?) more "upholstered"......
Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
"The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
I have a hippy top that I used to wear at folk festivals as it was very light fine Indian cotton. Still got my coat from 1968 still fits, I could never part with it, all furry inside and embroidery down the fronts and around the hem line. I embroidered flowers on my jeans to match.
Raining all day so nothing in the garden, not that there’s anything yet to do, next job will be chopping back Buddlea’s and hydrangeas, some of which must be cut right back to the ground. OH will help with both those jobs, end of month for that.
Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor.
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Just caught up with the thread Hosta if you are Johnny come lately I am not sure what it makes me
Hope all are well nice to see everyone back.
AB formerly Iain R
Home again.
Everything on here seems to be settling down nicely.
So sorry to hear your news Clari, all I would say, is that health must come before everything.
I wish I had heeded that advice myself, instead of waiting until I was so ill, that it took years to recover.
When you don't even know who's in the team
S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border
he like cooking and watches all the Master Chef etc programs. The pasta with the Lovage was VERY tasty. Of course, if it wasn’t for little old me growing it and introducing him to it’s unique taste, he wouldn’t have tried it. 😉
Chicky, I hope you're having a wonderful time. I'm sure you are!
Pat, the easiest way to tell if a page has been updated since you last looked at it is to refresh it. If you're using a keyboard, hit F5. If that's not possible, look for the Refresh symbol - probably somewhere towards the top - it looks like this:
I am rather impatient so refresh pages the whole time - it's my most used button by far!
Clari, I'm sorry to hear what a lousy time you're having. You've had good advice from Dove and a good story from Yvie - I'm sure all will be well in the end. But I know how heartbreaking it is to have a job which was once respected (and paid!) become one that is suddenly perceived as something that can be handed over to volunteers with no consideration for training or experience. It's hard. But you will find something wonderful, probably when you least expect to.
Liri I too wear clothes I've had for 30+ years - even though I'm only 27, of course. I also wear two jumpers of my Dad's that his mother knitted for him. She died in about 1980 I think...
And BL, I'm glad you've found a way round your technical problems. IE was discontinued in 2015 so it's probably best to get used to a different browser, however slowly. Or you could do as I do and switch between lots - I have IE, Chrome, Edge and Firefox on my laptop and use Safari, Chrome and Samsung Internet on various other devices!
No gardening today, just coffee with a friend later. Am off to see a play at the Globe Theatre tomorrow. First time I've been (though I've done the tour). Any tips from anyone who's been? I think it may be a little chilly!
I have lots of clothes which are certainly 20 years old + which I wear regularly.
Sadly I am a different shape from 20 years ago, so no old clothes left.
When you don't even know who's in the team
S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border
I have a much loved t-shirt from the mid 80s. Sadly only fit for wearing round the house but I just love the vaguely dolman sleeves. I also have a jacket/coat I made in the late 80s. Needs re-lining which I will get to eventually aslike the t-shirt, it is loose-fitting and comfy. One or two shirts too and a 70s M&S maxi skirt which I love as it has little Lowry matchstick people all over it. I am roughly the same shape, just a little (lot?) more "upholstered"......
Raining all day so nothing in the garden, not that there’s anything yet to do, next job will be chopping back Buddlea’s and hydrangeas, some of which must be cut right back to the ground. OH will help with both those jobs, end of month for that.
Yay, picture loading is much easier as well.
When you don't even know who's in the team
S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border