No more than @pansyface deserves, @philippasmith2! I would have liked to post it on the ' NON-POLITICAL SPACE' thread, just to say 'bye to a long-time and much-respected great contributor, but that's been closed before too many people can get shirty. Quelle surprise.
I'm not a brave rabbit. I'm just a passing rabbit who doesn't mind bowing out of the current breeding programme. I remember myxomatosis only too well.
Exactly so @L@LittleGreyRabbit - lots of us feel the same about Pansy closing her petals. Hope you will pop out of your burrow from time to time........just remember to look both ways before doing so
I have really enjoyed all our interactions on here, @pansyface and was very sorry to learn you may be taking a break...this time of year is ideal for hibernation, so i hope it is only that. I loved your recent rose recommendation and have ordered one for my garden (Rosa Emily Gray). You have really lifted my day on many occasions, made me smile, made me think. Pansyface, Go well, (but I hope you can stay!)
Sorry to witness the demise of the forum. 😥😥😥😡😡😡I am Spartacus
You will be so missed @pansyface. I see your name has been removed now and you’ve gone. I won’t plead with you to stay, this forum is no longer the sort of place you belong to, you deserve better.
Go well and safe. With thanks for all your witty, incisive comments and the laughter you’ve given me.
I won’t plead with you to stay, this forum is no longer the sort of place you belong to, you deserve better.
Why? I really liked Pansyface and I'm very sad she felt the need to leave, but the forum doesn't belong to her or to you. It is supposed to be a place where people talk about gardening not politics. If Immediate Media decide that people have stepped over the boundaries, we have to accept their decision. I really can't understand why some people are having so much difficulty with that.
Clay soil - Cheshire/Derbyshire border. I play with plants and soil and sometimes it's successful
‘…If Immediate Media decide that people have stepped over the boundaries, we have to accept their decision…’. Precisely. If you don’t feel you can accept their decision then you make your choice - which is exactly what @pansyface has done.
I note that on another thread a poster has noted that even her post referring in very general - though critical - terms to the government’s procurement of software has been removed.
I also see that posts which dare to mention the now verboten ‘P’ word are being removed. Yes, some threads on various topics occasionally became argumentative but posts were rarely removed.
Suddenly there’s been a crackdown on anything deemed to be not acceptable to the powers that be. I wonder why this sudden departure from the norm? Pressure from above I’d hazard a guess at, but who is ‘above’ who wields so much influence and who is suddenly taking such a keen interest in gardening forum threads?
I wouldn’t be surprised if this post disappears into the ether soon so I’ll also take this opportunity to ask @CatherineMansley to close my account and remove all previous posts.
Please reconsider. ❤️ Have a break. Forums are much like the weather. Pressure systems come and go. Sometimes there are storms or things heat up. At others, things are dreary and gloomy. But, just round the corner, all may become sunshine and blue skies. We gardeners are better placed that many to cope with less that ideal conditions because we know these don't last.
I, too, do not like attempts to shut down polite exchange of reasoned and reasonable views. For me, that is not a power social media companies should wield, because it has the potential to play into the hands of totalitarianism. But, my view is, if we want to work against it, we have to be here. 🙂
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Hope you will pop out of your burrow from time to time........just remember to look both ways before doing so
Why? I really liked Pansyface and I'm very sad she felt the need to leave, but the forum doesn't belong to her or to you. It is supposed to be a place where people talk about gardening not politics. If Immediate Media decide that people have stepped over the boundaries, we have to accept their decision. I really can't understand why some people are having so much difficulty with that.
I play with plants and soil and sometimes it's successful
Precisely. If you don’t feel you can accept their decision then you make your choice - which is exactly what @pansyface has done.
Please reconsider. ❤️ Have a break. Forums are much like the weather. Pressure systems come and go. Sometimes there are storms or things heat up. At others, things are dreary and gloomy. But, just round the corner, all may become sunshine and blue skies. We gardeners are better placed that many to cope with less that ideal conditions because we know these don't last.