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Hearing from regular readers who don't comment, happy lurkers and the hesitant

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  • TheRicksterTheRickster Posts: 85
    edited January 2022
    A definite lurker, and introverted extrovert! I’ve posted a few times over the years, but like dipping in and seeing peoples ideas and conundrums, and the solutions that the experienced, and less experienced folk offer. Personal favourite plants are small alpines, hydrangea and a lockdown obsession with aeoniums. Greenhouse is on the list for this year, but no idea where it will go.
    My nemesis, vine weevil.
  • punkdocpunkdoc Posts: 15,039
    There are no stupid questions, but sometimes stupid answers.
    How can you lie there and think of England
    When you don't even know who's in the team

    S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border
  • Busy-LizzieBusy-Lizzie Posts: 24,043
    I'm like @D0rdogne_Damsel above, I join in mostly on the chat threads but I lurk read others. When I joined in 2012 I only read the gardening threads and, like DD, got excited when I could answer the identity threads. I've been gardening for nearly 50 years.
    Dordogne and Norfolk. Clay in Dordogne, sandy in Norfolk.
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    😂 I don’t mind @Maddi and I don’t think any of the others do either. 😉 

    Although it may seem to some as if the forum is a community of friends, it’s very open to newcomers … it’s why every month when I start a new ‘Hello Forkers’ I say the thread is ‘for all’ or ‘everyone’. 

    When I joined the forum over 12 years ago it was quite different and there were some chat threads where newbies were unwelcome and ignored …. oblivious to this I blundered on and ruffled a few feathers 😬  …. anyway, I’m still here and have made some real friends … some of whom are now a part of my ‘real life’ and some who Ill probably never meet, but are nevertheless important to me. 

    I think the forum is a much more open and welcoming place nowadays … and certainly the numbers are growing year on year 😊 

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • GrannybeeGrannybee Posts: 332
    I read this forum every day as it's a goldmine of information. Posters here remind me what I should be doing and help me plan ahead. I sometimes ask questions but only if I can't find the query in the archive.  None of my friends are gardeners, so I value the help and support very much! And I enjoy the other conversations not about gardening. 
  • I'm not exactly a lurker as I do try to answer questions when my own garden experience applies, but I'm not a natural chatter, so read the chat threads without joining in. It helps me feel I know people better and there are many I would call friends, though they might not feel the same way :)
     I've definitely lurked this year though, as January has passed in a covid shaped blur and I am only now beginning to feel I'm on the mend. I am desperate to get out in the garden, there is so much I need to do and I am still so feeble, but I am sure it will help my recovery, provided I don't over do things!
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