Like most of you, this forum has been my contact with you all especially through Forkers.
I too, would like to thank you all for your support and kindness with every topic I have posted whether it be gardening, personal or just asking silly questions relating to air fryers etc!!
I will be joining GC (hopefully) under the same pseudo and I hope to see you all there.
Go for it! 👍 I'm happy to donate to start-up costs, if required. 🙂
Definitely, if you have the skills - I haven't faffed about with website making for too long, I just blagged it previously and it worked out well, lol! Or I'd offer to help. That would be awesome if you could make it happen. (Maybe GW could even find a tiny space in their page for a link. 😉) If it was called a similar name it might be handy for new people to find, 'Gardeners Wold' or 'Gardeners Whirled' maybe? 😄
Glad you will be on GC too @Plantminded. I have joined too. I find the formatting hectic compared to here, but hopefully it can be adapted to. I have really enjoyed your ideas, help, advice and wonderful garden photos on here. It feels like the end of term/leaving school. I feel really upset and wish I had joined here years ago.
Sorry to witness the demise of the forum. 😥😥😥😡😡😡I am Spartacus
As you say, the major problem seems to be the time constraints in finding permissions etc and setting it all up ready to go before this forum shuts down @nickoslesteros . In an ideal word, the last post on the forum would be something along the lines of " you can now find your old friends at..." so that all visitors would know where to go.
Even if only a third of the current GW Forum members joined, l suspect it wouldn't be long before it took off, given the knowledge, friendship and advice that has been so prevalent on here over the years.
This is this is a real shame. I’ve not posted many times, when I did the knowledge here was invaluable. I will miss Daily wildlife moments, some of the photography especially the birds is fantastic, also the ease of looking back to find some answer. Just screen shot 3 pages of interest 21 pictures! I’ve seen other forums die off but this one always seemed so busy I thought it was going to keep going. Very sad indeed.
I’m just back from hospital and have read this news with great sadness. This was a forum where I felt a resonance with so many members. Above all, the gardening advice has always been first rate. I knew that if I popped my query on this site the responses would be based on solid experience. Put the question on to the broader internet and you have so much chaff among the wheat; Facebook fluff abounds.
But it has not just been about gardening. I have been greatly moved by messages of support, private and public, to my wife’s terminal cancer diagnosis. More generally, and from @punkdoc specifically, but many others too, I have welcomed enormously the medical advice that has been proffered. This was especially true during Covid’s first two years.
I love the debates. Monty: Good or Evil?, is BBC a worthless load of twaddle?, should cats live?, is Brexit a blessing? and more. They have engendered sharp exchanges of views but almost always the acrimony is focussed on the posting not the poster.
The discussions on words and clichés have tapped into a particular interest of mine. Other topics have been wonderfully helpful ranging from purchasing advice on gardening tools, indeed purchases in general, through to some excellent commentary on energy and energy saving.
Those with deeper knowledge of environmental matters or wildlife, especially entomology, have developed my understanding and I have never thanked you for this so, belatedly, I do so now.
I have loved seeing others’ gardens and have enjoyed sharing my own photos, some folk even being so complimentary as to say they’d like to see Cotto Towers. If you’re able to contact me through the new site, or maybe on the Trip Advisor forum where my user name is Beauchamp, I would be delighted to host you should you ever find yourself in Rutland.
And my biggest regret of all? The closure of the forum before we find out the answer to WarGarden’s quiz on the correct spacing of carrots in 1921.
Soon I will sign up to Gardeners’ Corner but if the process defeats me, for IT is a kissing cousin of witchcraft, I would like to extend to everyone who has troubled to read this my thanks, my best wishes and my blessings.
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Like most of you, this forum has been my contact with you all especially through Forkers.
I too, would like to thank you all for your support and kindness with every topic I have posted whether it be gardening, personal or just asking silly questions relating to air fryers etc!!
I will be joining GC (hopefully) under the same pseudo and I hope to see you all there.
That would be awesome if you could make it happen.
(Maybe GW could even find a tiny space in their page for a link. 😉)
If it was called a similar name it might be handy for new people to find, 'Gardeners Wold' or 'Gardeners Whirled' maybe? 😄
In an ideal word, the last post on the forum would be something along the lines of " you can now find your old friends at..." so that all visitors would know where to go.
Even if only a third of the current GW Forum members joined, l suspect it wouldn't be long before it took off, given the knowledge, friendship and advice that has been so prevalent on here over the years.
But it has not just been about gardening. I have been greatly moved by messages of support, private and public, to my wife’s terminal cancer diagnosis. More generally, and from @punkdoc specifically, but many others too, I have welcomed enormously the medical advice that has been proffered. This was especially true during Covid’s first two years.
I love the debates. Monty: Good or Evil?, is BBC a worthless load of twaddle?, should cats live?, is Brexit a blessing? and more. They have engendered sharp exchanges of views but almost always the acrimony is focussed on the posting not the poster.
The discussions on words and clichés have tapped into a particular interest of mine. Other topics have been wonderfully helpful ranging from purchasing advice on gardening tools, indeed purchases in general, through to some excellent commentary on energy and energy saving.
Those with deeper knowledge of environmental matters or wildlife, especially entomology, have developed my understanding and I have never thanked you for this so, belatedly, I do so now.
I have loved seeing others’ gardens and have enjoyed sharing my own photos, some folk even being so complimentary as to say they’d like to see Cotto Towers. If you’re able to contact me through the new site, or maybe on the Trip Advisor forum where my user name is Beauchamp, I would be delighted to host you should you ever find yourself in Rutland.
And my biggest regret of all? The closure of the forum before we find out the answer to WarGarden’s quiz on the correct spacing of carrots in 1921.
Soon I will sign up to Gardeners’ Corner but if the process defeats me, for IT is a kissing cousin of witchcraft, I would like to extend to everyone who has troubled to read this my thanks, my best wishes and my blessings.
As so many of you have said, this forum is a valuable and cherished part of my life.