Hi everyone. Just landed here from the BBC Message Boards. Havent posted over there lately but done lots of lurking. Hoping this forum succedes as well as the message boards did.
Gold1locks - thank you and well done. I just hope that we don't get drawn into silly nonsense that happened before. Mind you, the Beeb hosts and mods were very quick off the mark to "punish" off-topic threads, but seemed powerless/unwilling when it came to an obvious Troll.
Ditto to Amazing2 (who I presume is Amazing from Scotland? Or her twin?).
Daniel, if you had had the grief from grid that Beeb posters did you would know why there was an instant alert. He signalled his persona here by actually calling himself "gridgardener". We have to be prepared for all sorts of silly names as he tries to troll his way in to despoil what is a friendly (and user-friendly) MB.
Phew!!! I noticed him too! He'd written a weird reply to one of my posts which instantly made me suspect! Thank God they've got rid of him. Good on the people who flagged him!
David, I would love to see a chicken thread here. In fact one of my chickens laid an egg with a paper thin shell yesterday, I could do with some suggestions as to what to do about it. Off to work soon now, will look in again later.
The posts don't seem to be numbered here, you can't reply to a specific message. Unless I've missed it somewhere, still finding my way round.
You can do this-point the mouse on the empty spot to the right of the message you want to reply- two icons come up "quote and send" click on quote-then in your reply click on the '' icon in the bar above next to ABC and magic happens.
Thanks a lot Geoff, this is all new to me. There's a lot here to play with! I've seen this "quote" stuff on other message boards. It's a bit messy looking and takes up a lot of room on the page. I notice that each message is marked with the date and time it was posted so you could refer to a particuler message that way, possibly?
Sotongeoff, it was vine weevils. Well, wasn't actually. Too leggy. Turned out they were early chafer grubs thanks to advice and link to close up grub piccies. The chooks loved them, so did the robins. (The grubs not the piccies).
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Hi everyone. Just landed here from the BBC Message Boards. Havent posted over there lately but done lots of lurking. Hoping this forum succedes as well as the message boards did.
Gold1locks - thank you and well done. I just hope that we don't get drawn into silly nonsense that happened before. Mind you, the Beeb hosts and mods were very quick off the mark to "punish" off-topic threads, but seemed powerless/unwilling when it came to an obvious Troll.
High hopes for this board though.
Phew!!! I noticed him too! He'd written a weird reply to one of my posts which instantly made me suspect! Thank God they've got rid of him. Good on the people who flagged him!
Hi hope i,m in the right place
great to see some old faces 
looking forward to
getting to know the new place
keeleykins
Hi there. Yes, the gang's all here.
Does anyone know if there is a way ot telling if someone is still online? Like the ** on Beeb? I feel sure that Geoff will know.
Oh, so that's what the ** were!!! Doh!!
Thanks a lot Geoff, this is all new to me. There's a lot here to play with! I've seen this "quote" stuff on other message boards. It's a bit messy looking and takes up a lot of room on the page. I notice that each message is marked with the date and time it was posted so you could refer to a particuler message that way, possibly?
Or even particular!
Goodness, we do chat, don't we?
I've only just logged on today, and it's taken me ages to catch up!
Hello to everyone new
Sotongeoff, it was vine weevils. Well, wasn't actually. Too leggy. Turned out they were early chafer grubs thanks to advice and link to close up grub piccies. The chooks loved them, so did the robins. (The grubs not the piccies).
Hello Alina W. I'm new. (-: