I posted for a long time on the old beeb boards, same name......kind of self- destructed towards the end, so it was probably a blessing that it closed when it did.
A Beeb Poster for years History Gardening Dancing where the mad Northern Knights advanced South to guard Erin Boag, fun times and much misery when it all came to an end. We just ignored the trolls that sends them mad and on this board you can turn people off if you do not like them. Friends shot off to various boards and I dithered a bit before coming on here after seeing genuine young gardeners needing advice, it is freely given and then up to them whether they take it (double digging discussion). I answer the same questions over and over because some cannot find the old posts and do need to know. Often I just hover reading the old hands little tiffs, some I will never understand they are off in the woods with the fairies, mainly though new faces arrive find we do not bite and stay, that is as it should be.
Cannot remember what I was on the OBB, but posted on there for many a long year.
We did have some fun, remember trying to get 1,000 posts on a thread in one evening? We did it and got up to nearly 1800, if my memory serves me right.
I came in 2011, when we moved here and I had a proper garden again I only intended to ask the occasional question or two, hence the somewhat flippant name referring to the pigeons in the ash trees and a favourite tv programme .... somehow I find I'm still here
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
"Friends shot off to various boards and I dithered a bit before coming on here after seeing genuine young gardeners needing advice"
I remember that dithering, Frank & was party to the persuasion. Quite right, we did justice to 'Strictly' on the old beeb forum too.
My first forum was The Archers, some 14 years ago and have boarded ever since.....although I'm not as prolific as some and thus amass a less post count.
To right David, I remember you on your knees tears in your eye's, goodness knows what else you were doing down there probably planting Sweet Peas. Went on the History board in the year 2000 as a researcher often having to sort truth from hearsay, now on the local history board which looks as if it will join up with the National Libraries History Board shortly, not many of us left David with experience of tin baths dig for victory and (whisper) exchanging pieces of our own bacon for tea sugar etc.
Gardening changes has modes then comes back to basics, all our market gardens have long gone and yet they are returning with local Farm shops making good business and us old gardeners know when the food is fresh from the ground plus the taste, I say thank goodness for that.
I was on the Beeb same name,I went to a northern borders meet at Harlow Carr and another to Trilliums bluebell gardens and nursery, then on to Arley Hall
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I posted for a long time on the old beeb boards, same name......kind of self- destructed towards the end, so it was probably a blessing that it closed when it did.
www.bbc.co.uk/dna/mbgardening
I moved here by invitation:
www.bbc.co.uk/dna/mbgardening/NF2759007?thread=8345576
I've been here three years
I think 
arrived just after Lizzie
My first forum.
I remember you arriving KEF. I came in July 2012, my first forum too.
A Beeb Poster for years History Gardening Dancing where the mad Northern Knights advanced South to guard Erin Boag, fun times and much misery when it all came to an end. We just ignored the trolls that sends them mad and on this board you can turn people off if you do not like them. Friends shot off to various boards and I dithered a bit before coming on here after seeing genuine young gardeners needing advice, it is freely given and then up to them whether they take it (double digging discussion). I answer the same questions over and over because some cannot find the old posts and do need to know. Often I just hover reading the old hands little tiffs, some I will never understand they are off in the woods with the fairies, mainly though new faces arrive find we do not bite and stay, that is as it should be.
Frank.
Cannot remember what I was on the OBB, but posted on there for many a long year.
We did have some fun, remember trying to get 1,000 posts on a thread in one evening? We did it and got up to nearly 1800, if my memory serves me right.
I came in 2011, when we moved here and I had a proper garden again
I only intended to ask the occasional question or two, hence the somewhat flippant name referring to the pigeons in the ash trees and a favourite tv programme .... somehow I find I'm still here 
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
"Friends shot off to various boards and I dithered a bit before coming on here after seeing genuine young gardeners needing advice"
I remember that dithering, Frank & was party to the persuasion.
Quite right, we did justice to 'Strictly' on the old beeb forum too. 
My first forum was The Archers, some 14 years ago and have boarded ever since.....although I'm not as prolific as some and thus amass a less post count.
Thanks for posting the link to the old Beeb Board. I recognise some, here and elsewhere. Wonder what happened to Figrat?
To right David, I remember you on your knees tears in your eye's, goodness knows what else you were doing down there probably planting Sweet Peas. Went on the History board in the year 2000 as a researcher often having to sort truth from hearsay, now on the local history board which looks as if it will join up with the National Libraries History Board shortly, not many of us left David with experience of tin baths dig for victory and (whisper) exchanging pieces of our own bacon for tea sugar etc.
Gardening changes has modes then comes back to basics, all our market gardens have long gone and yet they are returning with local Farm shops making good business and us old gardeners know when the food is fresh from the ground plus the taste, I say thank goodness for that.
Frank.
I was on the Beeb same name,I went to a northern borders meet at Harlow Carr and another to Trilliums bluebell gardens and nursery, then on to Arley Hall