Happy birthday to.....2014

[Lesley Cox]

I hesitate to add this note to the thread celebrating the birthday of the Most Important Person on the Forum so because I really can't cope with Facebook, I'm starting a new thread as I'd like to thank those who have posted there, for their birthday greetings. Thanks so much ladies. I have a Facebook account but whenever I reply to something or wish to post something, I type it in and then can find no place anywhere on the screen, to Send or Attach or whatever. It never goes any further and disappears into the ether. So I've just about given up.

21 yes Shelagh (oh darn, I forgot, there's another 50 in there somewhere I think.)

And many thanks too, to the other Forumists - you know who you are - who have sent the charming Jacquie Lawson cards. These are always a delight and stored now in a separate place for re-playing when I'm feeling down. Thanks a million.

[Maggi Young]

Many Happy Returns of the Day, Lesley- hope there is cake!

M xx

[Lesley Cox]

Thank you Maggi. Well, no, there's NO cake. A self-inflicted deprivation as I made me a promise that before surgery I would lose some more weight. Since the surgery is now on the horizon, I need to stop fluffing about and get on with it. Thought I might find something nice at the supermarket today, in the Weightwatchers isle.

[Maggi Young]

I applaud your no cake stance - taken for the best if reasons -  a reward of some yummy fruit instead, then...... 

[David Nicholson]

Many Happies Lesley.

[ranunculus]

Have a great day, Lesley … and a drink or two on us.  Love and semiverticillatus. Sue and Cliff x

[Anthony Darby]

Many happy returns. Remember, people who have more birthdays live longer.

[fermi de Sousa]

Happy Birthday, Lesley,
Hope it hasn't become too wintry already and that you have plenty of gardening days ahead of you this season and many more into the future!
cheers
fermi

[Lesley Cox]

Many thanks everyone and kindest regards to all. Yes, Maggi, lots of fruit. We're surrounded by apricots still - even a few late cherries - and masses of peaches, plums, nectarines and new pears and apples already. My birthday tea consisted of a salad and a small piece of salmon followed by 2 nectarines. I enjoyed every bite and haven't missed anything else.  Roger's also losing weight and seems quite OK with that.

[Luc Gilgemyn]

Maybe late, but just as well meant all the same : Happy birthday Lesley !! 

[sippa]

Happy Birthday Leslie, I understand you are having a splendid day.

Marianne

[ichristie]

Happy Birthday Leslie hope you can keep the cake until we come over, the fruit sounds great as well, cheers Ian the Christie kind

[Lesley Cox]

Thanks again folks. Best birthday present? A load of horticultural sand. Who needs Paris in the springtime?

Golly, there are lots of birthdays in March, a good month obviously.

Ian, there will definitely be cake somewhere during your trip. A few years back I made a syrup cake and took it up the Old Man Range for lunch when you were here with Billy Carruthers. He at least thought it was pretty good and when offered a second round said "What took you so long." It's a coconut, spongey type of cake with an orange juice syrup poured over as it come from the oven. Rather sticky to handle but Sooooo delicious.

[Tim Ingram]

Lesley - this is my springtime present for the nursery here, a new line of frames. As far as I am concerned better than Paris in the springtime, though I wouldn't mind another visit to the Czech Republic! And it would be nice to invite a few Parisians to the garden this spring. Wonderful sounding cake to add to a few of the earlier recipes!

[Lesley Cox]

That is wonderful Tim and just what I need here. For now, everything is in the open and winter is creeping ever nearer. The main problem last winter wasn't cold especially but leaf fall and some very heavy rain because my little nursery is more than half under deciduous trees which has been a great help until now giving much needed shade but as the leaves are falling, picking them up is a daily task and rain falling through trees (3 large red-leaved Prumus) seems to batter and flatten the soil as rain direcvt from the sky does not. It's drips I suppose.

Is now a good time to send the Hypericum and Richea?