2008 YES!!! The "I'm so happy" thread

[Giles]

I placed an order for 12 plants from Gerd Stopp - yesterday 28 plants arrived!!

[David Nicholson]

That's the kind of discount I like. Does he have a Web Site?

[Giles]

No, but I've scanned and emailed his list to you.
(Alot of Primulas)

[David Nicholson]

Many thanks Giles. By the way I have ordered some from Peninsula Primulas (Philip Bankhead)

[mark smyth]

ah, he's the N Irish Primula man

[David Nicholson]

he is.

[FrazerHenderson]

today's happiness:


bringing the trees
indoors...
for warmth

Forgive me, Frazer, but this seems a little overzealous, even for a very keen gardener... what sort of trees are these cossetted specimens? ? 

Ah, Maggie...where is life without poetry?

It may prosaicly be about mere logs, but it may be about bringing in a decorated tree for the winter solstice for the added warmth of communion and fellowship - who knows.... the thoughts make me happy.

[Lesley Cox]

So not actually the TREES that need to be given warmth.

[Maggi Young]

It's perishing here, as usual... the idea of the warmth giving logs is deeply attractive!
Fo some reason, I read Frazer's post and burst into song.... God King Wenceslas...... don't panic, folks, it's passed now..... silence reigns again 

[ranunculus]

God King Wenceslas

A royal deity?

[Maggi Young]

Sorry, Cliff, I was chewing a toffee at the time... it made my words come out strangely!

[Lesley Cox]

So long as it was only your WORDS that came out

[Maggi Young]

There's nothing about having a pot of smother one's worms that would make anyone happy, Lesley 

[Martin Baxendale]

Nothing to do with plants, but I'm so happy I don't have dirty water from our bathroom flooding through the back wall into the void under our floorboards any more!

A so-called expert failed to come back after realizing on the first day that it wasn't just a simple drain rodding exercise, proving unable to decide exactly what the trouble was and discovering that it might actually involve some work; so I've just spent the last three days lifting floorboards, chiselling through concrete and stone, shoving my arms down holes and up drains, repeatedly getting stuck and using up my entire vocabulary of expletives, to find and fix the leak.

Now I just have to wait for the electric people to come and put insulating sheaths on the overhead power lines by the side wall so I can get a ladder up and fix the hole in the roof. Only been waiting a month now. First they failed to turn up on the agreed day, then arrived unexpectedly when I wasn't here and went away again even though I'd told them where I wanted the sheaths and it was bloody obvious. Now I've been promised a visit on Friday. We'll see. Maybe I'm on a winning streak this week.

[Lesley Cox]

shoving my arms down holes and up drains, repeatedly getting stuck and using up my entire vocabulary of expletives, to find and fix the leak.

Ever had anything to do with pregnant cows Martin?

I'm so happy too. We've had some rain - not enough but more is forecast for later today - we didn't lose the first test against the Windies, and the day outside is mild and still and humid, the air filled with the scent of roses and honeysuckle which is odd as I have only a couple of roses, neither very scented but there are a hundred or more in the garden across the road.