SRGC forum member - informal poll

[gote]

I am not offended. My point is merely that runes are just another alphabet just as Cyrillic or Greek and no more difficult.
Göte

[fleurbleue]

hi
I am a french gardener and love many sorts of plants.
It's my first reply on this forum because I don't speak very well english but I often read your posts.
I have found the srgc website searching informations for a plant and decided immediatly to become a srgc member to benefit from seed exchange.
I have been a srgc member for three years and  I am waiting impatiently for the seed list every year.
I read regularly the Ian Young's bulb logs and Wisley alpine logs  where I learn many things.
Kinds regards for all

[Carlo]

fleurbleue,

Please consider joining us more often. Your English is terrific...and I for one would love to hear more from France. Are you familiar with Olivier Filippi's nursery, book, and work? What part of the country do you garden in?

[Michael J Campbell]

Hi fleurbleue, welcome to the forum, you will get lots of information here and meet lots of like- minded friends.

Cheers.

[David Nicholson]

Hello fleurbleue, your English is excellent and I hope that now you have joined us you will post for us as well.

[Lesley Cox]

A warm welcome from me too, fleurebleue. Your English is very good and MUCH better than my minimal French, though I have figured out Blue Flower.

Gote, we here in the south of New Zealand absolutely LOVE our northern counterparts, i.e. those in the north of NZ, especially Aucklanders. As we perceive them, they're rich, arrogant, and don't acknowledge that life exists south of the Bombay Hills (a part of south Auckland). Perhaps you know the very pleasant sweets, jaffas, which have a chocolate centre and an orange-flavoured outer coat. But we have another, a JAFA, which means "Just another f..... Aucklander." In a small Central Otago town (near me)  a few years ago, some Auckland immigrants opened a cafe/bar which they called "Jafa's." So they know we really do quite like them - usually.

[fleurbleue]

CARLO, DAVID, LESLIE, thanks for my "english" but I have written my post for a long time with my dictionary on my knees lol

[Paul T]

Nicole,

And I bet you spent a LOT less time with that dictionary than I would have if I was trying to type it in french!!    Welcome!!

[Heinz Meyer]

Hello everybody,
my name is Heinz Meyer, I come from northern Germany and I am a member since last autumn in the SRGC. Here in the forum, I have been about a year read-only member, I've never dared to write here because my English is not good.

 Greetings!
          Heinz

[Maggi Young]

Greetings, Nicole and Heinz, great to have you join in.

[gote]

Lesley,
I am not surprised.
If you travel in Bavaria you will find that the locals say that Preußen starts ten miles north of where they are. (They will never forgive Bismark that he dragged their Beautiful Freistaat into Germany.)
In Sweden we say that Lappland starts ten miles north of us.
The Danes say that Asia starts on our side of Öresund.
Only in your case it is the South Island that is closer to the pole.
You are upside down. I do not understand that you do not fall off 
Göte

[Lesley Cox]

Well gravity I suppose, but that would only make us remain attached. How can we still be upright with the sky above? I suspect the ancients were right after all and the earth is flat.

[tonyg]

Hello everybody,
my name is Heinz Meyer, I come from northern Germany and I am a member since last autumn in the SRGC. Here in the forum, I have been about a year read-only member, I've never dared to write here because my English is not good.

 Greetings!
          Heinz

Hello Heinz
Your English is much better than my German  
You should find some German friends here who you can share news with using the Personal Message system but I hope you will share some with us all too.

[Paddy Tobin]

Dear New Members,

It is a pleasure to have your company. Please remember that we do not read your postings to see if you have good English. We are simply interested in you, your plants, your garden, your comments, your stories and it seems to me you are all well able to tell us about these important things.

Please start posting. Postings from other countries makes this forum so very interesting. When I log on here I can see what people in New Zealand, Australia, Canada, America, and many other place in the world are growing and I can see plants I would never see otherwise. Your contributions will be very welcome here and we look forward to reading more from you.

Paddy

[ranunculus]

As a quick follow up to Paddy's excellent welcome ... it is so easy to post images with little or no additional text ... we only need to know your location and/or the name of the featured plant.  We would welcome any contributions to this magnificent forum.  Thanks Paddy.


 

Dear New Members,

It is a pleasure to have your company. Please remember that we do not read your postings to see if you have good English. We are simply interested in you, your plants, your garden, your comments, your stories and it seems to me you are all well able to tell us about these important things.

Please start posting. Postings from other countries makes this forum so very interesting. When I log on here I can see what people in New Zealand, Australia, Canada, America, and many other place in the world are growing and I can see plants I would never see otherwise. Your contributions will be very welcome here and we look forward to reading more from you.

Paddy