Mark's been quiet!

[mark smyth]

Hi all

Just letting you that know following a dispute with BT I have had no internet for a while and wont have until a sort out a new supplier. Miss you all badly.

Mark

[Maggi Young]

Such problems are a pest, Mark.... and then there are the crashes and other assorted snafus with computers that can drive us crazy..... at least it is summer and y there are a million other things to occupy your time... the Swift Watching and the pursuit of the still active narcissus fly, from what I see in another thread.....

[Onion]

Maggi and Mark,

not only a problem on the British Isles. German Telekom is not a bit better. Friends of us have no telephone and internet for four weeks.
The miracle of technique. 

[mark smyth]

I'm using Margaret Glynns internet just now while we wait for 40 Australians to arrive and have a walk around the garden

[Martin Baxendale]

I'm using Margaret Glynns internet just now while we wait for 40 Australians to arrive and have a walk around the garden

Say hi to Margaret from me.      And hope you get your internet access sorted soon.

[mark smyth]

I will.

[Anthony Darby]

I'm using Margaret Glynns internet just now while we wait for 40 Australians to arrive and have a walk around the garden

Hope they've been practising walking the right way up Mark?

[Maggi Young]

I'm using Margaret Glynns internet just now while we wait for 40 Australians to arrive and have a walk around the garden

Hope they've been practising walking the right way up Mark?

I don't think it matters, anthony: Margaret's garden is so lovely that they'll faint when they see it and can  lie there and look around in amazement!  

[Lesley Cox]

Stay with us in spirit Mark. Back soon we hope.

[Paddy Tobin]

Mark was on BBC Northern Ireland's "Secret Gardens" this evening. It was filmed earlier in the year as Mark was wearing a heavy coat and showed some of his snowdrops.

Paddy

[Ragged Robin]

Mark sorry to hear about your internet problems - it's only when things don't work we realise how much we like/need to use them!

I thought of you when in Scotland as my brother is very excited about having encourage swifts to return to his home with music playing after many years 

[mark smyth]

Paddy - The programme was filmed about 4 years ago. No red in my hair these days. Margaret says time goes by too quickly and not enough is ever done/finished. Keep well 

RR - very small world! They were a lovely couple. I hope they get nest boxes up

[Paddy Tobin]

Mark,

Yes, I thought the red highlights were sometime in the past alright.

Four years ago! Still pleasant to view the garden.

Paddy

[Ragged Robin]

Paddy - The programme was filmed about 4 years ago. No red in my hair these days. Margaret says time goes by too quickly and not enough is ever done/finished. Keep well 

RR - very small world! They were a lovely couple. I hope they get nest boxes up

A small world indeed if I'm reading this correctly -  you were the instigator of the return of the Swifts after years of swiftlessness - hailed as Swift Man?   

[mark smyth]

Not quite, but pushed hard, with other groups, to get their status changed