We hope you have enjoyed the SRGC Forum. You can make a Paypal donation to the SRGC by clicking the above button

« previous next »
Pages: 1 ... 23 24 [25] 26 27 ... 77   Go Down

Author Topic: YES!!! The "I'm So Happy!" thread - 2011  (Read 102872 times)

Anthony Darby

  • Bug Buff & Punster
  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 9647
  • Country: nz
Re: YES!!! The "I'm So Happy!" thread - 2011
« Reply #360 on: April 30, 2011, 09:01:29 AM »
Quote from: arillady on April 30, 2011, 07:29:12 AM
Yes that hat was awful - wonder it stayed on.
Would hate to be a gardeners near the palace as it looked like some of the plantings might have to be replaced.
Some of the camera angles in the cathedral were pretty amazing.
I think the flowers inside the Abbey looked like the place had been left to go wild, and as for those lollipop trees in the Nave! Words fail me. ::)
Logged
Anthony Darby, Auckland, New Zealand.
"Nothing in biology makes sense except in the light of evolution"
http://www.dunblanecathedral.org.uk/Choir/The-Choir.html

David Nicholson

  • Hawkeye
  • Journal Access Group
  • Hero Member
  • ******
  • Posts: 13117
  • Country: england
  • Why can't I play like Clapton
Re: YES!!! The "I'm So Happy!" thread - 2011
« Reply #361 on: April 30, 2011, 09:51:02 AM »
John, liked the haircut! ;D
Logged
David Nicholson
in Devon, UK  Zone 9b
"Victims of satire who are overly defensive, who cry "foul" or just winge to high heaven, might take pause and consider what exactly it is that leaves them so sensitive, when they were happy with satire when they were on the side dishing it out"

KentGardener

  • SRGC OOAgent
  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 2003
  • Country: gb
  • Every day's a school day
Re: YES!!! The "I'm So Happy!" thread - 2011
« Reply #362 on: April 30, 2011, 09:56:10 AM »
Quote from: David Nicholson on April 30, 2011, 09:51:02 AM
John, liked the haircut! ;D

All my own work too (with a little help from a roll of masking tape!   ;D )


(no one seemed to notice that it was a French flag on my head!  ;) )
« Last Edit: April 30, 2011, 10:00:00 AM by KentGardener »
Logged
John

John passed away in 2017 - his posts remain here in tribute to his friendship and contribution to the forum.

Lesley Cox

  • way down south !
  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 16348
  • Country: nz
  • Gardening forever, house work.....whenever!
Re: YES!!! The "I'm So Happy!" thread - 2011
« Reply #363 on: April 30, 2011, 11:13:33 PM »
Thought the Princesses B and E looked like the original two ugly sisters from Cinderella. Ludicrous!

The new Duchess on the other hand was beautiful, dignified, gracious and obviously enjoying herself. Everything a future queen should be.

I was immensely impressed by the way the line of 8 or 9 horses then another line of police on foot, controlled the mad rush to Buck House, not a person trying to push or shove and everyone getting there in time and in a good humour. Left to themselves, there could have been many bodies in the crush.

All in all, an event put on as only the Brits can do it. Everything superbly organized and achieved with perfection.

Logged
Lesley Cox - near Dunedin, lower east coast, South Island of New Zealand - Zone 9

johnw

  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 6696
  • Country: 00
  • rhodo-galantho-etc-phile
Re: YES!!! The "I'm So Happy!" thread - 2011
« Reply #364 on: May 01, 2011, 01:15:49 AM »
Quote from: Lesley Cox on April 30, 2011, 11:13:33 PM
Thought the Princesses B and E looked like the original two ugly sisters from Cinderella. Ludicrous!

Lesley - Obviously their sense of decorum was maternally inherited.  Was that a lyre or two on B.'s head?  Could they not have found quiet seats for them in the crypt?

Splendid performance by everyone else especially the young choir members.  And let us not forget the Abbey priest who managed two cartwheels in a cassock.

johnw  
« Last Edit: May 01, 2011, 01:30:17 AM by johnw »
Logged
John in coastal Nova Scotia

David Nicholson

  • Hawkeye
  • Journal Access Group
  • Hero Member
  • ******
  • Posts: 13117
  • Country: england
  • Why can't I play like Clapton
Re: YES!!! The "I'm So Happy!" thread - 2011
« Reply #365 on: May 01, 2011, 09:38:41 AM »
Quote from: Lesley Cox on April 30, 2011, 11:13:33 PM
Thought the Princesses B and E looked like the original two ugly sisters from Cinderella. Ludicrous!

The new Duchess on the other hand was beautiful, dignified, gracious and obviously enjoying herself. Everything a future queen should be.

I was immensely impressed by the way the line of 8 or 9 horses then another line of police on foot, controlled the mad rush to Buck House, not a person trying to push or shove and everyone getting there in time and in a good humour. Left to themselves, there could have been many bodies in the crush.

All in all, an event put on as only the Brits can do it. Everything superbly organized and achieved with perfection.



If we manufacture nothing else in this country today at least we can manufacture a sense of occasion when it's needed ;D
Logged
David Nicholson
in Devon, UK  Zone 9b
"Victims of satire who are overly defensive, who cry "foul" or just winge to high heaven, might take pause and consider what exactly it is that leaves them so sensitive, when they were happy with satire when they were on the side dishing it out"

ranunculus

  • utterly butterly
  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 5069
  • Country: england
  • ALL BUTTER AND LARD
Re: YES!!! The "I'm So Happy!" thread - 2011
« Reply #366 on: May 01, 2011, 10:02:59 AM »
Quote from: David Nicholson on May 01, 2011, 09:38:41 AM
Quote from: Lesley Cox on April 30, 2011, 11:13:33 PM
Thought the Princesses B and E looked like the original two ugly sisters from Cinderella. Ludicrous!

The new Duchess on the other hand was beautiful, dignified, gracious and obviously enjoying herself. Everything a future queen should be.

I was immensely impressed by the way the line of 8 or 9 horses then another line of police on foot, controlled the mad rush to Buck House, not a person trying to push or shove and everyone getting there in time and in a good humour. Left to themselves, there could have been many bodies in the crush.

All in all, an event put on as only the Brits can do it. Everything superbly organized and achieved with perfection.



If we manufacture nothing else in this country today at least we can manufacture a sense of occasion when it's needed ;D

Hence the Pudsey Pig, Mr N.!!!!   :D
Logged
Cliff Booker
Behind a camera in Whitworth. Lancashire. England.

JohnnyD

  • Maxi-minigardenist
  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 700
  • Country: 00
  • free at last!
Re: YES!!! The "I'm So Happy!" thread - 2011
« Reply #367 on: May 01, 2011, 01:31:59 PM »
Won by an Aissie of course! ;D
Logged
John Dower, Frodsham, Cheshire.

ranunculus

  • utterly butterly
  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 5069
  • Country: england
  • ALL BUTTER AND LARD
Re: YES!!! The "I'm So Happy!" thread - 2011
« Reply #368 on: May 01, 2011, 01:37:21 PM »
Quote from: JohnnyD on May 01, 2011, 01:31:59 PM
Won by an Aissie of course! ;D

... Or Aussie in English!   ;D ;D ;D
Logged
Cliff Booker
Behind a camera in Whitworth. Lancashire. England.

JohnnyD

  • Maxi-minigardenist
  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 700
  • Country: 00
  • free at last!
Re: YES!!! The "I'm So Happy!" thread - 2011
« Reply #369 on: May 01, 2011, 02:31:23 PM »
Oops! :P
Logged
John Dower, Frodsham, Cheshire.

Anthony Darby

  • Bug Buff & Punster
  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 9647
  • Country: nz
Re: YES!!! The "I'm So Happy!" thread - 2011
« Reply #370 on: May 04, 2011, 08:31:37 AM »
I got my geckos today! ;D
Logged
Anthony Darby, Auckland, New Zealand.
"Nothing in biology makes sense except in the light of evolution"
http://www.dunblanecathedral.org.uk/Choir/The-Choir.html

Maren

  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 1547
  • Maren & Pln Tongariro
    • Heritage Orchids
Re: YES!!! The "I'm So Happy!" thread - 2011
« Reply #371 on: May 04, 2011, 09:24:11 AM »
What have you called them? ;D
Logged
Maren in Marlow, Buckinghamshire, United Kingdom - Zone 8

http://www.heritageorchids.co.uk/

angie

  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 3167
  • Country: scotland
Re: YES!!! The "I'm So Happy!" thread - 2011
« Reply #372 on: May 04, 2011, 09:49:15 AM »
Quote from: Anthony Darby on May 04, 2011, 08:31:37 AM
I got my geckos today! ;D

Looking forward to hear all about them. How many did you get.

Angie :)
Logged
Angie T.
....just outside Aberdeen in North East Scotland

Anthony Darby

  • Bug Buff & Punster
  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 9647
  • Country: nz
Re: YES!!! The "I'm So Happy!" thread - 2011
« Reply #373 on: May 04, 2011, 09:49:34 AM »
One came with the name Adam! I don't tend to name geckos. The tortoises I had to leave behind were Roly, Pebl, Rocky and Button! The new one has gone through various names but Koru seems to have stuck!
Quote from: angie on May 04, 2011, 09:49:15 AM

Looking forward to hear all about them. How many did you get.

Angie :)
I got six. A pair of Northland green geckos (Naultinus grayi); a juvenile pair of Auckland green geckos (N. elegans), but these are the bright yellow form and a pair of forest geckos (Hoplodactylus granulatus). I'll take pics once they've settled down.
« Last Edit: May 05, 2011, 02:31:25 AM by Anthony Darby »
Logged
Anthony Darby, Auckland, New Zealand.
"Nothing in biology makes sense except in the light of evolution"
http://www.dunblanecathedral.org.uk/Choir/The-Choir.html

Lesley Cox

  • way down south !
  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 16348
  • Country: nz
  • Gardening forever, house work.....whenever!
Re: YES!!! The "I'm So Happy!" thread - 2011
« Reply #374 on: May 04, 2011, 10:36:46 AM »
Found my picture of Charles, a tuatara, perched on my arm, yesterday. I'll have to have it scanned though.
Logged
Lesley Cox - near Dunedin, lower east coast, South Island of New Zealand - Zone 9
Pages: 1 ... 23 24 [25] 26 27 ... 77   Go Up
« previous next »
 

Scottish Rock Garden Club is a Charity registered with Scottish Charity Regulator (OSCR): SC000942
SimplePortal 2.3.5 © 2008-2012, SimplePortal