YES!!! The "I'm So Happy!" thread - 2011

[Maggi Young]

John, in your room full of people you forgot to say which one was you.

Good one , Lesley... I can assure you, it's not one of the skeletons!! He's a chunky lad is John. 

[angie]

Brillant John you must be a big kid at heart 

Angie

[David Nicholson]

............... after a meeting in Ashburton (meeting with talk from me Monday night, Primula next morning from my hostess) yesterday......
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and I was at a meeting in Ashburton this evening at a talk from Barry Starling on Dwarf Rhododendron for Containers, wonderful. Wonder which Ashburton was named first?

[Lesley Cox]

I'm sure it would have been yours David. Remember we're (Europeans) are recent immigrants to NZ as certain other NZers keep reminding us. Did Barry talk about R. lowndesii?

[Anthony Darby]

Over 40 years ago, my Father was lecturing to his afternoon class at Falkirk Technical College when a student put his hand up. "Can I leave 15 minutes early to catch my bus?" "Where do you live?" "California!" "You can stay 'til the end like everyone else." What my Dad didn't know was there is a wee village up "The Braes" called California. I somehow don't think the sunshine state is named after it? Similarly, there is a wee village in Yorkshire called New York!

[David Nicholson]

....... there is a wee village in Yorkshire called New York!

.... and one near Holmfirth called Paris and a California Cross not far away from me here

[David Nicholson]

I'm sure it would have been yours David. Remember we're (Europeans) are recent immigrants to NZ as certain other NZers keep reminding us. Did Barry talk about R. lowndesii?

Yes he did Lesley as well as lots of other dwarf species and hybrids. I feel another obsession coming on

[TC]

We have a Moscow about 12 miles inland from Ayr.  It is almost on the same latitude as its Russian counterpart.

[Darren]

Orkney has a Khyber Pass!

(It is a little alleyway in Stromness)

[Maggi Young]

Orkney has a Khyber Pass!

(It is a little alleyway in Stromness)

mercy! there must be about 4.95million Scots who don't know that - well done, Darren! 

[David Nicholson]

Orkney has a Khyber Pass!

(It is a little alleyway in Stromness)

I'd thought of a wonderful joke(well I thought it was), but no, Maggi would kill me

[Anthony Darby]

The road I take into Remuera, where I have joined a church choir, runs from Bombay to the CBD and runs between Epsom and New Market. You have to take the Khyber Pass road exit to get to New Market! I remember the road from Ocho Rios to Oracabessa (where Ian Fleming's 'Goldeneye' and Noël Coward's 'Firefly' (with its "room with a view") are, in Jamaica, passing through a settlement called Huddersfield!

[Lesley Cox]

On well, Dunedin's full of Scottish references. Among others, Dunblane St and Oban St are two I pass the ends of, several times a week.

[Maggi Young]

The road I take into Remuera...........

'Remuera' was the name Brian and Maureen Wilson gave to their house in Aberdeen, to remind them of their Down Under adventures!  Small world, isn't it?

[Lesley Cox]

The road I take into Remuera...........

'Remuera' was the name Brian and Maureen Wilson gave to their house in Aberdeen, to remind them of their Down Under adventures!  Small world, isn't it?

When I needed their postal address to send some cuttings, I wondered about that. In a church on the Isle of Wight which I visited because the church had a beautiful thatched roof with reedy pheasants along the top, I found the pews inside all had Maori names on their ends, including Timaru, the town I lived in at that time (1981). I couldn't find anyone to ask about the naming.