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

[Paul T]

It's Saturday! (well it is for me, work-wise).  A good day to be happy. 

[emma T]

My french bulldog (Eavis ) and i have been asked to help out on the discover dogs (it like an a-z of dog breeds)  french bulldog breed Stand at crufts    It shood be great fun and the dog loves it. He loves all the attention and fuss/hugs he gets from people.

[annew]

You can't say that and not show us a picture, Emma. Does he wear a beret? (apologies to our French forumists)

[art600]

Today the sun is shining    The wind is not blowing    I am in the garden weeding, tidying up the shrubs  and best of all enjoying the Snowdrops, reticulate irises and Crocus that have appeared as if by magic almost overnight 

Can life be better than this?

[Gail]

  The same here today.  I had to spend the morning working but escaped this afternoon and have never enjoyed weeding so much!  Lots of aconites out and everything feels spring-like.  My muscovy drake had the devil in him though and spent the afternoon pulling all the leaves off a sarcococca bush.

[emma T]

You can't say that and not show us a picture, Emma. Does he wear a beret? (apologies to our French forumists)

No beret I'm afraid. Just my version of a badger collar i made for him.

[annew]

And he still manages to look dignified! He's definitely got that Gallic attitude.

[emma T]

 

And he still manages to look dignified! He's definitely got that Gallic attitude.

Just about 

He has had worse, he went dressed as a lobster to the french bulldog xmas party  we came 3rd, beaten by a couple of xmas puddings and a punk ! I think he has won more first prizes wearing the lobster suit than he ever has at a normal dog show naked, lol

[Paddy Tobin]

Emma,

You could dress him as a snowdrop!

Paddy

[Lesley Cox]

So well-behaved, to sit still and be photographed, with flowers etc. Would love to see him in the lobster suit. Please?

[Anthony Darby]

Heidi is well behaved, except she doesn't like her lead! There is a field nearby - rough ground, not agricultural - where she can get a good run. In amongst the grass are familiar weeds: speedwell, daisy, dandelion, narrow & broad leaved plantain, white clover; I could be in Dunblane, except for the chorus of clapping cicadas, oh and the plants growing wild in the hedgerows: Swiss cheese plant, yaro, agapanthus, flowering ginger! After her run she generally flakes out.

[Lesley Cox]

I'm pleased she's a happy lady. Do you mean yarrow or taro Anthony? and what on earth is Swiss cheese plant? I'm a South Islander. Auckland is a foreign country.

[Paul T]

Lesley,

I'd imagine it could be either yarrow or taro in that area.    What I know as Swiss Cheese plant is one of the Philodendron species I think, but Monstera is also know by this common name from memory?

[Anthony Darby]

You are correct Paul, Monstera deliciosa, and Lesley, I'm getting muxed ip. Yarrow is a common weed in grass in Scotland, Taro is the plant out here.

[Lesley Cox]

Taro is a staple food of the Pacific Island communities, especially the Samoans. Huge leaves and floury tubers. There are some magnificent black-leaved forms but it's way too cold here in the south for them alas.