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

[maggiepie]

I have red alpine strawberries, they fruit from June till hard frost and even then keep trying.
They are fantastic.
Just need to find some white ones.

[Lesley Cox]

I may be able to get some seed of the white ones later in the season Helen. One of my vendors does alpine strawberries, both reed and white.

Seed of Cl. fusca, the one remaining head is developing nicely so will go your way in due course. I had planted out three but ran the weed eater over them accidentally and lost the heads. I've searched on my hands and arthritic knees but no joy. And Otto, the seeds didn't develop on I. ret. 'Cantab,' nothing in them at all, same for 'Pauline' and a few from 'Natascha' of which I had high hopes. Pity I can't send you some bulbs of 'Cantab.'

[maggiepie]

Lesley, would be thrilled to get seeds of white alpine strawberries.
I was growing them in Oz but no idea which variety I had, they were very tasty and had a wonderful creamy texture.
Think I got the plants from the fragrant garden nursery that was on the central coast of NSW.
Not sure if it is still there.
Really have my fingers crossed for the fusca seeds, hope nothing eats them.
I dread to think what damage I could do with a whipper snipper.

[Anthony Darby]

Many years ago my family used to stay at the Wilkin's jam factory camp site, Tiptree, Essex and pick fruit. We got paid by the pound or the bucket. Sometimes it was tiring work for not much reward, unless you were on cherries or "Little Scarlet" strawberries. The latter are grown nowhere else, and make excellent jam. These strawberries are fingernail size and delicious. I could have taken a cutting or two, but would have had to do a runner.

[maggiepie]

. I could have taken a cutting or two, but would have had to do a runner.

 

[Brian Ellis]

I am pleased to have finished papering downstairs - and worse in the stairwell.  As I write the dining room is being painted and we might even be straight for Christmas

[Paddy Tobin]

I cannot compliment you on your timing, Brian.

Paddy

[David Nicholson]

I am pleased to have finished papering downstairs - and worse in the stairwell.  As I write the dining room is being painted and we might even be straight for Christmas

Do you give free estimates Brian?

[Brian Ellis]

I am pleased to have finished papering downstairs - and worse in the stairwell.  As I write the dining room is being painted and we might even be straight for Christmas

Do you give free estimates Brian?

The words that come to mind (after we have done upstairs in the Spring) are "Never, ever, again"

[Maggi Young]

Never thought of moving to a bungalow, Brian? 

[Hoy]

Try one of these! They are cheap and you never need  papering the walls

I have lived in one for a weekend to a week several times in my youth - it's cosy



Picture from this site: http://kvslyngdal.no/idrett/magisk-sn%C3%B8huletur/2747

[Brian Ellis]

Never thought of moving to a bungalow, Brian? 

The thought is getting ever more pleasant - as long as there are no beams to paper round!

[Brian Ellis]

Try one of these! They are cheap and you never need  papering the walls

I have lived in one for a weekend to a week several times in my youth - it's cosy



Picture from this site: http://kvslyngdal.no/idrett/magisk-sn%C3%B8huletur/2747

At least ice for the Gin and tonic would be handy

[Anthony Darby]

I haven't wallpapered since I moved out of my first house in 1987. The wall covering now comes in a tin.

[fermi de Sousa]

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fermi