Yes, I'm so Happy! 2012

[Paul T]

Lina,

All the best for your husband's recovery.

Lesley,

I have visions of you sitting out there knitting a tunnel cover.  Now THAT would be a big job?  What wool did you use?  Large or small needles? 

[Paul T]

I'm so happy that I've put the papers in for finalising my late wife's Estate today.  Not nearly as difficult as I expected, thankfully.

Now I'll be even happier when they come through approved!!   

[Lesley Cox]

Couldn't face it Paul so I hired a large team of little gnome-like critters who sat for hours and knitted furiously, into long, 6ft wide rolls.

I'm sure you know the kind, it's a sort of windbreak/shadecloth and has a knitted appearance instead of just woven over and under. It lasts forever but gets green with algae after a time. Mine is white but it comes in green and black as well and I think also in a buff colour. I'd take a picture of it but right now I can't be bothered.

[Paul T]

Lesley,

It's what I always think of as "shadecloth".  Definitely durable, as long as you don't get somewhere it can slowly unravel.  I always tend to fold the cut ends over when attaching to anything, so that the pulling stress is not on the cut ends.  It really does seem to last forever.    I'm glad the gnomes were obliging.  You can't always get good gnomes these days.

[angie]

Maybe he can help me in June cutting the hedges. 

Thank you for your kind wishes.

Lina.

Lina great to hear that your husbands operation went ok, any operation is always a worry. Hopefully he will be able to help you with the hedges. My husband had a bad back last year so I decided to cut them myself. I didn't make a good job.


Angie 

[Paul T]

Angie,

You only did a bad job so that you could use that excuse the next time they were needing trimming.  We know the truth!!  Just like men doing the housework.... if we do it badly then we don't get asked to do it again. 

[angie]

Angie,

You only did a bad job so that you could use that excuse the next time they were needing trimming.  We know the truth!!  Just like men doing the housework.... if we do it badly then we don't get asked to do it again. 

Don't tell him 

Angie 

[angie]

Had a great day today, sun was shinning at Kirriemuir and the plants were looking so lovely. Every time we visit Ian Christies nursery we are always so spoiled. Not only do we come away will fantastic plants but we are given lunch as well. I have never met such generous folks as Ian and Ann. Its just such a pleasure to visit their nursery.
I will be a happy bunny planting all my new plants tomorrow  .

Thanks Ann thanks for the lunch, you are too kind  .

Angie 

[Giles]

Nice afternoon in the garden; Magnolias, Cherries and Primroses all in flower.

[Lesley Cox]

Well I'm pretty sure I'm so happy, because hopefully the picture doesn't lie and for the first time in 4 or 5 years, I at last have 2 pods on Gentiana depressa. The one on the right is, in fact, a double pod and the other with the curly bits at the top, on the left of the plant, is single but still very fat and firm. If I'm right, I'll at long last be able to fulfil the promises made to at least 2 Forum members, perhaps in about a month, by the state of them.

We've had some beautiful weather since these two flowers opened with no rain and the flowers and now pods haven't gone to mush as has happened in the past when I thought there were pods forming. There's a third flower not open yet so maybe it too, will make seed. The only other pod I've ever ripened gave me over 100 sdlgs, so I'm very hopeful these will be as prolific.  Unfortunately I lost the lot except one when I potted them up, too small or too dry I think.

And no, in spite of the date, this is NOT an April Fools' Day trick.

I'll cover this trough at night from now on, not because we're having a few light frosts - it should stand those all right, but because the marauding cats are still marauding in spite of the addition of Marley to our household. They never dared when Teddy was with us.

[Maren]

Giles,

is that a Hartley greenhouse? i love the idea of having louvres in the doors.

[Anthony Darby]

Hartley? I thought he wrote books on fishing flies.

[Paul T]

Estate papers are now approved.  All done, sorted and worked out.  Yeah!!!!!!!  Definitely a load off my mind.

[Anthony Darby]

Good news Paul.

[Lesley Cox]

While there are certain water issues about which I am unhappy at present, I am VERY happy about the outdoors concert which has been continuing for days now, from daylight 'til dark. I think we have about a dozen pairs of bellbirds this year and in the autumn they always get het up and sing - or should that be ring - furiously for hours on end. The weather has been warm, sunny and windless for maybe a fortnight and the air is full of what amounts to a non-stop carillon. Different pairs have different songs and when they're all going at once, the sound is glorious. They'll go on while the good weather remains, only strong wind or heavy rain stopping them. Th autumn song is quite distinct from that of spring, summer or winter.