Moan, moan, moan----get it off your chest or have a chat

[shelagh]

Thanks Michael, it worked a treat.

[art600]

Every day is a Labour day here until June next year!

My money is in May Tony

I hope I do not have to wait that long!

[Maggi Young]

Ah, there you are , Art, did your birthday go well?   Is the decorating all finished now.... we've missed you!

[mark smyth]

I need some extra long bolts to finish putting louvres in my green house. The postage is £5 for 20 screws. I emailed to ask why and got no answer

[mark smyth]

my neighbour has all Christmas decorations up in and out. At least it's not as early as last year. 31st October 2008

[Paul T]

Alright, end of November I'd accept, but the end of October?  They obviously don't live in my area..... you run the risk of the Sulphur Crested Cockatoos "investigating" the Christmas decorations even when you put them up in December.  End of October would give them nearly 2 months to play before the event itself.  I wonder how many lights/tinsel/anythign they can chew would be destroyed by Christmas itself. 

[Maggi Young]

 Message from God
 

One day, God was looking down at earth,
and saw all the misbehaving that was going on.
So he called one of his angels to go to Earth.

When he returned, the angel told God,
'Yes, it is bad on Earth; 95% are misbehaving,
and only 5% are not'.

God thought for a moment and said,
'Maybe I should send down another angel,
to get a second opinion'!

So, God called another angel, & sent him to Earth too.

When the angel returned, he went to God & said,
'Yes, it's true.  The Earth is in decline;
95% are misbehaving, but 5% are being good.'

God was not pleased. So he decided to e-mail the
  5% who were good, because,
he wanted to encourage them, give them
a little something, to help them keep going !

Do you know what the e-mail said ?





No ?





Okay,  just checking with you.

I didn't get one  either ...

[mark smyth]

nor me

[ranunculus]

The Bulb Despot's message read; "Go forth and instruct - take chocolate from those that crave it - give special shoes to those that are unshod - preserve yonder erythroniums for the good of mankind - rid the universe of snowdrop envy and the white lust - praise ye the great guitar pickers of the world - and ensure affordable spirits and wine are available for the next great conference in the holy land.

[Lesley Cox]

I got the message Maggi and Mark. It just said "you can't beat' em so why don't you join 'em?" I'm doing that.

[Giles]

I ordered some seed from Jelitto. (nothing untoward about that).
They seem to send things by DHL which is trackable. (handy eh?)
Monday morning: parcel in Hannover.
Monday afternoon: parcel arrives Paris (ok, can almost understand that).
Tuesday morning: parcel arrives Newark (yes folks, that's Newark NJ, not Newark Notts    )

[Maggi Young]

 Good grief! Poor you, Giles..... I suggest restful music and strong hot chocolate to calm your quite understandable rage.
What's the betting the package finally arrives when you are at home waiting for it.... but the driver doesn't ring the bell but sticks that dreaded "you were out" card though the letterbox anyway? 

[Giles]

......don't even think about it...........

[mark smyth]

This week a delivery of bulbs arrived at my house. Not for me but a forum member. That's OK. A card is stuck in the door frame saying "package on door step". I saw the package before the card.

A few years ago a package left Beeches Nursery to come to my address. It came to my house via Norway and took 6 weeks to arrive! Why Parcel Force sent it to Norway we never found out

[Giles]

It's called 'cold stratification', Mark.
You probably had to pay extra