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

[angie]

Maren when my mum was ill she said you have first pick of my rings, my mum loved her jewellery. My answer to her was can You leave me your Austrailian grass tree, she just laughed. I got the grass tree and her rings. I love the grass tree so much and it growing really well I think my mum new how much I loved this plant so she is looking after it for me. Now all I have to do is try and flower it.

I think all my friends think I am mad, but gardening and growing plants mean the world to me . I will never have the expertise that all you have but I am learning a little everyday on this forum and that's thanks to everyone that takes the time to answer my silly questions.

Angie

[Paul T]

I got the solitaire Diamond engagement ring, not my wife (hers was a combination of Amethyst and Diamonds).  The setting of mine means that there are no points exposed to ladder my stockings (well, if I were actually to wear stockings, which is not a usual occurrence for me  ).  So I must say that I am very happy to have received a diamond ring!    I'm rather fond of the future wife that came with it as well. 

[angie]

Paul glad to hear that you don't wear stockings .I like how you said " I'm rather fond of the future wife that came with it as well", that's so nice.
There one thing for sure a diamond is forever a plant on the other hand may not last that long especially if it's one that I have 

Angie

[Anthony Darby]

Paul, are "my wife" and "the future wife" different people?

[Paul T]

I wondered if I should change the tense between the two sentences, when I realised it didn't match (also saved trying to work out whether to use Fiance' or Affianced etc).  No, they're one and the same.  I was just commenting on the lady that came with the engagement ring being rather nice..... we've been married for 14.5 years or so now.

[Arykana]

I never had a diamond, never had a ring, but we are merried 27 years and 9 months

[Lesley Cox]

I gave my engagement ring to my daughter when she turned 25 but still have the beautiful solitaire diamond which was my mother's engagement ring and the emerald and 2 diamond which my Grandad gave to Grandma when he had a particularly good wool cheque one year. (Grand piano came the same way, not a baby but smaller than a concert) I wear the rings when I go anywhere halfway posh because, as one of Georgette Heyer's rather vulgar heroines said, "if I dont wear them, who's to know I have them?"

Saturday would have been my 45th wedding anniversary if Allan were still alive.

[johnw]

(Grand piano came the same way, not a baby but smaller than a concert)

That would be a studio grand; same here.  Not something you give away!

The incredible heat wave of the last week has finally ended.  It was hot and steamy here combined with fog. Little rain though.

johnw

[Maggi Young]

Spanner in the works to finish off our lovely weekend with 150 of our closest Friends at the SRGC weekend.... phone call on Sunday evening to say that Poppy was very restless and being sick.....  

Poppy the Dog reacted badly to her first time away from us since we got her.... she has only spent a day with friends so far and she was none too keen on being seperated from me and being asked to sleep in a room with the door shut at my friend's house!  The dogs are accustomed to being free to roam around our house at will and that wasn't possible at their "digs" because the house dog sleeps in an indoor  closed kennel  and would have been furious to have the girls stroll off and leave him in the night..... result, one very upset Poppy, crying piteously all night, who has reacted to the stress by throwing up regularly. She seems relaxed  now and has had some boiled rice which seems to be "staying down". Poor Poppy, she is such a Mummy's girl....... some further training will need to be undertaken before the Eigth International Conference in Nottingham next April......

[Lesley Cox]

Poor Poppy, I hope she comes right very soon. An animal in distress is a terrible thing.

[Maggi Young]

She's had a few little snacks of boiled rice and is sleeping peacefully, Lesley, thank you.  I do think  she was just stressed out ....we must remember the last time she lost contact with her "folk" she lost her family of 13 years....us taking off for the weekend  must have been more frightening for her than we imagined, poor little sausage, even though she was with people she knows, only 100 yards down the road.  

[angie]

Hope Poppy is back to normal, I bet you have spoiled her rotten now that you are back, how many cuddles has she had from you and Ian.

Angie

[Maggi Young]

I think she's not too bad now , Angela. She was a  bit sick first thing today  but then wanted some breakfast and has managed to keep all her food down for the rest of the day and she's been for a couple of little walks. Seems okay. She's curled by my side right now on her big beanbag on top of old pillows- a nice soft bed !

If she were younger I wouldn't be so concerned but since she's quite an old girl I think I am more anxious.


I tell you, those two small furries, Lily and Poppy, are worth their weight  in diamonds to me.

[angie]

I tell you, those two small furries, Lily and Poppy, are worth their weight  in diamonds to me.

Yep Maggi when they look at you with those sparkly eyes who needs diamonds.

Angie

[Ray]

News item I spotted ,"Aberdeen has been Trumped" and not a moan from anybody bye Ray