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

[Maggi Young]

Martin, we wont force you to share... though you could, of course, send a few of us a PM with a sample to cheer us up!
Paul, I am sure you are correct, it would be a shame to upset anyone... and certainly, though the forum is not as busy as the main site, with the tens of thousands of visitors there each week, there are still many folks about who might be offended and that is the last thing we want.
We'll just have to have a little moan about how restricted we are !

[SueG]

I do agree with you Sue, about the talk. Surely this person didn't come from NZ to the UK specifically to talk about such gardens? How stupid. But you won't see NZ native alpines around Auckland, only the bush plants, trees shrubs and climbers which to my mind are comparatively boring. There are the Auckland Islands of course, with a sub antarctic flora of great interest and beauty and having read about these, we had a Dutch gentleman arrive in the country expecting to see antarctic species growing in Queen Street, Auckland. (The local equivilent of Princes St. if you live in Edinburgh.) He wasn't a happy man, saying he'd been misled by his travel agent.

What was worse Lesley was that he'd gone from England to New Zealand and back again and kept saying things about the wonderful trees and tree ferns but didn't show any! To be fair I wasn't expecting alpines but I was expecting something that I can't see every day - bhah I'm obviously still cross about the waste of an evening - I was expecting to be informed or inspired but just kept thinking that I could have been at home getting on.

Oh well, on the up side the University where I work had a free concert of classical indian music this lunchtime, something I know nothing at all about, but went along to and it was brilliant, inspiring and uplifting, one of the best hours I've spent for a while.

Sue

[Martin Baxendale]

Martin, we wont force you to share... though you could, of course, send a few of us a PM with a sample to cheer us up!

I've emailed a pic of Clarissa to Maggi, Lesley and Fermi, who all expressed an interest. Anyone else want a quick cartoon email, let me know.   

[ranunculus]

Oh yes please Martin....I don't get many laughs since we banned mirrors from the house!

[Luc Gilgemyn]

Yes please Martin, you've made me quite curious now 

[Martinr]

Me too! Don't worry about upsetting the grown ups, I'm not really as young as my picture.

[Lesley Cox]

I knew this area for moaning would be a good idea

[Lesley Cox]

This moan is REALLY a worthy one! As I sit here typing, my adorable dog is asleep at my feet, gently farting away, non-stop, it seems to me.

[Anthony Darby]

Reminds me of that funny scene in "10" when Dudley Moore is visiting the church minister and the housekeeper farts. The dog under the table scarpers double quick because "when the housekeeper farts we kick the dog".

[fermi de Sousa]

Anthony! Are you implying something about Lesley's blaming the dog?
Martin,
I'm not offended and I think the cartoons are quite fun (and funny!). Can I pass them on?
cheers
fermi

[Martin Baxendale]

Can I pass them on? cheers fermi

Of course. 

[jomowi]

Martin
I find it difficult to see how anyone can be upset by such books.  Yes please, send me a drawing, I might even give my son a copy of the book for Xmas. There must be far to upset people on the TV, e.g. all that sex and violence in the average nature programme, than ther will ever be in your books. 

Brian Wilson

[David Shaw]

Some one must have got it in for poor old Willy. I can't even find him on Google 

[David Shaw]

Ahh, he's a Willie, not a Willy!
A very limited number of Wicked Willie cartoons (on Google) for those too embarressed to ask Martin for an image

[Ian Y]

Not to confuse Martin's book with the Wicked Willy cartoons that appeared in the 1980s, this was only published last year:  A Very Rude Book About Willies, Martin Baxendales :  Silent But Deadly Publications; (Mar 2006); Pages: 32
ISBN:0955050030; ISBN13: 9780955050039