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

[fermi de Sousa]

Lesley dont get upset it happens to me all the time. I went upstairs this afternoon to do something and when I got there I couldnt remember

Mark,
you're obviously at the age when you have to think about the hereafter.  You walk into a room and say to yourself "Now what am I here after?"
 
cheers
fermi

[maggiepie]

Hahaha , I can relate to that!!
Don't know why I am laughing

[Lesley Cox]

I am in the process of importing bulbs/corms from Marcus Harvey in Tasmania. This year I decided to go for broke and include irises in my order, knowing that for Iris I have to have an import permit and they have to go into post-entry quarantine - though Heaven knows why. They don't, I imagine pose any greater environmental risk than Crocus or Narcissus. Tulipa has the same stipulation attached.

Anyway, I duly went to the ERMA website and downloaded an application for Permit to Import form and find that the Permit will cost $105. It's a lot for the 8 bulbs I wished to import but "what the hell" I thought. Then, because I no longer have a quarantine facility I phoned my friend Denis Hughes at Blue Mountain Nurseries who has a facility available to the public. "I doubt if you'll want to" he said. "It works out at thousands of dollars for each importation." The bulbs have to be inspected in quarantine at least twice, then a third time prior to release. There used to be an inspector in Dunedin then later, not in Dn but still one in Christchurch. Now, the inspector flies down from Wellington to Invercargill, hires a rental car to drive the hour or so to Blue Mountain Nurseries, inspects, drives back to Invercargill, stays overnight in a hotel then flies back to Wellington. At least 3 times in a 12 month period.

So - no irises from Marcus.

I've sent an email to ERMA (through their website) asking if there's any way I can import my 8 bulbs without all these hassles and costs. So far my email has come back to me as if I, myself have sent it. There's no indication that ERMA have received it and it certainly hasn't been answered.

[ranunculus]

Good job you didn't really want them, Lesley!!        Stick with Ranunculus semiverticillatus ... now that WOULD be worth it!

[ChrisB]

That sounds like quite a story, Lesley.  I thought we had all the beaurocrats, but that one really takes the cake, and we all know you know a thing or two about cakes too 

[Michael J Campbell]

Paul, do you thing that the flying chairs at the Australian open will pose any threat to the low cost Airlines.? 

[Lesley Cox]

I doubt they will Michael, only to low flying airlines.

[ian mcenery]

A so called friend sent me this today entitled things to look forward to. Its what worries me

[David Nicholson]

You're a gardener Ian, we never run out of things to do only time to do them

[ian mcenery]

David I also fish and enjoy walking and I am still working a little but there are still moments like this and there is the fear and even the guilt 

I am trying to make myself busy today continuing a job I started some weeks ago which is to organise 10,000 or so digital photos and to discard as many as I can. Decisions decisions  Nearly done

[ranunculus]

I am trying to make myself busy today continuing a job I started some weeks ago which is to organise 10,000 or so digital photos and to discard as many as I can. Decisions decisions  Nearly done

PLEASE DON'T FEEL GUILTY, IAN ... I have over sixty thousand digital images to sort through ... may I expect you anytime?   
Can't seem to find any time, what with child-minding, lecture preparations and general idling ...

Sue says I should learn to cook, clean and shop!  What ... at my age!!!!  I'll be sixty before she knows it.

[mark smyth]

All my photos are organised as I go along  . I have 77GB of photos neatly stored on my hard drive

Weekly I run a slide show and delete all those that are not perfect.

[ian mcenery]

Cliff sixty you don't look a day older than ........................... (answers on a postcard) By the way we are going back to the Dollies this year - how about you and Sue?

Mark If I were to delete all the ones that weren't perfect it would be easy DELETE ALL

[Lesley Cox]

I have a small moan to make, specifically about a couple of our Forumists. Won't name them though.

Why do you type out your text with no capital letters? It is more difficult to read as the text seems not to be divided into proper sentences even though there is usually some punctuation. It is also just darned lazy.

There. That's done.

[Lvandelft]

I have a small moan to make, specifically about a couple of our Forumists. Won't name them though.

Why do you type out your text with no capital letters? It is more difficult to read as the text seems not to be divided into proper sentences even though there is usually some punctuation. It is also just darned lazy.

There. That's done.

Right out of my heart Lesley!
For people not grown up with English, like many Forumists are, it is even more difficult to read.
But for me it's very simple. after trying a few times, I just don't read such messages anymore
because I don't like to stare to texts where are the sentences hard to find.
I even have difficulties with texts where ' i ' is used for ' I ' , but maybe I am too old(fashioned)
to follow this?
But maybe I'm to lazy for that??