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

[Paul T]

Bloody flu and viruses.... they should be banned!! As mentioned elsewhere I have been struggling with one the last couple of days (and as also mentioned there, I have not been to Mexico or had any relations with pigs, so no associated jokes please!  ).    To add insult to injury I have just got back from sitting a test on nursery plant production (I am doing a Horticultural Degree).  Of course I HAD to get this flu just when a test was about to happen.    Thankfully I well and truly passed the test, but made far more difficult by the fact my head felt a bit like it was stuffed with cotton wool!    Moan, moan, whinge, whinge, mutter, mutter......

[Carol Shaw]

Hi Paul

Well done on passing the test even if you did feel grotty... David & I are going to wear face masks to Aberdeen if this flu takes off 

[Luc Gilgemyn]

Hi Paul

Well done on passing the test even if you did feel grotty... David & I are going to wear face masks to Aberdeen if this flu takes off 

The mask in your new avatar seems very appropriate Carol !!  Don't know about the effectiveness though ... 

[Paul T]

Luc,

I was going to say exactly the same thing.... it does rather look like she's wearing a lovely floral mask in her new avatar, doesn't it? 

[Paul T]

A brief moan here..... can people please include their country in their signatures?  Most already have, but there are a number of signatures that include cities and areas etc, but no country.  There are a couple of people I have only been able to work out by comments within their postings (And even then I am not sure the next time I try to remember it  ), and others that I still have no idea.  It would be a big help.

Thanks. 

[David Shaw]

The original pictures for Carols' new avatar were taken yesterday on her birthday outing to Ullapool. They are in Leckmelm Gardens, a couple of miles before Ullapool. The gardens are well worth visiting at this time for the rhodies.
Rhododendron loderi 'King George'. We were impressed by the size of the blooms.

[Hristo]

Congratulations Paul and get better soon!

[Carol Shaw]

Luc,

I was going to say exactly the same thing.... it does rather look like she's wearing a lovely floral mask in her new avatar, doesn't it? 

A wonderful floral mask Luc & Paul - a rhododendron with blooms 17cm in diameter! Not the most glamourous of avatars but typically of me with my nose in a flower bloom!

[Maggi Young]

Carol:  truly amazing how your new hairdo matches the Loderi buds.... now that IS stylish 

Chris...... re 'today you are'........ wouldn't you be better off spreading the manure first, THEN the bark??

[Hristo]

Ahhhh, observant as well as wise!  Bark for one area of the garden, manure for another. The manure is to put on my Rhubarb, though I apprecaite some prefer custard  The old ones are the best! 

[Carol Shaw]

Carol:  truly amazing how your new hairdo matches the Loderi buds.... now that IS stylish 

You'll see the new hairstyle firsthand at Aberdeen Show Maggi, figured that the 60th B Day required a new me 

[Anthony Darby]

A brief moan here..... can people please include their country in their signatures?  Most already have, but there are a number of signatures that include cities and areas etc, but no country.  There are a couple of people I have only been able to work out by comments within their postings (And even then I am not sure the next time I try to remember it  ), and others that I still have no idea.  It would be a big help.

Thanks. 

Just assume Scotland unless is says to the contrary Paul. It works for our stamps.

[Paul T]

So I take it your stamps don't actually have Scotland on them then?

And thanks to those who have added their country to their signature.  One I have already noted I was wrong on.... I don't know exactly where I thought they were but it wasn't Bulgaria!!    I'm glad I asked! 

[Ragged Robin]

Many congratulations Paul on passing your horticultural test - was it specific to Australian plants?

Swine flu now here in Switzerland with recorded cases and a box of samples burst open on a train just to cheer us all up (they say the accident won't have an effect on the public travelling on the train   ) I suppose the next thing it will end up on a roundabout somewhere

[ranunculus]

How can that possibly happen in the most efficient country in the known universe, Robin?  Probably a non-Swiss who caused the upset?