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General Subjects => General Forum => Topic started by: Martin Baxendale on November 05, 2008, 03:52:03 PM
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As an antidote to the Moan, Moan, Moan thread, I thought we could also do with a thread for people to share and applaud good news and stuff that might generally cheer everyone up a bit. Let everyone know if something great has happened, congratulate someone on an achievement, etc. Maybe share a good joke you've heard. Yes I know this thread won't get used as much as the moaning thread, but it's here if you do need it.
I'll kick off with a big "Yay!" for the new President Elect of the United States of America. He's got a tough job on his hands clearing up after the incumbent. And as we prepare to say goodbye and good riddance to George W, one of my favourite Bushisms: "The trouble with the French is they don't have a word for 'entrepreneur' "
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;D Well, that's put a smile on my face already.
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Change has come, not only for the U.S. but for the world as well.................finally and yes he can!
I congratulate the US citizens for their wise decision. Lets make the world a better place!
Cheers,
John Aipassa
Aalten, Netherlands
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I would love to think we could all have some good days and good news......
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and another cartoon (from the popular Maxine range that so delights the internet community)... a comment from Maxine on elections....
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Received last week from a friend in the USA.
Paddy
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After a two year visit to the United States, Michelangelo's David is returning to Italy.
His visit to the USA was sponsored by MacDonald, BurgerKing and allied companies.
Paddy
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;D
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Paddy, that bloke (?) is jumping to conclusions somewhat. It could have been a McCain supporter wanting it for his garden? At least now the old codger can get back to running his 'oven chip' company in peace.
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Cheyney mooched into a meeting in the oval office and remarked to Bush "Three Brazilians were killed in Iraq this morning." Bush collapsed onto his desk, quivering and shaking, turning white as a sheet.
After a time he seemed to pull himself together, raised his head and said to Cheyney "Remind me, just how many IS a brazillion?"
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Nope, I don't think anyone misunderestimated him!
Obama backwards is "amabo" which is "I will love". That gives you amabo Obama.
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Nope, I don't think anyone misunderestimated him!
Obama backwards is "amabo" which is "I will love". That gives you amabo Obama.
Love that new word, Anthony ... 'misunderestimated' ... I think I married her!
...and did you notice that the words; 'amabo obama' could read; 'I'm a boob am I', if spoken with a Glasgow accent? :)
Not my opinion, just an observation.
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;D ;D ;D ;D ;D Suspect we're a pair of them Cliff? ::)
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Love that new word, Anthony ... 'misunderestimated' ... I think I married her!
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;D ;D ;D ;D ;D Suspect we're a pair of them Cliff? ;D
Those last two replies sound more like being in the wrong topic....?? :-\ ;D
(on the other hand, we could make a trio ;D ;D :D)
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I'll kick off with a big "Yay!" for the new President Elect of the United States of America. He's got a tough job on his hands clearing up after the incumbent. And as we prepare to say goodbye and good riddance to George W, one of my favourite Bushisms: "The trouble with the French is they don't have a word for 'entrepreneur' "
In a year's time we will be playing sad laments for Bush and his (un)intended homour as we endure the alien PC speak of O'Bama ("..disabled and non-disabled Americans..we are and always will be the United States of America"). As Virginia Woolf once said, "Humour is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue".
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Thanks Martin - this is a great subject, though I can't say American politics brings any happiness in my life. I prefer the simpler things in life ..... like sunshine, rarely seen this week and hence the photo below taken this morning. Now we can really appreciate those autumn coloured leaves.
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The Hearing Aid Manufactures will go out of business now Obama is in.
Derek
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Are you suggesting that no-one could lip-read George dubyuh Derek?
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I don't think lip reading would have helped much! :o ::)
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This is the I'm so happy thread lads - so no mentions of George dubyuh (great find Anthony ;D ) please... ;D
Right now it's howling outside - rain pouring down - and I'm sitting here warm and cosy, having a day off and enjoying a glass of wine reading the Forum - what more does one need ??? :D :D
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Well, I'm pretty gosh darn happy. I'm going on a road trip today to Edmonton, AB. A mere 3 hours north, or 2.5 when I'm driving ;D! Only going till Wednesday morning but still a much needed get away for me. Woo Hoo!
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Linda, I hope you travel safely and have a great time! 8)
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Rob your Beeches are as stunning as those over here. It's the best autumn in many years
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Rob your Beeches are as stunning as those over here. It's the best autumn in many years
They are lovely, Rob..... I was surprised to se so many leaves still on them.
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Rob your Beeches are as stunning as those over here. It's the best autumn in many years
They are lovely, Rob..... I was surprised to se so many leaves still on them.
Maggi - you obviously have wind :o ;D ;D
(We have been blessed with a settled spell until the last couple of days!)
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Having just spent 10 days touring the Peloponnese in temperatures of 28/30C you can guess I am happy.
Pictures to follow when I find time this week, and after I have caught up on the Forum.
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Maggi - you obviously have wind :o ;D ;D
That's not very polite Tony, to suggest a lady has wind. ::)
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What about Miss Tral? ;)
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Maggi - you obviously have wind :o ;D ;D
That's not very polite Tony, to suggest a lady has wind. ::)
It was just a little wind-up.
I didn't mean to put wind in her sails ..... :-X
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I'm sure I can hear something... but the blustery weather is drowning it out........ ::)
Arthur, I'm happy that you've had a good trip and that you and your camera are safely returned to us! :-*
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Maggi - you obviously have wind :o ;D ;D
That's not very polite Tony, to suggest a lady has wind. ::)
It was just a little wind-up.
I didn't mean to put wind in her sails ..... :-X
Tony,
I think it would likely have reduced her to gales of laughter. ;D ::)
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Today in the UK is a big fundraising day for the Children in Need charity whose mascot is a bear - to support them I've organised my work colleagues to bring in home made cakes to sell, and run a competition to match the right owner to the picture of their bear. So, for those of you who can't be here, a picture of some of the cakes . ;D ;D
Sue
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Today we have purchased a new 20" widescreen Samsung computer screen which is a great improvement on the previous 5 year old fading antique. The colours are WOW and despite everyone getting wider, you all look younger ;D ;D ;D
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Today we have purchased a new 20" widescreen Samsung computer screen which is a great improvement on the previous 5 year old fading antique. The colours are WOW and despite everyone getting wider, you all look younger ;D ;D ;D
Rob, that is great news.... especially the last bit!! :-*
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I had to word that very carefully ......
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I had to word that very carefully ......
I can well believe that... but you've done a good job! ::)
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Does it improve Maggi's blue coat? ::) Must rain all day and night in Aberdeen. When will we see a new photo?
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I have just realised what dubyah means - doh!
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Okay , Mark, have loaded new photo... you really must be careful what you wish for........... ::) ;D ;)
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Maggi - my 5 year old daughter (Ellie of biscuit fame) just saw your new photograph and said it looked like a fat lady. Suggest you put the old one back up.
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Astute child that, your Ellie! And she's never even met me yet!
Show her this one, it's from a pic taken from the old TV Programme "Bloom" ( I'm on the left, with Anne Swithinbank on the right) .....see if Ellie likes this on any better.......
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Whole lot of good that chocolate has done you Maggi!
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Maggi,
Couldn't you have made the avatar the video of you dancing with the tassles, instead of the video without them. Most disappointing! :P ;)
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Paul, I'm sorry about the lack of tassels, but, if you look closely ( though how you could bear to do THAT is beyond me) you'll see that there is, in fact, fringing which wiggles.......dear gawd, the mind boggles!
Carlo, without all that chocolate, I would NEVER have achieved the figure I have today... it has taken years of dedicated munching.... I am devastated that you don't appreciate my efforts :'(
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Paul, I'm sorry about the lack of tassels, but, if you look closely ( though how you could bear to do THAT is beyond me) you'll see that there is, in fact, fringing which wiggles.....
I'm strangely aroused. I think I need help.
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Good grief, Martin.... go find a bottle of wine and drink it... QUICK!
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Good grief, Martin.... go find a bottle of wine and drink it... QUICK!
I'm not sure being drunk would help. Might make things worse!
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I'm just amazed what that homely and familiar blue anorak was concealing ...
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More than we can give, Martin...
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Ah, well, it is a little chilly at this time of year for this get-up
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so I'll wrap up and go back to being Me ( well, okay, this is a younger Me! cut a girl some slack!)
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It is a wild and windy night here... stormy weather indeed, though the rain hasn't come yet... but Ian can't have had the most pleasant of flights down to Exeter.... there was a stop-off at Leeds, too..... but I AM happy.... the airport arrivals page tells me the plane arrived okay.....[attach=1]
Ian's speaking the the AGS Devon/Exeter Group tomorrow evening, his subject is Erythroniums : 7pm Longdown Village Hall (on the Exeter to Moretonhampstead Road) Longdown Road, Exeter.
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Maggi,
Phwaaaaar! That's a bit of alright!! ;)
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I shall be in the audience tonight listening to Ian.
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you lucky b..... ;D ;D ;D
Have lots of fun David ! :D
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David
You are in for a spectacular treat - so good I have seen it twice 8) ;D 8)
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I shall be in the audience tonight listening to Ian.
Ian is hoping that, David, he's looking forward to meeting you in real life !! ::)
If you're hoping for a glimpse of the Birthday Despot footwear, though, you will be disappointed..... he's hoping to go beach-combing today and has only taken boots..... ??? :(...... I tried to persuade him but he wouldn't budge.... :-X
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Oh well, I was only going really to see the new shoes! :P
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Oh well, I was only going really to see the new shoes! :P
I guessed as much, which is why I felt it only fair to warn you :-*
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I have a picture in my mind of a small (but perfectly formed!) bearded Scotsman, with his arms full of artistic looking pieces of driftwood, assorted equally artistic looking sea shells, and Tesco bags full of compostable kelp, being ejected from his flight at Exeter Airport.
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You forgot the West Country chocolate fantasia, David ...
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One Bulb Despot, one projector, one computer and one screen: result = an hour and a half of bliss. Wonderful talk Ian and a great pleasure to meet you 'in the flesh'.
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David many thanks for the kind words - I enjoyed talking to a large and enthusiastic group making the long trip worth while.
It was really nice to meet you face to face and not through a computer screen and as is the tradition when forumists get together a picture is below along with two of the old fossils I found.
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Ian I did not think you could get Red Old Fossils,
Derek
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Although there is controversy surrounding chained sled dogs meeting up with polar bears....these pictures by Norbert Rosing taken near Churchill, Manitoba (Hudson's Bay) certainly warm the heart.
Obviously the bear had a full belly at the time.
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and, back to the start of this thread....the sigh of post-American-election-relief could be almost audibly heard across Canada on November 4th.
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Ian I did not think you could get Red Old Fossils,
Derek
You got that one in before me Derek. I was going to ask Ian, who did he say the old fossil he is with was? ;D
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Great to see you again Ian, as always, and a real live life-size David to boot! MUCH better-looking than in the little pic to the left. ;D
Kristl, those lovely shots of the bear and his new chum are some of the best I've ever seen on the whole Forum (that above excepted, of course ;)). The bear seems to be begging to have his tummy tickled.
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I just assumed that bears were fussy and wouldn't eat at that chain? ::)
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Ellie was fascinated with the ammonite but not so keen on the two old fossils ;D
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Great to see you again Ian, as always, and a real live life-size David to boot! MUCH better-looking than in the little pic to the left. ;D
Lesley, you are obviously a lady with exceptional taste. I showed Maureen your comments and the response was "but she doesn't see you first thing in a morning" ::)
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For which I am profoundly grateful. ;)
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today's happiness:
bringing the trees
indoors...
for warmth
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today's happiness:
bringing the trees
indoors...
for warmth
Forgive me, Frazer, but this seems a little overzealous, even for a very keen gardener... what sort of trees are these cossetted specimens? ? ::) ???
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Perhaps, logs?
Paddy
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Mug trees?
Toilet-tries?
Pastries?
Etc, etc.
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Lava-trees? They would be hot? ;D
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I placed an order for 12 plants from Gerd Stopp - yesterday 28 plants arrived!!
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That's the kind of discount I like. Does he have a Web Site?
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No, but I've scanned and emailed his list to you.
(Alot of Primulas)
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Many thanks Giles. By the way I have ordered some from Peninsula Primulas (Philip Bankhead)
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ah, he's the N Irish Primula man
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he is.
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today's happiness:
bringing the trees
indoors...
for warmth
Forgive me, Frazer, but this seems a little overzealous, even for a very keen gardener... what sort of trees are these cossetted specimens? ? ::) ???
Ah, Maggie...where is life without poetry?
It may prosaicly be about mere logs, but it may be about bringing in a decorated tree for the winter solstice for the added warmth of communion and fellowship - who knows.... the thoughts make me happy.
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So not actually the TREES that need to be given warmth. :)
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It's perishing here, as usual... the idea of the warmth giving logs is deeply attractive!
Fo some reason, I read Frazer's post and burst into song.... God King Wenceslas...... don't panic, folks, it's passed now..... silence reigns again ;D
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God King Wenceslas
A royal deity?
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Sorry, Cliff, I was chewing a toffee at the time... it made my words come out strangely!
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So long as it was only your WORDS that came out ;D
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There's nothing about having a pot of smother one's worms that would make anyone happy, Lesley :-X ;D
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Nothing to do with plants, but I'm so happy I don't have dirty water from our bathroom flooding through the back wall into the void under our floorboards any more!
A so-called expert failed to come back after realizing on the first day that it wasn't just a simple drain rodding exercise, proving unable to decide exactly what the trouble was and discovering that it might actually involve some work; so I've just spent the last three days lifting floorboards, chiselling through concrete and stone, shoving my arms down holes and up drains, repeatedly getting stuck and using up my entire vocabulary of expletives, to find and fix the leak.
Now I just have to wait for the electric people to come and put insulating sheaths on the overhead power lines by the side wall so I can get a ladder up and fix the hole in the roof. Only been waiting a month now. First they failed to turn up on the agreed day, then arrived unexpectedly when I wasn't here and went away again even though I'd told them where I wanted the sheaths and it was bloody obvious. Now I've been promised a visit on Friday. We'll see. Maybe I'm on a winning streak this week.
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shoving my arms down holes and up drains, repeatedly getting stuck and using up my entire vocabulary of expletives, to find and fix the leak.
Ever had anything to do with pregnant cows Martin? ;D
I'm so happy too. We've had some rain - not enough but more is forecast for later today - we didn't lose the first test against the Windies, and the day outside is mild and still and humid, the air filled with the scent of roses and honeysuckle which is odd as I have only a couple of roses, neither very scented but there are a hundred or more in the garden across the road.
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Don't talk about test matches Lesley! :-[
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Oh yes, sorry 'bout that one. Perhaps the security concerns should have been given greater weight and the tour cancelled.
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I'll join Lesley in the happy about rain comments.... we had 72mm here last Friday/Saturday. The 24 hours to 9am on Saturday was 63mm, the largest 24 hour event in the 2 1/2 years since my computer harddrive last died and I lost the records before that. Has made virtually no difference to the dam levels for our water supply though.... the ground just drank it up as it was good slow rain the whole time. Nice to actually see water seeping out of the ground in places at the moment around the city, something it has been a very long time since we've seen. Here's hoping that the bit of rain they're forecasting tomorrow does actually eventuate, as it would be great followup.
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last Thursday I ordered by post three American hollies, Ilex verticillata from Junkers nursery in Somerset and this morning they arrived.They specialise in trees and shrubs.
Beautiful plants wonderfully packed and excellent service. An example to others in these days of continuous complaints about service.
Now all I need do is grow them and get them covered in berries.
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last Thursday I ordered by post three American hollies, Ilex verticillata from Junkers nursery in Somerset and this morning they arrived.
An excellent nursery, with excellent service, I deal with them all a lot.
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She also has a good range of Daphnes
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She also has a good range of Daphnes
You have to go on a waiting list for some of them.
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Why am I so happy?..................even Spammers appear to take holidays!!!! not one item of SPAM today made it to either my ISP's filter bucket or my in box. There's a first. Happy New Year
Martin
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You still get spam Martin? :)
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You still get spam Martin? :)
Well, I know, I was surprised too..... most of us are managing a roast chicken at this time of year........ ::)
Actually, we too have noticed a marked reduction in the spam mail meantime..... for the last ten days or so it has been much less.....overzealous filter still managing to scoop up some wanted mail, though, while letting the odd piece of spam through, but penny numbers as opposed to the usual amounts.
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I've noticed a great reduction in the number of spams from pseudobanks. Maybe they've gone under too?