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Title: Christmas Greetings Everyone
Post by: mark smyth on December 07, 2006, 10:05:57 PM: Merry Christmas everyone
Title: Re: Christmas Greetings Everyone
Post by: Lesley Cox on December 10, 2006, 02:21:05 AM: A beautiful card Mark, and I hope that all that arrive here are as lovely. Thanks for your Christmas greetings but I'll save mine for a few days.
Title: Re: Christmas Greetings Everyone
Post by: SueG on December 20, 2006, 05:13:03 PM: Seems like a good time to add my christmas greetings to all forumists as I finish work tomorrow (hurrah!) and for the next couple of weeks I'll be away from my desk and computer. Finally I might just find the time to see the garden in daylight and raise a festive glass of something to the promise of the new year when slugs and aphids will be unknown and all my bulbs will flower and no plants in pots will expire from lack of care. . . .

Oh well I can dream ;D ;D ;D

See you all in the New Year.

Sue
Title: Re: Christmas Greetings Everyone
Post by: Ian Y on December 20, 2006, 07:53:14 PM: Happy Hols, Sue!
Title: Re: Christmas Greetings Everyone
Post by: DaveM on December 20, 2006, 07:58:23 PM: Hurray!! Tomorrow is also the last day of work for me for two weeks ;D

So, here's wishing all forumists a jolly Christmas - see you all in the new year.

Campanula formaneckiana, in my garden, grown from MESE seed.
Title: Re: Christmas Greetings Everyone
Post by: Maggi Young on December 20, 2006, 08:04:15 PM: Lovely Campanula, David, a new take on 'Christmas Bells', .
Enjoy your break, hope Francis enjoys Christmas... I take it Santa will be calling chez vous?
Title: Re: Christmas Greetings Everyone
Post by: Lesley Cox on December 20, 2006, 08:17:44 PM: A very merry Christmas and happy New Year to everyone from down under too. So here it is Maggi. Not a best effort I'm afraid, a little off centre but it tastes good. My sister made the snowdrops for me but you will understand why they didn't get sent down to me. I can use them another time. I figure the cake will cut into about 20 pieces so 1 for Maggi, 1 for Thomas, 1 for.....Oh for Heaven's sake, everyone, just help yourselves.

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Title: Re: Christmas Greetings Everyone
Post by: Maggi Young on December 20, 2006, 08:35:09 PM: WOW! It is truly scrumptious, Lesley! You have surpassed yourself... such beauty on the outside, and inside, such rich melting fruity deliciousness... I'm ecstatic!
Thanks from us all to you for this... we wish you, too, the happiest, healthiest of years in 2007 and hope that all forumists will have fortune as good as this cake!
Title: Re: Christmas Greetings Everyone
Post by: DaveM on December 20, 2006, 08:38:09 PM: Cheers maggi - you got my drift!
'Fraid the young one doesn't believe in Santa any more!! Sadly, they do grow up so quickly these days ..... at 8????.... :'(. However, I have told him that if the glass of malt and mince pie for Santa and carrots for the rheindeer are not put out ready then there might not be any pressies...... ;D :'( :'( :D

Lesley, yummy looking cake. Oh well, there goes the diet, for another year.......

Dave
Title: Re: Christmas Greetings Everyone
Post by: Maggi Young on December 20, 2006, 08:46:56 PM: It is a joy to me that we are able to enjoy such happy interchanges between friends across the world in the pages of this Forum, as well as increasing our knowledge of the wee plants that bring us together in the first place.... We send the good wishes of the Web Team to all of you and to your families at this Holiday Season and hope that your Christmas is calm and peaceful and that 2007 will bring new strength and health and happiness to you all. If you do not celebrate Christmas then our wishes are just as sincere for your well being, we will just use this convenient period at the close of the year to express them.
Cheers, Everyone, here's to you !
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Title: Re: Christmas Greetings Everyone
Post by: Paddy Tobin on December 20, 2006, 09:47:23 PM: Please accept without obligation, implied or implicit, my best wishes for an environmentally conscious, socially responsible, low-stress, non-addictive, gender-neutral celebration of the winter solstice holiday, practiced within the most enjoyable traditions of the religious persuasion of your choice, or secular practices of your choice, with respect for the religious/secular persuasion and/or traditions of others, or their choice not to practice religious or secular traditions at all.

May I also wish you a fiscally successful, personally fulfilling and medically uncomplicated recognition of the generally accepted calendar year 2007, but not without due respect for the calendars of choice of other cultures whose contributions to society have helped make our nation great.

Not to imply that Ireland is necessarily greater than any other country nor the only Ireland in the Western Hemisphere. And without regard to the race, creed, colour, age, physical ability, religious faith or sexual preference of the wishes.

By accepting these greetings you are accepting these terms. This greeting is subject to clarification or withdrawal. It is freely transferable with no alteration to the original greeting. It implies no promise by the wisher to actually implement any of the wishes for herself or himself or others, and is void where prohibited by law and is revocable at the sole discretion of the wisher.

This wish is warranted to perform as expected within the usual application of good tidings for a period of one year or until the issuance of a subsequent holiday greeting, whichever comes first, and warranty is limited to replacement of this wish or issuance of a new wish at the sole discretion of the wisher."

But, that aside, I must say that Lesley's cake alone would be reason enough to travel to NZ.

And to all forumists - A Very Happy Christmas.

Paddy
Title: Re: Christmas Greetings Everyone
Post by: mark smyth on December 20, 2006, 10:42:17 PM: Dave how could you say such a thing! There definitely is a Santa. It's just as we get older we do so much to upset him we get less and less.
Title: Re: Christmas Greetings Everyone
Post by: mark smyth on December 20, 2006, 10:52:59 PM: I can taste the cake from here!

I got this great photo/card from my friend who photographs birds
Title: Re: Christmas Greetings Everyone
Post by: Anthony Darby on December 20, 2006, 11:43:26 PM: Try telling my two there isn't a Santa. Anyway, a teacher in Scotland got her heid tae play with by telling her class that Santa's replies came from the GPO. Lucy got her reply last year from Lapland :P - abeit in April!
Title: Re: Christmas Greetings Everyone
Post by: fermi de Sousa on December 21, 2006, 02:03:06 AM: Best wishes to all on the Forum!
While you in the Northern hemisphere have been having rain, floods and maybe snow, here in Victoria we're currently on bush-fire alert with high temperatures and strong winds predicted!
The good news is that there's a cool change coming for the weekend and Christmas day should have a top of around 18C - perfect to enjoy a hot roast Christmas dinner! We follow the basic British tradition of stuffing ourselves silly with ham and turkey and even goose this year folowed by plum pudding with Brandy sauce! Not being a cook of the calibre of the "Cake-maker in chief" we've opted for the local restaurant for a fun afternoon with the neighbours - and no washing up!
Gardening at the moment consists of keeping things watered, seed-collecting and filling-in the holes left by "Errol", the local echidna, as he searches for ants!
cheers
fermi
Title: Re: Christmas Greetings Everyone
Post by: Lesley Cox on December 21, 2006, 04:08:49 AM: A very merry Christmas to you Fermi. You'd better ask Maggi about the calibre of this particular cook. She has spent some time in the confession box, me in the sinner's side!

I hope your cool change comes all right. 31 expected in Melbourne today according to our weather man. Here we are having driving rain and bitter southerly wind with new snow on the hills. And this is the summer solstice!
Title: Re: Christmas Greetings Everyone
Post by: KentGardener on December 21, 2006, 07:00:03 AM: Morning everyone - sitting here with my morning cup of tea grinning from ear to ear. All your various styles of greeting are most enjoyable and entertaining.

Lesley - I now have a craving for black forest gateaux (and it is not even 7am yet - thanks!)

Paddy - you forgot to include whether your message contains nuts or not. (I said contains - not written by.... ;D)

Fermides - please can we have a photo of Errol as I am not sure what an Echidna is? My main gardening problem at the moment is with cats digging and covering....

Maggi - thanks for the 00Agent Tag - that makes me smile everytime I sign on.

With best wishes to you all from 'the names Gardener. - Kent Gardener'

aka John
Title: Re: Christmas Greetings Everyone
Post by: Thomas Huber on December 21, 2006, 07:58:42 AM: Lesley, can't wait to try your cake - are you at home this afternoon? ;)

Just received an e-mail from Darren Sleep and I shall pass on best wishes
to you all. He still didn't find the time to log in, but has hope to do this next year!
Title: Re: Christmas Greetings Everyone
Post by: SueG on December 21, 2006, 08:55:22 AM: Hi John
I too wasn't sure what an echidna was until I found this web site http://www.isidore-of-seville.com/echidnas/ (http://www.isidore-of-seville.com/echidnas/) - now I know
Sue
Title: Re: Christmas Greetings Everyone
Post by: tonyg on December 21, 2006, 09:21:16 AM: Have a Great Christmas Everyone!
Title: Re: Christmas Greetings Everyone
Post by: Maggi Young on December 21, 2006, 01:58:12 PM: Shock news, Gang![attach=1]
A confession has been received from Lesley, henceforth to be known as the Cake Faker in Chief, that she has been cunning and clever and has, in fact, bought the fab Forum cakes she has been tempting us with from a local patisserie.!!!! Who Cares, I ask myself? Lesley has owned up in a decent fashion and I know that I and many others have had oodles of pleasure from the cakes as we imagined the delight in scoffing them in the company of Forum friends. Our thanks are undiminished, Lesley, since you brought such fun to these pages.
Since Lesley has come clean about her little culinary deception I think I must get another such matter off my own chest: For many years I have been serving to visitors, and in particular to my in-laws, delicious, freshly made shortbread. My visitors were full of praise for my talent, really enjoying the warm, crispy shortbread, still hot from the oven when they arrived......I have to confess now, that it was shop-bought shrotbread, albeit with a lovely home-made look to it, that i whizzed for a moment in the microwave then kept warm in the oven to serve to my unsuspecting guests. Mea Culpa! But, in my defence, I only did it to give them pleasure!! Well, that and the fact that I really enjoy hot shortbread myself!! So, Lesley, it seems you and I have one more thing in common... we'll need to stick together !
Nut free seasonal salutations, All!!
Title: Re: Christmas Greetings Everyone
Post by: Maggi Young on December 21, 2006, 02:40:17 PM: Lesley and Maggi, out walking together, discussing their moral shortcomings:
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Title: Re: Christmas Greetings Everyone
Post by: annew on December 21, 2006, 06:35:30 PM: Christmas Greetings from Yorkshire to the Rest of the (Forum) World!
Title: Re: Christmas Greetings Everyone
Post by: hadacekf on December 21, 2006, 07:44:02 PM: Christmas Greetings from Vienna!
Title: Re: Christmas Greetings Everyone
Post by: Lesley Cox on December 21, 2006, 08:57:43 PM: What a difference a single letter makes, in my sign-in title. I am undone! Oh well, it was fun while it lasted. But I had to own up in case Susan here in Dunedin split on me first. On the other hand, Fermi and some other Aussies know I CAN cook well, when the mood takes me, and yes Thomas, I'm at home this afternon, so do drop in. You will even get GENUINE home-made shortbread.
Title: Re: Christmas Greetings Everyone
Post by: Maggi Young on December 21, 2006, 09:11:39 PM: Not to worry, Lesley, we've been chortling here about the Cake FAKER title and we like it even better.
Lovely cards from Franz and all. Has everyone seen Anne W's super photos of a very cold, foggy and frosty garden in Yorkshire in the Flowering now thread? http://www.srgc.org.uk/smf/index.php?topic=77.new;topicseen#new
They're great, makes this weather worthwhile... almost!
Title: Re: Christmas Greetings Everyone
Post by: Paddy Tobin on December 21, 2006, 09:12:15 PM: Apologies to all the nuts out there for my glaring omissions.

By way of excuse - Tuesday night was school concert night and today was Christmas party for the kids in school. Tomorrow is end of term, break for the Christmas holidays, so here's one very happy teacher. Yippee!

Paddy
Title: Re: Christmas Greetings Everyone
Post by: fermi de Sousa on December 21, 2006, 10:10:09 PM: The true confessions revealed on this thread has earned it a 5 star rating from me- better than a Jerry Springer Show! The Christmas cards have also been fabulous; thanks to all contributors for adding some real brightness to this tinsel time!
cheers
fermi
Title: Re: Christmas Greetings Everyone
Post by: Anthony Darby on December 21, 2006, 10:21:34 PM: For a special Christmas greeting (for those with access to BBC1 Scotland), check out the watchnight service from Rosslyn Chapel (Christmas Eve). Lucy's in the front row, James row two (blue robes).
Title: Re: Christmas Greetings Everyone
Post by: Maggi Young on December 21, 2006, 10:36:41 PM: Thanks for the tip, Anthony.... I saw a trailer for the Service on TV the other day and had made a mental note to watch it... now I'll make a proper post-it note and stick it on the front of the telly, then I will remember. Don't you sing in the choir, too? Or aren't there any blue robes big enough??
Title: Re: Christmas Greetings Everyone
Post by: Anthony Darby on December 22, 2006, 12:01:48 AM: Back right. We joined St Mary's Music School choir for part of the recording last Tuesday.
Title: Re: Christmas Greetings Everyone
Post by: Maggi Young on December 22, 2006, 12:16:06 AM: Excellent, we'll be watching... or I will, Ian will be asleep by then, as usual! Here is some gen I pinched from the BBC site:
"Watchnight Celebration
Sunday 24 December 2006
BBC ONE Scotland, 23.25

Rosslyn Chapel, one of the main locations featured in the blockbuster book and film, The Da Vinci Code, is the setting for this year’s Watchnight Celebration.

The chapel contains one of the earliest known representations of the bagpipes - a small statue of an angel playing the bagpipes. In keeping with the surroundings, the programme features a specially written carol for bagpipes and choir. Richard Holloway introduces the celebration of Christmas and Hannah Gordon and Tom Fleming perform seasonal readings.

Favourite carols are sung by the combined choirs of Dunblane Cathedral and St Mary's Episcopal Cathedral Edinburgh and the Radio 2 Scottish Choir girl of the Year, Margaret Walker, accompanied by the Baxter Brass Ensemble, Dunblane Cathedral Handbells and piper Dougie Pincock. "

Plus the Darby Clan!
Title: Re: Christmas Greetings Everyone
Post by: Luc Gilgemyn on December 22, 2006, 05:24:04 PM: Let me add my very best wishes for a Merry Christmas to everyone around !

The text on the card is in Flemish (Dutch) , but easy to translate I guess.
Title: Re: Christmas Greetings Everyone
Post by: David Nicholson on December 22, 2006, 07:39:30 PM: Lovely card Luc
Title: Re: Christmas Greetings Everyone
Post by: tonyg on December 22, 2006, 08:38:23 PM: Re: Cake Faking

It should be pointed out that there are genuine cakemakers on this forum not just fakes ;)

Here's the proof - Last year, this year and to prove that I can do non-Thomas cakes 2004 as well!

... come on some of you can do better :) :) :)
Title: Re: Christmas Greetings Everyone
Post by: mark smyth on December 22, 2006, 08:42:06 PM: well done Tony.

Luc that card is very good.
Title: Re: Christmas Greetings Everyone
Post by: Luc Gilgemyn on December 22, 2006, 09:19:39 PM: Thanks guys - all credits for the card go to my wife Rita - she has done the hard work :)
Title: Re: Christmas Greetings Everyone
Post by: Lesley Cox on December 23, 2006, 03:58:54 AM: Superb Tony. I shall have to come and learn from you as obviously you are the master par excellence!
Title: Re: Christmas Greetings Everyone
Post by: Maggi Young on December 23, 2006, 12:08:05 PM: Oh, dear, I'm hungry again! I knew you baked, Tony, I just didn't realise the extent of your expertise.... well done... my birthday is August 15th !! Will get Ian to photograph the Christmas Cake my family in Dunedin sent to us... yes, that is where Lesley lives, but I'm not sure where the cake was made!! It loks scrummy, with gooey fondant icing... trying to keep my hands off it untill Monday!!

Luc, a super card and photos of a lovely family.. you have much to be grateful to Rita for!
Title: Re: Christmas Greetings Everyone
Post by: David Nicholson on December 23, 2006, 03:09:17 PM: A very happy Christmas to all my Forum Friends throughout the World.
Title: Re: Christmas Greetings Everyone
Post by: ranunculus on December 24, 2006, 07:21:50 AM: I'll just take a moment to add to the plethora of seasonal cards and messages that will adorn these wonderful pages...can we send our love, our very best wishes and our hopes for your collective health and happiness to alpine maniacs everywhere.
Sue and Cliff
The Bookeroos
Title: Re: Christmas Greetings Everyone
Post by: John Forrest on December 24, 2006, 12:23:05 PM: Here is the wrong Hellebore flowering early and pretending to be a Christmas Rose.
Merry Christmas to all my friends on the forum who have given me a lot of Oooohs! and Aaahs! and Tee Hees! this year.
Title: Re: Christmas Greetings Everyone
Post by: Geebo on December 24, 2006, 07:10:46 PM: To All the Forumnists,
My Best Wishes for the Christmas and the New Year from Maureen and me,And happy plantfinding. :-* :-* :-*
Title: Re: Christmas Greetings Everyone
Post by: Maggi Young on December 24, 2006, 10:51:31 PM: Dear SRGC Forumists,

Your Web Team has sent you a Jacquie Lawson electronic greeting card.

Please click on the following link to see your card. If your e-mail program has not displayed this as a link, then please copy the following into the Address or Location bar of your Internet browser.

http://www.jacquielawson.com/viewcard.asp?code=1108365867285

Alternatively, please visit http://www.jacquielawson.com and select the Pick Up Card option in the menu. Then enter your card code, which is:

1108365867285

If you have any problem at all viewing your card, please click here:

http://www.jacquielawson.com/help_1.asp

MERRY CHRISTMAS TO YOU ALL FROM FRED, IAN AND MAGGI
Title: Re: Christmas Greetings Everyone
Post by: Peter Maguire on December 25, 2006, 12:21:38 AM: Since I haven't yet posted to the new forum, I thought I'd start here and wish everyone a merry Christmas. The turkey is ready for the oven (Mrs Santa's province, that): Santa is currently enjoying a well earned rest with a wee dram left by the door, having eaten the mince pie also left at the door (which he had to bake himself - 12 burned and in the bin, 4 successes!). Of course our girls are too old for Santa at 18 and 20, but they don't seem to want to grow up..........

Peter in Newcastle
Title: Re: Christmas Greetings Everyone
Post by: mark smyth on December 25, 2006, 11:31:03 AM: hello Peter and welcome. It took you long enough! I saw you a few weeks ago as a new memmber. Better late than never. When I first saw you registered I thought you were a P. Maguire from over here
Title: Re: Christmas Greetings Everyone
Post by: Mick McLoughlin on December 25, 2006, 03:31:24 PM: A Merry Christmas to all on the forum.
Title: Re: Christmas Greetings Everyone
Post by: Lesley Cox on December 25, 2006, 10:17:00 PM: Thanks so much Maggi, Ian and Fred for the beautiful card. I specially liked the lords a-leaping and the pipers piping. Good musical cow too.

Christmas Day is well finished here by now and very nice it was too. I hope yours and everyone's was as happy and joyful as mine. Do other men's partners get frilly underwear for Christmas? I got a weedeater!
Title: Happy continuation
Post by: Joakim B on December 27, 2006, 10:22:44 AM: Happy continuation!!
That is what the Swedish say between Christmas and New Year. Acctually they say "Glad fortsättning" but more people understand the English version I presume.

Here is a My Avitar in a bigger format as recuested :)
Mr and Mrs Santa sends their greetings to You, together with an Archangel named Gabriel dressed as Santas helper.

Hope You have and had a good Holliday

Joakim
Title: Re: Christmas Greetings Everyone
Post by: Casalima on December 27, 2006, 11:37:49 AM: Season's Greetings to all on the forum, and an especial hello, welcome, olá, benvindo, continuação de boas festas :), to Joakim, from a more northerly part of Portugal.

Chloe
(who lived in Coimbra for a time, many years ago)
Title: Re: Christmas Greetings Everyone
Post by: Maggi Young on December 27, 2006, 11:50:30 AM: Joakim, congratulations to Mr and Mrs Santa on little Gabriel, you have a fine family there!
Greetings to you, too, Chloe, may the coming year be a good one for you.
Title: Re: Christmas Greetings Everyone
Post by: Joakim B on December 28, 2006, 01:01:37 AM: Thanks Chloe and Maggi
We are lucky to have the little angel. Sometimes more happy than others :D

Nice to meet a Portugue with an interest in gardening. I have been looking for any garden societies or web site forum or something like that to meet people with a simular interest here in Portugal.
I would be espesially happy to find people that are interested in looking at orchids at their natural environment. Espesially since some that exist in Portugal do not exist in Sweden. So if You know of anything in that area please let me know. Chloe are You living by the cost or is it inland? I presume it is a big difference in climat between cost and inland that often is equal to high altitude.

Boas festas every one and let the comming Year be an even better year than this one.

Kind regards
Joakim
Title: Re: Christmas Greetings Everyone
Post by: Casalima on December 28, 2006, 01:38:04 PM: Quote from: Joakim B on December 28, 2006, 01:01:37 AM
Nice to meet a Portugue with an interest in gardening. I have been looking for any garden societies or web site forum or something like that to meet people with a simular interest here in Portugal.
I would be espesially happy to find people that are interested in looking at orchids at their natural environment. Espesially since some that exist in Portugal do not exist in Sweden. So if You know of anything in that area please let me know. Chloe are You living by the cost or is it inland? I presume it is a big difference in climat between cost and inland that often is equal to high altitude.

I'm English, but I've been here for over 20 years and I'm pretty much "assimilated". Most of my plant/garden-loving friends here are actually Spanish, met through a Spanish garden forum. But I'd love to meet more like-minded people here, and go hunting orchids and narcissus etc. I particularly remember orchids on the road south of Coimbra towards Penela or somewhere like that.
I live in Ponte de Lima, about 25 km inland, but mild - frosts only with clear sky. Oranges, lemons, apples, pears, chestnuts, quinces, camellias, magnolias, hydrangeas, narcissus, colchicum, too many asphodels (or asphodel-like things) ... :)

Chloe
Title: Re: Christmas Greetings Everyone
Post by: Joakim B on December 28, 2006, 04:22:01 PM: Chloe is not a typical Portuguese name so I might have guessed :)
Recognise every thing of the plants from Coimbra and the surroundings except for colchicums but I hope to cure that :)
I have not been around in Portugal at the right places at the right times to have seen orchids but I think I saw one from the mainroad out of Coimbra going north.
I will have to check arround to see if there is any botanist at the University (amateur or profesional) that knows of nice places to visit :)

Take care
Joakim
Title: Re: Christmas Greetings Everyone
Post by: tonyg on December 29, 2006, 08:25:58 PM: I'm sure this is the thread where Lesley was 'outed' as a cake-faker :) Here is a real gardeners cake ... made for me by my Mother-in-Law for my 40th a few years back .... I must be doing something right ;)

Note the pot of sugar crocus to the right - too good to eat :)
Title: Re: Christmas Greetings Everyone
Post by: Maggi Young on December 29, 2006, 08:38:15 PM: Great cake, Tony...it has made me a little peckish so I'm off for a snack!
Hard to believe Lesley had us all fooled, bless her.. and she looks so innocent!
Title: Re: Christmas Greetings Everyone
Post by: Joakim B on December 29, 2006, 10:50:01 PM: Regarding baking, making and faking cakes.
My wife baked a cake for my son birthday today.
I myself would have made a cake by assemble it from redy made sponge cake. I still consider that making a cake.
For my father-in-laws birthday I designed a cake and the bake baked it I still made the cake happen at the party so I made the cake happen so to say. I bet Lesley baker did not design cakes with text with greetings to the forum so I say Lesley made that cake happen as well. She surly did not bake the cake but made it so cake maker is ok rather than cake faker since all the cakes are/where real. I will just add the cake that my wife did and say that there is still some left if You are hungry and can e-mail it to You. We do not have fax so I can not fax it.

Enjoy
Joakim
Title: Re: Christmas Greetings Everyone
Post by: Maggi Young on December 29, 2006, 10:53:44 PM: OOH! Chocolate and walnuts... yummy! I'm hungry again! your son is a lucky lad! Wish him a very happy birthday from me in Aberdeen, please.
I quite agree with you, Joakim, Lesley caused the cakes to be made, so she is their maker, too.
Title: Re: Christmas Greetings Everyone
Post by: KentGardener on December 29, 2006, 11:26:49 PM: Tony - I love the 'seed tray' cake - I hope I get something as nice for my 40th.

Maggi - does this mean Lesley will get her former title back?....

John
Title: Re: Christmas Greetings Everyone
Post by: tonyg on December 30, 2006, 12:19:18 AM: I'm with Joakim - Lesley 'made' the cakes happen.... lets give her her former title back!!
Title: Re: Christmas Greetings Everyone
Post by: Maggi Young on December 30, 2006, 11:21:52 AM: You are quite right, Chaps, it was Lesley who had the generous ideas for our Forum Cakes and so she DOES deserve her proper title.... it has been done !
Cheers, Lesley!
Title: Re: Christmas Greetings Everyone
Post by: KentGardener on December 30, 2006, 11:25:44 AM: Hoorah

:)
Title: Re: Christmas Greetings Everyone
Post by: Maggi Young on December 30, 2006, 03:02:21 PM: On Christmas eve I told you we had received a lovely Christmas cake from my Family in Dunedin, which we were hoping not to start until Christmas day... well, hot on the heels of that post, Ian asked where I had put the cake, he was hungry... happily I did get him to photograph it to show it to you, here it is:
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That was on December 24th, now it is December 30th and here is the cake today:
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It seems we were both hungry!
Never mind, one of Ian's sisters called the other day with this:
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Where there's cake, there's hope!
Title: Re: Christmas Greetings Everyone
Post by: Lesley Cox on December 30, 2006, 10:42:29 PM: Thank you so much Joakim, for supporting me when others have been positively nasty ( ;D)

Kent, I'm not sure that I want my previous title back. Going on the evidence of another thread, I think I should be dubbed "The littlest Angel."