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General Subjects => General Forum => Topic started by: mark smyth on December 18, 2010, 06:53:59 PM
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Merry Christmas Scottish Rockers
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Well done Mark.
Somebody had to start.
Happy Christmas to all Forumists.
To our Northern friends who are suffering in the cold, I reminder that it does get better.
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I wish you a merry christmas, and a happy new year!
A pocket full of money, and a cellar full of beer,
A rock and a bulb, and a good fat trip to walk next year! ;D
Zeph
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For everyone who makes this forum such an enjoyable experience:
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Best wishes to all fellow Forumists around the globe ! 8)
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Best Wishesfor Christmas and the New Year to all dear Forumists north and south of the equator .
Can not post a snowscene but a lily in flower today .
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Best wishes to all fellow Forumists around the globe ! 8)
Luc love the little narcissus in its biosphere 8)
A very merry Christmas and a happy New Year to you all and may all your plants do well in 2011
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From a newbie:
Xmas wish: Lot of snow to everybody ;D
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Wishes of Health and Happiness for the New Year.
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Best wishes to all Scottish Rockers from a cool and overcast Central Victoria.
Have a Happy and Safe Festive Season and hope to see many of you in the UK in Spring (make sure all that snow is gone by April, please!)
cheers
fermi
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Have fun at Christmas
Thank you to the forum members you are fun.
This is my snow/Christmas photo.
I lived and worked in Orkney.
There is snow on the ground.
It was Christmas day 2003.
The Baa is a mad ball game they play . You can figure where the ball is from the steam.
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Our best wishes at the turn of the year!!!
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We wish you a Christmas full of peace
and one year with no sorrow or misfortune.
May the days, weeks, months
filled with love and a smile.
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Hagen what is that lovely yellow snowdrop?
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Happy Christmas one and all!
And a timely cookery tip, when making Christmas cake let the beaters stop before taking them out of the bowl unless you want your kitchen roughcasting like mine!
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Happy Christmas one and all!
And a timely cookery tip, when making Christmas cake let the beaters stop before taking them out of the bowl unless you want your kitchen roughcasting like mine!
You hadn't a camera ready?
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A very good tip PDJ ;D
BEV, I'm surprised there are so many people on Orkney! ;D
Mark, you are walking down that single track again. ;D
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A very merry Christmas and a happy New Year to you all and may all your plants do well in 2011
Ian, is it Fascicularia bicolor you show in your Xmas card? Do you grow it outside and how does it cope with the winter weather?
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Happy Christmas one and all!
And a timely cookery tip, when making Christmas cake let the beaters stop before taking them out of the bowl unless you want your kitchen roughcasting like mine!
Thanks for the laugh.
A friend of mine has a christmas cake story.
Visitors called in for a cuppa with Gloria who is a good sort.
She was distracted because she was trying to assess the optimal time to get her legendary cake out of the oven.
She was also keeping an eye on Billy, her daughters big black Labrador dog for the day.
She managed to be hospitable and still get the cake out -perfect as usual. All the most expensive ingredients mind you.
The visitors stayed and stayed talking and playing with Billy while Gloria mentally clocked up all the other christmas preparations she had meant to get done.
She was relieved to farewell the visitors but even seeing them to the gate took ages. She said she was guiltily thinking how she would rather just get on with her day.
Back into the kitchen to deal to the cake. Not any sign of it at all.
Was she dreaming? She even checked in the oven twice. Maybe she hadn't taken it out after all.
Billy sh@ raisins for a week.
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LOL
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(http://www.srgc.org.uk/smf/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=6378.0;attach=257886;image)
A very merry Christmas and a happy New Year to you all and may all your plants do well in 2011
Ian, is it Fascicularia bicolor you show in your Xmas card? Do you grow it outside and how does it cope with the winter weather?
Trond yes you are correct I have had this for some years and have grown this in what I call my scree where it is a little large but gets the right amount of drainage. I am reluctant to say how hardy it is given that we are currently in the middle of the coldest spell here for some years but it has been an OK doer so far. The blue flowers which make it so attractive are short lived though :(
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A card to wish a Merry Christmas all SRGC forumists over the world ;)
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Nicole,thank you for this nice card, I must send this to my grandchildren tomorrow.
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'Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to you all from Cliff & Sue Booker'.
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Merry Christmas and best wishes for 2011 to all the great posters on the Forum
Marianne
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Merry Christmas to all of you, and a happy and "Green" 2011!
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all the best to all the forumists and their loved ones!
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Wishing ALL forumists a Very Merry Christmas
From all here at the Whight house
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Happy Christmas, Everybody.
Paddy
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Wishing you all a very happy Christmas.
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Beautiful baby Cliff!
Merry Christmas Everyone and best wishes for a healthy and peaceful 2011.
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You don't often see Brugmansia in the snow. ;D
Great pics and wishes everyone. Sending you all the best for the Silly Season from down here in Aus as well. 8)
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They had the right idea in 1905, even the angel has a glass of wine! All best wishes to forumists round the world for good, healthy plants in 2011.
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Wishing everyone on the forum....... peace, health and happiness throughout Christmas and the New Year
Alan & Sherba
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I wish you all a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Garden Year.
Ulla
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All Forumists a Merry Christmas and a happy and prosperous New Garden Year.
Best wishes, Wolfgang
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To all forumists.....
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A safe and happy Christmas to all our forum friends, and best wishes for a peaceful and successful 2011, from a cold and frosty Yorkshire.
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To all my SRGC friends
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Christmas Greetings from Waiblingen with the best wishes for a happy and floriferous
New Year in good health from Elke and Rudi
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I thought I might miss sending a greeting as we've had very bad gales here recently with no power or water until 5pm Saturday and my internet connection just back a few minutes ago.
It seems that a white Christmas in the north is a mixed blessing, so I thought this little image of a New Zealand Christmas tree, one of the Metrosideros species, may cheer the spirit at this busy time. I wish all Forumists a very merry Christmas and a wonderful New year with lots of flowers, good things to eat and most of all, good friends and family to share them with.
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nice images and sentiments, all :)
i've decided hoar frost is about my favourite part of winter :) (all the other parts involve being warm--big warm cozy clothes, hot beverages, warm blankets....)
good to see some cheering views from down south--i've always questioned the sanity of those who long for a white christmas--were i in hawaii or anywhere else warm and green, my only thoughts regarding snow would be to give thanks continually that there was none!
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My best Christmas greetings to SRGC members!
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Seasons greetings to one (Maggie) and all!
1. The Xmas tree has been brought up from the cellar currently just above zero for a few days sojourn in the tropics (=living room). It is of course edible, a Monkey Puzzle, but it will be many years before I can offer monkey puzzle nuts for Xmas!
2. It will once again be a colourful Xmas dinner (with blue potatoes too), all from the Andes Mountains
Lime green and yellow: Ullucus tuberosus (Ulluco)
Red/pink: Oxalis tuberosa (Oca)
Long and white: Tropaeolum tuberosum (Mashua)
Please pop in if you're in the area...
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Interesting, Stephen, your veg collection reminds me of the marked outside Quito, Ecuador. There you could get all kinds of tubers. I got a taste when we were invited to dinner at a local Andean family.
Monkey Puzzle trees regularly set nuts here. Yours look more like a Cunninghamia!
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Wow Stephen I like very much your colorful fruit-piece!
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Interesting, Stephen, your veg collection reminds me of the marked outside Quito, Ecuador. There you could get all kinds of tubers. I got a taste when we were invited to dinner at a local Andean family.
Monkey Puzzle trees regularly set nuts here. Yours look more like a Cunninghamia!
The green Ullucos were actually bought on a market in Bolivia by a guy in Trondheim. He gave them to me on a garden visit telling me that they were a kind of potato, grown in Bolivia as a delicacy. I didn't eat them the first two seasons, suspicious of the edibility of a green primitive potato which I thought they were. I finally found out they were Ulluco in the Basellaceae (related to Basella alba, Ceylon Spinach) - I immediately saw the familiarity of the leaves when I was told...
Re- Monkey Puzzle: Well spotted! It's not actually real Monkey Puzzle, but Araucaria angustifolia from Brazil; I was sent the seed by a guy in Sao Paolo some years ago....
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It all looks good to me Stephen, but what pray is the guitar? Can just see the headstock and the fretboard.
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The guitar? You mean what species of guitar? A Tanglewood. Mean anything?
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The guitar? You mean what species of guitar? A Tanglewood. Mean anything?
Oh yes, it sure does... 8)
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Species guitar? Love it !!!!
Yes, I'm familiar with Tanglewood......and so is Maggi obviously. Didn't know you played Maggi.
I guess there are a lot of musicians on the Forum. Maybe we could do a Christmas recital next year? ;D
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Just had to share this one with you, a very clever updated Nativity, in fact a digital Christmas!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GkHNNPM7pJA
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Species guitar? Love it !!!!
Yes, I'm familiar with Tanglewood......and so is Maggi obviously. Didn't know you played Maggi.
I guess there are a lot of musicians on the Forum. Maybe we could do a Christmas recital next year? ;D
I don't play, Alan.... keep getting my fingers caught inthe strings..... but Ian sold a Tanglewood to buy a Takamine..... we are both fond of all musical intruments and are mildly geeky about guitars and banjoes!
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My best wishes to all members for a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year 2011 with this song :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xMtuVP8Mj4o&feature=related
Enjoy
Hans
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Just had to share this one with you, a very clever updated Nativity, in fact a digital Christmas!
Thanks Brian for that very clever link. Here's another for the digital age: My Blackberry isn't working:
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kAG39jKi0lI[/youtube]
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Chistmas Greetings to everybody! Boas Festas!!!
(Diane, you beat me to it - I was going to send that link - it even has a plant connection :) )
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Absolutely brilliant! ;D ;D ;D ;D
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Good one Diane, we missed that will have to look on iPlayer ;D
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Thanks for the link, Brian and Diane
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merry christmas to all forumists and good evening
dom
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Season's greetings to all
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Brian and Diane, both youtubes were such fun. I used to watch the Two Ronnie's here in the USA, good to see at least one Ronnie here.
An annual tradition in our household is to watch the various versions of A Christmas Carol to reaffirm our opinions on which we like the best, for me, it is always Black Adder's Christmas Carol (it gets bonus point with Robbie Coltraine as the Christmas spirit)
Part 1
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bgpJdTXzjAE[/youtube]
Part 2
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7U5EZJv0-so&feature=related
Part 3
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FQrrm_FMLHY&feature=related
Part 4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MGF2OugX8Nw&feature=related
Part 5
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2zVpDIGdIKg&feature=related
Now to decide if I want to be good or bad ;D Merry Christmas everyone!
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"One World is enough, for all of us" - Sting -
Merry Christmas!!!
Hans
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A very Merry Christmas to Forumists one and all.
Our wreath made from material grown outdoors in Nova Scotia - except the Elaeagnus pungens 'Maculata'.
johnw
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Most of the shops are closed now and so as far as I'm concerned it's now Christmas, a very Happy Christmas to all my Forum friends.
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I agree, David, after all, it is already Christmas day for the Southern Forumists!
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Merry Christmas to allmy Forum friends
Roma
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Merry Christmas to all the forumists. We are 3 hours ahead so it's already Christmas time here for those who follow Catholic and protestant church
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Where is the big man? Follow him here as he tracks across the Earth
http://www.noradsanta.org/en/index.html (http://www.noradsanta.org/en/index.html)
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A very Merry Christmas to Forumists one and all.
Our wreath made from material grown outdoors in Nova Scotia - except the Elaeagnus pungens 'Maculata'.
johnw
John , I adore your Christmas wreath , can I knock on your door and join you at the dining table? Happy Christmas.
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I see there are only 4 of us online just now - Moi, Maggi, Michael and Paul
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Disturbing that you only need to refer to us by first name isn't it! ::) The ones that are most often here. ;D
Currently 10:15am on Christmas morning here in Canberra, Australia. Just heading off to join the family get-together down in the south of the city. All the best for Christmas everyone. Bright and sunny here with 29'C forecast today. A glorious morning!! 8)
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mid christmas eve here (6:56 pm) i often prefer to cook on the eve, and relax on the day (in city dwelling days, it was often a movie day), but since we had to go to work to pick up paycheques (20 miles one way) then for a bit of shopping (60miles the other, then 40 miles back home) i think i will reverse that order, and be lazy tonight ;D
hope the weekend is good to you all, whether festive or restful!
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, can I knock on your door and join you at the dining table? Happy Christmas.
Otto - We'd be mightily pleased if you knocked on our door at anytime of the year, we'd even cook you a Christmas dinner. If we make you a wreath for the occasion there could be a shortage of berries!
We just might have a major nor'easter on Monday with snow. Perhaps the Greenland high is at last fading and Europe will finally warm up. It's certainly our turn at winter.
johnw - a brief flurry this evening. +2c
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Boldog karácsonyt kívánok! Merry christmas!
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Merry Christmas, Everyone!
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with all best wishes from Ian and Maggi
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Our Christmas started yesterday, traditional Christmas goose and all the delirious trimmings. I start earlier every year and still I manage to knock myself out with all the work. But it's worth it, with the family round the table. Cheers. ;D ;D ;D
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In Norwegian we say : God jul alle sammen :)
(Good Christmas everybody)
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Merry Christmas to all.
After a nine hour dash to Heathrow we made our flight on the 21st of December, so now enjoying some lovely sun in sunny America.
Hope the snow is melting back home.
Best wishes to all for 2011.
Angie :)
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Merry Christmas and the best wishes for a wonderful year 2011 to all forumists from the new Ski area in the north of Germany - no mountains but snow without an end.
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To all the forum members I hope you all had a safe, peaceful and joyous Christmas and that 2011 will bring all things bright and beautiful.
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A Christmas tribute to my 13 years old Bloodhound, you will always be in our harts.
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Hi Rafa,
your post made me look at your links. What wonderful nature photography and I love your drawing of Epipactis palustris. :) :) :)
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I fully agree with Maren. You certainly are an artist, Rafa!
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Oh! thank you, you are very kind.
In this days plenty of personal problems I really grateful you, your nice comments to my work.
In addition yesterday morning, I had to put down Bony, my bloodhound, and I am deeply affected... she was a very very special dog.
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It is good to see Rafa and Delphine enjoying the summer sun with Bony..... Rafa, it is the hardest thing any owner can do to have to take the decision to end the life of a faithful friend.... but it is the greatest service we can do to save our beloved companion animals from suffering. Bony had a wonderful life with you, and a long one and she is gone now, with love, as she lived with love.
That is the best thing one could say of any friend, whether they have two legs or four.
Take strength and comfort in the knowledge you were a good friend to your fine canine friend - and remember all the days in the sun.
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So sorry to hear about your dog Rafa. I had to make that decision about my Newfoundland more than two years ago and it still hurts to miss him, so I do understand how you feel but I am sure that you will remember the happy times you shared together. She was a magnificent looking dog.
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Thank you very much for your words
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Dear Rafa, I'm so so sorry you've had to have Bony put to sleep. It is a terrible decision to have to make and is only for the dog's benefit in the long run, no matter how it hurts the owner. Dogs invade our lives with their love and loyalty as much as our children do and I can only imagine their passing as like when a parent must ask doctors to cut off life support for a beloved child. We are all thiking of you and wish you well for the coming weeks.
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Rafa,
I think I'll be in your position sometime within the next 6 months, although my little white mop (see my avatar picture) is somewhat smaller than your massive bundle of energy! ;D Our little Elf is now 15 1/2 years old, so she's had a good life. I didn't expect her to make it through last winter, so my 6 months may be somewhat out as well. A couple of years ago we had to end our 14 1/2 year old Cavalier King Charles Spaniel, but quality of life is definitely preferable to quantity of life. :'(
All the best to you and Delphine. I hope 2011 is more positive!
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I don't want to leave a a bitter taste in this happy new year greeting for all, just wanted to thank you all for your kind words and confort, It means a lot to me.
I would like to wish you all the very best for next year, as well as to all your loved ones.
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all the best for the New Year
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... And from Sue and I in Whitworth, Lancashire, England ...
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Wish that the New Year brings joy, warmth, good tidings and all that is beautiful!
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happy new year everybody i hope it's a fantastic growing year.
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A Happy New Year to all the friends of the forum
Sincerely
Roberto