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Title: Happy New Year
Post by: Anthony Darby on December 31, 2011, 12:06:34 PM: Happy new year - starts here in New Zealand, in spite of Samoa jumping the date line fence! 8) Seems to be a non-event here in New Zealand? ??? Kids couldn't even find the count down on the TV!
Title: Re: Happy New Year
Post by: Croquin on December 31, 2011, 12:12:41 PM: Probably because it is prophetized to be the doomsday year ;D
Title: Re: Happy New Year
Post by: ranunculus on December 31, 2011, 12:14:39 PM: Quote from: Croquin on December 31, 2011, 12:12:41 PM
Probably because it is prophetized to be the doomsday year ;D

Ah well, it's not the end of the world!
Title: Re: Happy New Year
Post by: Anthony Darby on December 31, 2011, 12:19:20 PM: Having been to the world's end (with,and without the apostrophe) I can agree Cliff.
Title: Re: Happy New Year
Post by: bulborum on December 31, 2011, 12:25:17 PM: If everybody who predict a doomsday
send me there money they own
I will probably one of the richest man on this world ;D
10.35 Hours to go :)

Roland
Title: Re: Happy New Year
Post by: Natalia on December 31, 2011, 04:09:36 PM: Colleagues, Нappy New Year!
Title: Re: Happy New Year
Post by: Kristl Walek on December 31, 2011, 05:17:54 PM: The "Paradoxical Commandments" have been around for a while---but I like to refresh myself with them at this time of the year.

"Anyway: The Paradoxical Commandments"

People are illogical, unreasonable, and self centered.
Love them anyway.

If you do good people will accuse you of selfish ulterior motives.
Do good anyway.

If you are successful, you will win false friends and true enemies.
Succeed anyway.

The good you do today will be forgotten tomorrow.
Do good anyway.

Honesty and frankness make you vulnerable.
Be honest and frank anyway.

The biggest men and women with the biggest ideas can be shot down by the smallest men and women with the smallest minds.
Think big anyway.

People favor underdogs but follow only top dogs.
Fight for the underdogs anyway

What you spend years building may be destroyed overnight.
Build anyway.

People really need help but may attack you if you do help them.
Help people anyway.

Give the world the best you have and you'll get kicked in the teeth.
Give the world the best you have anyway.

A VERY HAPPY NEW YEAR TO ALL OUR WONDERFUL FORUMNISTS!!!!!
Title: Re: Happy New Year
Post by: Maggi Young on December 31, 2011, 06:00:52 PM: I hope that those forumists who have endured ill health this year will have a healthy 2012 and that those who have encountered sadness will have a very Happy New Year.

And to those for whom 2011 has been a good year, I hope that the next year will be an even better one. 8)
Title: Re: Happy New Year
Post by: cohan on December 31, 2011, 07:03:54 PM: Wishing all the best for the coming year- lots of growth for your plants, your minds and your spirits! (not so much for the waistline... ::) )
Title: Re: Happy New Year
Post by: Neil on December 31, 2011, 07:46:36 PM: Wishing you a happy and prosperous New Year
Title: Re: Happy New Year
Post by: Lesley Cox on December 31, 2011, 08:00:53 PM: Personally I'm glad to see the back of 2011. It had been a beast for me. I wish everyone a very happy New Year, a better one if the last was not too good and even better still, if it was great.

Anthony usually we do the TV countdown thing but this time I think the weather has been so awful in the north that the heart went out of many people. So many public parties and fireworks displays cancelled. I heard on the radio this morning that those attending music festivals on the Coromandel had to be hosed down by hospital staff before minor injuries could be treated. Literally, they were covered in mud. Why anyone would go to an event when even beforehand the mud was knee deep, I can't imagine. In my half of the country however, the weather has been fine, warm and generally sunny with not a drop of the much needed rain that has been forecast for the last week.

I am spending the entire day with my radio listening to the Concert Programme's "Settling the Score," a countdown from 60 to 1 of pieces voted for by the public, of their favourite classical music through the year. The pieces are played without the names of those who voted for them. Two of mine made the list last year. :)
Title: Re: Happy New Year
Post by: ArnoldT on December 31, 2011, 08:25:14 PM: A Healthy, Prosperous New Year to all.
Title: Re: Happy New Year
Post by: angie on December 31, 2011, 11:30:54 PM: Just wishing everyone a Happy New Year, may we all be blessed with good health and lots and lots of new plants ;D

See you all in 2012 :-*

Angie :)
Title: Re: Happy New Year
Post by: Anthony Darby on January 01, 2012, 08:57:05 AM: I'll second that, and say thanks to all you guys for keeping me company during the past eventful year. 8)
Title: Re: Happy New Year
Post by: annew on January 01, 2012, 09:10:53 AM: Happy New Year, friends, from our mice and me.
Title: Re: Happy New Year
Post by: bulborum on January 01, 2012, 09:21:44 AM: Still drizzling here
It would be nice with a few sunny days
Winter looks far away
But I am in a very good mood
Yesterday my African seeds from Silverhill came in
Gives something to do
Maybe a good idea for the new year to have a look now and then in the bulb topics
there are real beauties to see there

Well Happy New Year to all from France

and a good gardening year for everybody

Roland and Gemma
Title: Re: Happy New Year
Post by: Sarmienta on January 01, 2012, 09:47:46 AM: Wishing all of you a happy and healthy 2012 :)
Title: Re: Happy New Year
Post by: Yann on January 01, 2012, 10:01:13 AM: Happy new year to all the srgc team and all alpine's lovers all around the world.

Yann
Title: Re: Happy New Year
Post by: David Nicholson on January 01, 2012, 10:16:55 AM: Happy New Year everyone
Title: Re: Happy New Year
Post by: fleurbleue on January 01, 2012, 11:47:18 AM: Very very Happy New Year, dear forum friends ! :D
Title: Re: Happy New Year
Post by: Lina Hesseling on January 01, 2012, 12:52:24 PM: Happy New Year! Today it is 12 degrees C. My garden-calander says: A green Christmas, a white Eastern.

Lina.
Title: Re: Happy New Year
Post by: bulborum on January 01, 2012, 12:59:40 PM: I really hope your calender is very wrong ;D
ad I hope the winter stays like now
mild and soft
this will kill a lot of insects :D

Roland
Title: Re: Happy New Year
Post by: Arykana on January 01, 2012, 03:54:58 PM: Itt az új év, új jót hozzon, régi jóktól meg ne fosszon! De ha új jót nem is hozhat, vigye el a régi rosszat!

Here is the New Year, bring new goods, but not take away the old ones! But let him take the old bad one away if he may not bring new good one!
Title: Re: Happy New Year
Post by: johnw on January 01, 2012, 04:49:22 PM: We had fireworks last night in Halifax. I think they were brought to us by Monet as the fog at midnight was surely the densest of the entire year.

johnw
Title: Re: Happy New Year
Post by: DaveM on January 01, 2012, 05:02:15 PM: Wishing everyone a happy and healthy new year. May 2012 bring you wonderful flowers but fewer weeds ;D ;D ;D
Title: Re: Happy New Year
Post by: Luc Gilgemyn on January 01, 2012, 05:03:49 PM: Same here !
A very happy, healthy and prosperous New Year to all Forum Friends all over the globe ! :D
Title: Re: Happy New Year
Post by: Casalima on January 01, 2012, 05:23:25 PM: Happy New Year everybody!!

from Portugal, where the year has started grey, drizzly, chilly, windy ...
Title: Re: Happy New Year
Post by: zvone on January 01, 2012, 05:33:47 PM: Happy New Year all!

Let you within year 2012 your hand, eyes and heart make garden in common with oneself him wish for!

Best regards! Zvone

http://zvonem.blogspot.si/

http://zvone.blogspot.si/
Title: Re: Happy New Year
Post by: Roma on January 01, 2012, 07:25:58 PM: Happy New Year everybody from me too.
Title: Re: Happy New Year
Post by: Graham Catlow on January 01, 2012, 07:27:31 PM: Happy New Year to you all.

It's been a lovely day here today. Temp. around 8C but bright - some sun!
Got my Pleione compost mixed and have prepared some of the pans for their emergence from hibernation in a few weeks time. Can't wait :)

Hope you have all had a good day also and that you have a good 2012.

Best wishes
Graham
Title: Re: Happy New Year
Post by: Anthony Darby on January 01, 2012, 09:56:02 PM: Quote from: johnw on January 01, 2012, 04:49:22 PM
We had fireworks last night in Halifax. I think they were brought to us by Monet as the fog at midnight was surely the densest of the entire year.

johnw
Well, perhaps, for once, Monet can bring you happiness for 2012, John?
Title: Re: Happy New Year
Post by: Lvandelft on January 01, 2012, 10:59:40 PM: Happy new year to all of you!