Author Topic: YES!!! The "I'm so happy" thread. 2009 (Read 55478 times)

gote · « **Reply #120 on:** February 01, 2009, 09:50:04 AM »

Re kids in the garden
None of my two daughters have ever trampled in the flowers or in any way (intentionally) damaged anything in the garden.

We never had to admonish them. We just showed them around so they understood that the plants were living things with a value and which areas were sensitive.
We also allowed them to "help" where they could.
None of their friends have demaged anything and our grandchildren are the same.
Grown ups are a different issue.
I remeber a very grown up ~~lady~~ woman who stomped straight through a precious woodland planting. When she saw may face she said.
"Oh that is no problem I have sturdy shoes."

Guess if she has been invited again!
Göte

Carol Shaw · « **Reply #121 on:** February 01, 2009, 01:51:30 PM »

Quote from: Lesley Cox on February 01, 2009, 04:36:18 AM

Going down the list of Forum emails in since Friday, one came up as New Topic..."Free Di..."
WOW I thought. Free Dionysias or maybe Free dinners! No. It has been removed so it was one of those!

Yup I reported to the Mods. and it vanished...

Carol Shaw · « **Reply #122 on:** February 01, 2009, 01:54:49 PM »

Göte our son was never a problem in the garden, neither were his friends. The grandsons don't mean to be a problem they are simply not used to a garden that can't be run around in, we have no grass - well we do but only 'cause we haven't weeded it out - hence nowhere for healthy young bodies to run riot. Fortunately we have a field at the end of the garden and the area nearest is 'sort of' set aside - so they can run and romp to their hearts content. Now they are less likely to do so, teenage hormones having kicked in.

Paddy Tobin · « **Reply #123 on:** February 01, 2009, 07:38:31 PM »

Two visiting adults were the only adults who damaged plants in our garden. They came with our local garden club. They simply helped themselves to cutting at will and when it was pointed out to them by one of the club committee that they shouldn't be doing this their answer was that they were only taking small pieces and doing no damage. They have never been in our garden since despite requesting visits on several occasions.

Only one child ever did damage, a son of a cousin my wife. He ran at will through beds, knocking plants etc. His mother admonished him but he continued until I called him to me in the presence of his mother and showed him my wellington boots and told him that I would drive the toe of my boot to the furthest reaches of his back passage if he didn't stop immediately. He stopped. Mother was deeply embarassed but accepted the situation. Further visits were never a bother.

Paddy

gote · « **Reply #124 on:** February 02, 2009, 10:02:25 AM »

I did something similar once.
A very young man was being impossible and I hurled him head first into a (soft) snow drift.
(His mother was not in sight)
That stopped the nonsense immediately without any hard feelings. He is still, 40 years later, sending Christmas cards from the other side of the globe.

I welcome intersted plantaholics but I have only once had a group. They stole cuttings.
No more groups!
Göte

Carol Shaw · « **Reply #125 on:** February 02, 2009, 03:51:02 PM »

Quote from: gote on February 02, 2009, 10:02:25 AM

I welcome intersted plantaholics but I have only once had a group. They stole cuttings.
No more groups!
Göte

The silly thing is if they had asked you would undoubtedly have said it was okay... It is the just taking that sets one's teeth on edge.

David Shaw · « **Reply #126 on:** February 02, 2009, 05:41:24 PM »

The Stones once told us that they stopped taking groups at Askival after they found one lot of ladies using the troughs to sit on!

johnw · « **Reply #127 on:** February 02, 2009, 05:58:33 PM »

Quote from: David Shaw on February 02, 2009, 05:41:24 PM

The Stones once told us that they stopped taking groups at Askival after they found one lot of ladies using the troughs to sit on!

Only Mike would complain about buns in a trough.

johnw

gote · « **Reply #128 on:** February 02, 2009, 06:22:58 PM »

Of course If they had asked, I would have helped them.
Presumably I know better where and how to take the cutting of my own plant.
I am a strong believer in that the best way to preserve a plant is to give it away.
But I do NOT like thieves.

Göte

Lesley Cox · « **Reply #129 on:** February 02, 2009, 08:39:22 PM »

Quote from: johnw on February 02, 2009, 05:58:33 PM

Quote from: David Shaw on February 02, 2009, 05:41:24 PM
The Stones once told us that they stopped taking groups at Askival after they found one lot of ladies using the troughs to sit on!

Only Mike would complain about buns in a trough.

johnw

I think it was not buns in but bums on, that he complained about.

Anthony Darby · « **Reply #130 on:** February 02, 2009, 09:52:16 PM »

Buns = bums

johnw · « **Reply #131 on:** February 02, 2009, 11:56:50 PM »

Quote from: Anthony Darby on February 02, 2009, 09:52:16 PM

Buns = bums

The gastronomical allusion must have thrown her.

johnw

Lesley Cox · « **Reply #132 on:** February 03, 2009, 03:15:48 AM »

Oh, right.

Rob Potterton · « **Reply #133 on:** February 05, 2009, 10:29:14 AM »

Happy Alpine plants.

ian mcenery · « **Reply #134 on:** February 05, 2009, 12:19:17 PM »

Pam and I went for a walk in the hills yeaterday. We started in Milldale in Derbyshire (a famous Charles Cotton and Izaak Walton haunt) and climbed one of the local hills. We left our car in the bottom of the far valley on the right of the last picture. It was a lovely day with great views

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