Christmas wish list

[ranunculus]

Anything you want, you got it Cliff.

A fellow Wilbury, Anthony?

[angie]

I would REALLY like to hug my mother and father and sister again, but miracles are probably beyond even Santa. 

That was my first thought, but I knew that wouldnt come true. But as for our wishes one has already come true here, even if it was a tiny wish   

Angie

[Anthony Darby]

Anything you want, you got it Cliff.

A fellow Wilbury, Anthony?

Well, I wouldn't give travelling a big 0.

[Michael J Campbell]

I wish that companies who advertise on the WWW would not insist on a post code to complete on-line transactions for Irish costumers. A full name and address is quite sufficient for the safe delivery of goods in this small country, we do not have, nor do we need post codes, as our entire population is smaller than the average  English city. Very frustrating when you have decided to purchase something and go through the procedure and then be told you can't because you have no post code. I phoned one Company yesterday to complain and they set the phone down , strange behaviour in the middle of a recession.

[Anthony Darby]

You don't need to put post codes on for UK deliveries either. It just speeds it up. I have found that putting the wrong county delays mail by a day (e.g. Dunblane, Stirling as opposed to Dunblane, Perthshire - mail goes to the Stirling office before being sent on to Dunblane). I found post codes were very useful for putting sender's address when I lived in Scotland. I just needed to put 36 FK15 0DZ and if the parcel needed to it would come straight back to me. NZ post codes only tell you which sorting office the mail goes to so 55 2013 could have 100+ possible destinations as the post code 2013 covers a wide area with many different streets. The Christmas parcels my sister has sent just have her house number and post code as the sender's address. It is also useful in automatically filling out forms on line. Put in the post code and it fills out your full address apart from your house number.

[arisaema]

Pleione albiflora, coronaria, x confusa, x kholsii to finish the collection................ Oh! and the space to manage them as well, a couple of acres should do it

That would be my wish as well, that, and longer days in winter. There's another newly described species as well, although I'm sure its validity will be called into question - and they somehow managed to pick a nomen illegitimum...

[Hoy]

I wish that companies who advertise on the WWW would not insist on a post code to complete on-line transactions for Irish costumers. A full name and address is quite sufficient for the safe delivery of goods in this small country, we do not have, nor do we need post codes, as our entire population is smaller than the average  English city. Very frustrating when you have decided to purchase something and go through the procedure and then be told you can't because you have no post code. I phoned one Company yesterday to complain and they set the phone down , strange behaviour in the middle of a recession.

Michael, can't you just put 0000 or 1111 or something as a fake code? If you don't have post codes a fake number don't matter

[Michael J Campbell]

Yes the 0000 works sometimes but it didn't work yesterday. I found another site selling the same product and when I clicked on Ireland the post code changed to not required,obviously I did the business with them.  I don't know if some of those  people are stupid, lazy, or just not interested in their business.

[Anthony Darby]

I was always baffled by the need to put "city" in an address in these on line forms. Living in Dunblane, Perthshire caused problems too as many automated forms don't have Perthshire in the list of counties. They try to put Dunblane in Perth and Kinross, which it isn't and doesn't exist as a postal address! People even put Dunblane in Stirlingshire as it is in Stirling Council authority, but then is Falkirk in Falkirkshire?

[Lesley Cox]

Graham, you can have my 2 acres and welcome. You'll need to bring heavy-duty toolage though, and I will have removed the smaller plants.

What I'd like I can't have so a truckload of gravel will do instead.

[SusanS]

I'd like a fried mushroom sarnie for breakfast 

[maggiepie]

I'd like a fried mushroom sarnie for breakfast 

Ok, I'll bite.
What on earth is a mushroom sarnie?
Is sarnie same as sanger?

 

[rob krejzl]

Sausages that have been sizzled generally appear as part of an open sarnie. Helps keep the slather of mustard and ketchup clear of the hand. So, yes.

[David Nicholson]

I'd like a fried mushroom sarnie for breakfast 

Ok, I'll bite.
What on earth is a mushroom sarnie?
Is sarnie same as sanger?

 

sarnie = sandwich

[Anthony Darby]

What's a sanger?