Yes, I'm so Happy! 2012

[Lesley Cox]

Well at least you Aussies HAVE a garden programme. We have nothing at all. The reality programmes are what Mark S rightly calls cr@p and 90% of TV1, our so-called public broadcasting channel, is more of the same. As for Coastwatch, I've thought seriously of complaining to someone about this, TV1's programming people I suppose. FGS, how many Bl.... paua do we have to see? And Piha Rescue, I WELCOME when someone drowns as it's exactly the same programme week after boring, after deadly dull week. Maybe of interest to .0001 of the population who swim there but to the rest of us? Sorry Paul, I didn't realize you suffered in this way as well. There must be some horrible reciprocal arrangement whereby we and you get the worst of each other's TV programmes.

And now, to add insult to almost fatal injury, we're to have a NZ version of America's (UK's. Australia's) Got Talent. All this rubbish should show between 2 and 5am. or better still, not at all.

Sorry Maggi, I didn't start it but you know I'm so happy when having a moan.

[Anthony Darby]

One episode of Piha rescue was enough for me Lesley. Muriwai, which is just up the coast from Piha, is a better beach, especially for Heidi, as she can run and run. We were there yesterday, without the children - James was playing tennis with his friends and Lucy had homework and her eighth book in a fortnight to finish!

[Maggi Young]

Well, I know most of us do enjoy a good moan... that's why we've got a moan thread 

Anthony, does Heidi just gallop on the beach or does she swim as well?

[Anthony Darby]

Unfortunately she won't go deeper than her chest so just runs through the waves. Swimming would be so much better for her. Directly above Heidi's tail in pic 3 is the Muriwai gannet colony, although most of the birds are away. It is the most northerly mainland nesting site in the southern hemisphere.  http://www.newzealand.com/int/article/muriwai-gannet-colony/

[Paul T]

Anthony,

Heidi certainly does look happy.  So many smells to follow. 

[Darren]

Nobody has been happy for a fortnight?

It is our Silver wedding anniversary today!  I'm off work but Susan has gone to her usual wednesday job at the nursery so I'm going to get the train through to Ulverston to meet her for a meal later. We are planning on Indian - which is guaranteed to make me smile anyway. But then we did Thai two weeks ago, Chinese last week and are planning for Italian on Saturday so it is basically the only choice left!

Anyway, You may have noticed a sudden flurry of posts from me after a few weeks silence. As Susan has pointed out in another thread I've been managing the implementation of our new Laboratory Information Management System (LIMS) at work. This has taken two years, largely because of certain colleagues dragging their feet - but I'm not going to moan. It has been a huge learning curve. I'm basically a biologist who works as a chemist. I have no interest in or patience with IT stuff but I volunteered because it needed doing and I was keen to get a system that was useful for our lab staff (who I think the world of) and made their jobs easier - not simply a system convenient for management which is what happens in most places.

Yesterday I finished the last bit of the system validation and can look forward to the system going live next week. Pity I can't see the smileys.

And not only do I have the day off but the sun is shining!

[FrazerHenderson]

Darren

Congratulations to you and Susan. Have a great evening.

Frazer

[David Nicholson]

Congrats on reaching your 25th Darren and Susan. I do mention sometimes to my beloved that coming up to 42 years is a longer sentence than I would get for murder!!

[scilla]

Congrats Darren and Susan!
and shame on you David I'm telling your wife 

[SusanS]

Hi Everyone,

Thank you for your kind words and congratulations on our silver wedding anniversary.  We have both had a lovely day, both of us pottering in the garden - different gardens mind you, but maybe that is how we made it to 25 years. (Smile, wink - missing the smiley faces)

It seemed a fitting way to spend the day as we first met in gardening classes when we were in 6th form college.

Susan and Darren xx

ps:  the curry was great. (smiley)

[Anthony Darby]

Congratulations. We had a curry last night, described as an authentic Indian chicken tikka massala, which is really an authentic British dish .

[Brian Ellis]

                          If you never knew what goes on in the garden when you aren't paying

                           attention…Watch this! Some of the finest photography you will ever see.

             

                           http://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/xHkq1edcbk4?rel=0

[ranunculus]

What an absolute joy, Brian ... Oh to have talents (and equipment) like that.  Magnificent photography.

[Maggi Young]

We at FCHS and the AGS Vic Group are happy to congratulate Otto Fauser on the awarding of the John Pascoe Fawkner Medal for outstanding contribution to Horticulture at yesterday's 80th Anniversary Celebration for the Ferny Creek Horticultural Society.

cheers
fermi

This is super news of a well deserved honour for this great plantsman. Congratulations, dear Otto!

 I think this deserves its own thread!  see here : http://www.srgc.net/forum/index.php?topic=9139.0

[fermi de Sousa]

Thanks, Maggi
cheers
fermi