Record Keeping...

[Neil]

And

Just remember to read the manual!

 Ah, Neil, what wonderful advice. If only folks would .....readthe manual.... the  instructions, the notes, the advice ...... how simple our lives would become.
I'm saying this with a BIG SIGH!!

And that is why I still cannot work out how to use the new DAB radio/ Ipod player thingy mejig (sp?) we got.

[Ezeiza]

Maggi, if they last outdoors they are GREAT labels.

[maggiepie]

The labels the SRGC sell are actually very good for writing on with pencil and usually last a long time - and the pencil stays legible, which it doesn't on shiny plastic labels, even assuming the pencil will write on them..

SRGC sells labels?

Only at shows, Helen. Glassford keeps a stock of them but it isn't really cost effective to post them.
They are not big labels, they are 10cm to a point, and 1.5cm wide

Oh, ok.
Thanks, Maggi.

[Lesley Cox]

Just remember to read the manual!

 Ah, Neil, what wonderful advice. If only folks would .....readthe manual.... the  instructions, the notes, the advice ...... how simple our lives would become.
I'm saying this with a BIG SIGH!!

"If all else fails, read the instructions......."

[Lesley Cox]

I use these labels for the nursery and for potted plants, mostly. They have the advantage as someone recently pointed out, of being able to be read across without twisting one's neck around.

They are a tough plastic type material with a matt surface, quite bendy and the more recent ones have been thicker and stronger than the originals which did crack after two or three years out in the sun. The writing surface is 25mm x 30mm and I use a 6B pencil which lasts indefintely. The leg has a slight indentation down it and I assume this is the front. On the back there is a raised ridge, not so easy to see in the pics. Of course both sides can be written on. I've no idea where they're made but probably China.

My source is/was a firm in Christchurch and since last years' earthquakes I've not been able to locate them so maybe I won't be able to get more. I have about 5000 on hand at present. I used to get them printed on one side with nursery name, address, contact details, but am not doing this now.

[Lesley Cox]

I accidentally bought two diaries for my job for 2012 so decided to use one as a personal diary and record the minutiae of my daily life. It started well on Jan 1st with weeding, seed sowing etc and went on until Jan 26th which was a day from hell and I couldn't get the writing done on the day so things got behind and so far I haven't got back to it. Besides I found it depressing on reading it that every day said "hip very sore" or "back and knees agonizing today." Recording that only seemed to make it worse.