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Post by Tel on Apr 9, 2015 19:07:56 GMT
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Post by Lou78W on Apr 9, 2015 19:34:54 GMT
I think today I have earn t the title of 'Special Kind of Stupid'.
Only I could type her address out and then PUT HER PARENTS Postcode at the bottom.
My only defence is that the contents of the parcel were not just for me - some for me Dad but either way I am lucky that the postal service actually got it delivered here.
titter.....poor Ian....he was expecting something "racy"....h...ha...ha.....  |
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Post by ian on Apr 9, 2015 21:26:05 GMT
Lou It may well be yet she has not actually said what was in the parcel other than something for her dad.
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Post by Moonlight on Apr 9, 2015 21:33:34 GMT
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Post by Moonlight on Apr 9, 2015 21:37:00 GMT
Lou It may well be yet she has not actually said what was in the parcel other than something for her dad.
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Post by Moonlight on Apr 9, 2015 23:54:02 GMT
No it wasn't a Birthday present for Pirate but a double surprise for me and for my Dad well, went home a very happy man. Happier than I've seen him for a long time. Not exactly de-stressed more a relief.
A massive Thank You ![](http://www.epilepsysupport.org.uk/patter/emoticons/dad.gif")
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Post by Moonlight on Apr 10, 2015 0:00:06 GMT
 Dahlias Received        No reply from the email:  from US
Due this week: 
In the future:    |
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Post by ian on Apr 10, 2015 0:13:52 GMT
Nice one Moonlight
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Post by Moonlight on Apr 10, 2015 1:14:36 GMT
This is the current 2015 (version 3 but more to follow tomorrow) plan of what I should have / be getting
2015 Local Dahlia classes:
poms (x5 Class 75) Lismore Moonlight  Pop Willo
large poms (x5 Class 76) Nuland's Josephine
miniature ball (x1 Class 77) (x3 Class 78) Downham Royal Sheila + Clearview Daniel
small ball (x1 Class 79) (x3 Class 80) Blyton Softer Gleam Mary's Jomanda + Jomanda
miniature decorative (x3 Class 81) Fred 3 (aka 'Downham Dec') Hillcrest Hannah Marston George Barbarry Surprise Marston Lilac Barbarry Pip Barbarry Garla Barbarry Vulcan Blyton Golden Girl
small decorative (x1 Class 84) (x3 Class 82) Amber Festival Birkenshaw Wyn's Favourite
giant or large decorative (x1 Class 86) Kenora Valentine
miniature semi/cactus (x3 Class 87) Fred Fire Tom McClelland Weston Buccaneer
small semi/cactus (x1 Class 90) (x3 Class 88) Fred 4 (aka 'Flump') Greenways Zoe Ruskin Myra
medium semi / cactus (x1 Class 91) (x3 Class 89) Greenways Moonlight Peach Delight Hillcrest Candy
large or giant semi/cactus (x1 Class 92) Trooper Dan
3 any type of Dahlia, other than those mentioned above (Class 93)
collerette Garden Friends Grand Duc Teesbrooke Red Eye Bloomquist Kelly Ann Karen G Pink Pat & Perk
Anemone Blue Bayou
waterlilly Edwin's Sunset Vivian Russell Taratahi Ruby Kilburn Glow
Varieties with a Big Question Mark? are:
Willo's Violet, Moor Place Gurtla Twilight, Tisa
Weston Pirate Weston Spanish Dancer Weston Corsair Weston Stardust,
Oakwood Goldcrest Clearview Audrey Clearview Jenny and Candy Jayne
Sir Alf Ramsey
Nos now more of a
Eastwood Moonlight
Ryecroft Zoe
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Post by Moonlight on Apr 10, 2015 14:01:59 GMT
As I have not got electricity in my greenhouse and certainly can't afford a paraffin heater (sniff, sniff because I love the smell of paraffin, another memory of a happy dahlia orientated childhood  ) I haven't had tubers on the go. (With a couple of exceptions).
Key tubers were dug up and taken to my Dad's for safe keeping. Others were left in the garden, in the soil and it is those that I've been digging up.
Good news is they are Alive! I have eyes and shoots coming up and it those and the girls potatoes that need to move into my Greenhouse, now that the weather is a bit warmer.
Dad has been having lots of problems with his Ryecroft Zoe beautiful tuber, just not doing anything unlike it's Sport. Dad's Moonlights had been another big problem. I grew 2 Moonlights last year and I am sure that I gave 1 to my Dad but haven't spotted it. After watching my Dad go all through his tubers (it wasn't something that I could do - he knew what went where and what he was looking for) I went home and double checked and realised that I hadn't actually given him my Jomanda anyway. No skin off his nose on that one as he loathes it but as I said before I had made a deal with it, either win or I won't grow you next year. Mary's didn't Jomanda had. So I dug up my Jomanda, Eastwood Moonlight and Ryecroft Zoe and put them in a bags and then in a bin bag over night to give to Dad the next day.
Well he took his Moonlights  and his sack with the Moonlight and Zoe but forgot to mention that my Jomanda was in the bag as well... 
So today have trimmed off my tubers and although they are sitting in the compost, they won't move into their new trays until tomorrow when I get some new trays but they can't move in proper until the weekend once I've cleared the greenhouse.
So there you go:
I've got a Trooper Dan Sir Alf (one of the ones that hasn't obliged round Dad's), Weston Pirate Oakwood Goldcrest Weston Spanish Dancer on their way.
So I am feeling a lot less down about my dahlias but all in all I just happy that my Dad is a feels a lot happier about his and the dahlias that he has now. 
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Post by Moonlight on Apr 10, 2015 22:47:51 GMT
I'm dithering, lots of things that I want to add but can't make up my mind.
Yesterday the girls had gone to a clay workshop with a theme of Princesses and Minions. Here are their master pieces drying in the sun. The thing with the girls is I've always been adamant that the creative things should be creative and their own master pieces - no 'helping' adult trying to make things look how they think something should look.
Fairy's Minion
Pirate's Minion
For some strange reason I thought that the workshop finished at 2pm so I was late picking them up. They have been going since Fairy was 4 and Pirate 2, so they've kind of grown up with it. (In other words they knew that I hadn't abandoned them). It's a bit like a 2nd home to them.
When I got there the girls wanted to paint pottery but I told them that if they were good and finished their homework then we could come back tomorrow. So we did. The 3 of us sat and painted, chilling the last official day of our joint Easter holiday. They go back to school Monday but I don't go back till the following week.
When HH arrived after work we chatted until it was time for it to close and then we headed off to the next village along because I wanted to join their Gardening Association. I was looking for heavy duty trays to put the tubers on in the greenhouse. Didn't find what I was looking for but I bought a couple of tubs and a large garden tray - looks like it could fit 6 regular seed trays in. (ish) so quite big. £5 for life time membership. Not bad, will go back they advertise at trying to sell things at about 20% less than normal. So well worth joining... + they have a show... I hadn't joined before because I felt like a traitor to my own town's Horticultural Society but they are open in the evenings, so there are times when it will be easier to go there (HH is thinking the day before the show rather than the morning of the show itself...)
Followed it up with getting a Chinese takeaway.
Everyone so much more relaxed than during term time. Going to miss this but enjoyed it while we've had it.
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Post by Moonlight on Apr 10, 2015 23:03:42 GMT
This is the current 2015 (version 4) plan of what I should have / be getting
2015 Local Dahlia classes:
poms (x5 Class 75) Lismore Moonlight Pop Willo
large poms (x5 Class 76) Nuland's Josephine
miniature ball (x1 Class 77) (x3 Class 78) Downham Royal Sheila + Clearview Daniel
small ball (x1 Class 79) (x3 Class 80) Blyton Softer Gleam Mary's Jomanda + Jomanda
miniature decorative (x3 Class 81) Fred 3 (aka 'Downham Dec') Hillcrest Hannah Marston George Barbarry Surprise Marston Lilac Barbarry Pip Barbarry Garla Barbarry Vulcan Blyton Golden Girl
small decorative (x1 Class 84) (x3 Class 82) Amber Festival Birkenshaw Wyn's Favourite
giant or large decorative (x1 Class 86) Kenora Valentine
miniature semi/cactus (x3 Class 87) Fred Fire Tom McClelland Weston Buccaneer
small semi/cactus (x1 Class 90) (x3 Class 88) Fred 4 (aka 'Flump') Greenways Zoe Ruskin Myra
medium semi / cactus (x1 Class 91) (x3 Class 89) Greenways Moonlight Peach Delight Hillcrest Candy
large or giant semi/cactus (x1 Class 92) Trooper Dan
3 any type of Dahlia, other than those mentioned above (Class 93)
collerette Garden Friends Grand Duc Teesbrooke Red Eye Bloomquist Kelly Ann Karen G Pink Pat & Perk
Anemone Blue Bayou
waterlilly Edwin's Sunset Vivian Russell Taratahi Ruby Kilburn Glow
Tubers that I have at home:
Weston Pirate Weston Spanish Dancer Weston Corsair Oakwood Goldcrest Sir Alf Ramsey Trooper Dan Clearview Audrey
Varieties with a 'Big Question Mark?' are:
Willo's Violet, Moor Place Gurtla Twilight, Tisa
Weston Corsair Weston Stardust, Clearview Audrey Clearview Jenny and Candy Jayne
Nos now more of a
Eastwood Moonlight and Ryecroft Zoe both tubers with my Dad.
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Post by Moonlight on Apr 10, 2015 23:41:06 GMT
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Post by ian on Apr 11, 2015 7:40:35 GMT
Hi Moonlight love the girls art work right little sculptors, love the glasses and the hand coming out of the other ones mouth. He he you are dead right about the children doing their own thing. Some of the entries you often see at the shows in the children's section are so obviously parent assisted should I say. Great work keep it up.
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Post by Moonlight on Apr 11, 2015 12:52:13 GMT
I Love my Husband at Garden Centre...
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) I haven't had tubers on the go. (With a couple of exceptions).
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