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Post by dianthus on Dec 10, 2015 22:07:29 GMT
What sort of garden will you have Cherry ? Hopefully not full of brambles and nocturnal deer grazing, though. |
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Post by Geranium on Dec 11, 2015 6:19:34 GMT
dianthus, please don't think you can't contribute if you have no 'patch' - how about indoor gardening?  We would miss you, anyway.  We put our Christmas tree up yesterday and I decorated it - having, naturally, had to disentangle the lights!  Then we draped the conifer in the front garden with the outdoor lights - they come on at around 4 and go off at 10. I love them!  I'm afraid we all find out that people have passed away or moved away when cards start arriving. 
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Post by Cherry on Dec 11, 2015 8:20:13 GMT
dianthus I am being persuaded to go to Queensland to stay, but I really don't know. I did not know how British I feel until now. In the meantime, I will be living possibly at the garden where I planted paw-paws and flowering gingers. Initially, I am going to a house with bananas and mangoes. They are in season now. I want to live a good few miles away from my husband at present. I am divorcing him. Such a lot of paperwork. Scotland suits me. I love it here.
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Post by Rosie on Dec 11, 2015 8:37:58 GMT
I'm not having a good start to my Christmas...... after posting my cards, on Tuesday, I've had two relatives tell me of an aunt and a second cousin passing and a friend write to say their relationship has broken up. They are all going to get happy cards in the next day or two.
I've now made condolence cards to the families to post tomorrow.
I've also now had the meeting with my landlords to confirm when I shall have to move out, and there'll be no veg gardening for me in 2016 
Can I still post here, if I don't get a garden when I move?
Oohh, and the CH has decided not to work this evening, and I'm cuddling a hot water bottle. As if we would let you go dianthus Thats sad news about your relatives. Hope you get the heating sorted too. |
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Post by Rosie on Dec 11, 2015 8:39:52 GMT
dianthus I am being persuaded to go to Queensland to stay, but I really don't know. I did not know how British I feel until now. In the meantime, I will be living possibly at the garden where I planted paw-paws and flowering gingers. Initially, I am going to a house with bananas and mangoes. They are in season now. I want to live a good few miles away from my husband at present. I am divorcing him. Such a lot of paperwork. Scotland suits me. I love it here. [/font] I have a feeling you will end up back here Cherry, which would ace |
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Post by SueA on Dec 11, 2015 9:00:24 GMT
You said that you thought you were probably your happiest when you lived in Scotland before Cherry so maybe that will influence you. |
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Post by Cherry on Dec 11, 2015 9:13:01 GMT
You have such a good memory SueA that it is just as well we don't tell fibs on here. I especially liked Galloway where I shopped in Castle Douglas and drove down the side of Loch Ken. I joined the NT so I could visit Threave Gardens almost weekly at Castle Douglas. We even had our own fishing rights. The people who bought the house were the parents of the manager of the famous Inverewe Gardens. |
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Post by SueA on Dec 11, 2015 9:25:02 GMT
Galloway is really beautiful Cherry , I don't know if you remember me saying we used to go there a lot for holidays years ago to Borgue & Gatehouse of Fleet in holiday cottages mostly when we had the dog. |
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Post by dianthus on Dec 11, 2015 13:41:29 GMT
Congrats SueA ...... only just noticed you have become a global mod. When did that happen?
rosie Cherry Geranium Thank you all for your kinds words. It's been a difficult few days, but I'm supposed to be getting the CH engineer here this afternoon to possibly drain the condenser of the boiler.
I hope I don't have to make more condolence cards, the postmaster had to root around for large plain first class stamps, as I don't think Christmas stamps are quite right, and a second class stamp is rather a slur to the recipient, under the circumstances, isn't it? They are almost a pound each! When I left school, a first class stamp was 3 1/2p, which was a seven-fold increase over 130yrs, so the recent 44yrs has resulted in a twenty-fold increase for a small letter, let alone the rip off that is a thicker than 5mm letter cost premium....  |
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Post by dianthus on Dec 11, 2015 20:48:04 GMT
update...... I have heating |
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Post by daitheplant on Dec 19, 2015 20:11:15 GMT
Even though I am agnostic we ALL need to remember Britain is, first and foremost, a Christian country.  |
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Post by dianthus on Dec 19, 2015 22:20:59 GMT
I bet the slugs, snails and wasps wish you were a Buddist, daitheplant  |
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Post by Geranium on Dec 20, 2015 6:14:59 GMT
Even though I am agnostic we ALL need to remember Britain is, first and foremost, a Christian country. Thank you for saying that, daitheplant. I really dislike cards that say things like 'Happy Winter Festival'. It sounds like a ceremony at Stonehenge!  |
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Post by roofgardener on Dec 20, 2015 16:58:18 GMT
Even though I am agnostic we ALL need to remember Britain is, first and foremost, a Christian country. Thank you for saying that, daitheplant. I really dislike cards that say things like 'Happy Winter Festival'. It sounds like a ceremony at Stonehenge! Quite right too, Geranium. We should follow our Christian traditions of celebrating the Ancient Roman Mythology feast of Saturnalia, decorated and emblelished with such Celtic symbols as Robins, Holly leaves, Fir trees and - of course - the representation of the Nordic god Odin, who - in modern days - rides a sleigh at rooftop height in TYPICAL barbarian disregard for modern-day air-traffic-control regulations. Odin, Saturn, Jupiter or Jesus ? Who cares... just DON'T mess with my tinsel, turkey, cranberry sauce and mince pies |
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Post by dianthus on Dec 20, 2015 17:27:40 GMT
.. but you can keep the turkey and sprouts and Christmas pud, Roofy...... in other words, I don't like Christmas dinner! When we were young, we had caponised cockerel for ours, but I switched to a steak when Mum started cooking a turkey instead. This was after many years of sitting at the table, for hours, because I just couldn't eat it (I really empathise with that little girl in the Sky movies advert)
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