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Very dear Seraphic Digitalis.

How nice of you. No, I have had a busy day Your wonderful link with U3Age was wonderful. Then my early morning carer came in to chat to me. I think she may help me meet more people. And then of course I had to try and copy out all the wonderful informatin about the University of the 3rd Age. I am also going to join Age concern. And of course, you may hyave realised that I love politics, so to listen to the radio this afternoon/
However, I have a heck of a lot to do, so will keep up with you on this thread and ,y other contact.

Thank you so much for that link. That was quite splendid. I never realised what it was.

with great affection


~Christiane.

I'm delighted. I only wish I'd found 'em sooner. We have wonderful meetings, and an incredible number of Interest Groups. It's our AGM tomorrow, and I'm working myself up to 'move a proposition'. Watch this space......

Dig

Good luck, and thank you for the introduction. They sound great.

Am kept busy in spite of everything and am really very happy - as he is. which is great.

SME
AR80

That is absolutely splendid, and I'm so glad for you.

AGM uneventful....but long

Dig

Hello LadyDig,

Haven't seen you around for a while. Hope you are ok. Off to feed PHM but will be back later.

Websailor

That's funny! I was going to say the same to you!
We went to the Shed at the beginning of the month, and I forgot to mention it in the Court Circular.
But yes, we're fine, all things considered, but I have to report that 77 feels a sight older than 76. Or is it the whisky talking?
Nothing else to report though. Have you heard from Christiane? and Nigel? I want to plant some spring bulbs, and I'd like to ask him if it's too soon. I plan to put them in what Carol Klein calls 'drifts' where the paeonies will sprout later. I've picked (135!!!!!!!!!!!!!!) minuscule ones, so it shouldn't be too disastrous. The worst bit was sharing them between 5 clumps, shading the colours as the herbaceous plants in the bed are shaded. I do give mesen some jobs!
Dig

I will give Nigel a nudge I think I know the answer to your query but I'd rather you got it from an expert

Yes, Christiane is still posting regularly. I expect this thread jut slipped down the list, as they do.

Glad you are ok. Just going to my badger(less) update.


Websailor

Hi Seraphic digitalis,

But I wrote to you. !! I wonder where the letter went to. !

lovely to think of planting buls - and in shaded colours.

that should be beautiful Tiny bulbs. Were they ranunculus ?
I hope that you can get off your knees after you have planted them. !!
I am hoping to put in some of the tiny daffies. I brought a lovely tub of four different sorts of daffies which flowered for at least the first two months after I arrived. I suppose it would be good now, but do you live where there is snow. what happenes to ranunculus when they get snowed on? I just love all sorts of daffies and narcissi.

I am off to sevenoaks to morrow to visit my son. Hopefully he might come back for the weekend. Mind you, apart from not being able to get out of the flat I am really enjoying my isolation. and the snooker is on. I have never played bit I love watchimg ot.

With much affection dear friend,

Christiane AR80.
PS. sEE BIG AL'S HOMEPAGE,. hE HAS SOME WONDERFUL ENTRIES AND ALSO MARVELLOUS SOCIETIES WHICH HE BELONGS TO. !!

Hello, both. You know, it's so good to be back. I don't realise how much I miss the old place!!

Never had much luck with ranunculus, although clematis have thrived (thriven?) and they're the same family. No, these are a mixture of alliums, anemones, dwarf iris and ipheion, of which I'd never heard.
We're East Midlands, and have only seen serious snow in the last ten years at this house, Not that the house has a monopoly of snowfalls, you understand, but when it happened we had a missel thrush and a redwing in the garden. So quite an occasion.

Thanks for contacting Higel, Webbie. I, too, think I know the answer, but like to be sure when it matters! Spikey seems to be sleeping more now.

Off to Ladybirds, must dash.
Dig.

LadyDig, I have 'nudged' Nigel and I am sure he will answer when he can. He can't always get online, or is too tired.

My son has been over tonight so my time on the pooter has been seriously curtailed. Back tomorrow though.

Take care,

Websailor

When children visit, I don't know whether to be thrilled to see them, or irritated because I can't get on with what I'd planned. The thrill, of course wins - usually -; I suspect that the annoyance at the upheaval is more a product of advancing age/senility than a true resentment of the fruit of one's loins!
I don't want Nigel to feel he must dash to minister to my query; it's enough to know that he's there, and we shall hear in due course. Actually, I'm quite glad he's well enough to be Nearly Here, and should hate him to be over-tired. That's not a good thing.
Christiane, how was Kent? Have I told you that I did my training in Bromley, and that my Final TP was at Sevenoaks? Can't remember the name of the school, but we got off the train at the 'Bat and Ball' station, which we loved! I suppose they should change the name to Fiveoaks, after That Gale!

Greetings to all, home or away.
Dig

Well, Dear friend, I am trying to receive you loud and clear.

This is the last of today's efforts.

I shall be going to the wamest place in my flat which is overlooking the ocean - strangely enough.

Tomorrow we shall surely speak together.

go well,
CME AR80

Hello, both,

Hope you are keeping well. It has gone cold again here, with some freezing rain earlier. I don't like the dark nights, they are worse than the dark mornings for me.

LadyDig, Nigel is getting there with his computer problems I hope,.

Christiane, take care. I hope you are managing to get out and about a bit. It can't be much fun stick in the flat all the time.

Websailor

Good evening, each!
It's going to be brrrrritterly cold I understand. Imagine my thoughts (and feelings) when I think of our Shed, without central heating, where we shall huddle tomorrow and for the next week or so! No dishwasher either, which makes it more eco-friendly even if I do grumble (inaudibly, of course)

However, I take heart from the eccentricity of the weather, and assume that there'll be a heatwave about, er, mid-December! Well, a 'girl' can dream, they say! Spike, it has to be said, must have seen this coming. His food has languished, uneaten except by the odd marauding cat, for a couple of weeks already, so I threw a fistful of 'bites' onto the doorstep of his hibernal (d'you think that's a real Word?) quarters.

As for the garden, where I started muck-spreading in a small way last week, we have foxgloves, primulas, cornflowers and hardy (very!) geraniums, to say nothing of gerberas and polywotsits (Jacob's Ladder?) which will certainly be cut down to size by the time we get back.

So, till I see you again girls, keep warm and collect any gossip to share next week. 'Byeeeeeeeee.

Dig

Oooh, LadyDig, I don't envy you the 'shed' in this weather! i have bulbs through two inches high, but if the weather forecast is right, they will be useless in a day or two. Such a shame.

Hedgie is sensible if has hibernated already, which he can well afford to do as you have been feeding him which will have given him a boost. Our badgers are still out and about, very early tonight too, I almost bumped in to him!!

Have a good week, and I hope the weather behaves for you.


Websailor

*knocks on the door*

This thread has gone so quiet I thought I had unsubsubscribed from it by mistake, but no...

Anyone home?

Welcome dear Titania,

I wondered where it had got to. I went back to all my old threads and could not find it. !!

I must admit that with this this marvellous brainchild of DNA my life is so enriched.

I find, however, that since my "little" problem last week, I am fogetting things. Very . very annoying.
I have not heard from seraphic digitalis on this thread for ages. I hope she is well.

do write and tell me how you are. I know I know you but canot remember from where. It really is a problem this TIA. I hope that I do not have a full blown one. That has always been my fear.

With affection
Christiane
AlsoRan80

I'm here Titania, and Christiane, I got an email from seraphic digitalis only a couple of days ago, so I guess she is ok. Perhaps reviving this thread will encourage her to stick her head in the door

Websailor

Greetings each! Head firmly wedged twixt door and frame, wondering if anybody put the kettle on. Ah, I see you've all got ?empty? cups in front of you. Like a fill up?
Hello, Titania.
I just left a message for you on the Peek Inside thread, so won't bother to regurgitate it here. (A good job we do a preview, as I seem unable to hold the shift key down!)
How is everyone? I've had, and am still having, a not-touching-the-ground time. Cold as well, invested in thermals, as I encountered my first chilblains in 15 years.
The Master is /still/, repeat still, working in the garden. Today he's been transforming the pond into a bog garden, which entailed emptying it, taking out the (comatose, bless 'em) frogs and replanting them in the other pond, filling this one two-thirds full of rock and rubble.....and he wanted me to help Unwisely I recited a catalogue of outstanding tasks, so he offered to help. Silly me.
Hope you're all as full of fun(??) as I am!!
Dig

hello SD, nice to see you here again. Gardening - the Master - could he give mine lessons? It must be a whole lot warmer where you are, as it has been freezing here. I did some tidying in the garden and cleaned up after the wildlife this morning, but they were giving me such a ticking off for interrupting their precious feeding time that I had to give up at midday

Christiane is not so good SD, but is still battling on and waiting for tests. You can pick up her threads from my Space if you want to look. I don't feel I should talk about her. I am sure she would appreciate a 'hello' from you though.

As for your bog garden, that's what I want in mine. I have the liner, but digging in my garden requires more strength and energy than I have, not to mention tools that don't break on contact with bricks and stones. We were the last houses on a small estate, and I swear they dumped the 'spoil' in our garden covered by a layer of topsoil!!

'Offered to help' - will we never learn. Does the help consist of being 'foreman' and telling you how you should do everything? That's what happens here Talk about teaching granny to suck eggs!!!!

Anyway, thanks for chatting, and for emails, they are such fun and you are quite a naughty lady LadyDig

Websailor