Some interesting responses to my “glowing arse” (thanks @JimTheFish !) post. I just wanted to say that with respect to:

@purofilion

Then there’s Farscape as Phaseshift’s suggestion so I’ll eventually watch that too.

And @JimTheFish

Maybe Mr @Phaseshift could be prevailed upon for a blog to get us all going.

I’d be happy to lead the choir of peopl…[Read more]

Belated hi back to @JimtheFish (and thanks for the making of Firefly video post) and @JanetteB (and sympathies, the earth is indeed equally benighted where you are). Proper congrats to @FatManinaBox – you clever boy you! Have a whole Medusa cascade of gold stars 😉

@Purofilion – hope you’re well on the mend now, even if it cuts into your DVD…[Read more]

@FatManInABox   Lovely photo of the Botanical Gardens.  I lived in Brum for a couple of years in the 1970s, but have no recollection of ever visiting them – which is odd, because my flat was little more than a mile away.  I have clear memories of visits to the Botanic Gardens in Edinburgh and Belfast when I lived in those cities, so maybe it is…[Read more]

@purofilion @Arbutus @FatManInABox Where I live we are along a green belt that
meanders down from the foothills right thru town so we get all kinds of critters. Love
the deer that are blocked by big panel of chain link fence and it also keeps out howling
coyotes but not raccoons or snakes like rattlers so I have to be extra alert…[Read more]

@FatManInABox

Congratulations, Horticulturist! I smiled when you referred to “cute, fluffy garden pests”. In my garden, the pests are rarely that… although, I guess squirrels count, and since they ate up every one of my grapes last fall before I could get them harvested, that’s not just a pest but a Public Enemy. But Public Enemy Number One are…[Read more]

@Whilst Just happened to hear the Coldplay tune in the car and the lyrics connected
with me after a fashion to something in the sentiments I was reading in regards to the election.
However I like the Elbow tune as well.

Are we going to do garden songs for @FatManInABox? (claps hands!) oh yes! 🙂
I got 1 – please forgive me in advance for the…[Read more]

<a href="@fatmaninabox“>@fatmaninagardenbox – congratulations!!!!!
so sorry I’m late in wishing this but, y’know, it doesn’t hurt being told again that its great that this has all worked out brilliantly!

So – a couple of “plant related songs” which in itself, could become a series (??!??!)

;¬)

first, lets remember that things die in order to…[Read more]

@FatManInABox that is so beautiful. I am envious. That lawn is so lush and fascinating variety of trees. A fine example of “nature and artifice in perfect harmony”.

cheers

Janette

@FatManInABox  May I add my congratulations and a  toast to your future career!

And when it comes to combatting things like post-election depression, there is nothing so therapeutic as gardening and the cultivation of plants – or so I find, at least!

@FatManInABox Thanks for fixing me!
Congradts on your course completion! I know how much you love playing in the dirt
and its a wonderful thing to be able to make your career from what you love doing.
Good Luck with your next phase and let us know what and where that is!

@FatManInABox

*applause*

Congrat’s @FatManInABox I hope the creepy crawlies don’t turn into Creepy Crawlies of Unusual Size. 🙂

Cheers

Janette

@fatmaninabox — congratulations and it was definitely remiss of me not mention the botanically inclined in that post. Well done. Now we know who to turn to keep those Krynoids at bay….

Just dropping back in to say a quick hello to everyone.

Thanks to all those, inc @FatManinaBox, @Purofilion who sustained me in the darkness (and post 7 May in UK that’s a very creepy, evil, dark indeed) of alternate reality (aka Real Life) by keeping my memory alive in this place.

😀

@PhaseShift   My reaction was rather stronger than ‘Oh bugger’ and I am still alternating between steam-coming-out-of-the-ears angry and a mood of profound despondency at the prospect of (probably) at least five more grim years of this incompetent and economically illiterate shower doing their best to finish destroying all the good that was es…[Read more]

@purofilion that is indeed perhaps the most random post I have ever encountered on this or any forum. I certainly wouldn’t be clicking on that link and advise everybody else not to. I am certain that one of our good mods will delete when they are next back on board.

Sorry to see Ed resign. He seemed genuine if not a fire brand. @ichabod…[Read more]

SPOILER, SPOILER, SPOILER...

The news is getting even more depressing. Worst thing is that it looks like the Cons have a clear majority, no one to apply any brakes.

@FatManInABox Why is it only the poor that vote against self interest? It was the same here last election and I suspect the same former Australian is at least partly to blame.

Cheers

From a not so cheery Janette

@fatmaninabox

Surely, lookin at the waxen faces of Cameron-Clegg, th Autons hav lredy taken ovr te government,

Also, I am not sure that Monsieur Farage looks human.