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I wouldn't have it any other way Moon grower, all contributions would be welcome. Just need to find some decent photos from somewhere though.

Whatever floats your boat, Bluespruce;-)

Good idea, though we might question some of your suggestions...

Hey ladies, I'm thinking of doing a blog on growing Japanese maples - what do you think ? :0)

We have a weather warning for the whole of the east coast of Scotland - extending down the north east of England too....with flooding etc...wish I could send you some!!

We've had nobbut a spit here in West London - its extremely dull and overcast, but no real rain, just a bit of damp. We could do with it, really, I mean if its going to so dull, it could at least have the decency to rain while its at it.

My labradors don't let me have a long lie....Di brings me my slippers at 5.45 PROMPTLY and if I pretend to be asleep - she just stands and barks at me!! No hope here - rain hail or gale and I think we have had the lot today...and the forecast is for more of the same for the next 48 hours....batten down the hatches time here on the NE coast!!

Och I just have to wander through the house to my office - in my jammies if I want to :-) In fact given I use a laptop I can sit anywhere and work... Thierry has accepted I am not an early bird in winter, but then neither are media folk.

Sorry Gena, hope you have given up following this question

Take it from me,you will, Moongrower - I have great difficulty getting up on dull days, despite the open curtains and the south east facing windows. If its sunny, I wake, if its dull, I don't. Glad to be semi retired, and glad I decide where I go and when for any work!

B said you were having dreadful weather Alz. whilst we have barely seen the sun it isn't dire - thank goodness... but I am noticing as the sun rises later and later Mr & Mrs MB struggle to get out of bed at their usual time. Once I do retire - whenever that will be I wonder if we'll just get up later and later as winter approaches :-)

Well said MG.....peace reigns.
Now what WAS I doing before that storm...oh yes ....preparing for the bigger storm outside. Horrid day out there ....no gardening possible that's for sure....great excuse to have a look at all the gardening catalogues that are piling in for 2010....LOL

And so the happy GoYers went back their various tasks, uprooting mandrakes (ear-muffs 'not' optional), putting seeds to bed, leaping out into the middle of the lawn and shouting 'BOO' at the top of their voices to scarify the lawn and generally creating chaos and mayhem. They still kept a weather eye out for trolls, chocolate in any guise and guarding against GM crops on the horizon... There will doubtless be other disputations in GoY but whilst we all remember our common love of growing plants, eating (chocolate?) and blogging in the end ALL WILL BE WELL. xxx

Favourite? Oh, deep joy.... mirror, mirror, on the wall.... Apologies Gena, hope you found it entertaining, or stopped following when it got tedious ;-))

Selective apologies duly noted ...and now - as the original question has been answered - very fully......may I suggest that - in the words of some wiseacre..."This conversation must cease"

I apologise too Gena for certain comments on here. We arent usually like this, but sometimes moments like this occur, usually they go away

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My apologies to Gena for my part.

Children....children....this is most unlike GOY behaviour.
I am really sorry for poor Gena who asked the original question. She must be wondering what sort of site she is on with all this bickering.

clever boy!

Yes, you definitely got me there Mookins
Just corrected it, hope it meets with your approval ?

hahaha be even funnier if you got my name right
but good try!

What is this, all girls together ?
You lot can keep having a pop at me as much as you like.
Mookins - I suggest you go and have a lie down, preferably in a darkened room xx

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Mookins and Moon grower, you two 'did' make me chuckle back there !!!

No problem for me Moon Grower, so long as Bamboo reins in that ego and takes the dictionary out of her gob (sorry mouth) I'm all for returning to normality. Just to show there's no hard feelings I've even made her a favorite :0)

Oh for goodness sake "Grow up"
you silly silly man!

Right this really is turning into 'fir tree' # 2. Sorry folks can you please agree to differ and let us all get on with GoY land... I find it interesting as a 60+ female that I really can't be bothered to get hot under the collar about gardening matters... Life is to short to argue your corner. Unless the other person is giving seriously duff advice let it go and flow...

It's a bit of a shame really, I was just beginning to think that maybe I had over reacted just a little, and was actually starting to feel conciliatory towards you. Then you had to go and spoil it all :0(
So after reading your latest comments to me, and as I previously suspected., I find you deliberately hostile, confrontational, and extremely rude, and there was you wanting to lecture me on politeness.

On a lighter note however - I did love your choice of words, very amusing - I'm impressed!

Really Bluespruce, I think you're over reacting here, how about switching off your amygdalic response and engaging your pre frontal cortex for a moment? If you actually READ my answer where I "strongly disagree", I refer very specifically to the dissectum varieties. If you look at a later response, I say that palmatum generally seems to cope better in full sun, all of this based not just on knowledge, but on my own experience and, clearly, if you look through the site, many other people's as well. I can't see what the problem is - I'm sorry if you feel threatened because you feel I'm not in full agreement with you, but there's not much I can do about that - you're responsible for your feelings, not me. It is hard in these texts to convey emotion, so I don't know how this "feels" when you read it, but it's meant to feel detached and rather tired of the subject, with a hope that you may, in the end, see it differently, and at the very least, agree to disagree. And this is my final word on the subject - I can do no more to assuage your ruffled feelings.

Is this the next 'fir tree' war? If so I'll stop reading.

Me saucy Mookins - lol