whats this shrub?

Leucothoe - could be Scarletii, depends on how big it gets - there's a small version (2 feet) and a larger one (4 feet)

Is it Red Robyn Photenia
sorry about the spelling
or a dogwood?
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oops forget my answers Bamboo will know

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lol Mookins - made a mistake with the spelling, its Leucothoe Scarletta - reaches 2 feet

Thanks Bamboo, thats the one and looking at details on it, I know the perfect place for it.

Bamboo you sure you got the measurements this time hehehe

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Don't have any trouble with feet... its those tricksy little mms and cms that give me trouble - old brain, dear;-)

Lol...i was searching about for a ruler to see how deep 20cms is..
i,m an inches and feet man too..lol

I am so glad that there are other people who can't visualise mm and cm...I have to ask helpful husband all the time!! :-))

Trouble is, when I visualise a space in the garden, I can only visualise it in feet, not in centimetres - not too bad with one metre cos that's more or less a yard!

Yes, that's me, too! Must be our age...;-)

I'm sure - but I have noticed something before - I knew a French girl (27) and a Yugoslav woman (70's) and a Swedish girl (34), all of whom, when they counted something up, like, change or how many of something they had, they'd do it in their original mother tongue and then translate the result into English - fascinating, because in all three cases, their spoken and written English was near perfect. So maybe its to do with numbers, that our brains have difficulty in reinterpreting them easily. Just a thought.

Hmmm....interesting!

I have firmly fixed in my mind that 5cms is two inches. It is useful when doing the translation from cms to inches. I know it because my dogs' breed standard allows them to have "up to 5cms (2ins) of white on their chests"!!

....and 30 cm = 1 ft. I had to learn that, and I do just about remember it!

Bamboo you are absolutely right about the numbers, I speak fluent German and fairly good Czech but I always count in English, especially when it comes to money in shops and telephone numbers, which I actually say to myself in English before putting into either language.

I also address babies, dogs and cats in English, regardless of which country I am in......:-)

I can, however, despite being 67, switch fairly effortlessly between the metric system and the imperial and that applies both to weights and measurements.

Not an age related problem then - I must be just thick....! actually I always had a problem with numbers anyway - when I was 7, they wanted to send me to a school for "retarded" children because I couldn't add 2 and 2 - fortunately, I could spell "ocean" and write a brilliant essay, so I escaped that fate. One of my bosses, when I was 24, taught me how to multiply and divide, thank heavens. I do understand the metric measurements, it's just I visualise space in a border in feet...

Hear, hear. So do I.

You poor thing! What a dreadful threat to a young child....

I didn't really understand what was happening at the time, luckily - I do remember, though, the English teacher, clutching my spelling book and my "composition" book, shouting a lot at the Headmaster while I stood outside his office!

Good for the English teacher! I think the only reason I can manage to think metric as well is because I have lived, on and off, away from the UK for a good many years. So I was forced into it. I much prefer driving in km but I do still tend to think of room sizes in feet. Weights are no problem and I can even convert fahrenheit to centigrade and vice versa having learned to do so when I had a raging fever in Hamburg in my late teens, only a German thermometer and no way of telling how ill I was until I had worked out the fahrenheit figure!

Thus proving that necessity is not only the mother of invention, but also the mother of learning, I guess, Cestina!

What a philosophical statement! Wonderful! :-))