In praise of GoY ~ blogging/gardening with friends

Your garden is looking lovely and sun too lovely group of snowdrops too and love those lyrics, but your showing your age hehe haha, Tony Cristie not Peter Kay lol .

no didnt hear tony cristie ~ dont know when that was but no radio in our house ~ nor tv for many many years!

Love the garden, looks very neat and tidy

Great Sticki..well done, I've been singing along..:o))

You've made me smile AGAIN . . . thank you Sticki . . . have a sunny gardening weekend! x

I love this month It great to look forward to the summer

thanks cmsue, bloomer and sheila
:o))

i agree ...........loads to look 4 ward tooooooo ;o)))

Enjoyed this, Sticki, but that song is stuck in my head now! : o )

Well, yes you're all right, there is loads to look forward to. I shall try to adjust my moany face! Sticki, your garden is looking so lovely!

sorry shirley ~ i had the same problem ~ i did try to use something different but this worked best.

that was march last year karen ~ yes snowdrops still out in march ~ everything was much later last year. this year has been tough but spring is earlier than last year!!

Don't apologise Sticki ... we've just watched a TV programme on Reggae music ... so now I have a very strange mix of songs in my head ... nothing new there then! Forgot to say earlier, your garden looks lovely. : o ))

thanks shirley ~ not quite as bright at the moment ~ wasnt on GoY when i took that one ~ now i will have to try even harder cos everyone has amazing gardens on here.

you could do a reggae chant shirley?

Oh no my 10yr old daughter sang along with this and now that's all I'm going to hear this weekend! I shall have to make sure I'm out of the way finding things to do in the garden despite the rain.

oh no! thats not good ~ sorry mandy.
oh well ~ garden will benefit!

Well I remember Tony Christie, and he's made a comeback too! Great blog and great song Sticki, lovely to dance to, and I'll probly be singing it to the plants tomorrow!

Just put in your plants and sing to them..they will grow their socks off for you, wait and see..and then lap up all the ooohs and aahhhhs

Hey Sheilabub I watched that programme to..fascinating, but I switched off when it got to Madness..the Police werent bad but that I couldnt tolerate. However I DO love the original reggae

thanks for the tip tet ~ perhaps the plants wont mind the tune sticking in their heads??

forgot to tell you all and wish i had a good photo but yesterday painter was just finishing off in our new extension; then i noticed there was a bit of plaster that didnt look right in the ceiling ~ apparantly it had 'popped' when electrian put lights in. anyway the painter very kindly offered to put it right for me. however, as he stepped down from the ceiling ~ yes you guessed it ~ classic comedy ~ he stepped into the paint bucket.
one ruined trainer later and the decorator goes home in my old sock [clean!!] and a plastic bag over his foot!!!!

That had OH and me in stitches!

Must go back and find the whole song - you did a great job, Sticki - it fits perfectly. Another one for the GoY choir. :-)

Brilliant blog and great lyrics too, Sticki! had me chuckling away here like a good'un....This Goy choir building by the week, Beattie!!! lol\0/x

:D :D That was fun ! :o))

At least that's knocked the other maddening song out of my head that was infuriating me all day yesterday! I'd recently found 'Call Me Madam' on TV so I'd been driven mad by "You don't need analysing, it is not so surprising that you feel very strange inside ....' all sung in Ethel Merman's foghorn voice!

Very good Sticki, can't wait to see the picture at the top ablaze with colour.

glad you liked that story tet ~ thinking of putting up photo of painted trainer ~ framed in lounge!

thank you beattie, flori, hywel, nariz and LL ~ you make it all worth while!!!

i love being on here.

Not me, Tet, it was Sh- Shirley watching the Reggae!!

Ah -- this is the Moonies retreat then-- very good Sticki-- couldn't decide if the painter i reminded me of 'eric sykes' or ( showing my age altho I was very young ) Mr Pastry........

Classic comedy at your house then, Sticki! I hope he didn't feel too daft ..... Tet, the reggae programme reminded me of 'back in the day' when curly perms were fashionable, late 70's/early 80's, I couldn't afford the perm & colour so I 'paid' the hairdresser ( a part-time DJ) with some of my Ska vinyl.. what a fool ... worth a small fortune to a collector now. : o (((

lovely garden there Sticki, and such a lovely song,

Oh what a terrible deal Shirley..sorry called you Sheilab but it was late last night! My friends brother taught me how to dance reggae partner style, you know, one leg in between the other's leg..was extremely suggestive back then but a great dance and even better music..yes ska would be the big collecting thing now it was wonderful to hear it all again..

Lol, Tet, I remember that dance style! I should ask him for the records back ... he used to have a salon in The Lanes in Brighton and DJ'd at the Zap club ... I would imagine both the salon and the club are no more ! A friend of mine still has every piece of vinyl she ever bought ... and that goes back to about the mid 60's!

lovely garden you have there, no wonder you are celebrating with a song;0))

Singing along here Sticki, its mega stuck in my head, I prefer Tony Christie version, Peter Kaye winds me up I`m afraid, I`ll have to memorise your words now ready for lawn cutting,LOL..
Poor painter, hope you didn`t laugh until he`d gone, he`ll be charging for his trainers else.
The garden looks a treat.....

Probly Sticki's fault for batting those big eyes at him...Maybe you should check the extension Sticki..all those meals too...lol!

We certainly are waiting Gee Oh! Sticki. I remember Mr Pastry too!!!

you are very naughty tet! i did not bat any eyes at him but yes lincslass i did laugh !
we didnt have a tv when mr pastry was on ~ the children at school used to talk about him and i imagined a little dough man?

My my my Delilah! LOL

Um no Sticki--- I can't remember very well but I do remember a lot of slapstick fun--- must 'google ' him....

Lovely photo of the garden. The sun's started to make an appearance in our garden, too, much to our whippet's delight (he chases any patch of sunshine he can find and tries to lie down on it). Bring on the growing season!

Diana

Hi City S, on behalf of Sticki, whose presently kna..tired. Welcome to the madhouse. We are just getting over the winter blues and have all got a touch of sun so bear with us till spring finally, officially here and we will sober up!

Yorkie, are you about? Ive come here for some peace and quiet..got a bottle..Ba and Bloomer chuntering on (lovely word chuntering..) about eyebrows and moustaches and puckering kissing lips..god knows what they are up to! Its on your Full Moon Tonight page. Thought I would let you know the full extent of the invasion!!

Your whippet sounds a right character CityS, he's obviously a sunlover..ohh for some sun! ...you are very right about the growing season..let it come soon before this site goes completely doolally!
Do post some pics of your pooch and garden..oh you may have dont already..must go and check.

perhaps we should have pictures of the sun on here so we dont forget what it looks like!!
the moon pictures had a certain effect on some!!
what would the sun do?

Dont suggest that Sticki, Ba's noses would get burned, Bloomer's eyebrows frazzled and Yorkie's beer might evaporate..then where would we be? Australia far enough??

another planet?

Hi Ho Apollo, away!!

long as its not the one beginning with U!!

LOL! glad you didnt come out with that one yesterday!!!!

i do my best in polite society!!!

whats the matter with Ursa minor?

Very good! :-)

Thats a constellation Pamg, where are your wits gone beggin girl! We cant be a dozen places at once..tho we dont do bad on here do we lol!

but the constellation is made up of galaxy hmmmm.... sidetracked .... a moment for a chocaholic

i know more about galaxy than stars; no objection to ursa!!

and the milky way -- via mars?

thats the way! what a trip that would be.

Wow your garden is lovely it is beautifully laid out and very pretty :)

All this talk of galaxy mars and milky way is making me crave chocolate! lol! :-)

I refuse to listen!!!

thanks jewells ~ not down to me ~ mostly previous owners. they put some nice plants in.

i have a chocolate cosmos that i particularly like tetra!!

Ahhh dont Sticki...Ive already had a Crunchie today..first choc for several weeks (I think!)..and Im really craving something sweet right now..not going to Tesco this time of night tho!

did you hear that we could see the Aurora-- it says north of the country but you never know-- saw it once here in the midlands--- magical!

i would love to see the aurora, i would be so happy i would have to eat a crunchie ~ love em!!

they make my tongue sore as I try to make them last longer.......

i just like the crunch.
oh yes and that smoooooooth chocolate.

back to Galaxy--- my favorite at the moment.....
I made a chocolate & banana trifle last weekend using strong coffee ( and a little rum) on the sponge and it was nice but the next day I thought the flavours were even better -- but it didn't look as pretty!

how do you make it? it sounds very good ~ bananas not my favourite but the coffee rum and chocolate would more than make up for that!!!

HiSticki--simply soaked the trifle sponge in a strong black coffee lightly laced with rum then put on the fruit-- use any you like --raspberries may work-- then poured a chocolate custard over-- cocoa and extra dark choc stirred in then when cold topped with whipped creab ( I used semi skim milk and elmlea light-- so I felt quite virtuous!)

it was squash risotto last night and chilli tonight
oh -- hope they don't notice-- thats two rice meals......

that sounds very tempting! thank you!
surely they wont notice ~ one vegetarian and one meat?

im doing lamb tonight ~ chops ~ not my favourite but the recipe sounded nice ~ marinaded in red wine vinegar and redcurrant jelly.

if i'm in a hurry I marinade in mint sauce from a jar, cook them with stock and make minted gravy-- on mashed potatoes-- quick and tasty
have a nice evening xxx

mmmm very tasty.

nothing exciting planned and nothing on tv

Hey Sticki, remember, Pam did say LIGHTLY laced with rum..and dont give the recipe to Yorkie, she's already in rehab I think..

I watched Kate Humble in the spice islands---- I sort of knew cinnamon was tree bark and pepper was a bean but quite fascinating

anyone watch Madagascar--- wow

Gotchya! here you are taking my name in vain. Lovely garden Sticki and clever words, but no mention of Stourhead...I see now where your loyalty lies:-(. Just think how lovely your garden would look with some lemurs ;-) I saw Madagascar, fantastic and I want one of those teeny weeny miniscule lemurs that climb reeds. Fancy that trifle too :-)

have you got a lemur for my garden? that would be just perfect.
if i could have just a bit of stourhead in my garden that would be a bonus ~ can you arrange that too BA?
do you mean the cartoon madagascar?

I wouldnt mind ALL of Stourhead in my garden!

no sticki David Attenborough on a wednesday night-- its a island that when it broke away from the mainland the plants and animals evolved differently to anywherelse in the world, the lemurs only live on madagascar and those that Ba mentioned only live on one area of reeds on one lake on the island.......

oh sorry, didnt fancy the cartoon and didnt realise there was another - thanks pam - i will look out for that.