Today I've been mainly.......Volume 4

Greatnan ...I agree, bagitha is beautiful.

Other flowers that I loved from when my Nana had a dream of a garden - Sweet William and heavenly Wallflowers. How could I have forgotten!

Been having 25 metal staples removed from my wound. Three managed to become embedded. Hurt like mad when finally extracted. I bit the proverbial bullet.

Have recovered from the lost parcel episode. Forty eight hours of letting off ill-tempered steam has rid me of the frustrating disappointment. An album, no matter how precious, is merely paper. We can do another. It's people that are truly precious.

Lovely garden, bagitha, it must give you a lot of pleasure.
Who is the beautiful young woman with the long hair?

One of the things I miss in France is a haze of bluebells under beech trees. We don't seem to get them in most places.

Hello Gally, I was wondering where you were. Do I detect a touch of schadenfreude?

...visiting Daughter No 3's in-laws in the farmhouse they've just moved into - it is totally derelict - no heating, no bath - just a loo, no floor boards. I bet her MIL that within the week they would be moving into a caravan on a local holiday site - she bet that they wouldn't. I've been there, done that and got the T-shirt so I think I'm onto a winner

Taking a very windy but dry walk with a couple of pals this morning. Returning to a meal provided by the pals' partners. A beautiful walk home in evening sunshine backed by moody pewter clouds. A quite and friendly day.

bagitha Your garden reflects your personality - natural, peaceful, and lovely to behold

Butter Scabious is one of my top five favourites. My Nana's cottage garden was stunning. She grew lupins, delphinium, sweet peas, peonies and scabious. It was a single upstairs and downstairs cottage with a thatch roof. On entering the garden gate, the perfume from honeysuckle and old fashioned tea roses was delicious.

When listing the many birds in the garden a few days ago, I forgot the Tits...great tit, coal tit and blue. So sweet

Scabious was my mum's favourite wild flower. They flourish in the lanes around here. I have a tall white one in my wall border, but not really a patch on the wild ones, nor as robust.

On the NW bank there are bluebells and Devil's Bit Scabious. Bluebells elsewhere too, and I love the tiny things that don't show up except in macro lens photos, such as bog pimpernel and several different speedwells.

No wonder you love it, bagitha - it look so very natural and beautifully lush.

(I use Safari - so it wasn't just me then. GN Tech have got in a bit of a muddle, haven't they).

Oh! I've got ox eyed and now fritillaries! I'm waiting to see what comes up next!

Thank you. Last year I found four orchids (northern marsh) dotted about. I want to get cornflowers growing but haven't succeeded yet. The ox-eye daisies are established at last after four years struggle! Exciting is one word for it! It is nice though and we love it.

Oh bagitha that's lovely. It's the effect I'm trying to get on a smaller scale at the bottom of my garden under the fruit trees!

It looks a really exciting garden, bags.

Suits a scrambled garden, I suppose.

Oh, and the buttercup and red clover meadow in "the boggy bottom" is repeated three times! Deletion was difficult too. I think Tech has been going a bit wild and scrambling things.

I've uploaded a few pics of bits of my garden. Not sure they show up all that well and they aren't all labelled because GN doesn't support Safari or Firefox very well for editing the details [gusty sigh! We don't all use Internet Explorer you know!] and I couldn,t be bothered to faff around any more. I also seem to have lost one of what we call "the wood shed rose". Mañana!

Thank you all for your kind comments. It was a big step for me!

Thanks everyone. Have to dash but will return tomorrow. By then, all should be well.

I have entered my request!

You can shout on the new thread as well. Its called "Botch Job". Go on, get yelling!

FAME at long last. Now I feel soooooooooo important

Please, everybody, go to the new Tech stuff thread and put in some support for soop's profile to be resurrected!

bags Just knew you'd sort matters.
Saves me calling out...'^JOOOO..HON^' - as is my want...

soop! Stop! Whoa! It's still connected to supernana. They haven't done it properly. Complaint coming up, Tech!

Give 'em hell, soop! That SHOULD NOT have happened! If you emailed them and said younjust wanted to change your username your old profile should be attached to your new name! GRRR!