On 15/4/08 14:06, in article , "Pat Gardiner"
wrote:


"Sacha" wrote in message
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On 14/4/08 16:40, in article , "Pat
Gardiner" wrote:

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A stationers pointed me to the DYMO range.
http://global.dymo.com/enUS/Labels/default.html

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Has anyone tried this system? The output looks very suitable for sticking
to
wood, plastic. I can imagine sticking them to tree trunks, trays and
plastic
labels.

I can't see where they advertise them as being suitable for gardeners or
where they produce specific labels, which seems odd.

Bob Hobden and I have both said upthread that we've used Dymo labels for
our
gardens. They seem to last pretty well.

Sorry! Unfortunately a complication of recent medical problems has been
occasional gaps in my memory.

Long ops and intensive care can do that, it seems. I didn't know that and
thought I was getting Alzheimer's.

It frustrates everyone and embarrasses me, not least when I tell them the
same thing three times.

Fortunately, it rarely impacts on anything important. My long term memory is
fine

It is mainly things like remembering where I put things.

Now I have told you why labelling is so important to me! I have to label
immediately or I have no chance.

I suspect a lot of gardeners, and not just the older ones, have similar
problems.

I know I do! But I hope you're making a speedy recovery, Pat. I only
mentioned that we'd mentioned it because not everyone sees every post. Some
appear to go off into limbo where some of us are concerned.


Perhaps they bring out large red spots on marauding children?

I wish! We had one trying to swing from an empty hanging basket the other
day. I don't know if it's just me but modern parents seem to lack all
responsibility or common sense sometimes!
I do admit to telling one particularly idiotic woman who was allowing her
3
year old to wander alone around the garden, that this is a plant nursery
not
a child nursery! I did it politely and with a smile but I think she got
the
message!

Actually, as you can see my specialist subject is MRSA - and not because I
have had it, I haven't.

One cannot help having sympathy for the hospitals. You should see some of
the behaviour of parents in controlling young children on acute wards with
sick people.

A former policeman friend kept a pub and he solved the problem of unruly
children very easily. He would fix the parents with a very firm eye as they
arrived.

"Children are very welcome here, so long as they behave and stay up there!"
He had a raised alcove in a corner away from the bar to which he pointed.

We went to a pub here that had a notice up saying "Good children are
welcome. Badly-behaved children will be sold as slaves". ;-)

They either took umbrage and walked out, or were quite happy with the
arrangement. Either way, he was happy.

I don't suppose you can do that with a garden centre.

Unhappily not. While we're concerned for our property - plants etc. and the
limb of a rare Pinus Montezumae some young rip was swinging on the other day
!!!!, we're also concerned for the safety of the children. We have some
gravel paths and inevitably a lot of glass around. It is astonishing how
many children go running up and down the greenhouses, inside and out, when a
trip or slip would take them straight through a large pane of glass. I
shouted to one to stop running on Sunday and his mother looked at me as if I
was quite mad. I told her that little Johnny could cut his throat open if
he went head first through a piece of glass. And last year one child swung
on a *full* hanging basket and brought it crashing down, missing his head by
inches. As it was filled with plants, compost and had been watered, it was
very heavy. I really think it would have killed him if it had hit him. We
have notices up asking people to stop their children riding in trolleys and
two days ago Ray was too late to stop a toddler climb into a trolley and
walk up the sloping end. Of course, it tipped over and he fell, hitting his
chin and mercifully doing no real damage. His father 'hadn't noticed' what
the child was up to and he was almost a baby - just big enough to toddle and
climb a bit. Mind you, two years ago a fully grown up adult walked onto the
coping stones at the edge of the pond, her weight broke the cement seal and
she went straight into the water. She was ever so embarrassed......

Right, I'm off to buy a Dymo, whilst I rememeber.

Next time I post, check that I did it, will you?

I have yet to tell you the true story of XXXX's Seed Testing Centre No.7.
That was years ago, and I will rememeber that.


I think you'll have to visit us. You and Ray could spend hours swapping
horror stories. ;-))
--
Sacha
http://www.hillhousenursery.co.uk
South Devon
'We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our
children.'