"Pete" wrote in message
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Whilst I have every sympathy for Baz and others who have been affected by
recent weather/floods etc., isn't it about time this newsgroup got back to
what is supposed to be about -i.e. GARDENING!!!

It seems that the majority of threads this month alone have been
non-gardening - and the same was true in June

Come on all you gardeners - let-s have your thoughts/questions on
gardening please please please

Jeanne

I haven't seen the majority of posts here to be on non-gardening topics,
maybe you need a better newsreader ;-)

Weather is always relevant to gardening, especially such extreme rain as we
have having now, and I like to think we are all friends on here and can
support each other if we are in trouble.
Keeping strictly on topic hails back to the days of dial up (I was on that!)
when paying per minute to download OT stuff was a real annoyance. Nowadays
broadband is mostly available here but if you don't have it you can still
download the headers first and then work offline to see if you want to pay
to download the body of the message - that's why it's a good idea to put OT
in the title.

If you have broadband and just don't like every post being about gardening
on urg, GardenBanter might suit you better.
You do get better advice on here though and I am sure you know how to mark
"conversation read" if we stray.

Tina