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Hi all,
Just thought I'd introduce myself, my name is Jo and I live in Western Australia. At the moment I have about 15 Dendrobium Kingianums, 2 Dendrobiums, 4 Cymbidium, 1 Epidendrum and 1 Paphiopedilum. I've only been growing Orchids for about a year or so and am totally addicted! I look forward to the discussions in here :) Cheers for now, Jo :) |
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Welcome Jo!
Joanna "Raevyn" wrote in message ups.com... Hi all, Just thought I'd introduce myself, my name is Jo and I live in Western Australia. At the moment I have about 15 Dendrobium Kingianums, 2 Dendrobiums, 4 Cymbidium, 1 Epidendrum and 1 Paphiopedilum. I've only been growing Orchids for about a year or so and am totally addicted! I look forward to the discussions in here :) Cheers for now, Jo :) |
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Welcome Jo,
You have come to the right place as we have some Aussies in our group & may be in your back yard. -- Cheers Wendy Remove PETERPAN for email reply Raevyn wrote: Hi all, Just thought I'd introduce myself, my name is Jo and I live in Western Australia. At the moment I have about 15 Dendrobium Kingianums, 2 Dendrobiums, 4 Cymbidium, 1 Epidendrum and 1 Paphiopedilum. I've only been growing Orchids for about a year or so and am totally addicted! I look forward to the discussions in here :) Cheers for now, Jo :) |
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Hi Jo
Welcome to the group. Where abouts are you in WA - BIG state! I suggest you join a WA orchid society if you haven't already. Tony Watkinson is President of the Species Orchid Society of WA and if you are into species orchids I am sure he would love to have you as a member and if not he could direct you to a more general club. Cheers John -- John Varigos Melbourne, Australia __________________________________________ To email me remove "usenet." from my email address. "Raevyn" wrote in message ups.com... Hi all, Just thought I'd introduce myself, my name is Jo and I live in Western Australia. At the moment I have about 15 Dendrobium Kingianums, 2 Dendrobiums, 4 Cymbidium, 1 Epidendrum and 1 Paphiopedilum. I've only been growing Orchids for about a year or so and am totally addicted! I look forward to the discussions in here :) Cheers for now, Jo :) |
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Welcome, Jo! We do have some interesting conversations around here........
Diana |
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Welcome. I'd love to see some pictures of your kingianums. We don't post
pics here but we use alt.binaries.pictures.orchids for that. Hope to see some of your pictures there. Gary "Raevyn" wrote in message ups.com... Hi all, Just thought I'd introduce myself, my name is Jo and I live in Western Australia. At the moment I have about 15 Dendrobium Kingianums, 2 Dendrobiums, 4 Cymbidium, 1 Epidendrum and 1 Paphiopedilum. I've only been growing Orchids for about a year or so and am totally addicted! I look forward to the discussions in here :) Cheers for now, Jo :) |
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Welcome, Jo, from yet another Aussie. Glad to note your interest in Dendrobes.
(The longer standing contributors here are resigned to ny tunnel vision.) John mentioned Tony Watkinson to you. If you have downloaded the thread "Who we are revisited" you will see John's response there, as well as those of several others of the group. Hope you enjoy our company. On 18 Dec 2005 00:59:25 -0800, "Raevyn" wrote: Hi all, Just thought I'd introduce myself, my name is Jo and I live in Western Australia. At the moment I have about 15 Dendrobium Kingianums, 2 Dendrobiums, 4 Cymbidium, 1 Epidendrum and 1 Paphiopedilum. I've only been growing Orchids for about a year or so and am totally addicted! I look forward to the discussions in here :) Cheers for now, Jo :) Dave Gillingham ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ To email me remove the .private from my email address. |
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Hi Jo
I am, also in WA and connected to a number of Orchid Societies. If you let me know what suburb or town you are living in, I can direct you to a Society in your area where you can get loads of info re orchids. Don't be a stranger. Tony Raevyn wrote: Hi all, Just thought I'd introduce myself, my name is Jo and I live in Western Australia. At the moment I have about 15 Dendrobium Kingianums, 2 Dendrobiums, 4 Cymbidium, 1 Epidendrum and 1 Paphiopedilum. I've only been growing Orchids for about a year or so and am totally addicted! I look forward to the discussions in here :) Cheers for now, Jo :) |
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Thanks to you all for the friendly greetings, it's nice to meet such a
welcoming bunch :) Joanna, Thanks for the welcome :) Wendy, Thanks :) Love the Peter pan reference btw ^ ^ John, I'm in the South of Western Australia, in Albany. The weather here tends to be a bit cooler than it gets in Perth, which suits me very well :) Diana, looking forward to the conversations :) Gary, I'd be more than happy to post any pics I can find of my Kingies, most of which are hybrids. I've only been growing them a year so I don't have many pics yet, but I will post what I do have :) Dave, Thanks for the hello, great to meet a fellow Den enthusiast! I'm afraid I'm rather tunnel-visioned when it comes to Kingies, the first orchid I ever got was a Kingie and they remain my firm favorites :) Tony, nice to meet you, I live in Albany WA and I do know of the Orchid Society down here, however I keep forgetting when exactly they have their meetings :/ Thank You for being able to refer me on, although I do enjoy growing these beauties by myself some advice and tips would go a long way to help as I still consider myself a novice and don't know that much in the way of technical details of Orchid Care. :) Cheers all, Jo |
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I dont suppose tht you happen to grow the local pitcher plant as well???
Kye. "Raevyn" wrote in message ups.com... Thanks to you all for the friendly greetings, it's nice to meet such a welcoming bunch :) Joanna, Thanks for the welcome :) Wendy, Thanks :) Love the Peter pan reference btw ^ ^ John, I'm in the South of Western Australia, in Albany. The weather here tends to be a bit cooler than it gets in Perth, which suits me very well :) Diana, looking forward to the conversations :) Gary, I'd be more than happy to post any pics I can find of my Kingies, most of which are hybrids. I've only been growing them a year so I don't have many pics yet, but I will post what I do have :) Dave, Thanks for the hello, great to meet a fellow Den enthusiast! I'm afraid I'm rather tunnel-visioned when it comes to Kingies, the first orchid I ever got was a Kingie and they remain my firm favorites :) Tony, nice to meet you, I live in Albany WA and I do know of the Orchid Society down here, however I keep forgetting when exactly they have their meetings :/ Thank You for being able to refer me on, although I do enjoy growing these beauties by myself some advice and tips would go a long way to help as I still consider myself a novice and don't know that much in the way of technical details of Orchid Care. :) Cheers all, Jo |
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Hi Kye,
Unfortunately not but I am interested in Carnivorous Plants :) Cheers Jo |
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Welcome aboard, Jo!
-- Ray Barkalow - First Rays Orchids - www.firstrays.com Plants, Supplies, Artwork, Books and Lots of Free Info! "Raevyn" wrote in message ups.com... Hi all, Just thought I'd introduce myself, my name is Jo and I live in Western Australia. At the moment I have about 15 Dendrobium Kingianums, 2 Dendrobiums, 4 Cymbidium, 1 Epidendrum and 1 Paphiopedilum. I've only been growing Orchids for about a year or so and am totally addicted! I look forward to the discussions in here :) Cheers for now, Jo :) |
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Tis a pity, cos if you grew the Albany Pitcher Plant I would be begging some
of of you. I have been trying to get my hands on a few plants of it for years. Please keep me in mind if you ever see any locally available from salvage etc I would be very interested in trading for some. Kye. "Raevyn" wrote in message ups.com... Hi Kye, Unfortunately not but I am interested in Carnivorous Plants :) Cheers Jo |
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Hi Ray, Thank You for the welcome!
Kye, if I do see any Albany Pitcher Plants availible I'd be more than happy to let you know and see what could be arranged :) Season's Greetings to everyone, I hope you have a safe and happy day :) Cheers Jo (P.S. I feel a bit silly, I wanted to post some pics to the alt.binaries.pictures.orchids but don't know how? Any tips welcome, Thanks :) ) |
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Raevyn wrote:
.......... .............. Cheers Jo (P.S. I feel a bit silly, I wanted to post some pics to the alt.binaries.pictures.orchids but don't know how? Any tips welcome, Thanks :) ) Hi, Jo. I'll add my welcome to you. Looking at the headers from your message, it appears to me that Reka's fear about you using Google to use the newsgroups is true. You can do nothing with pictures from there. Pictures or not, there are MUCH better ways to read and write to nesgroups than going through Google. In the mean time, the way to show pictures here is to post them to a web site first then tell us where to look. For example... and I've never tried posting a picture from image station here but it should work... here is a picture of my Paph venustum var. pardinum that came into bloom for the first time this week: http://www.imagestation.com/picture/...1/f0dceb2d.jpg Steve |
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Hi Steve,
So in other words just post a link to the pic/s? I wasn't sure whether I was allowed to do that here which is why I haven't tried. Thanks for the info. :) Cheers Jo p.s that's a very nice paph you have there! :) |
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Hi Kye,
I have some good news for you, I didn't think I'd be able to find any but I've just found and brought two Albany Pitcher Plants! Email me privately and I'm sure we can sort something out :) Cheers, Jo :) |
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Replied to privately...
Kye. "Raevyn" wrote in message ups.com... Hi Kye, I have some good news for you, I didn't think I'd be able to find any but I've just found and brought two Albany Pitcher Plants! Email me privately and I'm sure we can sort something out :) Cheers, Jo :) |
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Kye wrote:
Tis a pity, cos if you grew the Albany Pitcher Plant I would be begging some of of you. I have been trying to get my hands on a few plants of it for years. Please keep me in mind if you ever see any locally available from salvage etc I would be very interested in trading for some. Kye. Kye, Paradisia in Victoria produce TC'ed plants by the bucket load. Their Ceph's are quite common in Melbourne nurseries. You should be able to get your local nursery/garden centre to special order you some in very easily. Andrew |
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THanks for that Andrew, however Jo has already managed to locate me a few.
The really weird part of this is that this message was sooooo long ago that I had even forgotten about the original post... Astounding how long retention is for information on the newsgroups these days... Kye. "Andrew" wrote in message oups.com... Kye wrote: Tis a pity, cos if you grew the Albany Pitcher Plant I would be begging some of of you. I have been trying to get my hands on a few plants of it for years. Please keep me in mind if you ever see any locally available from salvage etc I would be very interested in trading for some. Kye. Kye, Paradisia in Victoria produce TC'ed plants by the bucket load. Their Ceph's are quite common in Melbourne nurseries. You should be able to get your local nursery/garden centre to special order you some in very easily. Andrew |
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"Why when I was a young whipper-snapper we had to walk 50 miles through the
orchidless barrens to get to a computer and then you were lucky if they had even heard of what usenet was..." Sorry I felt that it needed that... Kye. "Kye" wrote in message u... THanks for that Andrew, however Jo has already managed to locate me a few. The really weird part of this is that this message was sooooo long ago that I had even forgotten about the original post... Astounding how long retention is for information on the newsgroups these days... Kye. "Andrew" wrote in message oups.com... Kye wrote: Tis a pity, cos if you grew the Albany Pitcher Plant I would be begging some of of you. I have been trying to get my hands on a few plants of it for years. Please keep me in mind if you ever see any locally available from salvage etc I would be very interested in trading for some. Kye. Kye, Paradisia in Victoria produce TC'ed plants by the bucket load. Their Ceph's are quite common in Melbourne nurseries. You should be able to get your local nursery/garden centre to special order you some in very easily. Andrew |
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In article ,
says... ~"Why when I was a young whipper-snapper we had to walk 50 miles through the ~orchidless barrens to get to a computer and then you were lucky if they had ~even heard of what usenet was..." ~ ~Sorry I felt that it needed that... Tisk, tisk, Kye! I am sure you stole Dave's lines! -- Reka This is LIFE! It's not a rehearsal. Don't miss it! http://www.rolbox.it/hukari/index.html |
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Well actuallty its all a part of being Aussie. First they grab us all when
we are but tiny tykes and they drag us off for Secret Aussies Business where they teach us how to be good at "taking the ****" and "being a good sport" So if we sound alike it just means that we had good teachers ;-) Kye. "Reka" wrote in message .. . In article , says... ~"Why when I was a young whipper-snapper we had to walk 50 miles through the ~orchidless barrens to get to a computer and then you were lucky if they had ~even heard of what usenet was..." ~ ~Sorry I felt that it needed that... Tisk, tisk, Kye! I am sure you stole Dave's lines! -- Reka This is LIFE! It's not a rehearsal. Don't miss it! http://www.rolbox.it/hukari/index.html |
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In article ,
says... ~Well actuallty its all a part of being Aussie. First they grab us all when ~we are but tiny tykes and they drag us off for Secret Aussies Business where ~they teach us how to be good at "taking the ****" and "being a good sport" ~ ~So if we sound alike it just means that we had good teachers ;-) ~ ~Kye. ~ ~"Reka" wrote in message . .. ~ In article , ~ says... ~ ~"Why when I was a young whipper-snapper we had to walk 50 miles through ~ the ~ ~orchidless barrens to get to a computer and then you were lucky if they ~ had ~ ~even heard of what usenet was..." ~ ~ ~ ~Sorry I felt that it needed that... ~ Tisk, tisk, Kye! I am sure you stole Dave's lines! ~ -- ~ Reka ~ ~ This is LIFE! It's not a rehearsal. Don't miss it! ~ http://www.rolbox.it/hukari/index.html ~ ~ ~ Uh, I meant the age group was more appropriate... -- Reka This is LIFE! It's not a rehearsal. Don't miss it! http://www.rolbox.it/hukari/index.html |
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ummm... Im not yet thirty.... Yo trying to tell me something????
hehe Kye. "Reka" wrote in message .. . In article , says... ~Well actuallty its all a part of being Aussie. First they grab us all when ~we are but tiny tykes and they drag us off for Secret Aussies Business where ~they teach us how to be good at "taking the ****" and "being a good sport" ~ ~So if we sound alike it just means that we had good teachers ;-) ~ ~Kye. ~ ~"Reka" wrote in message . .. ~ In article , ~ says... ~ ~"Why when I was a young whipper-snapper we had to walk 50 miles through ~ the ~ ~orchidless barrens to get to a computer and then you were lucky if they ~ had ~ ~even heard of what usenet was..." ~ ~ ~ ~Sorry I felt that it needed that... ~ Tisk, tisk, Kye! I am sure you stole Dave's lines! ~ -- ~ Reka ~ ~ This is LIFE! It's not a rehearsal. Don't miss it! ~ http://www.rolbox.it/hukari/index.html ~ ~ ~ Uh, I meant the age group was more appropriate... -- Reka This is LIFE! It's not a rehearsal. Don't miss it! http://www.rolbox.it/hukari/index.html |
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I seem to have been asleep for much of this thread - probably because I'm way
past Kye's "nearly thirty". But everyone else is doing such a good job I think I'll just sit back & enjoy it, despite what seems to be Reka's attempt to drag me in. On Tue, 20 Dec 2005 14:22:33 GMT, "Kye" wrote: Tis a pity, cos if you grew the Albany Pitcher Plant I would be begging some of of you. I have been trying to get my hands on a few plants of it for years. Please keep me in mind if you ever see any locally available from salvage etc I would be very interested in trading for some. Kye. "Raevyn" wrote in message oups.com... Hi Kye, Unfortunately not but I am interested in Carnivorous Plants :) Cheers Jo Dave Gillingham ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ To email me remove the .private from my email address. |
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Its ok Dave, us QLD'ers will do our usual job and defend the reputation of
Aussies everywhere... Kye. "Dave Gillingham" wrote in message ... I seem to have been asleep for much of this thread - probably because I'm way past Kye's "nearly thirty". But everyone else is doing such a good job I think I'll just sit back & enjoy it, despite what seems to be Reka's attempt to drag me in. On Tue, 20 Dec 2005 14:22:33 GMT, "Kye" wrote: Tis a pity, cos if you grew the Albany Pitcher Plant I would be begging some of of you. I have been trying to get my hands on a few plants of it for years. Please keep me in mind if you ever see any locally available from salvage etc I would be very interested in trading for some. Kye. "Raevyn" wrote in message roups.com... Hi Kye, Unfortunately not but I am interested in Carnivorous Plants :) Cheers Jo Dave Gillingham ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ To email me remove the .private from my email address. |
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In article ,
says... ~I seem to have been asleep for much of this thread - probably because I'm way ~past Kye's "nearly thirty". But everyone else is doing such a good job I think ~I'll just sit back & enjoy it, despite what seems to be Reka's attempt to drag ~me in. Hmmph! I'm not dragging anyone. It's just that the usually the older generation "brags" about the walking through the knee-deep snow (or apparently in your corner of the world, the dry, hot barrens) all the way to school... -- Reka ;-) This is LIFE! It's not a rehearsal. Don't miss it! http://www.rolbox.it/hukari/index.html |
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Well Reka, I get your drift! *G*
-- Cheers Wendy Remove PETERPAN for email reply Reka wrote: In article , says... ~I seem to have been asleep for much of this thread - probably because I'm way ~past Kye's "nearly thirty". But everyone else is doing such a good job I think ~I'll just sit back & enjoy it, despite what seems to be Reka's attempt to drag ~me in. Hmmph! I'm not dragging anyone. It's just that the usually the older generation "brags" about the walking through the knee-deep snow (or apparently in your corner of the world, the dry, hot barrens) all the way to school... |
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In article 6IRwf.11126$sA3.10106@fed1read02,
says... ~Well Reka, I get your drift! *G* ~ ~ Snowdrift? -- -- Reka This is LIFE! It's not a rehearsal. Don't miss it! http://www.rolbox.it/hukari/index.html |
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Reka wrote:
In article 6IRwf.11126$sA3.10106@fed1read02, says... ~Well Reka, I get your drift! *G* ~ ~ Snowdrift? Wendy doesn't DO snowdrifts! |
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On Tue, 10 Jan 2006 21:27:36 +0100, Reka wrote:
In article 6IRwf.11126$sA3.10106@fed1read02, says... ~Well Reka, I get your drift! *G* ~ ~ Snowdrift? -- When I was a Sr. in High School - 12th year of school for our international friends on another schedule... They closed the school finally due to snow. First time in 17 years. Of course they waited until 1pm (after lunch breaks) and after the buses in town quit at noon. We will not go into how deep or long the walk home. But it is the only time I ever walked down the center of the street. G |
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On Tue, 10 Jan 2006 21:27:36 +0100, Reka wrote:
In article 6IRwf.11126$sA3.10106@fed1read02, says... ~Well Reka, I get your drift! *G* ~ ~ Snowdrift? -- 'Sno drift like a snow drift, I guess. Dave Gillingham ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ To email me remove the .private from my email address. |
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On Tue, 10 Jan 2006 14:00:28 +0100, Reka wrote:
In article , says... ~I seem to have been asleep for much of this thread - probably because I'm way ~past Kye's "nearly thirty". But everyone else is doing such a good job I think ~I'll just sit back & enjoy it, despite what seems to be Reka's attempt to drag ~me in. Hmmph! I'm not dragging anyone. It's just that the usually the older generation "brags" about the walking through the knee-deep snow (or apparently in your corner of the world, the dry, hot barrens) all the way to school... My primary school was only half a mile up the road (black bitumen). So I walked to school, home for lunch, back to school, & home in the afternoon. Townsville was hot enough that we all went to school barefoot. Have you ever tried walking barefoot on bitumen at noon in a tropical summer? We all developed soles like old leather. Even when we went to high school (& wore shoes & socks and a *tie* - oh the culture shock!) the shoes came off as soon as we got home. At 17 I spent a couple of weeks in hospital, and my feet peeled! About 1/8 inch of horny callous peeled off both soles. I've been a tenderfoot ever since. Dave Gillingham ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ To email me remove the .private from my email address. |
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Hi Dave
I remember similar early summer days in Melbourne as kids. We didn't go to school barefoot (a bit more cultured in Melbourne) but once we got home from school we immediately took off our shoes and ran barefoot on the black bitumen road (impregnated with gravel!) to harden our feet ready for the summer holidays when we didn't wear shoes. Like you, I too am now a tenderfoot and can't walk barefoot on pebbles any more! Cheers John -- John Varigos Melbourne, Australia __________________________________________ To email me remove "usenet." from my email address. "Dave Gillingham" wrote in message ... On Tue, 10 Jan 2006 14:00:28 +0100, Reka wrote: In article , says... ~I seem to have been asleep for much of this thread - probably because I'm way ~past Kye's "nearly thirty". But everyone else is doing such a good job I think ~I'll just sit back & enjoy it, despite what seems to be Reka's attempt to drag ~me in. Hmmph! I'm not dragging anyone. It's just that the usually the older generation "brags" about the walking through the knee-deep snow (or apparently in your corner of the world, the dry, hot barrens) all the way to school... My primary school was only half a mile up the road (black bitumen). So I walked to school, home for lunch, back to school, & home in the afternoon. Townsville was hot enough that we all went to school barefoot. Have you ever tried walking barefoot on bitumen at noon in a tropical summer? We all developed soles like old leather. Even when we went to high school (& wore shoes & socks and a *tie* - oh the culture shock!) the shoes came off as soon as we got home. At 17 I spent a couple of weeks in hospital, and my feet peeled! About 1/8 inch of horny callous peeled off both soles. I've been a tenderfoot ever since. Dave Gillingham ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ To email me remove the .private from my email address. |
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You are so right Steve. Just give me good old heat.
-- Cheers Wendy Remove PETERPAN for email reply Steve wrote: Reka wrote: In article 6IRwf.11126$sA3.10106@fed1read02, says... ~Well Reka, I get your drift! *G* ~ ~ Snowdrift? Wendy doesn't DO snowdrifts! |
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