The message
from Kay contains these words:

Beverley writes
yes, I am here now...........Pottingshed (Bev) just WON'T Let me leave! LOL

Pleas, please, please! If you're only adding a small bit to a long post,
please don't re-post the entire thing!

Oh. i wondered what was at the end of all that but CBA to scroll down
any more and just deleted the item.

Glad I didn't waste my time.

--
Rusty
Direct reply to: horrid dot squeak snailything zetnet point co period uk
Separator in search of a sig

Rusty Hinge 2 writes
The message
from Kay contains these words:

Beverley writes
yes, I am here now...........Pottingshed (Bev) just WON'T Let me leave! LOL

Pleas, please, please! If you're only adding a small bit to a long post,
please don't re-post the entire thing!

Oh. i wondered what was at the end of all that but CBA to scroll down
any more and just deleted the item.

Glad I didn't waste my time.

I've given up and added a rule to kill long posts. Means I won't see
Mad's posts, but at least I won't see the three repeats too.

--
Kay

"Kay" wrote in message
...
Beverley writes
yes, I am here now...........Pottingshed (Bev) just WON'T Let me leave!
LOL

Pleas, please, please! If you're only adding a small bit to a long post,
please don't re-post the entire thing!
--
Kay

gezus krist on a cracker, Kay, I was at Beverly's (Pottingshed) house, she
has a regular mouse, I was just reading a few posts in a moment of internet,
and it was just easier to answer and send it and I didn't give it a thought
to cut out the text that night. I mean, driving for hours and all, I did
good to even do what I did! lighten up on me! LOL I'm spoiled and have
a roller ball mouse that makes maneuvering very easy on the hands and wrists
and it's nothing for me to cut text
out

Now that I'm back, I'll not be freaking you out by not erasing text before I
reply.....sheesh some people's kids................................g

madgardener up on the picturesque ridge that is sugar coated with fluffy
snow, back in a magical Fairy Holler, overlooking English Mountain in
Eastern Tennessee where there's a hint of wood smoke in the air along with
the crispness of new fallen snow that has scrubbed the air

"Broadback" wrote in message
...
madgardener wrote:
Guess I should have placed a smiley after my comment. I am fascinated by
the differences in American and UK English, not just the spelling but the
words. Blacktop, pavement, elevator, f**ny and finally jeet. All words in
an American/English dictionary written by a Brit when we worked with the
Americans many moons ago.

no harm, Broadback......jeet? you mean slang? yeah, I speak in
slang..........I don't do the King's English much......but I also don't do
"ebonic's" either........gbseg there will be more rambles in my tongue
later on, feel free to red pencil it, I never mind ! Heck, I do good now
to put spaces between the thoughts and paragraph it. When I first started,
I was one long, free thought....................................thank
goodness for Zhanataya begging for paragraphs, sentences and spaces for her
"old eyes!" LOL

maddie

"K" wrote in message
...
Oh. i wondered what was at the end of all that but CBA to scroll down
any more and just deleted the item.

Glad I didn't waste my time.

I'm glad you didn't waste your time either, Rusty............I was just on
the internet at a friend's house just checking posts as a curiosity. I
would normally not have done it. I was visiting after all and it wasn't the
time to indulge. I just thought it would be neat to answer quickly that I
was at Bev's house, and as tired as I was, and with her old fashioned mouse,
which I am not used to, I just quickly answered and sent it not thinking of
maneuvering and erasing it before sending. I'll go as far as to apologize
for being tired and not attentive..........


I've given up and added a rule to kill long posts. Means I won't see Mad's
posts, but at least I won't see the three repeats too.

--
Kay

and you have that perogative, Kay. I hate that you won't see my posts, but
then, you might not miss anything there either.....I do tend to wax poetic
and ramble on, and I wouldn't want you to be charged for bandwidth that is
unnecessairy and repeticious. If I ever get organized and put together the
book of essay's, I'll have someone to let you know and you can wait until it
comes out in paperback to save money on wasting on a hardback LOL

seriously, I'm sorry you have to go to such extremes because I forgot once
to cut out a post. And I also realize that it's not just me, it's others
who forget who don't have their internet usage regulated by the amount of
text. I was under the assumption that as sophisticated as the internet and
wireless capabilities, satellite and providers and browsers had gotten, it
didn't matter like it did seven years ago. Now excuse me while I climb on
the bicycle and pedal enough electricity to generate enough power to send
this out to you and the two newsgroups.....

maddie up on the ridge, back in fairy holler, overlooking English Mountain
in Eastern Tennessee where I actually have INDOOR PLUMBING !!
roflmao......g

"Judith Lea" wrote in message
...

I second that, she is a lovely lady.


Ticked someone off?? If your sensitive narrative of gardening "ticks"
anyone off, I would be very surprised indeed. If anyone upsets you by
unkindness; simply ignore them - take their comments from where they
come from and ask yourself do you really care for the opinion of someone
that you wouldn't want to associate with? I know I don't.

I look forward to sharing the day with you in your home and garden and I
feel privileged that you allow me to do so.

--
Judith Lea

thank you, Judith Lea......I look forwards to sharing some moments with
other gardeners. I have one cooking in me head as I dribble these
words.............
maddie

"La Puce" wrote in message
oups.com...

madgardener wrote:

(snip)

I'm very hard on myself, but over the years, after being sizzled by
internet strangers, I still feel the sting of criticisms. I just don't
let
them sting me as badly, is all.

The story of many on usenet I think. Rhino skin I call it ;o) And if
you don't mind, I took you to lunch today, in a steamed up tiny curry
cafe in central Manchester, and your text ended up with a bit of my
parsee dish and some drops from the sag prawn juice on it.

hmmmmmmm, that sounds interesting........I am thrilled that you took time to
print me out.......and since going to a tiny curry cafe in central
Manchester on printed paper might the only way I'll ever do it......then I
am thrilled that you considered me worthy enough to share me!

Tonight,
you're being shared with Kath, my horticulture teacher. She's from
Buffalo Minesota, left home for England around 30 years ago and like
you she says dawgs, and I just love it when she says bugs. I think
she'll appreaciate a bit of compatriot's warmth.

I hope so. If she's from Buffalo, Minnesota (two n's.....g) are you sure
Buffalo, Minnesota and not Buffalo, New York:?? gbseg then my zonal
musings must sound like tales from Florida. Her growing zone was more like
zone 4 with massive winters and beautiful lakes abounding everywhere, and
topsoil I've heard tales of that is FEET THICK!!!!!!!! I just love the
magic of internet that allows me to share a piece of myself........one day,
as I've repeated myself saying, I will find that one gardener who has
quietly read my stuff and for whatever reason, saved it in a little file of
text labled madgardener or whatever they've labled it and they'll come outa
the corner and tell me for postal fee's and paper or cd replacement (since
burning cd's is far easier than a floppy disk and I don't have a floppy
reader, anyway) they'll send me everything I've ever written since
discovering the magic and wonder of these garden newsgroups and the internet
and getting my computer. Before this, I wrote to my friends with a manual
Royal 440 typewriter!! PAGES!! Yes, my friend, Dian, out in Denver used to
get "Marilyn novella's" in the mail along with seeds, roots, tubers,
rhizomes and whatever else I packaged along at random times, regardless of
the season or time..

if that dream ever happens, THIS TIME (last time my mother board fried and I
lost a sweet lady's efforts to send me all my writings up to that time, it's
been a few years since, and I've tried to save my stuff better since then,
but even now I haven't saved everything onto disk like I should........) I
will make sure Squire saves every piece onto disk (I almost bet all my stuff
from all the years on wreck.gardens would fit onto two cd's.......) so that
I can print it out onto paper and put it somewhere until I can find a
publisher......(I say this while Maggie, my little 'Xena' female kitten is
settling into her favorite spot I've allowed her to make in front of my
monitor and behind my ergonomic keyboard....) off to wax on some thoughts
before going off to bed, hafta take Squire to his semi-truck tomorrow in the
wee hours of butt crack o'dark thirty to get him on his merry way towards
Illinois............
maddie

"Sacha" wrote in message
id...
On 7/2/06 11:04, in article

I love Maddie's posts - as the saying goes "you could lay them on an open
wound"!
--

Sacha
www.hillhousenursery.co.uk
South Devon
)

now you've done it, Sacha.........does this mean my posts are healing? you
made me cry! (good tears, though.....I've had more than enough of those bad
ones to last me a week, I won't pee for a week! ) thanks
Sacha.......((hug))
maddie

On 12/2/06 4:42, in article , "madgardener"
wrote:


"Sacha" wrote in message
id...
On 7/2/06 11:04, in article

I love Maddie's posts - as the saying goes "you could lay them on an open
wound"! --


now you've done it, Sacha.........does this mean my posts are healing? you
made me cry! (good tears, though.....I've had more than enough of those bad
ones to last me a week, I won't pee for a week! ) thanks
Sacha.......((hug))
maddie


Your posts *are* healing, Maddie. They make all of us look at things in a
new light, I think. We take so much for granted. Where we live is in the
most beautiful green, lush, rolling Devon countryside and it's all too easy
to forget how fortunate we are when life is making us rush around fetching
this and doing that. Yesterday, I stood near one of the ponds in our garden
listening to a thrush singing its little heart out, up in a big laurel bush
and I thought "Maddie would enjoy that"!
I do wish you'd collect your writings into a book and send it to a garden
publishing company! Just think - we could all say "I knew her when...."!!
;-)
--
Sacha
www.hillhousenursery.co.uk
South Devon
)

madgardener writes

seriously, I'm sorry you have to go to such extremes because I forgot once
to cut out a post.

I didn't realise it was you! I just saw Bev's name quickly as I spaced
down. If I'd realised it was you I wouldn't have posted, since I know
you are aware of the need to snip and wouldn't deliberately not snip.
Sorry!

And I also realize that it's not just me, it's others
who forget

Absolutely - there were three repostings of that one piece!

I was under the assumption that as sophisticated as the internet and
wireless capabilities, satellite and providers and browsers had gotten, it
didn't matter like it did seven years ago.

There are some urglers who are still on dial-up, and pay according to
the length of the call, so it does still matter for some.

However, it's not bandwidth from my point of view (I'm on broadband) -
it's wear and tear on my wrists. Mousework gives me RSI, so instead of
clicking on posts I want to read, or clicking on the 'next unread'
button, I simply hit the space bar, which takes me, in sequence, to the
next screen of that post, the next unread post in the thread, the next
unread post in the next thread, the next newsgroup ... I think several
other urglers do this too.

So it is awfully annoying to have to hit the spacebar 12 times just
because someone has added one line!

I wondered about whether it was fair to ask others to snip just to save
my wrists, but in Turnpike it's not necessary - you can just highlight a
small fragment and 'quote selected' - in other words, in Turnpike at
least, I'm not asking people to go down 12 screens selecting and
deleting. I don't know if OE and all the various access routes have the
same facility. And, I suppose, the bottom line is that that in-line
quoting and snipping is the convention in this group, so it's not
unreasonable to ask newcomers to do that.


--
Kay

madgardener wrote:
hmmmmmmm, that sounds interesting........I am thrilled that you took timeto
print me out.......and since going to a tiny curry cafe in central
Manchester on printed paper might the only way I'll ever do it......then I
am thrilled that you considered me worthy enough to share me!

Good dog yes! Just finished a fantastic book and cannot find anything
to follow such a superb story. So go girl, get writing will ya ...!!

I hope so. If she's from Buffalo, Minnesota (two n's.....g) are you sure
Buffalo, Minnesota and not Buffalo, New York:?? gbseg then my zonal
musings must sound like tales from Florida.

(snipette)

Off course you're right!!! New York it is. I've no idea why I said
minesota. She tells tales of lake Eery when she was a girl she couldn't
see the bottom of it until they started realising how polluted it was.
Now she says she can see the bottom of the lake which is only a couple
of metres deep!! She now lives in Radcliffe ... quite a strange place
to be from Buffalo, but there it is )

I just love the
magic of internet that allows me to share a piece of myself........

(snipette)

I like to archive - a habit I picked up from work I suppose - but also
I like visiting people I've met on the net. Last year we visited a
writter who I had met virtually, he was larger than what I imagined him
to be on usenet. It was a fantastic time and it turned out that he has
lots of novels in our book shops! So I got a couple signed and very
much enjoyed his swimming pool too, so did the kids ;o)

(snip)

Ergonomic keyboard hey, and a lil' kitten nearby. Well there's some
coincidence indeed! My young pub, Beulah, has just returned from a long
walk and is atm eyeing me. What she's waiting for is a robust rub with
her bath towel. Even when it doesn't rain, she asks for it.

Where does the name Sméagol comes from?

"La Puce" wrote

I just love the
magic of internet that allows me to share a piece of myself........

(snipette)

I like to archive - a habit I picked up from work I suppose - but also
I like visiting people I've met on the net.

(snip)

Ummmmmm. I've met a couple of people in RL that I'd 'met' on the
net..........and it's not always been a pleasure !

It's funny how some people write really well and then turn out to be pretentious
or boring in the flesh!

No names mentioned just in case they come across this post in googles archives
:~))

Jenny

JennyC wrote:
Ummmmmm. I've met a couple of people in RL that I'd 'met' on the
net..........and it's not always been a pleasure !
It's funny how some people write really well and then turn out to be pretentious
or boring in the flesh!
No names mentioned just in case they come across this post in googles archives
:~))

I've found that it's within the first posts that I know who I'd like to
meet in RL. You quickly get the age of the person, what they like etc.
and if you're going to like them. I've taken part in a few 'meet'. The
first time I was surprised how many bearded men there was! Once I met
someone, a lovely woman, with whom we started off on usenet by talking
about how hard it was to get clothes that fitted us. I didn't know she
was a big girl, nor did she know I was minute. We both assumed the
opposite and when we saw each other for the first time, it was so funny
as we kept saying 'is that *really* you?!' and we got on even more. We
still write to each others )

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from "madgardener" contains these words:

"K" wrote in message
...
Oh. i wondered what was at the end of all that but CBA to scroll down
any more and just deleted the item.

Glad I didn't waste my time.

I'm glad you didn't waste your time either, Rusty............I was just on
the internet at a friend's house just checking posts as a curiosity. I
would normally not have done it.

It wasn't your post I was replying to, but a couple of pretty vacuous
lines posted under your post, quoted in full.

--
Rusty
Direct reply to: horrid dot squeak snailything zetnet point co period uk
Separator in search of a sig

"La Puce" wrote in message
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madgardener wrote:
hmmmmmmm, that sounds interesting........I am thrilled that you took time
to
print me out.......and since going to a tiny curry cafe in central
Manchester on printed paper might the only way I'll ever do it......then I
am thrilled that you considered me worthy enough to share me!

Good dog yes! Just finished a fantastic book and cannot find anything
to follow such a superb story. So go girl, get writing will ya ...!!

I have some words bouncing around in me head as I sit here........g and I
ain't snipping this response, so if Kay doesn't like it, she won't see it!
LOL apparently she's blocked me........sigh......

I hope so. If she's from Buffalo, Minnesota (two n's.....g) are you
sure
Buffalo, Minnesota and not Buffalo, New York:?? gbseg then my zonal
musings must sound like tales from Florida.

(snipette)

Off course you're right!!! New York it is. I've no idea why I said
minesota. She tells tales of lake Erie when she was a girl she couldn't
see the bottom of it until they started realising how polluted it was.
Oh yeah, older, first settled area and glad they cleaned it up. My best
friend and her husband grew up in Buffalo, her mom was Russian immigrant, I
forget she's first generation here. she corrected me years ago about "when
you speak of the Civil war, you must remember my people were being chased by
the Czar when yours were dodging bullets of different kinds". Her husband
and partner in life and father of her four children has family that is
actually part of the Cornwallis family, but they changed how they spelled
it.................hmmmmmm.

My own current and LAST husband (28 years, but not my first hubby) grew up
nearer the other huge Great Lakes, he knew and loved Lake Michigan a huge
portion of his life. I met him in Denver, where I also met the life friend
from Buffalo who remains my friend still despite the miles. (and now she
resides in Oregon, and is twice as far and we still are great friends)

Now she says she can see the bottom of the lake which is only a couple
of metres deep!! She now lives in Radcliffe ... quite a strange place
to be from Buffalo, but there it is )

I just love the
magic of internet that allows me to share a piece of myself........

(snipette)

I like to archive - a habit I picked up from work I suppose - but also
I like visiting people I've met on the net. Last year we visited a
writter who I had met virtually, he was larger than what I imagined him
to be on usenet. It was a fantastic time and it turned out that he has
lots of novels in our book shops! So I got a couple signed and very
much enjoyed his swimming pool too, so did the kids ;o)

that's so neat! So far I've met a few gardening friends from rec.gardens.
I know Pen from down under is always threatening to come up and kick my arse
for being unable still to get my Clivia to bloom. (she has even sent me a
seedling baby of a yellow from one of many she hybridizes and sends to
nurseries around the world) through a nursery somewhere up in Michigan.
It's struggling along. One day I hope to honor her and get my silly plants
to bud for me, including the yellow. (you should see the picture of the one
she named for her daughter.....a soft peach/yellow/salmon/soft sherbet
orange one that leaves me drooling)
(snip)

Ergonomic keyboard hey, and a lil' kitten nearby. Well there's some
coincidence indeed! My young pub, Beulah, has just returned from a long
walk and is atm eyeing me. What she's waiting for is a robust rub with
her bath towel. Even when it doesn't rain, she asks for it.
Maggie is the newest feline addition. (there are four curmudgeon males of
neutered characters. All wonderous and individual. I had a great Aunt
Beulah, one of my dad's sisters...she worked the cotton mill until she was
released from having lung problems....from working the cotton mills....being
Southern, the women who didn't pick up the bad habit of smoking (no lady was
seen smoking, although they did, but those women were considered
tramps.....) the others did something more refined, but by my standards,
horrible.........Beula dipped snuff. She'd put a pinch of ground tobacco
between her lip and gums and would upon occaison need to spit. My
grandmammy also dipped, as did my grandpap........I can still hear my Great
Aunt Beula talking with that tight lipped drawl....g nothing like having
to locate the coffee can that served as the "spit cup" as a
child.................LOL


Where does the name Sméagol comes from?

that was Golum's true name before the ring of power from the Dark Lord in
Lord of the Rings changed him when he stole it from his brother, Dweegol
several hundred years before the quest. Gandolf brought to Frodo's
attention that once Sméagol had been a hobbit not quite unlike him, but the
ring had changed him over centuries. The puppy grumbled and ate voraciously
when we first got him, and since we were in the middle of the second movie
when we got him, we just decided to name him thusly. He still grumbles in
his throat. A vocal dawg......the hound is obvious at times of duress.
Sugar Dawg is Border Collie and Black Lab, but she and Sméagol are medium
sized dawgs.

thanks for hollering back at me! I am about to embark on a few thoughts.
maddie