June Hughes wrote:
I don't take Janet's posts but have noticed this one in your reply and
shall put in a bit of info and then leave it. I note that you are of
French nationality, a director and also company secretary, having been
appointed to both positions on 13 March, which is when the company was
incorporated. I could also state your address and date of birth if I
had a mind to but I won't) HTH

Sheesh ... I wish I hadn't but it was necessary. I'm spending most of
the week end updating the website with more projects, especially old
ones, as our launch is quite possibly next wednesday - we're still not
sure as we are so busy atm. For info, I'm wearing my flowery jumper (a
present to me from me in St Ives), Red or Dead bright green clogs,
jeans and a gorgeous green stone necklace .... oh, no socks. Far too
hot today. Amazing autumn!

Farm1 wrote:
I find it fascinating that for although Puce claims to NOT be a troll
and asks to be left alone, she starts a thread with this title and
then proceeds to keep putting in snippets from other's posts that is
simply guaranteed to keep the arguments going.

Such perception! Don't give up your day's job ) It's precisely to
leave the other thread and posters alone. You guys just LOVE an
argument. So here a thread for you. Don't thank me. It's ok.

She short a few kangaroos in the paddock, a few tinnies short of a
party, and hasn't got all her chairs at home.

) Takes one to know one, hey mate!

Space wrote:
that is your choice.... but personally I enjoy reading La Puce's posts.
plus she is a northerner (by default) so she stays around..... I hope.
she also has a delightful garden.

Oh ta )

I find her replies to be less condescending than yours. maybe that is just
your typing style..... I dunno. although you have given me good advice.
take sides. me? not really

The good advice is key really. I plan to follow one of Janet's advice
next year - keeping at war with one weed species at a time. I think
that's a brilliant idea. I need to be more organised.

On 12/10/06 13:32, in article
ws.net, "Sue"
wrote:


"Farm1" please@askifyouwannaknow wrote
"Sacha" wrote
Haven't heard those before! The Italian equivalent is "he's missing
a few Fridays", which is a really weird one.

Somewhere I heard "a few canapés short of a banquet" which I liked!

One of my favourite expressions for an ugly person is "head like a
seagoing tadpole".

I do like Aussie-isms.

So do I - trenchant is the word, I think! ;-)

--
Sacha
www.hillhousenursery.co.uk
South Devon
http://www.discoverdartmoor.co.uk/

On 12/10/06 11:41, in article
, "Des Higgins"
wrote:


"Sacha" wrote in message
...
On 12/10/06 11:05, in article
, "Des Higgins"
wrote:


"Rupert (W.Yorkshire)" wrote in message
...

"Sacha" wrote in message
...
On 12/10/06 10:07, in article
, "Farm1"
please@askifyouwannaknow wrote:

"Sacha" wrote in message

I will not be able to believe a word you say - situation normal.

I find it fascinating that for although Puce claims to NOT be a troll
and asks to be left alone, she starts a thread with this title and
then proceeds to keep putting in snippets from other's posts that is
simply guaranteed to keep the arguments going.

She short a few kangaroos in the paddock, a few tinnies short of a
party, and hasn't got all her chairs at home.

Haven't heard those before! The Italian equivalent is "he's missing a
few
Fridays", which is a really weird one.

--
Sacha
www.hillhousenursery.co.uk
South Devon
http://www.discoverdartmoor.co.uk/

A sandwich short of a picnic..
A penny short of a shilling.....
"a sausage short of a barbecue

A bicycle short of a surrealist convention

Lobster.

That presumably is the post-modern, content free punchline to the standard
surrealist joke in Devon.
In Dublin it used to be:

Man walks into a bakery and asks for a loaf of bread.
Baker asks: white or brown?
man says: it's ok; I left my bicycle outside.

The other standard angle is to involve a haddock or member of the cod family
at least.

Makes me think of the Irish joke where Paddy and Seamus go into a café and
the waitress comes up to ask what they'd like. Paddy says "I'd like a
quickie", so the waitress cuffs him round the ear and storms off. He looks
at Seamus and says "what did I do" and Seamus says "er, Paddy, I think it's
pronounced 'keesh'".
We had a tape of a fabulous Irish comedian telling a never-ending stream of
Irish jokes but the machine chewed it up and we can't remember his name.
No, not Dave Allen!
--
Sacha
www.hillhousenursery.co.uk
South Devon
http://www.discoverdartmoor.co.uk/

On 11/10/06 23:29, in article , "Alan
Holmes" wrote:


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

Rupert (W.Yorkshire) wrote:
What I meant was that it is Vulgar to boast about qualifications-so you
are
unlikely to get a response from me or anyone else on this point.

Giving qualifications isn't vulgar - it is necessary to see whether the
person has the appropriate level of knowledge. As for getting response
from anyone else, that is not for you to decide.

From my vast experience of working with people with 'qualifications',
generally the people who boast about their 'qualifications', are generally
thick headed, and have no practical experience.

I've certainly noticed that the people on here that I *know* to be the most
qualified both in paper terms and actual experience terms, are the ones who
make the least noise about it. That kind of quiet confidence tends to give
others confidence in their knowledge and advice, IMO. The screaming and
shouting of the show off with little to boast about has the precise opposite
effect, both here and in any other walk of life, IMO.
--
Sacha
www.hillhousenursery.co.uk
South Devon
http://www.discoverdartmoor.co.uk/

On 11/10/06 22:21, in article ,
"Space" wrote:


"Sacha" wrote in message
...
On 11/10/06 19:19, in article
I feel very sorry for all who have to deal with you but aside from
correcting your more obvious blunders, I will not be one of them.

that is your choice.... but personally I enjoy reading La Puce's posts.
plus she is a northerner (by default) so she stays around..... I hope.

she also has a delightful garden.

I find her replies to be less condescending than yours. maybe that is just
your typing style..... I dunno. although you have given me good advice.

What was that about 'condescending'?

take sides. me? not really

In that case I'd stick to Puce's advice, if I were you and see what
transpires. Good luck.

--
Sacha
www.hillhousenursery.co.uk
South Devon
http://www.discoverdartmoor.co.uk/

On 12/10/06 10:30, in article
, "Farm1"
please@askifyouwannaknow wrote:

"La Puce" wrote in message

Here comes the other one. My thread is working. One more to go and
we
can have a party hat everybody!!

Just as I thought. Deliberate troublemaking.

And a not-too-subtle attempt to manipulate the group into paying her
attention.


Also, that you are not on the URBED list of Directors.

Yes I am. We are all Directors. We're a cooperative.

Snort!


--
Sacha
www.hillhousenursery.co.uk
South Devon
http://www.discoverdartmoor.co.uk/

Sacha wrote:
manipulate the group

I knew we'd arrive to this at some point. Again terribly glad it's not
within a thread over there ------------------ but in here. So this
'group' you're talking about. Let see, there's you Sacha, Janet, Sue
and Farm1 in this 'group' so far.

Other posters have been err.. doing what they do best which is talking
amongst themselves nicely. Do you really think that represent 'the
group' as it is known to be 'urg'? It is 'your group' I'd say, your
friends, which is absolutely fine.

Oh, sorry ... Hello Sue! You alright at the back there love? Comfy?

Sue wrote:
"Des Higgins" wrote
The other standard angle is to involve a haddock or member of the cod
family at least.

Cod psychology.


That pun is out of plaice in a thread on garden fighting.

--
Sue

On 12/10/06 16:31, in article
,
" wrote:


Sue wrote:
"Des Higgins" wrote
The other standard angle is to involve a haddock or member of the cod
family at least.

Cod psychology.


That pun is out of plaice in a thread on garden fighting.

Ah, but Cod moves in mysterious ways.
--
Sacha
www.hillhousenursery.co.uk
South Devon
http://www.discoverdartmoor.co.uk/

On 12/10/06 16:21, in article
, "La Puce"
wrote:


Sacha wrote:
manipulate the group

I knew we'd arrive to this at some point. Again terribly glad it's not
within a thread over there ------------------ but in here. So this
'group' you're talking aboutsnip

This group is urg. What the rest of us know and you do not, is that it's
only as good as the sum of its parts and those are, on the whole, absolutely
excellent. We have some wonderfully knowledgeable people on here who beat
you into a cocked hat.
Until you arrived to attempt to turn it into the Puce Appreciation Society,
it had its ruffled feathers and odd moments of dissent but never, ever did
it have someone so hell bent on wrecking it for a failed attempt at
self-aggrandisement.
Starting this thread is the best thing you could have done for two reasons:
it exposes that massive ego of yours and it displays the humour & mockery
you have aroused by taking your 'power' over urg so seriously as to think
you can conduct it like an orchestra, playing to your tune.
--
Sacha
www.hillhousenursery.co.uk
South Devon
http://www.discoverdartmoor.co.uk/

On 12/10/06 11:41, in article
, "Des Higgins"
wrote:


"Sacha" wrote in message
...
snip

A bicycle short of a surrealist convention

Lobster.

That presumably is the post-modern, content free punchline to the standard
surrealist joke in Devon.
In Dublin it used to be:

Man walks into a bakery and asks for a loaf of bread.
Baker asks: white or brown?
man says: it's ok; I left my bicycle outside.

The other standard angle is to involve a haddock or member of the cod family
at least.

Nothing standard about us down by yurr!
--
Sacha
www.hillhousenursery.co.uk
South Devon
http://www.discoverdartmoor.co.uk/

The message .com
from contains these words:


Sue wrote:
"Des Higgins" wrote
The other standard angle is to involve a haddock or member of the cod
family at least.

Cod psychology.


That pun is out of plaice in a thread on garden fighting.

I thought it was about carp 'n whiting.

Janet.

wrote:
Sue wrote:
"Des Higgins" wrote
The other standard angle is to involve a haddock or member of the cod
family at least.

Cod psychology.


That pun is out of plaice in a thread on garden fighting.


Garden fighting is newt to me... Where does it fit in the
organico-biodynamic scheme of things?


Cat(h)