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On 12 Sep, 09:12, "Kate Morgan" wrote:
I am very fond of Fuchsias and earlier this week I was wandering and looking at fuchsias in my local garden center, I found several that I liked,. Fuchsias are so easy to propagate I wondered how many people do snip bits off and take them home ? If anyone from Coinros just outside Lydney Glos.- well worth a visit if you are in the area - is reading this, no, I didn't steal any bits I am coming back to buy the plants as soon as I can :-) I do. I just can't help it - but not fuchsia because I don't really like them. I've just took/done over 10 cuttings from hedges bordering an old college near my home - viburnum tinus, hydrangea macrophelia (I think the quadricolour one, hopefully), and the oak leaf one. I don't feel bad - but I would from a garden centre and I have never took from one. I wouldn't from a botanic garden or a park, and I have done it many times - I would actually imagine that my garden are perhaps 40% 'stolen' cuttings ) |
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On 12 Sep, 10:44, "Uncle Marvo"
wrote: Careful. There might be a stolen viburnum bettle in the stolen viburnum. Had one two years ago. Nightmare, you have to have the whole plant away and burn it. And the smell is terrible. stares runs out to check |
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, I, Marvo, say : On 12 Sep, 10:44, "Uncle Marvo" wrote: Careful. There might be a stolen viburnum bettle in the stolen viburnum. Had one two years ago. Nightmare, you have to have the whole plant away and burn it. And the smell is terrible. stares runs out to check You'd know. The smell is vile. It beetle poo I think, and you see the undersides of the leaves all beetley. It is incurable and you can't dump it either, you have to burn it in situ, and it infects everything. I can't describe what the smell is like, cos it isn't like anything else, but it's pungent, a sort of rotten smell, quite unbearable. I hope you don't get it, but of course, if you do, it will be just retribution for stealing the cutting in the first place :-) |
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wrote in message ups.com... On 12 Sep, 10:44, "Uncle Marvo" wrote: Careful. There might be a stolen viburnum bettle in the stolen viburnum. Had one two years ago. Nightmare, you have to have the whole plant away and burn it. And the smell is terrible. stares runs out to check damm right it smells especially if it gets damp, after the rain when we moved in we thought oh god we've got drain problems but with some help from here and a couple of sprayings in autumn and spring we have a very healthy hedge - still need to clear more of the dead leaves from the base but much less odiferous |
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On 12 Sep, 16:29, Anne Jackson wrote:
The message from contains these words: I would from a garden centre and I have never took from one. I wouldn't from a botanic garden or a park, and I have done it many times Erm? I wouldn't from a garden centre and I have never done it, I would from a botanic garden or park and I have done it looks down Am I missing something here, or have my powers of comprehension totally abandoned me? LOL!! No. You're ok - it's me. This is my 3rd week having quit smoking and I'm not doing too well. I'm trying to carry on - tis hard Anne, really hard... deep sigh Also I wanted to say that I am sorry for the recent crap recently, especially thrown at you by some stranger. You didn't deserve it at all and it's best ignored. |
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LOL!! No. You're ok - it's me. This is my 3rd week having quit smoking and I'm not doing too well. I'm trying to carry on - tis hard Anne, really hard... Why did you start? Were you born with a chimney in your head? Mike -- www.rneba.org.uk for the latest pictures of the very first reunion and Inaugural General Meeting. Nothing less than a fantastic success. The Royal Naval Electrical Branch Association. 'THE' Association if you served in the Electrical Branch of the Royal Navy www.rneba.org.uk to find your ex-Greenie mess mates www.iowtours.com for all ex-Service Reunions. More being added regularly "Navy Days" Portsmouth 25th - 27th July 2008. RN Shipmates will have a Stand |
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On 12 Sep, 16:45, "'Mike'" wrote:
Why did you start? Were you born with a chimney in your head? Mike, I would be very careful about the things you throw randomnly without experience. This is not a laughing matter and I'm now sorry I mentioned it. But by no means in a few weeks time, you can tell me all the jokes you've got on the subject, but not now. Bad timing mate ;o) |
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wrote in message ps.com... On 12 Sep, 16:45, "'Mike'" wrote: Why did you start? Were you born with a chimney in your head? Mike, I would be very careful about the things you throw randomnly without experience. This is not a laughing matter and I'm now sorry I mentioned it. But by no means in a few weeks time, you can tell me all the jokes you've got on the subject, but not now. Bad timing mate ;o) No joke. Serious. WHO chose to start smoking? YOU. Nobody made you. You could have said NO. You didn't. Sorry. No sympathy AT ALL. I find your smoke obnoxious and an infringement on me. Look elsewhere for a shoulder to cry on. Mike -- www.rneba.org.uk for the latest pictures of the very first reunion and Inaugural General Meeting. Nothing less than a fantastic success. The Royal Naval Electrical Branch Association. 'THE' Association if you served in the Electrical Branch of the Royal Navy www.rneba.org.uk to find your ex-Greenie mess mates www.iowtours.com for all ex-Service Reunions. More being added regularly "Navy Days" Portsmouth 25th - 27th July 2008. RN Shipmates will have a Stand |
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On 12 Sep, 16:41, wrote:
On 12 Sep, 16:29, Anne Jackson wrote: The message from contains these words: I would from a garden centre and I have never took from one. I wouldn't from a botanic garden or a park, and I have done it many times Erm? I wouldn't from a garden centre and I have never done it, I would from a botanic garden or park and I have done it looks down Am I missing something here, or have my powers of comprehension totally abandoned me? Actually !!! I'm ok and it's you who didn't get the turn of my sentence!! I said "I don't feel bad (taking cuttings) but I would from a garden centre and never done it ... I wouldn't (feel bad) from a botanic garden or park and I've done it. There. I know I'm going through a hard time but I'm still 'there'. I hope ;o) |
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LOL!! No. You're ok - it's me. This is my 3rd week having quit smoking and I'm not doing too well. I'm trying to carry on I quit over ten years ago at the same time as the Mrs. Not had a smoke since and certainly no desire to do so. I'd given up several times for varying durations prior to the successful giving up. The key to success seemed to be one of mental attitude. The first few failed times there was an attitude of "I'm trying to give up smoking" - which just seems to cause internal strife. The successful attitude was "I don't smoke". and "I'm a none smoker". If you take that attitude you've already won. Never torment yourself saying "I'd love a smoke" - if you do it's be thin end of the giving up wedge. Just move on. It gets easier. Eventually you'll regard cigarettes as objects of contempt. David. |
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On 12 Sep, 18:49, "David \(Normandy\)"
wrote: I quit over ten years ago at the same time as the Mrs. Not had a smoke since and certainly no desire to do so. I'd given up several times for varying durations prior to the successful giving up. The key to success seemed to be one of mental attitude. The first few failed times there was an attitude of "I'm trying to give up smoking" - which just seems to cause internal strife. The successful attitude was "I don't smoke". and "I'm a none smoker". If you take that attitude you've already won. Never torment yourself saying "I'd love a smoke" - if you do it's be thin end of the giving up wedge. Just move on. It gets easier. Eventually you'll regard cigarettes as objects of contempt. David thank you very much. I don't know what to say - especially on this forum, if you know what I mean. I'll get there, especially with nice advice like you've just given me. Thank you again )) |
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wrote in message oups.com... On 12 Sep, 18:49, "David \(Normandy\)" wrote: I quit over ten years ago at the same time as the Mrs. Not had a smoke since and certainly no desire to do so. I'd given up several times for varying durations prior to the successful giving up. The key to success seemed to be one of mental attitude. The first few failed times there was an attitude of "I'm trying to give up smoking" - which just seems to cause internal strife. The successful attitude was "I don't smoke". and "I'm a none smoker". If you take that attitude you've already won. Never torment yourself saying "I'd love a smoke" - if you do it's be thin end of the giving up wedge. Just move on. It gets easier. Eventually you'll regard cigarettes as objects of contempt. David thank you very much. I don't know what to say - especially on this forum, if you know what I mean. I'll get there, especially with nice advice like you've just given me. Thank you again )) We can't have too many smokers giving up. Otherwise something else will get clobbered for tax. mark |
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On 13 Sep, 14:13, Anne Jackson wrote:
I've been saying that for years... Can you imagine the wailing and gnashing of teeth if everyone's income tax was to rise by five pence in the pound? ;-) That wouldn't happen coz more and more people are healthier, especially in Scotland now and less tax money is being spent on keeping the addicts alive with breathing apparatus, nose tubes, artificial larynx, esophageal speaker box, oxygen etc..., innit dd&tc |
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"Anne Jackson" wrote in message ... The message from contains these words: It was proved, some years ago (in a 'Panorama' programme, IIRC) that a lifelong smoker pays much more into the Treasury funds through taxation on cigarettes than even the most expensive, worst possible scenario, cancer treatment costs. Sorry to shoot down your argument, but the loss of bar takings, and the number of bar staff made unemployed by the no-smoking legislation in Scotland is _way_ above all the predictions. Ergo, more 'job-seekers allowance' is being paid out. The number of bankruptcy cases filed by publicans is going to be mind-blowing... so, somebody somewhere is going to pay. People aren't going to be forced to stop smoking by government legislation! Instead they are going to the off-licence and the chip shop/pizzeria/kebab place, and eating and drinking at home, where they can smoke in peace...and their non-smoking pals are joining them! Strange people, the Scots, it seems{:-) Smoking was banned in bars here this year and the bars have not suffered. Indeed, some have seen an increase in business. Graham |
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