"Martin" wrote in message
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On Fri, 11 Apr 2008 23:17:42 +0100, "Muddymike"

wrote:


"'Mike'" wrote in message
...
I have some wonderful pictures I took of a tree which had a wire hawser
put round it to support a fence. Completely grown over :-( Which site
can
I post them on?


I use Twango, it works for me. If you don't want to start your own album
send the pics to me and I will put them up on mine for a while for folk to
take a look.

www.myalbum.com is easy to use and maintains the detail that was in the
originals.
--

Martin


Thank Mike I have forwarded pictures to you, but

thanks Martin, I have downloaded to myalbum and put hem on the public
gallery. Easy isn't it?

Best wishes

Mike


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'THE' Association to find your ex-Greenie mess mates.

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"Martin" wrote in message
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On Fri, 11 Apr 2008 23:17:42 +0100, "Muddymike"

wrote:


"'Mike'" wrote in message
...
I have some wonderful pictures I took of a tree which had a wire hawser
put round it to support a fence. Completely grown over :-( Which site
can
I post them on?


I use Twango, it works for me. If you don't want to start your own album
send the pics to me and I will put them up on mine for a while for folk
to
take a look.

www.myalbum.com is easy to use and maintains the detail that was in the
originals.
--

Martin


Thank Mike I have forwarded pictures to you, but

thanks Martin, I have downloaded to myalbum and put hem on the public
gallery. Easy isn't it?



Try this link

http://www.myalbum.com/Album-P8UNJE4H

Mike

--
www.rneba.org.uk. The Royal Naval Electrical Branch Association.
'THE' Association to find your ex-Greenie mess mates.

[ I'd go for lead labels and 'scratch'
what you want onto those. Many places sell them and they're both attractive ]

I would love to get hold of some lead labels, or lead sheets, preferably to buy online. I've tried googling but not had any luck. If you could give me some places, that would be great.

On 13/4/08 08:20, in article , "jay jay"
wrote:

[ I'd go for lead labels and 'scratch'
what you want onto those. Many places sell them and they're both
attractive ]

I would love to get hold of some lead labels, or lead sheets,
preferably to buy online. I've tried googling but not had any luck.
If you could give me some places, that would be great.



Typing in lead plant labels produced
http://www.thecedartree.co.uk/orname...d_planters.htm

If you try to buy lead sheet you could probably get it from a builder's
merchant or an old-fashioned ironmonger. I got some from the latter but
it's probably too thick and heavy to be used for plant labels.


--
Sacha
http://www.hillhousenursery.co.uk
South Devon
'We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our
children.'

'Mike' wrote:
I came across this idea used re-cycled drinks cans, which I thought I'd
give a go:

http://www.runnerduck.com/plant_tags.htm

Mark


And then give a coat of varnish to waterproof?

Lovely idea for rainy days :-)

Mike



I don't think waterproofing is necessary - you use the pen to 'emboss'
the metal, rather than to write on it with ink. Not sure what to make of
the label on the reverse side though - it seems it's just to use as a
template to cut around, but I suppose it will eventually weather off,
exposing the paint of the can....

mARK

On 13/4/08 17:39, in article , "Mark
Nicholls" wrote:
snip
I don't think waterproofing is necessary - you use the pen to 'emboss'
the metal, rather than to write on it with ink. Not sure what to make of
the label on the reverse side though - it seems it's just to use as a
template to cut around, but I suppose it will eventually weather off,
exposing the paint of the can....

mARK

Looks finger-shreddin' good to me........
--
Sacha
http://www.hillhousenursery.co.uk
South Devon
'We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our
children.'

"Pat Gardiner" wrote in message
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I'd like some advice please.

I have a large garden, orchards, greenhouses and tunnels. Vegetables, soft
and top fruit, vegetables both under cover and outside.

Labelling takes a lot of effort, creates many blunt pencils and a bad
temper.

I have found a pencil that stays readable for longer "Rainbow"- but even
so, I like to label the many fruit varieties accurately and get it to stay
readable.

I have been looking at these machines that are about, they seem to make a
flexible label suitable for trees and soft fruit, but I wonder if there is
a dual purpose one that can also produce stiff plastic.

Anyway, can anyone advise me about makes, their stengths and weaknesses
and the all important labels themselves.

I don't mind getting a special printer for the garden, as my wife is happy
to explain in detail I can spend like a drunken sailor on it, but I do
have 'puter and a good HP office printer.

Would I be duplicating something I can do already? Is it just a question
of buying the right ink and sheets of labels?

I would like, if possible, to print on both sides of the label. Nowadays,
I get some help and it is useful if I can f.e. print "Prune March, pick
October."

TIA

Getting back to the original question, and ignoring my store of tales about
my wife's notorious and scandalous nurserymen's family.

( children switch labels indeed! What British children, with their
unblemished record for being well-controlled? It would have been Bessarabian
dwarfs employed by the competition. )

I have found something that might be interesting. It looks too good - there
must be a snag!

A stationers pointed me to the DYMO range.
http://global.dymo.com/enUS/Labels/default.html

These are used in offices, shops, stores etc and range from hand help
upwards. The basic machines run from about Pounds 25 and the output is many
colours.

I think it is some kind of heat sensitive paper printed black,not ink, with
a plastic feel. On the back is a peel off sticky surface. I could not
imagine a muddy thumbnail less gardener managing to peel that off, but it is
cleverer than that - you bend the label and a pull off tab emerges
longditudally.

The labels might be a bit dear, but there are lots of suppliers.

Has anyone tried this system? The output looks very suitable for sticking to
wood, plastic. I can imagine sticking them to tree trunks, trays and plastic
labels.

I can't see where they advertise them as being suitable for gardeners or
where they produce specific labels, which seems odd.

Perhaps they bring out large red spots on marauding children?


--
Regards
Pat Gardiner
Test British pigs for MRSA now!
www.go-self-sufficient.com

--
Regards
Pat Gardiner
Test British pigs for MRSA now!
www.go-self-sufficient.com

On 14/4/08 16:40, in article , "Pat
Gardiner" wrote:

snip
A stationers pointed me to the DYMO range.
http://global.dymo.com/enUS/Labels/default.html

snip
Has anyone tried this system? The output looks very suitable for sticking to
wood, plastic. I can imagine sticking them to tree trunks, trays and plastic
labels.

I can't see where they advertise them as being suitable for gardeners or
where they produce specific labels, which seems odd.

Bob Hobden and I have both said upthread that we've used Dymo labels for our
gardens. They seem to last pretty well.

Perhaps they bring out large red spots on marauding children?

I wish! We had one trying to swing from an empty hanging basket the other
day. I don't know if it's just me but modern parents seem to lack all
responsibility or common sense sometimes!
I do admit to telling one particularly idiotic woman who was allowing her 3
year old to wander alone around the garden, that this is a plant nursery not
a child nursery! I did it politely and with a smile but I think she got the
message!
--
Sacha

"Sacha" wrote in message
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On 14/4/08 16:40, in article , "Pat
Gardiner" wrote:

snip
A stationers pointed me to the DYMO range.
http://global.dymo.com/enUS/Labels/default.html

snip
Has anyone tried this system? The output looks very suitable for sticking
to
wood, plastic. I can imagine sticking them to tree trunks, trays and
plastic
labels.

I can't see where they advertise them as being suitable for gardeners or
where they produce specific labels, which seems odd.

Bob Hobden and I have both said upthread that we've used Dymo labels for
our
gardens. They seem to last pretty well.

Sorry! Unfortunately a complication of recent medical problems has been
occasional gaps in my memory.

Long ops and intensive care can do that, it seems. I didn't know that and
thought I was getting Alzheimer's.

It frustrates everyone and embarrasses me, not least when I tell them the
same thing three times.

Fortunately, it rarely impacts on anything important. My long term memory is
fine

It is mainly things like remembering where I put things.

Now I have told you why labelling is so important to me! I have to label
immediately or I have no chance.

I suspect a lot of gardeners, and not just the older ones, have similar
problems.


Perhaps they bring out large red spots on marauding children?

I wish! We had one trying to swing from an empty hanging basket the other
day. I don't know if it's just me but modern parents seem to lack all
responsibility or common sense sometimes!
I do admit to telling one particularly idiotic woman who was allowing her
3
year old to wander alone around the garden, that this is a plant nursery
not
a child nursery! I did it politely and with a smile but I think she got
the
message!

Actually, as you can see my specialist subject is MRSA - and not because I
have had it, I haven't.

One cannot help having sympathy for the hospitals. You should see some of
the behaviour of parents in controlling young children on acute wards with
sick people.

A former policeman friend kept a pub and he solved the problem of unruly
children very easily. He would fix the parents with a very firm eye as they
arrived.

"Children are very welcome here, so long as they behave and stay up there!"
He had a raised alcove in a corner away from the bar to which he pointed.

They either took umbrage and walked out, or were quite happy with the
arrangement. Either way, he was happy.

I don't suppose you can do that with a garden centre.

Right, I'm off to buy a Dymo, whilst I rememeber.

Next time I post, check that I did it, will you?

I have yet to tell you the true story of XXXX's Seed Testing Centre No.7.
That was years ago, and I will rememeber that.


--
Regards
Pat Gardiner
Test British pigs for MRSA now!
www.go-self-sufficient.com
--
Sacha

On 15/4/08 14:06, in article , "Pat Gardiner"
wrote:


"Sacha" wrote in message
...
On 14/4/08 16:40, in article , "Pat
Gardiner" wrote:

snip
A stationers pointed me to the DYMO range.
http://global.dymo.com/enUS/Labels/default.html

snip
Has anyone tried this system? The output looks very suitable for sticking
to
wood, plastic. I can imagine sticking them to tree trunks, trays and
plastic
labels.

I can't see where they advertise them as being suitable for gardeners or
where they produce specific labels, which seems odd.

Bob Hobden and I have both said upthread that we've used Dymo labels for
our
gardens. They seem to last pretty well.

Sorry! Unfortunately a complication of recent medical problems has been
occasional gaps in my memory.

Long ops and intensive care can do that, it seems. I didn't know that and
thought I was getting Alzheimer's.

It frustrates everyone and embarrasses me, not least when I tell them the
same thing three times.

Fortunately, it rarely impacts on anything important. My long term memory is
fine

It is mainly things like remembering where I put things.

Now I have told you why labelling is so important to me! I have to label
immediately or I have no chance.

I suspect a lot of gardeners, and not just the older ones, have similar
problems.

I know I do! But I hope you're making a speedy recovery, Pat. I only
mentioned that we'd mentioned it because not everyone sees every post. Some
appear to go off into limbo where some of us are concerned.


Perhaps they bring out large red spots on marauding children?

I wish! We had one trying to swing from an empty hanging basket the other
day. I don't know if it's just me but modern parents seem to lack all
responsibility or common sense sometimes!
I do admit to telling one particularly idiotic woman who was allowing her
3
year old to wander alone around the garden, that this is a plant nursery
not
a child nursery! I did it politely and with a smile but I think she got
the
message!

Actually, as you can see my specialist subject is MRSA - and not because I
have had it, I haven't.

One cannot help having sympathy for the hospitals. You should see some of
the behaviour of parents in controlling young children on acute wards with
sick people.

A former policeman friend kept a pub and he solved the problem of unruly
children very easily. He would fix the parents with a very firm eye as they
arrived.

"Children are very welcome here, so long as they behave and stay up there!"
He had a raised alcove in a corner away from the bar to which he pointed.

We went to a pub here that had a notice up saying "Good children are
welcome. Badly-behaved children will be sold as slaves". ;-)

They either took umbrage and walked out, or were quite happy with the
arrangement. Either way, he was happy.

I don't suppose you can do that with a garden centre.

Unhappily not. While we're concerned for our property - plants etc. and the
limb of a rare Pinus Montezumae some young rip was swinging on the other day
!!!!, we're also concerned for the safety of the children. We have some
gravel paths and inevitably a lot of glass around. It is astonishing how
many children go running up and down the greenhouses, inside and out, when a
trip or slip would take them straight through a large pane of glass. I
shouted to one to stop running on Sunday and his mother looked at me as if I
was quite mad. I told her that little Johnny could cut his throat open if
he went head first through a piece of glass. And last year one child swung
on a *full* hanging basket and brought it crashing down, missing his head by
inches. As it was filled with plants, compost and had been watered, it was
very heavy. I really think it would have killed him if it had hit him. We
have notices up asking people to stop their children riding in trolleys and
two days ago Ray was too late to stop a toddler climb into a trolley and
walk up the sloping end. Of course, it tipped over and he fell, hitting his
chin and mercifully doing no real damage. His father 'hadn't noticed' what
the child was up to and he was almost a baby - just big enough to toddle and
climb a bit. Mind you, two years ago a fully grown up adult walked onto the
coping stones at the edge of the pond, her weight broke the cement seal and
she went straight into the water. She was ever so embarrassed......

Right, I'm off to buy a Dymo, whilst I rememeber.

Next time I post, check that I did it, will you?

I have yet to tell you the true story of XXXX's Seed Testing Centre No.7.
That was years ago, and I will rememeber that.


I think you'll have to visit us. You and Ray could spend hours swapping
horror stories. ;-))
--
Sacha
http://www.hillhousenursery.co.uk
South Devon
'We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our
children.'