tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6849167564811493528.post4943150517894045947..comments2024-01-31T04:09:28.704+00:00Comments on SILVERTREEDAZE: DRINK SPOTTIES, TELLYCRAP & GARRULOUS BOMBYCILSPlant Mad Nigehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01051715161395516677noreply@blogger.comBlogger12125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6849167564811493528.post-37806375970138436562011-01-06T14:45:09.293+00:002011-01-06T14:45:09.293+00:00I love the very dainty Pelargonium ionidiflorum an...I love the very dainty Pelargonium ionidiflorum and have two different coloured versions flowering at the moment in my greenhouse. I am planning to write about them on my blog this year. I also agree about the appalling TV programmes we were presented with over Christmas and have decided to make an early start recording plenty of programmes so watch next Christmas and New Year.Gwenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03981282868499246298noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6849167564811493528.post-30441653408428462642011-01-06T11:10:52.051+00:002011-01-06T11:10:52.051+00:00A Year In . . . Thanks, and welcome. Don't ta...A Year In . . . Thanks, and welcome. Don't take anything I write too seriously!<br /><br />Lucy, James A-S - no I missed those programmes. Glad to hear something on TV was good.<br /><br />Christine B - Good Luck looking for the Whistle and I'll Come to You DVD. If it's any help, it was a BFI (British Film Institute) issue and has become rather a collector's item. Also, I'm not sure whether it's available in NTSC as opposed to PAL colour. Or, whether the DVD is set for the US Region. Amazon UK offers a new one at £120 - quite a price for a 40 minute dramatisation!!<br />NPlant Mad Nigehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01051715161395516677noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6849167564811493528.post-32360294149965175562011-01-06T11:01:19.642+00:002011-01-06T11:01:19.642+00:00This was a good read and you are the closest garde...This was a good read and you are the closest garden blogger to me in Grimsby that I have found - so I'm hoping for lots of useful advice from your pages.<br /><br />Incidentally I read yesterday (can't remember where, that there is a massive influx of waxwings in the North of England this year so that may account for your flock. I haaven't seen any yet but I'm hoping.A Year In My Gardenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15039290114838432605noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6849167564811493528.post-84848649345291939192011-01-05T22:19:38.640+00:002011-01-05T22:19:38.640+00:00Thanks for identifying the Lonicera. I've adde...Thanks for identifying the Lonicera. I've added a note and a link with the picture.<br /><br />Did you watch the Just William adaptations over Christmas? I think they held remarkably close to the spirit of the books.<br /><br />LucyLucy Corrander Now in Halifax!https://www.blogger.com/profile/14685242329129914772noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6849167564811493528.post-42498297999221147172011-01-05T17:53:53.298+00:002011-01-05T17:53:53.298+00:00The bumper Radio Times always used to be one of th...The bumper Radio Times always used to be one of the great Christmas traditions. There was a time, which I am sure you will remember, when the RT only had BBC listings and you had to buy the TV Times for ITV.<br /><br />The TV Times was considered rather naff and could only be tolerated at Christmas: probably as a sort of charitable act.<br /><br />The Morecambe and Wise thing was good.JamesA-Shttp://www.blackpitts.co.uk/blognoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6849167564811493528.post-79105376392681829752011-01-05T17:31:03.978+00:002011-01-05T17:31:03.978+00:00Will a goat solve the apple wasting problem?
What...Will a goat solve the apple wasting problem?<br /><br />What an ignoramus I am. I had no idea that any of M.R. James' ghost stories had been done for TV. I'll avoid the new one at your recommendation though. If we Americans had made it, there would be lots of bad language, nubile young women, and explosions, regardless of what the book was like.<br /><br />Christine in Alaska, frantically looking for James DVD as of nowChristine B.https://www.blogger.com/profile/08335289758548637661noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6849167564811493528.post-60923165238462229732011-01-05T17:24:15.694+00:002011-01-05T17:24:15.694+00:00No, no I'm with you on the 'Sungold' l...No, no I'm with you on the 'Sungold' love them and always grow them. It was someone else didn't like them. I'm definitely going to try and extend my growing season this year!Arabella Sockhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10936438011119860497noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6849167564811493528.post-68850003223750609612011-01-05T17:22:44.901+00:002011-01-05T17:22:44.901+00:00You ate Turkey from Christmas until January 3rd? T...You ate Turkey from Christmas until January 3rd? That is devotion to tradition!<br /><br />Blackbirds don't seem the least bit interested in apples in my garden but have been feasting on rosehips. (Perhaps it's because they aren't Bramleys.)<br /><br />If there's more frost and snow to come, will your leaves insulate any plants coming up beneath? Or doesn't it work like that?<br /><br />LucyLucy Corrander Now in Halifax!https://www.blogger.com/profile/14685242329129914772noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6849167564811493528.post-14861760197670952382011-01-05T16:27:18.229+00:002011-01-05T16:27:18.229+00:00James - did you really mean 2005? I actually plan...James - did you really mean 2005? I actually planted four hornbeam hedges that year, three in lovely soil, the fourth in our horrible yard. Those on good ground are lovely and dense and tall. The yard one will catch up in the end. I backfilled the trench in the yard with lots of compost, bonemeal and snitched topsoil, to get it off to a good start.<br /><br />Arabella - yes, heated to nominal minimum 5ºC, to keep the tender things alive.<br /><br />Also, I forgot to say that I harvested our last few tomatoes ON CHRISTMAS DAY. The PG and I ate one each. They were 'Sungold' which I know you hate, Arabella, but tasted lovely. The plant had been pinched out and its single stem went up and over and along the greenhouse. Like a pillock, I didn't measure it when I pulled it up.Plant Mad Nigehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01051715161395516677noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6849167564811493528.post-71694141155772884812011-01-05T15:54:14.516+00:002011-01-05T15:54:14.516+00:00You are such a joy Nigel! I have been diverted fro...You are such a joy Nigel! I have been diverted from writing a proper blog by the temptations of wanting to rant about the appalling TV over Christmas and now I can do it here! The worst in living memory! We pretty much finished watching all the stuff we had recorded on the V+ box as there was nothing at all on TV. And then the ghastly Radio 4 Archers' storylines like one long continuation of Lynda Snell's panto! So no escape there either.<br /><br />Is your greenhouse heated? I confess to 'frostfreeing' mine so that my aeoniums look like yours this winter rather than the rather nasty slimey goop that was left of them last year.<br /><br />I think I must give my greenhouse name.Arabella Sockhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10936438011119860497noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6849167564811493528.post-78059856863236954922011-01-05T13:00:57.686+00:002011-01-05T13:00:57.686+00:00That hornbeam hedge bit is encouraging. I planted ...That hornbeam hedge bit is encouraging. I planted one last spring, so by your account I may have a visible hedge in 2005, all else being equal? (not likely)James Goldenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12718058779971621920noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6849167564811493528.post-12905509741504308182011-01-05T08:54:23.915+00:002011-01-05T08:54:23.915+00:00Whoops! The 2006 bit suggests poor English and th...Whoops! The 2006 bit suggests poor English and that someone else dug the trench for the hornbeam. The text should read 'I dug a trench. . .' not 'I was dug a trench.'Plant Mad Nigehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01051715161395516677noreply@blogger.com