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If it's climbing hydrangea they do get very big eventually - 4 to 8m it says on the RHS website. It does say ft and not m on your label, does it?

If you have a big space, it seems to be a nice thing but having a bungalow it's not something I've tried.

I bought it because my courtyard/patio is very shady and thought it would give interest. I think if I put it in a large pot it would keep it smaller. Am I right.

Just been for a walk round garden, wrapped up, lovely to see things shooting and the clematis responding to my treattment of them. . The lawn slopes very slightly down and where it reaches the sleepers is a gap. Last year i put in Tete a tete but that little trough type area has been permanently waterlogged. Have just seen a few daff leaves pointing up 

I notice that JP Gruntfuttock said 'If I want to look at the sea, I'll go to Bournemouth'. He'll have to wait until the Imax demolition is completed to get a decent view.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-dorset-21470212

 Just glad I'm not a Bournemouth rate-payer.

I've lost the potato peeler this week when not thinking straight. Have just had to buy a new one I think I've put it in the compost

Still sunny

Poor figrat-bloke will be nursey

Will resist all urges to mention my lost virginity-oops-just have

Think I must have been "waffy" yesterday, Geoff said it was aging.

My first husband used to call my younger son Gruntfuttock, but I thought he invented it -I never knew what it meant.

Been to GC. Feel much better today. Bought strawberry plants, Gariguette and Mara des Bois, have Charlotte already, potatoes (Charlotte, free little bag of Amandine with them), a plant pot for the mint as the other one is cheap and ugly and going cracky, onion sets (Sturon and Red Baron) and several dahlia tubers. I don't usually dig them up and most usually survive, but this winter has been so horribly wet with snow several times that I need a back-up.

Going out to prune something now.

You've got to love Round the Horne-and they are 50 years old now-still funny but makes me feel sooooooo old

Nola-a week off great

Good shopping Liz-mind what you chop

What is sodden clart?-these words are a whole new language

http://newsthump.com/2013/02/15/russian-meteor-found-to-be-30-horse/

I fear I'm getting delirious

Figrat you may be poorly  but you made me laugh with your link  

There's a new thread where someone was asking about forming a general chat thread (for new people).

There have been other non-gardening threads, besides Forkers.

We used to talk about what's for dinner on here. Then someone started an offshoot 'Whats For Tea'. That thread ran for 10 weeks, 16 pages, and 300-odd posts, before the enthousiasm for it seems to have petered out.

And who can fail to forget the thread 'Am I Posting Too Much'.

Verdun wrote (see)

It's good to see the regulars posting as well as the new guys. So many experiences, attitudes and viewpoints and a wealth of advice to heed or not. It's getting to be a habit logging in.

That thread ran to 9 pages, and 166 messages before that petered out.

And there are plenty of threads where people go off topic, and start chatting about other things. But none of them survive long. Forkers is the survivor.

To be sustainable, a thread does need a nucleus of hard-core posters.

Perhaps lucky I don't have predictive text.

Yo Deano!  Happy Weekend everyone   Hope the weather stays like this while OH is around to move some bags of compost and pots and other jobs I've got lined up for him.  May even sow some seeds .   Hope you're all in full gardening swing too (and Figrat's lurgy goes quickly). 

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