Nice people thread part 5 - nicely does it

lostinrates

silvercar wrote: »

To be fair, I doubt the engaged gay couple would want to be married in a church that disapproves of gay marriages by a vicar who agrees with his church's views.

I think some would. I think sometimes, even in Some wars and conflicts fought in the name o religion, belief is an excuse for righteous indignation not the cause of it.

zagubov

lostinrates wrote: »

I think some would. I think sometimes, even in Some wars and conflicts fought in the name o religion, belief is an excuse for righteous indignation not the cause of it.

That's an excellent poiint, much overlooked by many.:D

If I were tempted to join a religion frm scratch, I'd look up Quakerism. No violence or rituals, good charitable stance, tolerance of diversity high, dogma levels low. Plus, tendency to own chocolate factories. Downside- you'd have to give the old Milk of Amnesia the body-swerve.:A

sss555s. Is there no costco in Newcastle? In fact is that maybe a closer rshopping city than Glasgow/Edinburgh?

misskool

Moving from religion

I am clearing a particularly shady, claggy corner of the garden. It gets covered in leaves and I'm particularly lazy about clearing them. So, I now need to get some grass seed down there and have some stuff in the border. The question is what? we have some dog roses, a bit of bramble and 2 labernum and something else. So I need shady (and cheap!, there is 1.5m x 4.5m to cover here) groundcover

any suggestions?

sss555s

zagubov wrote: »

sss555s. Is there no costco in Newcastle? In fact is that maybe a closer rshopping city than Glasgow/Edinburgh?

Glasgow is quickest, then Edinburgh and Newcastle are similar.

All are around 80 miles from me and because Glasgow is mainly M74, it is the quickest

vivatifosi

missk, I used to have a very shady front garden that as it was surrounded on all sides by walls or fences of at least 6 ft tall only got the sun for the brief period that it was in the shade. I only ever found three things that grew there: foxgloves, potentilla and bleeding heart. This is quite strange because the yellow potentilla that I had and the bleeding heart are supposed to prefer sun but they did well there, in fact the potentilla tried to take over. Everything else got bogged down in the claggy wet soil (which never dried). Because foxgloves are a two-year plant, I found it better to have a two year planting window so that I always had show.

Davesnave

misskool wrote: »

any suggestions?

Woodruff? Vinca? Geraniums?

lostinrates

misskool wrote: »

Moving from religion

I am clearing a particularly shady, claggy corner of the garden. It gets covered in leaves and I'm particularly lazy about clearing them. So, I now need to get some grass seed down there and have some stuff in the border. The question is what? we have some dog roses, a bit of bramble and 2 labernum and something else. So I need shady (and cheap!, there is 1.5m x 4.5m to cover here) groundcover

any suggestions?

I use this site as a reference. I used to live near there, have heard nothing but good about them should refernce lead to wanting to buy.
http://www.plantsforshade.co.uk/


I have shadey bits in the long border, think shady dry.....but would like normal weather year beore i commit to that assessment!

PasturesNew

vivatifosi wrote: »

... DH is going to Sydney the end of the week. You know that thread a week or so ago "how far would you go for a weekend"? He's going to a concert and will be away 4 days. ...

... and we have a WINNER!!



Streuth Sheila.... posh alert!

PasturesNew

chewmylegoff wrote: »

...just as it is illegal for a b&b to refuse to accept bookings from a gay couple....

The recent court case down my way has now thundered on and become an issue of the gay rights law effectively being able to "trump" the religious rights law.... and that giving people rights was never meant to put any one group in a position where they could trump the other.

PasturesNew

misskool wrote: »

Moving from religion

I am clearing a particularly shady, claggy corner of the garden. It gets covered in leaves and I'm particularly lazy about clearing them. So, I now need to get some grass seed down there and have some stuff in the border. The question is what? we have some dog roses, a bit of bramble and 2 labernum and something else. So I need shady (and cheap!, there is 1.5m x 4.5m to cover here) groundcover

any suggestions?

Why not clear the space and built a water feature/grotto there? With lighting. It'd be awesome!