Nice People Thread Number 11 - A Treasury of Nice People

Spirit_2

GDB2222 wrote: »

This ought to be a picture of my lawn, but not quite working! The link works, and it is ideal viewing for those who want an excuse not to mow the grass.

It looks very pretty

lostinrates

The most beautiful bunch of flowers I have ever received was last year and it had buttercups in it.

GDB2222

lostinrates wrote: »

the most beautiful bunch of flowers i have ever received was last year and it had buttercups in it.

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GDB2222

I think the thought behind the flowers counts for a lot. I hate buying cut flowers, as they are dying. It seems so wrong to give that as a gift. I prefer living plants, although DW hates them as she always kills them.

I was gutted when I took her cut flowers in hospital and they made me take them away again. £4 down the drain!

Apparently, lots of hospitals do not allow flowers any longer.

lostinrates

http://www.commonfarmflowers.com/contact.php

It was from these florists. If I could afford to get a bunch from them for my self every month I would. ( they have a slight discount if you sign up for monthly deliveries but not enough for the likes of skin flints like me)

But its worth recommending because I loved the bunch.

Spirit_2

My late FiL was at Monte Cassino in Italy and once described how a recce patrol from their troop that had gone ahead of them were brought down by American soldiers..friendly fire.

He later spent two years in Italy as part of an occupation force. During which time he learned italian and grew to love the place.

A good friend of OHs family who I only ever knew as a sweet old welsh man had been a POW in Burma suffering along with others the hardships that are so well described..and even in his dotage pinning on his medals and being proud of the Burma Star associaton.

My mum had two great friends in her later years, Ron who had been at the Normandy landings having previously been evacuated at Dunkerque and Bert (probably the love of her life) a jolly Liverpudlian who told us of how in the run up to D Day he had been billeted in Southsea and had gone into a pub "the Still & West" only to bump into his brother "our Billy" in the most wonderful coincidence. Amazingly both made it back safely.

These men are the WW2 veterans I have in mind, and make the Rememberance Day Service the most important church service of the year to me and I feel such affection for the Royal Britsh Legion

Our neighbour who has lived in the cottages all of her life has written an account of the pre D day prep and how troops were lined up along the road under shelter of the trees and camo nets awaiting embarcation. The now defunct railway station playing host to Eisenhower & Churchill whilst Southwick house was the ops centre for Operation Overlord. For anyone who is interested Southwick has an open weekend this weekend.

lostinrates

GDB2222 wrote: »

I think the thought behind the flowers counts for a lot. I hate buying cut flowers, as they are dying. It seems so wrong to give that as a gift. I prefer living plants, although DW hates them as she always kills them.

I was gutted when I took her cut flowers in hospital and they made me take them away again. £4 down the drain!

There are some cut flowers I love. Anemones in early spring feel to be JOYFUL. Like .....winter poppies. More like rememberance poppies than poppies, the red ones really, funnily enough). . I love stolid colour posies of them or Mixed colours, I don.'to care, I love them. In a year I don't get some I feel a little cheated tbh,


Now the garden is so full I don't need to buy anything, I' should probably have picked good bunches for everywhere today before the storms due tomorrow decimate everything. But garden roses don't make long lasting cut flowers really.

Nikkster

GDB2222 wrote: »

I think the thought behind the flowers counts for a lot. I hate buying cut flowers, as they are dying. It seems so wrong to give that as a gift. I prefer living plants, although DW hates them as she always kills them.

I was gutted when I took her cut flowers in hospital and they made me take them away again. £4 down the drain!

Apparently, lots of hospitals do not allow flowers any longer.

I think it's an infection control thing (which would be somewhat ironic considering Lady GDB's recent predicament).

I love giving and receiving cut flowers. I guess maybe the decadence of having removed them from the plant helps. Usually only buy them for myself if they are yellow stickered. My mum gave me a gorgeous bunch of roses (she claims they are red, but they're a very deep pink) last week. They were especially notable as she had paid full price :rotfl:

I was given two plants last year. Neither of them made it (I shared a pic of them in their shameful state of neglect ).

Nikkster

Onto things I can grow (so far)...

I'm currently joining you from the garden (seemed rude not to).

As threatened, here is a pic of my little potatolets:


They're a bit squished together because I didn't think so many would sprout and I couldn't be bothered to properly weed any more of the bed (my mum did the rest last weekend).

And here is the edge of the patio that my dad 'found' last weekend. And my daisies interspersed with grass

lostinrates

Oh wow , your garden looks gorgeous!

I want a patio, I do, I do!


( and I might have one soon).

If I do you'll all get a pic.


Edit: what's the glass(?) thing down by the shed?