How did you get 'Yours' ?

[wellie]

Peter !
I hope you get lots of support there. Trousers and I certainly will.
Hair grown yet?!
X

[Mrs Dobby]

Like Jaxom I love Dragons and if I didn't live in Gods Own County would like to live on Pern!
Iechyd da Emlyn

Nice story GPD! I love the PERN books by Anne McG, excellent reading, have you read any of her other stuff?

Like Jaxomn we have a few dragons, I had one before I met Mr D, and he also had one, of course when you put two together they mate, so I think the current count is about 37 of the ickle treasures in our house!

[Crazy Chickie]

Crazy Chickie came from a series of pictures I'm working on. I have a Crazy Crow, a Crazy Bunny, a Crazy Puppy and a Crazy Baby (scary more than crazy) so far. I chose the Chickie over the Bunnie coz I'm very fond of my chickens (it was almost the bunny coz I have a house rabbit). The picture was going to be my avatar but since being scanned into the computer it seems to have got lost somewhere in amongst all the files and I just havn't got round to scanning it in again. Folks have been shortening the name to CC which I kinda like coz its cloyingly girlie (though slightly camp) and apeals to my weird sense of humour. Also, I'm a chickie and I am a bit crazy.

Wellie, I once had a cat called Black Cat who adopted me when I was at college. She had been a stray for ages and I phoned around and found out that she had not had anyone to belong to her in almost a year. She picked me out of a whole dorm of cat crazed students trying to lure her to them and then moved with me back to Mums and lived out the rest of her days with us. She was a massive Black girl and had the most wonderfull manners I've ever met in a cat. She finally died about five years ago due to a cancer in her neck (unoperable ) We all loved her dearly and still miss her.

[wellie]

CC.....,
How very beautifully wise these black cats are ! I can't tell you how reminiscent your story is...! and I look forward to 'comparing notes'...

[Sunbeam]

My son's name is Kiran - a sanskrit name that means ray of sun...(he's gonna love us when he gets older, specially when he finds out that its also a girls name too.....oops!)

[Bibliobeck]

Mine is simply because I love to read, read, read and my real name is Becky, often shortened to Beck, Becks, Bex whatever by friends.

As for the avatar - a dual purpose book worm like me plus he reminds me of my first attempts at brassicas last year

[wellie]

Becky, I never used to be much of a reader until I found gardening. Now, it's 'hand in glove'. The more I read, the more I learn.
They can't teach you that at school, and the older I get, the more I read. The more I read, the more I learn. Oh to be young again !!

[beefy]

Been called Beefy since I started secondary school as I was always a few pounds overweight.
Now Im 36 and 19 stone and six foot two the name has stuck and more people know me as Beefy rather than Brian.
The only people who call me Brian are my mother ,father and mother- in -law. When people do I usually dont answer unless its one of the above three.

[Lesley Jay]

Haven't you forgotten someone Beefy???

[beefy]

No the minister for home affairs calls me Beefy

[roitelet]

Its all the better for the waiting There are times when I amaze myself!!!!!!

[Nicos]

Nah, I think it would be spigletwillie

Twiglet-spillie?

[Crazy Chickie]

Thats really beautiful Roitelet, you should feel proud of such a lovely creation. I'd love to try willow sculpture one day. How long did it take you to make? And how long has it been growing?

[roitelet]

Hi Crazie Chickie,

I suppose that it took me about 4 days in all to make it. The ground work took about half of that. A trench 2 spits deep x 2' wide, the old turf was put in the bottom followed by a thick layer of composted grass to hold the moisture. The bare soil was then covered with landscape membrane and holes were poked in it and the newly cut, 1year old, willow pushed through to the depth of about 1'. The whole thing was then tied into shape.

I made it in Jan. last year and the picture was taken in May. I had to trim it twice during the summer and in the very near future I have got to go over it to check the ties are not too tight and cut out all the thin growth. so that it does not get top heavy and to encourage growth round the bottom.

Willow weaving is not at all difficult really, you just need the willow. I have 4 which have to be pollarded every year so I have made a Fedge, to act as a wind break for the lottie plot but that is not doing as well. This year the cuttings, some of them 12' long I am using to make hurdles to hide the compost heaps.

Suggestions as to what I can do with it next year will be very welcome. There is an awful lot of it and it won't burn and can only be composted when thououghly dry and shredded.

Give it a try, best of luck.

[Alice]

Just lovely Roitelet. Hope you have many happy hours there.