Serendipity:)

[veggiechicken]

Serendipity (one of my favourite words )
means a "happy accident" or "pleasant surprise"; a fortunate mistake. Specifically, the accident of finding something good or useful while not specifically searching for it.

To my mind, it sums up perfectly the result of using the Forum's search engine.

I've been searching for threads about choosing an allotment for a newby - but have been sidetracked by all sorts of interesting and hilarious threads. I've looked at Cabbages and Netting, Ugly Veg and chickens and all because I searched for "choosing"
So, if ever you're at a loose end, put any random word that comes into your head in the search box, and see what's come up

[Sheneval]

VC wow - I take it you didn't mean the Google box but in any case you have just made a happy man very old don't think I'll try searching that word again ---for a while anyway

[veggiechicken]

Stick to the Vine searchbox, Shen, even then I can't guarantee what will come up

[julesapple]

I used to go to school with a girl called Serendipity. Her parents were hippies. We called her Dippy....

[veggiechicken]

Was she a "happy accident" too

[Rocketron]

VC wow - I take it you didn't mean the Google box but in any case you have just made a happy man very old don't think I'll try searching that word again ---for a while anyway

Which one "serendipity" or "choosing" ?

[Sheneval]

Didn't realise that was the choice I thought you could use whatever word popped into your head - trust me

[Sheneval]

Was she a "happy accident" too

I have the movie - enjoyable

[veggiechicken]

You're a very norty boy, Shen

[Sheneval]

Shall I go to the norty step? - if so I have to say it was worth it

[veggiechicken]

BB's there already, with something he found by serendipity

[Sheneval]

Wonder if his daughter gave him the Parental Control Password - I'll need to ask mine again - knew I should have written the bl..dy thing down

[julesapple]

Was she a "happy accident" too

Possibly. They were probably on something and thought she was an tantric conception or something. We all thought she had the coolest name, but she hated it. She hated her parents turning up to speech days in bare feet and kaftans, twenty years out of date. They were an embarrassment, I have to say, but we were all envious of their laxness as parents; Dippy could do anything she chose, when she chose. Nothing she did was ever wrong. She never, ever, took advantage of them, though.

I guess they must have gotten parenting right - she was a nice kid.