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Hello, can I join the 'haven't been on Ish much in ages' club, please?

Hi all and hi to Muddy, glad to hear your plans are on track!

Also glad to see forum problems sorted out.

Aha I had wondered why 'view new posts' and 'active posts' were not working the last few times I've looked in. Good luck with the forum moving!

You are mad!

I agree about the bugs - it's been fantastic. Just seen a spider kill a Large White though and that one I was not going to save!

Must go get me specs on and go egg squidging again.....

Oh gawd I'm repeating myself.

Cripes Boboff, I get 8kg easily from just 2 bushes!!

This year I left most of the black and redcurrants on the bushes and they are still there. No birds seem to like them.

Oh and they are still both covered in fruit because I only picked a small amount and no birds are interested in either red or black currants, which means a thousand young plants to weed out next year.

I prune every year to make more space because even though my two redcurrants and two blackcurrants are spaced out more than 'the book' says, they still grow into each other. I prune during the dormant season according to my RHS book and not now like Monty Don does. However they never grow like 'the ...

Boboff is missing me! That's nice. I'll have to do a big smiley face just for him and then it'll be just like old times :mrgreen: :wave: :hugish: :grouphug: I'm still around but spread myself thin over the internet, see most of the 'oldies' on facebook anyway. :iconbiggrin: I am more into crawling a...

Possibly the most interesting question asked by a spammer yet.

My blackbirds sing "where's Jeremy?", my Blackcaps end their song with "ticketyboo" and the Chaffies here end their song with "sekeee-ah" whereas some, particularly in England, sing "boudeee-ah". Which could almost be translated into "gonna eat ya". ...

Hi Caroline - all well here and trying to get the garden ready in between the rain! So funny you are complaining about the red tape - mind you, so do all the French people I know. But we just get used to it after a while - it is no good trying to battle the system. :iconbiggrin: Hi again David - wel...

Another salut, David, this time from Bretagne!

Caroline - I didn't know you were back in France! Will bookmark your blog to read a bit more. Gosh I am so out of date with what has been happening on Ish....

You will see it if you 'View New Posts' rather than 'Active Topics'.

There was always a glitch in the system where the foraging section didn't show up in Active Topics, so I guess it has never been fixed.

Boboff is so mellow these days

I'm glad everything worked out for you in the end, Bonnie. I wondered what happened with the floristry business.

So pleased that your Ishness has come back and an allotment sounds like a perfect compromise. Good luck with it!