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Re: Happy Birthday

#1601 Post by tricia » Wed Mar 09, 2011 6:30 pm

Particularly impressed by the orchids in the glasshouse - they have to be seen to be believed! I've walked and walked (am now kn****ed!!)
I love orchids -I think they are my favourite indoor plants - my sister is very good at growing them - we have 2 flowering in the house at the moment and they have been in bloom for months. Strangely my Dutch friend dislikes orchids because they are too perfect :o


Also Olly doesn't eat them :lol: :lol:

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Re: Happy Birthday

#1602 Post by strep98 » Wed Mar 09, 2011 7:07 pm

I should have got brownie points for not mentioning your age on your card:lol:
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Re: Happy Birthday

#1603 Post by BassBloke » Wed Mar 09, 2011 11:17 pm

Catching up as usual. :roll: Very Hipy Papy Bthuthdth Thuthda Bthuthy Mrs Boingy.

If you are still awake after your Kew adventures. :lol: :lol:

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Re: Happy Birthday

#1604 Post by Scurra » Thu Mar 10, 2011 1:17 am

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Re: Happy Birthday

#1605 Post by Bunnylump » Thu Mar 17, 2011 12:01 am

Happy Birthday to Wulfruna! Hope you have a smashing day! :D
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Re: Happy Birthday

#1606 Post by gill216 » Thu Mar 17, 2011 12:17 am

Tickety Boo b'day Wulfruna :D
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Re: Happy Birthday

#1607 Post by pebbles » Thu Mar 17, 2011 12:26 am

Happy Birthday Wulfruna! :D I hope you have a lovely day!
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Re: Happy Birthday

#1608 Post by eirian » Thu Mar 17, 2011 6:21 am

Happy Birthday, Wulfruna!
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Re: Happy Birthday

#1609 Post by tricia » Thu Mar 17, 2011 6:23 am

have a lovely day - Happy Birthday Wulfrina

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Re: Happy Birthday

#1610 Post by giraffe » Thu Mar 17, 2011 6:56 am

Happy birthday Wulfruna. :D
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Re: Happy Birthday

#1611 Post by chazzie » Thu Mar 17, 2011 7:18 am

Happy Birthday Wulfruna - hope you have a good day
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Re: Happy Birthday

#1612 Post by maisie ladybird » Thu Mar 17, 2011 7:47 am

Many happy returns Wulfruna, have a lovely day! :D
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Re: Happy Birthday

#1613 Post by Biscuit » Thu Mar 17, 2011 9:08 am

many happy returns :)
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Re: Happy Birthday

#1614 Post by kathlyn » Thu Mar 17, 2011 9:17 am

Happy Birthday Wulfruna, have a great day :D
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Re: Happy Birthday

#1615 Post by LAT » Thu Mar 17, 2011 9:43 am

Happy Birthday Wulfruna, hope you have a great day! :D
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Re: Happy Birthday

#1616 Post by strep98 » Thu Mar 17, 2011 4:50 pm

Happy birthday Wulfruna
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Re: Happy Birthday

#1617 Post by Wulfruna » Thu Mar 17, 2011 11:47 pm

Thank you everyone for so many good wishes :D My birthday has had a slightly different dimension this year, considering the unexpected birthday present now implanted in my left shoulder and keeping me ticking over nicely..... Any 'Archers' fans among you will appreciate my amusement at their sudden storyline about the value of pacemakers - on the very day I came home with mine :lol: . Fortunately my own situation was never as life-threatening as that depicted....
However, I had a lovely day today, with a visit this afternoon to our local NT property "A La Ronde" which is celebrating 20 years of ownership by the National Trust - and must be one of their quirkiest properties. Worth looking up for more information :shock: .
I then enjoyed my regular annual birthday treat - a visit to the nearby Garden Centre to stock up on new plants for the garden. This year I needed to replace ornamental fuchsias that didn't manage to survive those awful winter frosts, so hopefully by June my hanging baskets will display the results :D
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Re: Happy Birthday

#1618 Post by kathlyn » Fri Mar 18, 2011 9:22 am

Wulfruna wrote:I had a lovely day today, with a visit this afternoon to our local NT property "A La Ronde" which is celebrating 20 years of ownership by the National Trust - and must be one of their quirkiest properties. Worth looking up for more information. :D
I can agree with Wulfruna A La Ronde is definately worth a look. We first visited it back in the 80's, when we lived in Devon, and got to see all of it. On visiting again last year we were talking to the room guides and even they hadn't seen the bits we had as no one is allowed up to the very top any more except for the conservators but they do have cameras and screens so you can see it.
Also this week I just started doing a watercolour painting of it from a photo I took last year.
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Re: Happy Birthday

#1619 Post by Wulfruna » Fri Mar 18, 2011 9:22 pm

Yes, the "Shell Gallery" is amazing - but now so delicate that they daren't allow anyone up there as the slightest touch could fetch the shells off the walls. The two lady cousins created it after going on the "grand tour" in the 1780s, when they brought back a load of exotic shells and feathers - and turned them into pictures of flowers and birds all over the walls of the gallery of their circular house (hence its name - A La Ronde - though it's actually 8-sided). However, the video camera gives a brilliant close up of it. We have been several times now and take all our visitors there (though Scurra hasn't made it yet, as it was closed when he came).
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Re: Happy Birthday

#1620 Post by pebbles » Sat Mar 19, 2011 12:02 am

Happy Birthday Gill! :D I hope you have a lovely day!
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