Hello! I am just new to this forum. I am excited to read lots of information here. Take Care everyone!
EdwinT said:
Hello! I am just new to this forum. I am excited to read lots of information here. Take Care everyone!
hi and welcome. we are just as interested in hearing about your exploits.
Welcome EdwinT. Did someone recommend us or did you find us on your own? You will find we are a pretty relaxed mob here.
EdwinT said:
Hello! I am just new to this forum. I am excited to read lots of information here. Take Care everyone!
Hello Edwin T, glad you found us :)
We can be either very quiet or very chatty when we get going, and we talk about everything. What area of Oz are you?
Thanks mate!
Yeah as I was reading your post I can see that you guys are just enjoying here.
Happy Potter said:
EdwinT said:
Hello! I am just new to this forum. I am excited to read lots of information here. Take Care everyone!
Hello Edwin T, glad you found us :)
We can be either very quiet or very chatty when we get going, and we talk about everything. What area of Oz are you?
I am from Perth. I am looking forward to hear more about you guys. Thanks for the welcome!
EdwinT said:
I am from Perth. I am looking forward to hear more about you guys. Thanks for the welcome!
Sandy soil country…
EdwinT said:
Happy Potter said:
EdwinT said:
Hello! I am just new to this forum. I am excited to read lots of information here. Take Care everyone!
Hello Edwin T, glad you found us :)
We can be either very quiet or very chatty when we get going, and we talk about everything. What area of Oz are you?
I am from Perth. I am looking forward to hear more about you guys. Thanks for the welcome!
GoodO but how did you find us? Are you interested in gardening? Tell us about your garden?
Dinetta said:
EdwinT said:I am from Perth. I am looking forward to hear more about you guys. Thanks for the welcome!
Sandy soil country…
Deep sandy soil country.. fixed
roughbarked said:
EdwinT said:
Happy Potter said:Hello Edwin T, glad you found us :)
We can be either very quiet or very chatty when we get going, and we talk about everything. What area of Oz are you?
I am from Perth. I am looking forward to hear more about you guys. Thanks for the welcome!
GoodO but how did you find us? Are you interested in gardening? Tell us about your garden?
Actually yes I am interested in gardening but I’ve found more than what I expected here. Actually, I am just starting so I am looking for more ideas. Can you suggest one?
EdwinT said:
roughbarked said:
EdwinT said:I am from Perth. I am looking forward to hear more about you guys. Thanks for the welcome!
GoodO but how did you find us? Are you interested in gardening? Tell us about your garden?
Actually yes I am interested in gardening but I’ve found more than what I expected here. Actually, I am just starting so I am looking for more ideas. Can you suggest one?
Yes, lean on your shovel handle and meditate.
roughbarked said:
EdwinT said:
roughbarked said:GoodO but how did you find us? Are you interested in gardening? Tell us about your garden?
Actually yes I am interested in gardening but I’ve found more than what I expected here. Actually, I am just starting so I am looking for more ideas. Can you suggest one?
Yes, lean on your shovel handle and meditate.
Are you guys into gardening too?
EdwinT said:
roughbarked said:
EdwinT said:Actually yes I am interested in gardening but I’ve found more than what I expected here. Actually, I am just starting so I am looking for more ideas. Can you suggest one?
Yes, lean on your shovel handle and meditate.
Are you guys into gardening too?
sure am :)
bluegreen said:
EdwinT said:
roughbarked said:Yes, lean on your shovel handle and meditate.
Are you guys into gardening too?
sure am :)
I’m a browser.
mmmmmmm, cherries. My tree has one lone cherry forming. I’m surprised it has even that as it only got about 5 flowers, and the tree is bare below Peter Pan’s browsing height. It is just out of reach! Now that I have the new fence up I can use the panels I was using for the trees now so that they have more protection.
bluegreen said:
mmmmmmm, cherries. My tree has one lone cherry forming. I’m surprised it has even that as it only got about 5 flowers, and the tree is bare below Peter Pan’s browsing height. It is just out of reach! Now that I have the new fence up I can use the panels I was using for the trees now so that they have more protection.
Many cherries need pollinators. Do you know the variety?
roughbarked said:
bluegreen said:
mmmmmmm, cherries. My tree has one lone cherry forming. I’m surprised it has even that as it only got about 5 flowers, and the tree is bare below Peter Pan’s browsing height. It is just out of reach! Now that I have the new fence up I can use the panels I was using for the trees now so that they have more protection.
Many cherries need pollinators. Do you know the variety?
it’s a Stella, which is supposed to be self pollinating, and there is a cherry orchard a few km down the road. It is more that it is only a young tree. There were no flowers at all last year.
bluegreen said:
roughbarked said:
bluegreen said:
mmmmmmm, cherries. My tree has one lone cherry forming. I’m surprised it has even that as it only got about 5 flowers, and the tree is bare below Peter Pan’s browsing height. It is just out of reach! Now that I have the new fence up I can use the panels I was using for the trees now so that they have more protection.
Many cherries need pollinators. Do you know the variety?
it’s a Stella, which is supposed to be self pollinating, and there is a cherry orchard a few km down the road. It is more that it is only a young tree. There were no flowers at all last year.
Stella are good but I’d still be inclinded to chat up the cherry orchardist and ask for a few sticks of bud wood. put a couple of other varieties on your tree for better pollination and extended cropping time.
roughbarked said:
bluegreen said:
roughbarked said:Many cherries need pollinators. Do you know the variety?
it’s a Stella, which is supposed to be self pollinating, and there is a cherry orchard a few km down the road. It is more that it is only a young tree. There were no flowers at all last year.
Stella are good but I’d still be inclinded to chat up the cherry orchardist and ask for a few sticks of bud wood. put a couple of other varieties on your tree for better pollination and extended cropping time.
When I bought my trees I chose self pollinating with the intention of adding or grafting more varieties down the track :D
My little orchard is still in its very early stages atm.
I’m a lousy gardener. I can’t even get radishes to germinate evenly..
nearly!
bluegreen said:
nearly!
slaters and white mediterranean snails don’t help.
roughbarked said:
bluegreen said:
nearly!
slaters and white mediterranean snails don’t help.
no, they wouldn’t :(
My Stella died last year. She was planted in 1999. Drought started. I got a few cherries in 2009, after the drought started to break, a great crop in 2010, then in 2011 she flowered……..and carked it. I left her alone, just in case, but she is definitely dead and due for the chainsaw. I have no idea at all what her problem was.
buffy said:
My Stella died last year. She was planted in 1999. Drought started. I got a few cherries in 2009, after the drought started to break, a great crop in 2010, then in 2011 she flowered……..and carked it. I left her alone, just in case, but she is definitely dead and due for the chainsaw. I have no idea at all what her problem was.
I lost two cherry trees when the drought was slowing down and rain was beginning to hapen again. Likely fungal as I am loathe to chhuck sprays on every second day like the cherry growers do.
EdwinT said:
roughbarked said:
EdwinT said:I am from Perth. I am looking forward to hear more about you guys. Thanks for the welcome!
GoodO but how did you find us? Are you interested in gardening? Tell us about your garden?
Actually yes I am interested in gardening but I’ve found more than what I expected here. Actually, I am just starting so I am looking for more ideas. Can you suggest one?
Hijack a thread – we all do it – it’s fun..
For instance – I noticed that roughy has copped a bucket load of rain so I could suggest he start his own thread – summin like – “RB’s place after the deluge”
- consider your thread hijacked LOL.
justin said:
EdwinT said:
roughbarked said:GoodO but how did you find us? Are you interested in gardening? Tell us about your garden?
Actually yes I am interested in gardening but I’ve found more than what I expected here. Actually, I am just starting so I am looking for more ideas. Can you suggest one?
Hijack a thread – we all do it – it’s fun..
For instance – I noticed that roughy has copped a bucket load of rain so I could suggest he start his own thread – summin like – “RB’s place after the deluge”- consider your thread hijacked LOL.
:)
I’ve got a set of flood type photos on flickr. Floods are rare here because it rarely buckets down but when it does, the water finds low spots to sit and evaporate slowly from.
roughbarked said:
justin said:
EdwinT said:Actually yes I am interested in gardening but I’ve found more than what I expected here. Actually, I am just starting so I am looking for more ideas. Can you suggest one?
Hijack a thread – we all do it – it’s fun..
For instance – I noticed that roughy has copped a bucket load of rain so I could suggest he start his own thread – summin like – “RB’s place after the deluge”- consider your thread hijacked LOL.
:)
I’ve got a set of flood type photos on flickr. Floods are rare here because it rarely buckets down but when it does, the water finds low spots to sit and evaporate slowly from.
good but – a separate thread does make it easier to reference when latecomers just pop infor a look.
you are now going to have a very unusual season and i would kinda like to follow its progress.
justin said:
roughbarked said:
justin said:Hijack a thread – we all do it – it’s fun..
For instance – I noticed that roughy has copped a bucket load of rain so I could suggest he start his own thread – summin like – “RB’s place after the deluge”- consider your thread hijacked LOL.
:)
I’ve got a set of flood type photos on flickr. Floods are rare here because it rarely buckets down but when it does, the water finds low spots to sit and evaporate slowly from.
good but – a separate thread does make it easier to reference when latecomers just pop infor a look.
you are now going to have a very unusual season and i would kinda like to follow its progress.
I see. That would mean me actually taking the time to record things.. ;)
roughbarked said:
I’m a lousy gardener. I can’t even get radishes to germinate evenly..
who’s Evelyn?
roughbarked said:
justin said:
roughbarked said::)
I’ve got a set of flood type photos on flickr. Floods are rare here because it rarely buckets down but when it does, the water finds low spots to sit and evaporate slowly from.
good but – a separate thread does make it easier to reference when latecomers just pop infor a look.
you are now going to have a very unusual season and i would kinda like to follow its progress.
I see. That would mean me actually taking the time to record things.. ;)
i forgot that – sorry – bad idea – as you were LOL.
justin said:
roughbarked said:
I’m a lousy gardener. I can’t even get radishes to germinate evenly..who’s Evelyn?
My newest granddaughter. She was home for my MiL’s 90th.
justin said:
roughbarked said:
justin said:good but – a separate thread does make it easier to reference when latecomers just pop infor a look.
you are now going to have a very unusual season and i would kinda like to follow its progress.
I see. That would mean me actually taking the time to record things.. ;)
i forgot that – sorry – bad idea – as you were LOL.
I’ve started at least two Roughbarked or ‘about roughbarked’ type threads but they got lost in the LHC and I never found them again. One was found recently by bluegreen perhaps?
I’m on dialup and my computer though whiz bang when I got it, is now way outdated.
My Flickr is probably the best way to follow me. I’m rather peeved with photobucket though I have a few photobucket accounts.
It is just too much work trying to hack out all the shyte that photobucket keeps chucking at me.. Photobucket is just one example. The whole internet has gone beyond my controI in that regard. I only want functionality.. it is taking up too much of my time trying to be on the internet at all.
It has stripped my creative productive capacity in the real world to bankrupt. Don’t be at all surprised if I shortly vanish from the scene as abruptly as I entered.
Eating and sleeping is first priority. Everything else is secondary. For me to actually record what I do or what happens in my garden on the internet, cannot be more than a handful of mere snippets.I could write several tomes but you’ll need to wait until I find a publisher willing to believe it is all worth publishing. I doubt that my dilemma is unique.
Oh where oh where has my ______ gone?
Oh where oh where has it gone?
roughbarked said:
Don’t be at all surprised if I shortly vanish from the scene as abruptly as I entered.
we would miss you :(
don’t let the Black Dog win.
bluegreen said:
roughbarked said:Don’t be at all surprised if I shortly vanish from the scene as abruptly as I entered.we would miss you :(
don’t let the Black Dog win.
:) thanks.
Things may improve if I get a paying job.
My internet won’t improve until the NBN actually rolls out.
My Flickr is probably the best way to follow me. I’m rather peeved with photobucket though I have a few photobucket accounts. It is just too much work trying to hack out all the shyte that photobucket keeps chucking at me.. Photobucket is just one example. The whole internet has gone beyond my controI in that regard. I only want functionality.. it is taking up too much of my time trying to be on the internet at all. It has stripped my creative productive capacity in the real world to bankrupt. Don’t be at all surprised if I shortly vanish from the scene as abruptly as I entered.
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you give away terrific info and inspirational guidelines – my gardening has changed since reading your advice.
i get tired of the forum and the puter generally too.
i hope you can return to real world creatively soon – as well as keep returning here. the rural districts have gone into decline generally but i suspect the asian demand for food will mean an improvement soon.
justin said:
My Flickr is probably the best way to follow me. I’m rather peeved with photobucket though I have a few photobucket accounts. It is just too much work trying to hack out all the shyte that photobucket keeps chucking at me.. Photobucket is just one example. The whole internet has gone beyond my controI in that regard. I only want functionality.. it is taking up too much of my time trying to be on the internet at all. It has stripped my creative productive capacity in the real world to bankrupt. Don’t be at all surprised if I shortly vanish from the scene as abruptly as I entered.—————————————————————————————-
you give away terrific info and inspirational guidelines – my gardening has changed since reading your advice.
i get tired of the forum and the puter generally too.
i hope you can return to real world creatively soon – as well as keep returning here. the rural districts have gone into decline generally but i suspect the asian demand for food will mean an improvement soon.
I do need to get off my coit and do more gardening and less sitting in front of a computer but everything takes so long.. I often dash in to initiate something on the computer while I’m having a drink of water, then dash back to the garden or housework whatever and allow the computer to take its time getting around to uploading or downloading..
Thanks for the votes of confidence. I’d love the feedback telling me just what it was about your gardening that changed as a result of my comment. ;)
Irrigation districts are reeling in shock at the fact that they are going to have to lose water to the birds and frogs. I walked into a rural wholesale supplier the other day and looked at budding knives. The girl said, “yes that’s all the knives we have”. I said.. are you sure?” She said “we do keep a really expensive one but that’s just for the professionals who do a lot of work”. My reply was .. “and.. that’s why I asked”. She said “I think it costs about $200”. Me, “may I please have a look at it?” “Oh the old bloke knows where it is, wonder where he went”. Me, “Well if you mean old man Capello, he was heading out the back as I came in.”
So the son appeared.. wanting to quiz me about why I wanted such a knife. Then their hired salesman came into the office, we exchanged greeting as old friends and the boss’s son and daughter suddenly realised that I wasn’t some dirty hippie but did know what I was talking about and then remembered that I had been in the shop often with other farmers buying grafting supplies.
In due course the old man returned from the dunny or wherever and the knife magically appeared from the back of a drawer. “How much?” was my Q.. “oh these knives are quite expensive, this one is $110. You can get a bone handled one for $200”.
“Good I’ll take it”. knowing that I could not buy it off the internet for $159 + postage etc.
I asked, is business slow then? (they were treating me like roalty for spending a hundred bucks).Then followed a long chat about how nobody was spending, nobody had any confidence to invest.
roughbarked said:
…Then followed a long chat about how nobody was spending, nobody had any confidence to invest. …
Alarming!
Thanks for the votes of confidence. I’d love the feedback telling me just what it was about your gardening that changed as a result of my comment.
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your advice saved my lime tree from possible death.
Happy Potter said:
Thanks for the votes of confidence. I’d love the feedback telling me just what it was about your gardening that changed as a result of my comment.
————————————— your advice saved my lime tree from possible death.
:) and what yarn did I spin you? ;)
roughbarked said:
Happy Potter said:
Thanks for the votes of confidence. I’d love the feedback telling me just what it was about your gardening that changed as a result of my comment.
————————————— your advice saved my lime tree from possible death.
:) and what yarn did I spin you? ;)
I hadda poorly little lime tree with 3 leaves and loads of blossom and teeny fruit.. I kept picking the flowers off as it was young and I thought I want it to leaf up first..but you told me if I remove all the fruit it could die. So I kept me fingers off it and now I get lovely limes :)
So there! lol
Happy Potter said:
roughbarked said:
Happy Potter said:
Thanks for the votes of confidence. I’d love the feedback telling me just what it was about your gardening that changed as a result of my comment.
————————————— your advice saved my lime tree from possible death.
:) and what yarn did I spin you? ;)
I hadda poorly little lime tree with 3 leaves and loads of blossom and teeny fruit.. I kept picking the flowers off as it was young and I thought I want it to leaf up first..but you told me if I remove all the fruit it could die. So I kept me fingers off it and now I get lovely limes :)
So there! lol
:)
little things sometimes matter more than big things.Happy Potter said:
Thanks for the votes of confidence. I’d love the feedback telling me just what it was about your gardening that changed as a result of my comment.
————————————— your advice saved my lime tree from possible death.
I re-orientated my new fruit trees so that the grafts were facing the right direction. And you have so much knowledge in that brian of yours. And you spin a good yarn as well.
bluegreen said:
Happy Potter said:
Thanks for the votes of confidence. I’d love the feedback telling me just what it was about your gardening that changed as a result of my comment.
————————————— your advice saved my lime tree from possible death.
I re-orientated my new fruit trees so that the grafts were facing the right direction. And you have so much knowledge in that brian of yours. And you spin a good yarn as well.
Poor EdwinT. This was his happy to be here thread but then he probably did realise that we are all happt to be here.
I just love RoughBarked’s chatter about grape marl in the days when it was unfashionable…I love his chatter…
Thanks for the votes of confidence. I’d love the feedback telling me just what it was about your gardening that changed as a result of my comment. ;)
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more than i can remember – but currently – its the idea of a self sown garden.
i tried the idea of the side shoot and miraculously have 6 broccoli plants i didn’t have to buy – plus a mob of leeks using the sideshoots there.
you’re not the only one to espouse letting veges go to seed but your garden is demonstrably the best example.
there are more examples of your leadership – grafting and pruning fruit trees obviously – and the natives – if you remember it was your advice to chop a tree off when it had borers.
i’m sorry i don’t record all the instances of your helpfulness – but hey – recording everything does irk me – i’ve only recently put name tags on my plants
justin said:
Thanks for the votes of confidence. I’d love the feedback telling me just what it was about your gardening that changed as a result of my comment. ;)———————————————————————————————————
more than i can remember – but currently – its the idea of a self sown garden.
i tried the idea of the side shoot and miraculously have 6 broccoli plants i didn’t have to buy – plus a mob of leeks using the sideshoots there.
you’re not the only one to espouse letting veges go to seed but your garden is demonstrably the best example.there are more examples of your leadership – grafting and pruning fruit trees obviously – and the natives – if you remember it was your advice to chop a tree off when it had borers.
i’m sorry i don’t record all the instances of your helpfulness – but hey – recording everything does irk me – i’ve only recently put name tags on my plants
Amazing. I just thought I was chattering in the wind.
Didn’t really think anyone was listening.
roughbarked said:
justin said:
Thanks for the votes of confidence. I’d love the feedback telling me just what it was about your gardening that changed as a result of my comment. ;)———————————————————————————————————
more than i can remember – but currently – its the idea of a self sown garden.
i tried the idea of the side shoot and miraculously have 6 broccoli plants i didn’t have to buy – plus a mob of leeks using the sideshoots there.
you’re not the only one to espouse letting veges go to seed but your garden is demonstrably the best example.there are more examples of your leadership – grafting and pruning fruit trees obviously – and the natives – if you remember it was your advice to chop a tree off when it had borers.
i’m sorry i don’t record all the instances of your helpfulness – but hey – recording everything does irk me – i’ve only recently put name tags on my plants
Amazing. I just thought I was chattering in the wind.
Didn’t really think anyone was listening.
chuckle – think about it – when someone starts a thread you’re interested in – do you read it even if you don’t join in?
so lots of people are just reading i presume.
justin said:
chuckle – think about it – when someone starts a thread you’re interested in – do you read it even if you don’t join in?
so lots of people are just reading i presume.
often I will just read if someone else has asked my question, or said what I want to say. I try and remember to be polite and acknowledge it but don’t always.
bluegreen said:
Well it isn’t all the time that we have the time to acknowledge every tidbit of interest. I generally tend to take the view that if nobody argues that most are in some form of agreement.
justin said:chuckle – think about it – when someone starts a thread you’re interested in – do you read it even if you don’t join in?
so lots of people are just reading i presume.
often I will just read if someone else has asked my question, or said what I want to say. I try and remember to be polite and acknowledge it but don’t always.
roughbarked said:
bluegreen said:Well it isn’t all the time that we have the time to acknowledge every tidbit of interest. I generally tend to take the view that if nobody argues that most are in some form of agreement.
justin said:chuckle – think about it – when someone starts a thread you’re interested in – do you read it even if you don’t join in?
so lots of people are just reading i presume.
often I will just read if someone else has asked my question, or said what I want to say. I try and remember to be polite and acknowledge it but don’t always.
we’ve all been gardening a long while and lotsa ppl are just starting – so they would feel intimidated – like me on the brew forums.
justin said:
roughbarked said:
bluegreen said:Well it isn’t all the time that we have the time to acknowledge every tidbit of interest. I generally tend to take the view that if nobody argues that most are in some form of agreement.often I will just read if someone else has asked my question, or said what I want to say. I try and remember to be polite and acknowledge it but don’t always.
we’ve all been gardening a long while and lotsa ppl are just starting – so they would feel intimidated – like me on the brew forums.
Because I’m very opiniated on many subjects but a lot about growing plants, I do tend to try and avoid saying too much as I fear that if not intimidating, it may just seem like balderdash to the uninitiated.
roughbarked said:
Because I’m very opiniated on many subjects but a lot about growing plants, I do tend to try and avoid saying too much as I fear that if not intimidating, it may just seem like balderdash to the uninitiated.
Yes but you explain yourself so very clearly…
Dinetta said:
roughbarked said:Because I’m very opiniated on many subjects but a lot about growing plants, I do tend to try and avoid saying too much as I fear that if not intimidating, it may just seem like balderdash to the uninitiated.
Yes but you explain yourself so very clearly…
and we have learned that not only are you opinionated, but that your opinion is backed up by sound knowledge ;)
Dinetta said:
roughbarked said:Because I’m very opiniated on many subjects but a lot about growing plants, I do tend to try and avoid saying too much as I fear that if not intimidating, it may just seem like balderdash to the uninitiated.
Yes but you explain yourself so very clearly…
:) glad you think so.
bluegreen said:
Dinetta said:
roughbarked said:Because I’m very opiniated on many subjects but a lot about growing plants, I do tend to try and avoid saying too much as I fear that if not intimidating, it may just seem like balderdash to the uninitiated.
Yes but you explain yourself so very clearly…
and we have learned that not only are you opinionated, but that your opinion is backed up by sound knowledge ;)
Well on the front of growing plants, I have done a lot, learned a lot and see that others should perhaps gain from my experience. Though that doesn’t give me any qualifications.
roughbarked said:
bluegreen said:
Dinetta said:Yes but you explain yourself so very clearly…
and we have learned that not only are you opinionated, but that your opinion is backed up by sound knowledge ;)
Well on the front of growing plants, I have done a lot, learned a lot and see that others should perhaps gain from my experience. Though that doesn’t give me any qualifications.
ppffft! to qualifications! they mean very little compared to personal experience.
bluegreen said:
roughbarked said:
bluegreen said:and we have learned that not only are you opinionated, but that your opinion is backed up by sound knowledge ;)
Well on the front of growing plants, I have done a lot, learned a lot and see that others should perhaps gain from my experience. Though that doesn’t give me any qualifications.
ppffft! to qualifications! they mean very little compared to personal experience.
Yes but everyones experiences are different. Mine are rather a solo effort.
That is why I asked EdwinT what were his.. Because everyone elses experiences are important to me in comprehending my own.
bluegreen said:
roughbarked said:
bluegreen said:and we have learned that not only are you opinionated, but that your opinion is backed up by sound knowledge ;)
Well on the front of growing plants, I have done a lot, learned a lot and see that others should perhaps gain from my experience. Though that doesn’t give me any qualifications.
ppffft! to qualifications! they mean very little compared to personal experience.
Here here to that. I’ve seen so a called qualified person give the wrong advice, and been able to correct them!
Happy Potter said:
bluegreen said:
roughbarked said:Well on the front of growing plants, I have done a lot, learned a lot and see that others should perhaps gain from my experience. Though that doesn’t give me any qualifications.
ppffft! to qualifications! they mean very little compared to personal experience.
Here here to that. I’ve seen so a called qualified person give the wrong advice, and been able to correct them!
Yes that may well be true but without them writing informative books or indeed making informative gaffes.. We would have to write the tomes ourselves, from scratch.
In reality many qualified people do listen better than opinionated people. In many cases they want to be proved wrong.
We’re really doing a full hijack on this thread
sorry EdwinT
justin said:
We’re really doing a full hijack on this thread
sorry EdwinT
Yes. Perhaps we should await the return of EdwinT and hear his stories.