Dear Sharon, i never said that you did. Quote: OK, no matter what your answer is, I entered anyway, just because I wanted to. You are surrounded by opinionated women, Neil, so you can't just say NO!
Puhleeeeeeze, don't say no.
Regards.
Neil.

Oh Neil I didn't know that I couldn't enter. Sorry but oh well.............what can I say?

I plead the fifth on all accounts.

Gotta go dh is going through a mid-life crisis I think He wants to but a motorcycle!!!!! Not that I object.....I LOVE motorcycles, but it is NOT a Harley.................they are BUILT in Milwaukee....... Honda's are foreign born......................

Well, yeah, but it was in the middle of the night, and that's my excuse and I'm sticking to it.

Blue Kentucky Girl blooming this morning....

Dear Cherie, of course you can enter I never said you couldn't, anybody can enter but Sarah and I. It was Sharon throwing a spanner in the works, by mentioning such things.
Anybody can enter ten photos per category, which means you can: ALL ENTER THIRTY PHOTOS ON COTTAGE GARDENS AND THIRTY PHOTOS ON BRITISH GARDENING & GARDENS, THAT MAKES SIXTY PHOTOS IF YOU SO WISH! If you are a member of both cubits that is, otherwise you can only add thirty to the cubit you are a member of!
I have put some new recipes on both the Recipes Forum and the Database, one for Pickled eggs and the other for Marinated mushrooms.
I have also has some nice C-Mails from non-members saying it is nice if you type in Suitable For Vegetarians in the Database, all Recipes that are suitable come up!
You keep putting your photos in and I hope other people do as well, as I might have to extend it as I do believe we have about 5 in each cubit!
Regards.
Neil.

Working outside I found this. I didn't know Ajuga bloomed. I just put this in last July.

Just managed to scan a picture into my computer, but can't get it into the folder where I want it. Tonight (just now) managed to drag 2 pictures which were in the wrong folder into the correct ones. I will quit while I'm ahead.

Cece, what is wrong with a bike built in your home state? We have had many bikes including several Harleys, but after having downsized and having to make a choice of one bike to keep, it is the BMW K1200LT... big cruiser bike that handles like a sport bike. Oh, and a CD changer, heated seat and grips, and ABS braking, which has saved our lives at least once. Have fun riding your DH's midlife crisis! It can be fun!

Brenda

Dear Cherie, I used to race motorcycles all over the place both road racing\track and Motocross, and of course drive\race on the road! I have always had bikes as due to something that happened in the Army I hate Cars! However when they found out I was Epileptic they took my licence away, which means I cannot drive on the road! You can however still ride on private land, so as I miss bikes terribly, I have been out on them whenever an occasion arrives! Lately I rode a Suzuki 600R and for a 600 that being a sports bike which are more suited to our roads as they are twisty and there is a lot of braking and accelerating and braking. This was fast and if I had not been on a bike for a long time and was having a mid life crisis, I personally think 140 mph is enough till you got used to it!
More recently i had a go for a day around Brands Hatch on different Triumphs a British Bike. That was great fun and they were lovely to ride although a lot different power wise than the high revving Suzuki. They do an American cruiser but it is impractical for British roads, being to slow, heavy and the handling lets that type of bike down on wet and dry corners! The best thing i have ridden was last year and that was a Ducati 999, that is colossal. Huge power and fantastic handling in a very light bike for 1000 cc, but very expensive! It is like a racing bike on the road, you come off that after a day around a race track and you smile from ear to ear!
Brenda the Police use BMW K1000 and K1200s over here and the British bikers call them (nicely) the 'Flying brick' due to their brick like engine! However as two stokes are still allowed here, the mad youngster like to tease them with their RG 500s and Yamaha RD 500s, for on country roads the two stroke racing bikes can leave most things in a swirl of tow stroke moke. They can't catch them!
My friend has a BMW K1000 and it is nice to ride, on motorways it is fine, but on the really small country roads it has to slow down and that is no fun!
It is not that we are all mad, it is just that apart from the Romans building a few straight roads, a lot of the UK is very twisty with hairpin bends etc, that to us is what biking is about, throwing it through the bends. Straight roads would bore me in 30 seconds, I would probably fall asleep and crash!
Just tell him to be careful on a bike as once someone gets in a car they turn their brain off!
Regards.
Neil.

Neil, I am going to get Tony over here on cubits because you and he need to share stories! Have you had a moment to check out Tony's blog? You will read our life story there... at least over the past several years, and many, many R.A.F. and motorcycling adventures.

Brenda

Well, I'll let the cat out of the bag. I was a Biker Chick...

The only bike that I could touch ground with, back in the early 70', was a 90cc Suzuki dirt bike which was a 2 stroke. We called it my Popcorn Popper. It was way too noisy, but it was mine. I was the most popular mom on the block, for I was the only one that could take the kids out so they could practice and not working full time then, I could take them for their driving tests. Back then I was about the only woman on the road and I know the only doctor's wife. What fun I had. I still have my leather jacket.

Both my boys raced 650's and my second son still has a bored-out Kawasaki that's a screamer. My daughter hates them, but now has a scooter and is having a ball with it.

Hugs,

Nancy

Dear Nancy, you have not surprised me, I thought you had it in you! My mother was also a Biker and my father use to race BSAs the old ones, that you can repair with a Swiss Army knife!
My friend who had the Ducati 999 has traded it in for a Suzuki GSX1300R; this is a sports bike if you can keep the front wheel on the ground, it does 204 mph straight out of the shop, but there is a great bike tuner over here and he tunes them and changes the computer chip that controls the engine! You can have it tuned to different levels, he has gone for the middle one as he does not want it in full racing trim as it would not be road legal. Luckily we have lots of old RAF and USAAF Bases over here that have 'Track Days'. They are cheap and you can race around the perimeter roads and the runways. I cannot wait to see what his new Suzuki will do (220 mph), for if you got caught on the road doing that you would be jailed in one of H.M. Queens Holiday camps!
I cannot do much at the moment as when Sarah comes home, I fear I will be "Grounded."
Regards.
Neil.

A remarkable picture, well I think so!
One of my tree ferns after doing nothing since suffering from the snow and ice has really come to life. I have never had this many new fronds in one go, quite remarkable for a fossil plant!
To think they have found fossils of these plants that are over 150 million years old, and here is one bringing new life in such a multitude is astonishing to me!
Regards,
Neil.
p.s Twelve new fronds I believe!

WOW...........now go rest.

Dear Cherie, shall do as I am told before I am grounded. I think that is what you call it. though I have just been out!
Found this beautiful cherry, what do you think!
Regards.
Aye Maam!
Regards.
Neil.

I think asked you please rest and take it easy today, not running around taking pictures........Why is it the men I form friendships with are always so hardheaded and stubborn!

Just like my Ed............

The pic is very lovely by the way............You better listen or she's liable to ground you from even coming here and playing with your friends...............

Beautiful, Neil.

Please take care.

Hugs,

Nancy

My Bugle in the garden!
Regards.
Neil.

Mine too, only a different angle from the one on Cottages gardens..........

A lower picture of the tree fern, one of them!
Regards.
Neil.

A lilac in bloom. The yellow thing next to it is a Sambucus racemosa 'Plumosa Aurea', or the yellow leaved, finely cut elder!
Regards.
Neil.