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Please stay with us Eric, it is unthinkable that you should leave A4A,you are a very valued member here you really must reconsider please, SOD the bigmouth know alls they know who they are. You are a far more important member to us, who appreciate you. See you soon i hope.Take care  Mary. ;D

Well said Rosebud!  Eric, we will miss you!

I can't explain it better than has already been said Eric, but you represent what A4A is all about to me.

I would miss you dearly should you leave,

Derekthefox  :(

Tulippa No we won't miss him because he IS NOT GOING, even if only in age (he he) I must be one of the senior members here and I say STAY (PLEASE PRETTY PLEASE) Lorna.

Eric you invited me to pop in on you if I was ever in your area during  the very first time I ventured into the chatroom. How can I do that if you disappear and I haven't got to know you better? Not that it would happen in a million years(phew he says) but the offer was kind and the thought is nice. Especially after seeing all your photos of your garden.

Please don't go.

I LOVE THIS SITE,
PLEEEEEASE DON'T LET THE DIVS TAKE OVER
i'm just hoping that when the cold weather arrives, all those who are not serious about gardening will bugger off and bother some other hobbies website!
hang on in there eric, we'll call this the silly season and in darkest winter, if they're still here you can leave and i'll join you!
Tara xx

I second that Tara.

Anna

Me too! Took the words right out of my mouth.

It would be very sad not to see Eric here, he's offered me some very good advice in the past. I'd also miss seeing the photos of his wonderful gardens, truly inspirational. :)

Eric i don't think i know you but all the peeps hear do & all like you so bugger the big gobs & stay.

Very well said Tel.

   

Wardy, Eric is leaving us :'( :'(, i so hope he changes his mind.  With all his knowledge he cannot leave, just because we have a pig ignorant element on here it means we may loose the good solid friends we have made,come on Eric
show them they really do not matter,   you do. ;D.

Whoa! 'Pig ignorant', 'Divs' - these are not nice things to say about anybody...

I read around this board quite widely and the only 'incident' I saw involving Eric (& Amphibian I think) was just something about nothing. I don't want Eric to leave - and I put that on the record first time around - but I think he's old enough to make up his own mind whether he contributes here or not. I'm still a bit baffled about the Derek thing too: but I'm glad he's back and battling through whatever it is...

I may be a thick-skinned Yorshireman, but can we just lighten up a bit? Anyway, if people start forming huddles I won't know which way to jump because I like you all!! :)

No huddles are being formed, it's support for a friend who is twonked off by other not so user friendlies on here.

Anyway, if huddles should form, jump in my direction I seem to be the only sane one around these woods  ;D ;D  Oi!  Who threw that??

Eric, I've just bought 700 different varieties of Clematis and I have several questions about each one, can you help?  ;D ;D

Thinking about it ::) If I wanted to leave a site I would just leave quietly, no announcements no fuss just leave I have done this so many times that I can't remember ::) but the irony of it is that I can go back to those sites as and when ever I please, if necessary I can go back under a different name so what's the big deal. ::)

Good manners dictate that I should respond to these postings and the Pm's which I have received. I am humbled and flattered by the warmth and good wishes expressed. Like Derek I am extremely surprised that so many people would take the trouble to send messages asking me to reconsider my decision to give up on this site.

Before anyone  goes searching for people who may have 'upset' me with postings, let me say that I cannot think of one in particular which has really caused me any problems. And if there was I am quite capable of fighting my own battles.  Perhaps I have been over-sensitive, but for a while I have felt that the 'tone' of the site has become a little unpleasant. I cannot explain it any better than that, I am sorry to say. As has been pointed out, perhaps it is the' silly season' and things will pick up as the regular posters return from their Allotments. I certainly hope so. There are a fair number of 'missing persons' at present.

Also I posted about leaving the site at the end of a particularly bad day, the kitten had been missing for 48 hours (and she is MINE, and she has returned unharmed), I was in a great deal of pain and probably not really thinking straight (pain killers have that effect sometimes) and Derek (whom I regard as a good cyber-friend) said he was leaving. All in all not a good time to be posting at all really.

Anyway, I hate to be one of those people who seem to vacillate. I prefer to make a decision and stick to it, but rather than lose so many friends I shall continue to bore you all rigid with my garden pictures and profer useless and erroneous advice on subjects about which I know little or nothing and just occasionally toss in a controversial posting just to get everybody stirred up.

Hooray for Eric - glad you are staying mate (if I can be so bold to call you mate)

QuoteI shall continue to bore you all rigid with my garden pictures and profer useless and erroneous advice on subjects about which I know little or nothing and just occasionally toss in a controversial posting just to get everybody stirred up.

:o I thought that was my job...

Welcome home Eric.

glad twiggy is back  ;)

Thank you Eric, I am now a truly happy bunny  ;D ;D ;D

Celebrations I think are in order ...

Derekthefox  :D

Quote from: Roy Bham UK on September 10, 2005, 19:04:26
Thinking about it ::) If I wanted to leave a site I would just leave quietly, no announcements no fuss just leave I have done this so many times that I can't remember ::) but the irony of it is that I can go back to those sites as and when ever I please, if necessary I can go back under a different name so what's the big deal. ::)

Couldn't agree more  ;)

Quote from: Palustris on September 10, 2005, 19:26:00
for a while I have felt that the 'tone' of the site has become a little unpleasant. I cannot explain it any better than that, I am sorry to say.

My mum (Rosebud) said exactly the same thing to me on the phone about an hour ago!

Anyway, glad to see you are staying Eric.  Now, about my multi-purchase of Clematis...... ;D

Really glad you are staying Eric.  Look forward to seeing many more pics of your lovely garden.  All the best, busy_lizzie

Glad you're staying Eric  ;D

 Yesssssssssss, open the bottle cheers Eric , glad you are staying. 8)

Lets all have a big group hug  :-* and put all this behind us now. ;D

So glad everything is sorted out and a nice neat ending, enjoy your weekend everyone .;D ;D ;D ;D ;D

good, that's wonderful news  ;D

Eric - I've literally just finished posting to say how much I've appreciated Derek's contributions - and I scroll down to read your news  :(    I tend to be really thick skinned unless someone is hitting me repeatedly with something hard, so most things just go over my head!  It's a real shame if the mood hasn't been all it usually is here (or at least as long as I've been here), but you seem to me to be a key member here and it would have been awful if you'd felt it was better to leave.  I'm really glad that you've decided to stay - just felt that I should say that for the record!

Eric I am delighted you are staying, the news has considerably brightened up my Monday morning!

I am so glad your kitten is back, I can sympathise with how you felt as we have two cats but one has been missing since June 17th so I know how you felt.  The vet says we mustn't give up hope yet but I think he would have been back by now.  I am hoping he has found someone who is feeding him chicken and salmon and decided it is better food there.  I can hope anyway, it's the best way to think of him!

tulippa. Your vet is right... Don't give up. I know it was 20years ago but one of our cats went missing. I was down our farrowing shed watching a sow giving birth, I heard one of my children crying, looked up and Alyson walked in to the building with "missing" cat tucked up her jumper. He had been missing 10 months!!!!!!! Lorna.

Wow, that is amazing.  Our vet had lots of stories of about six months so yours is much longer.  He also said more cats go off in the summer and come back when it gets cold.  We have phoned all our local vets, rescue centres etc even the council to see if he had been picked up from the roadside and checked all the roadsides and railway line ourselves, but no news.

Unfortunately we hadn't had him microchipped - we have had his brother chipped now!  His brother seems to be much noisier now and snuggles up much more I think he misses him.  We won't give up hope yet, and just hope he is keeping someone company who needs it.

Ours are micro-chipped but we've still had one disappear without trace almost two years ago.  I contacted every vet and shelter but, apparently, it's only the shelters that check forID.  If someone else adopts your cat and is responsible enough to take it for checks and jabs,  the vets don't check for chips.   Seems bizarre to me.

I hope yours is OK and returns one day.

My vet checks for chips as they also give a temperature read out instead of bunging a thermometer up their bum  :o  Clever stuff.

Tulippa,

There is always hope - one of mine left home when I adopted a tom cat who had been shot with an air rifle by my neanderthal neighbours.  Poor Basil ran away soon after and I thought he was dead for a good year, that is until I walked home for once and discovered him living five streets away with a new family.  I checked with them and he had turned up 12 months before claiming to be stray.  They had no other cats and he seemed so much happier so I left him where he was.

Good excuse to get a new kitten while waiting for your cat to come back... ;D 

Alison

I've just read the Shed for the first time in weeks thanks to work overload and didn't realise there'd been a kerfuffle with folk feeling so upset they want to leave... please don't!

Anyway, I want to mention a word of warning over microchipped cats... Madam is now on her second chip. The first one was hard to detect even minutes after being put in, and when I asked for them to check it still worked last winter, it was nowhere to be found. They said that they can work their way round under the skin - and could have been in the paws or tail even! But that's not where they look if the cat is found, so we got her done again - this time it was detected immediately.

So if you have a chipped cat, remember to ask the vets to check it's still readable when you take it for the annual shots!

moonbells

Moonbells. That is a bit worrying. I haven't got a cat (for fear of being shouted at I can't bare them rubbing round my legs!!!!)  mind you when Charlie was alive we always had cats and they were fed in the morning even before my cuppa so that they didn't rub round my legs. ;D ;D Anyhow my dog Elsa has been chipped, I am going to get the vet to check her next time. Regards Lorna.

Eric ;)

Well done mate your know your amongst friends.....
the RIGHT DECISION for everyone I think

Well done 8)