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Quote from: Jayb on January 10, 2013, 21:12:57
I've been doing the flu thing again, hoping to post everyone's parcel the beginning of next week.

I hope you get better soon.

Get yourself well, that's what matters.

Keep toasty with a little light catalogue reading.

...get well wishes for me too. Echoing what others say - there is no rush whatsoever!!!

Hope you feel better soon Jaybe!

Get plenty of    and lots of  and soon you'll have plenty of

     

Debs x

did anyone spot the typo??

meant . .  .get well wishes FROM me!!!

. . . I'm perfectly fine

Debs

Thanks all

Just checking through the parcels, hope to post tomorrow. 

Quote from: Jayb on January 17, 2013, 12:17:27
Thanks all

Just checking through the parcels, hope to post tomorrow. 

Woohoo!!!   

However .............

Having just heard the weather forecast for your part of the world, please take no risks tomorrow.  It sounds grim.  If the roads are as bad as the red weather warning suggests, please delay a day or so and stay safe.

  Yowch, red snow warnings, hadn't checked the weather. Maybe I'll hold them a couple of days longer I'd rather them safe here than stuck in freezing weather in a mail sack somewhere

Quote from: Jayb on January 17, 2013, 15:30:39
  Yowch, red snow warnings, hadn't checked the weather. Maybe I'll hold them a couple of days longer I'd rather them safe here than stuck in freezing weather in a mail sack somewhere

Sounds like a good idea to me! Wait till you can see the 

Lol I won't wait that long

Quote from: Jayb on January 17, 2013, 18:25:37
Lol I won't wait that long

Stay safe, please do.  Just got home before the snows started from Heathrow to fetch OH who was on a business trip.  His plane got in just before 7 in the morning without a problem.  For once I was glad for a very early rise!  What is the weather doing your way, JayB? Keep safe and don't rush out unless the roads are safe.

Hope everybody stays safe on their journeys too.

Thanks Galina, glad your OH had no problems getting home.
You were right, lots of white stuff here, won't be going out today. I'll aim to post Monday.

Forgot to say, I'd misplaced the Black Pod runners, not sure if they ended up in the bin even. But luckily I did have some backups, just not so many so I'm afraid only about 6 beans each

Also I've had a bit of an accident with my labels and can't tell Tamra cucumber apart from my melons! So there won't be any this year sorry. I'll do a test sow later on and include them next year if we do another Circle.

6 beans are adequate for runners, so don't worry. If they all germinate, that'll provide lots of seed, with a small crop as well.

Quote from: Robert_Brenchley on January 20, 2013, 19:39:48
6 beans are adequate for runners, so don't worry.

Hope so 

Quote from: Robert_Brenchley on January 20, 2013, 19:39:48
If they all germinate, that'll provide lots of seed, with a small crop as well.

They look ok and were dried well, seeds are small but they were in my original seed from HSL.

Oh..accidents do happen to us all..and irritating as it is, luckily you didn't lost the seeds. Labeling is least of the worries 

I can already feel little 'tickle' of excitement at the bottom of my tummy when thinking of all those seeds that we are about to recover from our parcels...all those loooooovely packets to touch...and then open them one by one and peek inside to see what the seeds look like...and then lovingly drop few out of packet on the palm of the hand and feel the seeds....and then sitdown with cup of tea and start organizing the packets in their 'right' places amongst other packets in seedboxes....and then make another cup of tea and start planning pen on paper what crop goes where on the plot....and then yet another cup of tea and day dreaming all those lushly growing rows of perfect looking crops where there is not a single pest on a site...and then anothe ...NO..then its time for LOO!

But where did my black pod beans go? They were all ready packed in envelopes

Lovely description goodlife, and even though I've seen all the packets I can't wait until my parcel is mine to open properly, lovely lovely seeds

Quote from: goodlife on January 21, 2013, 09:27:38
Oh..accidents do happen to us all..and irritating as it is, luckily you didn't lost the seeds. Labeling is least of the worries 

I can already feel little 'tickle' of excitement at the bottom of my tummy when thinking of all those seeds that we are about to recover from our parcels...all those loooooovely packets to touch...and then open them one by one and peek inside to see what the seeds look like...and then lovingly drop few out of packet on the palm of the hand and feel the seeds....and then sitdown with cup of tea and start organizing the packets in their 'right' places amongst other packets in seedboxes....and then make another cup of tea and start planning pen on paper what crop goes where on the plot....and then yet another cup of tea and day dreaming all those lushly growing rows of perfect looking crops where there is not a single pest on a site...and then anothe ...NO..then its time for LOO!

You forgotto mention the 'geek stage' - typing them into the database on the puter together with descriptions and donor information - that is usually worth at least 
and this stage could last for days, interspersed with a strong desire to unpack seeds again just to look at them, then play with them .......

Yes we are all definitely looking forward to this year's parcel.

I had my seeds all packed up and sent to JayB, tidied up the table and found another set of seeds in their packets that had somehow avoided getting posted.  Ah well - I sent them a few days later.  I think most of us had a mishap or two along the way.  But I am very envious that you had melon seeds to be confused over JayB - my melon attempts in 2012 were all doomed to sad failure.   

Does the geek stage cover printing labels and envelopes too 

Ahhh the melons, they were a bit slow to get going but did ok, particularly with the summer we had. They are called Most Northern Melon, nice selection of types mostly quite small but nice, sweet and juicy. I'm growing them again this year and adding a little to the op mix. I'm hoping to trail some outside as well but I don't have much hope for these. You are welcome to some seed if you like to try them, I've a couple of things to send you anyway that I didn't get around to adding to the seed parcel, so easy to slip some in when I work out what's what!

Seeds parcels were posted today 
Not sure how but I'm left with 1 packet of Mystery Tomatoes, and 1 pack each of Reade krobbe beans and Wieringer Boon beans, couldn't find which envelope they were from, so please if they are yours let me know and I'll forward them on.