Posted by Martin on September 4, 2010, 6:46 pm
>>
>>>
>>>>
>>>>> We think the improvement has been huge - leaps and bounds. They're now
>>>>> reducing the number of presenters and the presenters are doing just
>>>>> that, not cracking daft jokes or having some stupid competition about
>>>>> making a hanging basket. We met one of the directors who had driven
>>>>> down from Birmingham to get some plants here and to shoot at Carol
>>>>> Klein's garden for last week's episode. We said we thought it had
>>>>> improved a LOT but asked if more plant names could be shown onscreen.
>>>>> Apparently there's some rule that if a plant is shown for less than x
>>>>> seconds, its name doesn't go up. I can only guess this is to do with
>>>>> expense but have no actual knowledge of that.
>>>>
>>>> The name & plant needs to be visible for X time if you want to read the
>>>> name and
>>>> look at the plant.
>>>
>>> There was one we saw that spiked our attention quite long enough to get
>>> a name, too but no name was shown. I agree that people might need time
>>> to write names down if they're not familiar with Latin names, though.
>>> Or perhaps, on the web site, they could list plants that have been
>>> shown, however briefly. At least that would enable people to look it
>>> up on Google and see more about it. The only thing about that however,
>>> is that some researcher would have to be occupied in ringing round
>>> garden and nursery owners to ask the name of "that red thing we showed
>>> just after the yellow thing". ;-)
>>>>
>>>>> We said that no
>>>>> gardeners we knew would waste money putting a fork and spade on a shed
>>>>> as handles and that did raise a laugh - not his idea, obviously! But
>>>>> it's a real pleasure to see some proper gardening information coming
>>>>> back into the programme and much less celebrity type focus on the
>>>>> people, rather than the gardening. We have the impression just from
>>>>> watching him, that Toby Buckland is enjoying it more, too. He seems to
>>>>> be allowing his personality to come through whereas before I felt
>>>>> always that he was just a bit embarrassed by the nonsense!
>>>>
>>>> After yesterday's GW I know how to make a string of onions. It was
explained in
>>>> another programme in the last week but not very clearly. In the mean time,
my
>>>> wife had converted the onions into pickles. Maybe I should tell GW how to
tie a
>>>> hangman's knot. What was shown yesterday wasn't the real thing.
>>>
>>> For a moment I thought the rabbit was going to come up through the hole
>>> and make a bowline
>>
>> Me too, followed by a plug for the re-showing of Were Rabbit that is on BBC
>> tonight :o)
>>
>>> - it seemed to turn into a kind of bastardised round
>>> turn and not-quite-two half hitches! ;-)
>>
>> The sort that undoes itself in the middle of the night, when there is a boat
>> attached to the other end of the rope.
>>
>> Reminds me of a friend with a brain dead crew on her boat. In a lock
>> she said to
>> him jump ashore with the mooring warp. She looked up and there he was looking
>> down at her with the unattached rope neatly coiled in his hand.
>Er.......a member of our family did just that in Tresco with an anchor
>this summer. Mercifully the boat was a small dinghy and when asked to
>throw the anchor overboard, she took it rather too literally - rope and
>all. ;-)
LOL
There is another anchor complete with many fathoms of chain somewhere near the
end of Yarmouth IOW pier. It was thrown over the side in a panic by the "expert"
on the first charter boat I ever sailed on. I still find it odd that nobody had
noticed the end of the chain wasn't attached to the boat. We were hardly the
first to charter the boat.
--
Martin
Posted by Sacha on September 4, 2010, 7:49 pm
> <snip>
>>> Reminds me of a friend with a brain dead crew on her boat. In a lock
>>> she said to
>>> him jump ashore with the mooring warp. She looked up and there he was looking
>>> down at her with the unattached rope neatly coiled in his hand.
>>
>> Er.......a member of our family did just that in Tresco with an anchor
>> this summer. Mercifully the boat was a small dinghy and when asked to
>> throw the anchor overboard, she took it rather too literally - rope and
>> all. ;-)
>
> LOL
>
> There is another anchor complete with many fathoms of chain somewhere near the
> end of Yarmouth IOW pier. It was thrown over the side in a panic by the
> "expert"
> on the first charter boat I ever sailed on. I still find it odd that nobody had
> noticed the end of the chain wasn't attached to the boat. We were hardly the
> first to charter the boat.
Now that we're very OT, I will end by reminding you of the cartoon in
Yachting Monthly in which eager and newbie charterers at anchor in
azure seas, tells the charter rep "We've checked the inventory and the
only thing we can't find is the anchor". ;-)
--
Sacha
www.hillhousenursery.com
South Devon
Posted by Chris J Dixon on September 5, 2010, 3:33 am
Sacha wrote:
>Now that we're very OT, I will end by reminding you of the cartoon in
>Yachting Monthly in which eager and newbie charterers at anchor in
>azure seas, tells the charter rep "We've checked the inventory and the
>only thing we can't find is the anchor". ;-)
Or "We've weighed the anchor, and it seems about right."
Chris
--
Chris J Dixon Nottingham UK
chris@cdixon.me.uk
Have dancing shoes, will ceilidh.
Posted by Sacha on September 5, 2010, 5:28 am
> Sacha wrote:
>
>> Now that we're very OT, I will end by reminding you of the cartoon in
>> Yachting Monthly in which eager and newbie charterers at anchor in
>> azure seas, tells the charter rep "We've checked the inventory and the
>> only thing we can't find is the anchor". ;-)
>
> Or "We've weighed the anchor, and it seems about right."
>
> Chris
A golden oldie!
--
Sacha
www.hillhousenursery.com
South Devon
Posted by Martin on September 5, 2010, 4:02 am
>> <snip>
>>>> Reminds me of a friend with a brain dead crew on her boat. In a lock
>>>> she said to
>>>> him jump ashore with the mooring warp. She looked up and there he was
looking
>>>> down at her with the unattached rope neatly coiled in his hand.
>>>
>>> Er.......a member of our family did just that in Tresco with an anchor
>>> this summer. Mercifully the boat was a small dinghy and when asked to
>>> throw the anchor overboard, she took it rather too literally - rope and
>>> all. ;-)
>>
>> LOL
>>
>> There is another anchor complete with many fathoms of chain somewhere near the
>> end of Yarmouth IOW pier. It was thrown over the side in a panic by the
>> "expert"
>> on the first charter boat I ever sailed on. I still find it odd that nobody
had
>> noticed the end of the chain wasn't attached to the boat. We were hardly the
>> first to charter the boat.
>Now that we're very OT, I will end by reminding you of the cartoon in
>Yachting Monthly in which eager and newbie charterers at anchor in
>azure seas, tells the charter rep "We've checked the inventory and the
>only thing we can't find is the anchor". ;-)
LOL
--
Martin
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>>>
>>>>
>>>>> We think the improvement has been huge - leaps and bounds. They're now
>>>>> reducing the number of presenters and the presenters are doing just
>>>>> that, not cracking daft jokes or having some stupid competition about
>>>>> making a hanging basket. We met one of the directors who had driven
>>>>> down from Birmingham to get some plants here and to shoot at Carol
>>>>> Klein's garden for last week's episode. We said we thought it had
>>>>> improved a LOT but asked if more plant names could be shown onscreen.
>>>>> Apparently there's some rule that if a plant is shown for less than x
>>>>> seconds, its name doesn't go up. I can only guess this is to do with
>>>>> expense but have no actual knowledge of that.
>>>>
>>>> The name & plant needs to be visible for X time if you want to read the
>>>> name and
>>>> look at the plant.
>>>
>>> There was one we saw that spiked our attention quite long enough to get
>>> a name, too but no name was shown. I agree that people might need time
>>> to write names down if they're not familiar with Latin names, though.
>>> Or perhaps, on the web site, they could list plants that have been
>>> shown, however briefly. At least that would enable people to look it
>>> up on Google and see more about it. The only thing about that however,
>>> is that some researcher would have to be occupied in ringing round
>>> garden and nursery owners to ask the name of "that red thing we showed
>>> just after the yellow thing". ;-)
>>>>
>>>>> We said that no
>>>>> gardeners we knew would waste money putting a fork and spade on a shed
>>>>> as handles and that did raise a laugh - not his idea, obviously! But
>>>>> it's a real pleasure to see some proper gardening information coming
>>>>> back into the programme and much less celebrity type focus on the
>>>>> people, rather than the gardening. We have the impression just from
>>>>> watching him, that Toby Buckland is enjoying it more, too. He seems to
>>>>> be allowing his personality to come through whereas before I felt
>>>>> always that he was just a bit embarrassed by the nonsense!
>>>>
>>>> After yesterday's GW I know how to make a string of onions. It was