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 AJLR
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Tired
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| Re: Tired [message #9175 is a reply to message #9172 ] |
Tue, 30 December 2008 18:19  |
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Laura
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Aw, man. I'm thinking warm fuzzy thoughts that you'll both pull through your respective influenzas. With that full-body flu I'm amazed you can even think about your plants, much less blog about them. My cognitive skills always dip alarmingly when ill, so I don't even get the pleasure of reading a good book.
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| Re: Tired [message #9178 is a reply to message #9172 ] |
Tue, 30 December 2008 18:22 |
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AJLR
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Oh Robin, yes, things are getting a bit frosted, aren't they. It's bad here, two hundred yards from the sea, so I imagine (*checks weather report for Robin's neck of the woods - eesh!*) that things are a degree or so colder with you. Poor little plantlets, they don't deserve this, do they. Though I've got a Felicia amelloides in a pot that (so far) has gone on blooming through all this - if things really want to survive, they seem to manage somehow. Just keep talking to your pots and I hope Peter manages to get a good daylight bulb or so for you. 
I trust you've got some nice warm bedsocks and a really good hot water bottle waiting for you upstairs? Warm wishes coming your way.
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| Re: Tired [message #9181 is a reply to message #9172 ] |
Tue, 30 December 2008 18:46 |
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Robin wrote:| Quote: |
I remember fifteen or so years ago when I wanted to set up a tiny greenhouse in one of the outbuildings in the old house it was like nobody had ever thought of such a thing before and trying to find suitable lighting for a non-commercial enterprise was very nearly impossible.†† Since then it’s become a commonplace, I think, but I don’t think it’s a commonplace to have a plant light strung up in your sitting room.
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A friend of mine who has the honor to be a Special Agent for an arm of the US Government (he simply says "I work for the federal government", knowing that his inquirers will instantly drop the subject) has frequent occasion to seize prodigious quantities of noncommercial grow-lights -- which later turn up at government auctions at pennies-on-the-dollar. Your local constabulary, even in England, may well know of similar auctions, and of course they may know of local sources -- they probably have same under surveillance :)-- and it might be a good idea to make sure they know, up front, that your purpose in seeking grow-lights is to preserve harmless houseplants from the ravages of global warming. I recognize that the odds are poor, but still, it might be a useful conversation to have. Just a thought, so to speak...
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| Re: Tired [message #9183 is a reply to message #9172 ] |
Tue, 30 December 2008 19:10 |
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Urgh. I got nothin', but I hope you start feeling better soon. Glad to hear Peter is doing better...
Smooshes!
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| Re: Tired [message #9195 is a reply to message #9191 ] |
Wed, 31 December 2008 03:52 |
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| kalimeg wrote on Tue, 30 December 2008 23:13 |
One other caveat: full spectrum light will fade book covers, paint, carpets, upholstery and anything else in its path, so cover things you want to preserve.
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Can't you get grow lights that don't have the UV spectrum in them? I think you can because I have a SAD light box that has everything but UVs, so I can sit under it and not get sunburned. Not sure if you can get bulbs like that, though.
Sorry you're still sick Robin--the flu is the worst. And the men all seem to get better faster, don't they. At least mine does too. I would LOVE to meet a 5 to 7 day flu. Ha. If I catch it, I'm in for a ride. Must be the added immune stuff from the ME, but it is not fun. Not at all.
You've had a rough several months--hope everything improves soon.
"And by the way you look fantastic in your boots of Chinese plastic."
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| Re: Tired [message #9224 is a reply to message #9172 ] |
Wed, 31 December 2008 15:50 |
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Peter, who is recovering from the flu, sort of half-drat him, I mean, it’s a good thing one of us is more or less functional but I ALWAYS get things worse
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Yeah, I have one of those husbands, too. He either brings it home from work and gives it to me without getting it himself or else he gets it in a much milder form than I do. I'm sure it's because he was breast-fed and I was bottle fed.
At the risk of having messy and foul objects hurled at my head from 3,000 miles away, I have to say that my new neighborhood is stunningly beautiful in the snow. A few days ago we had a thaw and it went up into the 60s. I was seriously upset; all the snow disappeared. But not to fear; it's back today with a vengeance. The roads are bad, the snow is deep, and the conifers are covered with beautiful blankets of white. 
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| Re: Tired [message #9225 is a reply to message #9172 ] |
Wed, 31 December 2008 16:08 |
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Laura
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Don't worry, Judith. My husband and I were both breast-fed, and we have the same situation as you guys. I catch EVERYTHING while my husband breezes by with maybe a runny nose. If that.
There are all sorts of variables that can do it. I've learned to manage my susceptibility to illness with exercise, a multivitamin (carefully chosen), and a neti pot for when I feel a cold coming on or daily during prime cold and flu season. My husband doesn't need to do any of these things. (At least not for immunity reasons)
Ah, well.
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| Re: Tired [message #9354 is a reply to message #9172 ] |
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Speaking of the weather - how about this for January in Australia? Admittedly, we were at Mt Baw Baw, but SNOW??!! in JANUARY!!??
Two funny aspects of this - being summer, it's peak stone fruit season, so we were inside gorging on fresh, local peaches, cherries, apriocots, nectarines while it was snowing outside.
And three years ago, the same group of friends spent the New Year week up at the same place in Baw Baw, and it was so hot that the tar in the road in front of the lodge was melting.
Not this time - K's dog was about to get into trouble for eating snow off the leaves....
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Sat, 03 January 2009 05:03 |
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I know that wasn't why you posted it - but what a lovely, atmospheric picture! I'm also slightly envious, although we've got a little snow this night.
Why, I feel all thin, sort of stretched, if you know what I mean, like butter that has been scraped over too much bread.
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At least we are on downward slope to spring and sunshine, even if this dire and dank weather is telling us otherwise. I wish you a cashmere snuggly dressing gown and socks to get you through the worst, Robin.