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Hub2Dee (MrFixit) - How do I .......

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JoolsToo · 10/05/2005 15:02

take a cutting from an ancient Pieris - or is it easier just to by a new a baby one for £6.99 at Hayes Garden Centre

really tho - I'd like to try myself but haven't the foggiest how to go about it - all I know is you cut on a slant!(?). You seem quite knowledgeable in gardening matters so you're my first port of call

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hub2dee · 13/05/2005 12:27

I have been reflecting on the vice.

I am pleased to announce that my pontifications have led me to conclude this is a GOOD THING.

I think it's good because I estimate your work would be good enough to be proud of. The accomplishment would be enough to be proud of. And, quite probably, the RESULT (thrilled dd, work published on a Web site / in a magazine / book, story used by MNers or friends etc.) would be good enough to be proud of.

Of course, you may well disagree.... but I would advise that an outside, thrid party with no vested interest might actually be in a better position than you to judge this. At the end of the day if you read it to dd, she will be the one judging it, if you publish to MN, we will be the one judging it and if you get published in a book or magazine, and editor will be the one judging it.

Of course, you will want to make sure that whatever you offer up for judgement is acceptable to you... but I know you would write and rewrite until your wordcraft makes even you proud of your work.

WigWamBam · 13/05/2005 13:56

Flipping heck. I don't really know what to say. Apart from, for all you know my writing could be pants. Big, grimey ones with holes in.

I've been thinking about it, bit collywobbly but I think I might give it a go. Perhaps leave it until after dd's birthday (and associated party) next week ... (yes, I know - procrastination is the thief of time and all that. But writing could be the thief of my dd's 4th birthday party and we can't have that).

Where does your godlike genius come from?

hub2dee · 13/05/2005 14:32

Nothing wrong with putting it off for a while, and you'll get more comfortable with the thought, I expect.

Yes, the writing might be pants but I doubt it. Very much.

...from ? A little bit of mummy and a little bit of daddy.

WigWamBam · 13/05/2005 14:43

Aah, is that how it happens then?

WigWamBam · 13/05/2005 14:44

My dd's got no chance in that case

hub2dee · 13/05/2005 14:49

Well, either that or asexual cell division which is, frankly, boring.

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JoolsToo · 13/05/2005 14:51

aaaaaaaaaaah!

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WigWamBam · 13/05/2005 17:27

Asexual couldn't be anything other than boring. And if that's how you got your godlike genius then I'm getting a little concerned about you ...

hub2dee · 13/05/2005 18:22

I think I've lost even yourself.

WigWamBam · 13/05/2005 18:43

Sorry, confusing myself now. Can't remember what I meant or what I was really trying to say.

Ignore me, it's best that way.

WigWamBam · 13/05/2005 20:53

Ah, this is just pie in the sky. What the hell am I thinking of, dreaming of writing like some stupid schoolgirl?

Sorry, sorry, you've been wasting your time, this writing stuff is just some silly little fantasy, I should have stopped having those years ago.

hub2dee · 13/05/2005 22:54

Don't apologise, I invest my time only where I think it's worth it, at my own risk. BTW, I have a good investment track record.
Fact is, if I paid you £20 for one hour's work, and this work was to write a poem about Toadie, Badger, Sneaky or Beanette, and that if you didn't create something (of whatever quality), I'd be really disappointed, I think you could produce a tolerable draft of something.

I could imagine employing you to write something, and I expect you could employ yourself to do the same.

Fantasies and dreams are what life is made of. Your dream of writing is only a dream as long as you don't do it, IYSWIM.
It's not rocket science, is it ?

hub2dee · 14/05/2005 08:27

PS - Ref: "it's not rocket science" - I meant it's not like a dream that's impossible to achieve: becoming an astronaut or going to the moon is going to be rather tricky / expensive; beomcing a brain surgeon will take quite a few years of study / training... if you want to write, you could begin today.

What do you reckon, WWB ?

WigWamBam · 14/05/2005 16:35

Having a bad couple of days, frame of mind all wrong for this at the moment, normal service resumed as soon as possible.

hub2dee · 14/05/2005 17:15

Suspected not in finest fettle.

Maybe do some gardening ? Went to a plant sale today (was helping sell for local Hort Soc) and bought a couple of large hostas someone had brought in (£1.50 each - bargain)... slightly variegated, which is not something I usually like, but yellowy instead of whitey, and nice colours. A few trailing geraniums (again, not something i ususally go for) in darkest crimson blood red, and one 10 inch sunflower seedling which I will try to keep alive till beanette comes !

Let's speak in a few days though because I think this writing lark could be good for you, and that you'd be good at it.

Hope you manage to reach the summit of current mole hill.

WigWamBam · 14/05/2005 18:22

I will. I at least know what's caused said mole hill this time, which is a start! I also know you're right as usual; I just can't see the wood for the trees at the mo.

Sadly no time for gardening today, I have to find the house otherwise there will be no birthday party next week. Although if I can't get rid of the bees in the compast heap, there may be no birthday party anyway. I have a whole load of plants we bought last week sitting waiting to go in, and no time to put them in today. Perhaps tomorrow.

WigWamBam · 14/05/2005 18:23

Compast?

Dunno where my head is, but it took my spelling with it ...

hub2dee · 14/05/2005 23:25

WigWam made a typo, WigWam made a typo.

Re: Bees - Is it feasible to leave them there, and buy some green garden grid / fence stuff on a roll, and kind of 'rope off' that bit of the garden ? I think if you just try and irritate them with water / smoke / talc etc. you'd end up losing...

Didn't get my new plants in. We're lazy.

Glad you're somewhat on top of the Mole Hill Causation Scenario, and maybe you could consider all this in a few days / week / after the birthday party etc.

WigWamBam · 14/05/2005 23:30

Unlike so many MNers, this one's not perfect.

Yep, I know what the molehill causation scenario is ... need a bloody big shovel now to dig my way back out again.

The problem with the bees in the compost bin is that the compost bin has rotted and partially collapsed, so it's not really feasible to leave it. We were turning it out into a new container to get rid of the rotten wood, and found the colony of bees. Small, dark ones. I'd rather not have them destroyed, but the pest control office is always engaged and aren't responding to emails. The other problem is children playing in the garden - if the bees get annoyed they're worse than MrWWB with a hangover.

hub2dee · 14/05/2005 23:42

I don't tend to see a lot of 'perfect' round here, actually.

OK. Get digging and we'll chat whenever...

Good luck with the beeeeezzzzzz.

WigWamBam · 14/05/2005 23:45

Going to need it ... I can just imagine the end result of a collision between a 4 year old's birthday party and a colony of bees ...

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