british parliament (for entertainment!!!) - my god, lola, you need to get out more. Annie (if still lurking) - I know you understand the comforting familiarity we all feel about a particular forum because it operates on the cottage garden forum too - which is why we tend to stick to a particular forum regardless of the topic being discussed - because we feel we are among friends. Having built up relationships, sometimes over years, we have an all too human tendency to stay with what we know. So, when I want to yatter on about trees (a new obsession for me) or perennials (an old favourite), we tend to post, first and foremost, on the forum we are most familiar with. I doubt there was any personal animosity in this whole selection of posts (as a specialist in angry hostility, I can assure you of that)........ but it is in serious danger of heading that way.

Marcia Sorry to hear about your mother-in-law. We all totally understand. Been there and done that with my mother several years ago - it is not fun or easy by any means. I think the trade we had set up was for next month @ the fall swap.....

Vicci,... Hi! Speaking for myself and my wife (Elly), and as we also participated in this year's Secret Santa Seed Swap, your situation is totally understandable/forgivable, etc. But,...perhaps, this would have actually more appropriatly been posted to the SSSS swap thread itself? - In any case, thanks for joining-n-playing! It sure was an enormous lot of fun!! Happiest of new years to you!! :)

When I tried to track my package the recorded voice told me the package HAD ARRIVED at MY HOUSE the day they picked it up! (UPS.com said the same thing) When I finally got a live person they told me the number was recycled; i.e. used again for it's journey to the East Coast but the technology hadn't recognized the fact. Said it was set to arrive Thursday and it did. But for awhile I was afraid it was coming back!