Thank you Dooli for a nice comment :-) Lizalily, I got my Machala bulb from e-Bay. Sometimes, some 'to-die for' bulbs are available there :-) Donna, Mrs Garfield is growing so well in my climate. You should try to grow one, it is as you said, so delicate and pretty. As for Machala, I guess, the tropical heat brings out the stripes and the dots in its blooms. Sir Hans, my Machala bloomed a week too early to receive Mrs Garfield pollens. However, today, I receive another Machala bulb from Royal Colors (as a replacement for a bulb that I received rotten last season). Royal Colors is so full of pleasant surprise! So, I hope to dap Mrs Garfield pollens when this new Machala bulb blooms. Jan, one fine day, your Mrs Garfield bulb will give you beauriful blooms as I pretty sure the climate there is suitable for it to grow. Till then, warm regards, Hatta

I just went through this list the other day (difficult in the format it was in) and I have a question. The revision says 2004 - are there not more names that should be added? If so, does anyone know what they would be?

Nana, so glad you like thinking outside the box. I'm so glad you are here with us! This is one of the reasons I enjoy it here. We can do what ever we want and someone always likes the new idea. Both cupids were fun finds and that's the way it should be.LOL Jane, the tc is in great shape if it wasn't for a few stains that I covered up. The lady that won it was very distinct and I'm sure so was everything she owned. Glad you liked the colors on this table. It's fun to have so many different colored stems to use now. LMD, so nice to have you here posting with us. I loved Jeanne's cupid with hands and the one I found it's as nice but pretty cute. Thanks for your comments on this table. Jeanne, I haven't had this tc for to many years but glad to have it. I could see this tc used on a little round table on the porch or garden too if it wasn't for our kitty. He would probably jump up on it with one of his furry friends and that would be nasty.LOL I did try that arrangement on the Singer cabinet but it didn't look right. After reading this I moved the SC over and itplaced it back on there. Thanks, don't know if I would of tried it again. Your cherub in the hands is beautiful and a more expensive piece but the one I found it still cute. I loved that cp when I found it and will enjoy using it more. The innovating ideas are wonderful and it's ok to be a copycat!!! I would of never tried ts w/o all of this. Candy, I like the way you think! I will probably try a different color next year.LOL Luvs, I keep telling DGD she is going to get all my ts items. She just smiles. I tried to get her to make something while she was here this weekend but no interest. I asked how she liked my table cuz she hadn't commented and she just said it's ok. All she wanted to do is play and I learned all her new dance moves. It was so fun but my butt is dragging tonight. Thanks everyone for all your comments. It's Valentines Day tomorrow so I will have to think of another ts to set. I will take some pictures of the pitcher and punch bowl and post later. Happy Valentines Day All. Punk

Anyanka, I know Cardiff & Penarth, of course - not far from here. We're all a bit temperamental, so your ex is not a-typical. And you weren't indelicate at all - thanks for anwering. Cindy, We can eat leeks, of course (in Henry V, Fluellen makes the Englishman eat one raw!). Then, having a lot of the west coast all to ourselves (and lovely it is), we have a lot of fish - particularly shellfish, like cockles. Then, there's a seaweed called 'laverbread' which those of us brought up on tend to love, fried with bacon and eggs (and others tell me they would like to use as a substitute for tarring roads.....). Our lamb is delectable: 'The mountain sheep are sweeter 'But the valley sheep are fatter, 'We therefore deemed it meeter 'To carry off the latter' (War song of the Dinas Fawr) (Peacock, I think) Welsh 'black' beef is sold in the best restaurants. Welshcakes (griddlecakes) like what Gran (Mamgu) made are always lying around, waiting to be picked at, likewise Bara Brith - literally 'sweet bread' Chips are sold everywhere - there's quite a lot of overweightness (I just coined that word) around. But we are very cosmopolitan and like to try new things all the time. Fairly recently, we have started distilling a tasty whisky called 'Penderyn', but it's very expensive. Vee has mentioned 'Brains' beer.... Pam, We are going to Llandudno next weekend for a conference with the Welsh Acadamy (Yr Academi). For the last two years, the conferences have been held there. It's a lovely place, on the north Wales coast. Most of the buildings on the sea front are Regency: walk out on to the pier and look back at the town - it shines white and very beautiful. A bit like Brighton (the best bits) but on a smaller scale. Not much Welsh spoken there (except at the conference) because it's quite near Liverpool and a favourite with our English friends. And we love poetry. Swansea Borough Council refuse-collection vehicles are the only ones I have ever seen anywhere with lines of poetry on them - mainly Dylan Thomas, of course. "Here come the 'Boys of summer' ", I say, when I see them jumping out of their vans and emptying the wayside bins along the seashore...... I'm looking forward to the St. David's Day thrash. With luck, we might have won another rugby match before then (we beat Scotland last week, but, alas, were beaten by the dreaded English (Sais) the week before) I'm training up Grendal (who is half dragon, by the way, and half something unmentionable) to behave in a courtly fashion to you all when you arrive. My word for you will be: 'Croeso!' - 'Welcome!' Dido