I was wrong!

la_spice [Member]
05/05/08 @ 12:06

I love bluebells and was bemoaning the fact that I've never seen them here. Mind you these are in a friends' garden and were brought over from England!

jenray ^pro
http://www.jenniferhunter.co.uk
05/05/08 @ 12:49

There's a stronger genus of bluebell from abroad that's threatening to extinguish ours so surprised none in France...would have thought there would be plenty...great big hugs...XX

la_spice [Member]
05/05/08 @ 12:53

Not in my part of it there isn't! I simply adore bluebell woods - they remind me of my childhood :yes:

359Rabbit ^pro
05/05/08 @ 17:46

excellent, great shot

Rabbit

la_spice [Member]
05/05/08 @ 17:51

Thank you again

spiritbird ^pro
05/05/08 @ 18:07

There are bluebells over the white cliffs of Dover
La-Spice has found them now you see
She is filled with rapture that she could capture
A picture of them just like me

la_spice [Member]
05/05/08 @ 18:13

Very good! :))

Melinda_blog [Member]
05/05/08 @ 18:54

Those are definitely Spanish ones, not English.
Sorry!
I think we still have a few English ones in our garden, and I try to protect them, but the Spanish ones are much stronger breeders (wouldn't you know!) and they're definitely taking over. And they've apparently infiltrated France too!
I'll have words with Eduardo when I see him in Paris on Thursday :))

la_spice [Member]
05/05/08 @ 18:59

Well they obviously get around those Spanish breeders! :yes: My friend said she brought them here from the UK a few years back. Naughty Spaniards! :>>

Have a good trip

Melinda_blog [Member]
05/05/08 @ 19:28

The English ones are more delicate, and the florets tend to be all on the same side of the stem, so you get that characteristic curve:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2006/may/03/conservationandendangeredspecies.uknews1
Though when I googled the 'bluebell fairy', looks to me as though his florets are all over the place too - so maybe the nasty Spaniards have been around for longer than we realised! :))
http://www.flower-fairies-pictures.co.uk/ff/shop/details.asp?productID=55

I will try and dig out some bluebell woods pictures I took a couple of years ago, to make you feel really homesick!

PS I can't wait - though I've got a day in London tomorrow, which might be quite fun too

la_spice [Member]
05/05/08 @ 19:34

Sounds interesting - anything to do with the return of a certain sparing partner?

I'll check out the bluebell links - thanks

Melinda_blog [Member]
05/05/08 @ 19:53

Not at all, I just have to attend an editorial meeting in Battersea
Of course, what i do after that until the evening train from St Pancras is entirely up to me.
But the thought of dousing myself in opium and hanging around the champagne bar never even crossed my mind

la_spice [Member]
05/05/08 @ 20:24

As long as you don't douse yourself in champagne and hang around opium bars or you will sound like that women in a certain someone's blog!

Melinda_blog [Member]
05/05/08 @ 20:26

Ooops, glad you pointed that out, would have been an easy mistake :oops:

la_spice [Member]
05/05/08 @ 20:31

Enjoy! :yes:

Melinda_blog [Member]
05/05/08 @ 20:27

Maybe I'll just sit quietly in the British Library...

la_spice [Member]
05/05/08 @ 20:31

Don't forget to take your knitting then! :))

Melinda_blog [Member]
05/05/08 @ 20:42

What, and get arrested as a terrorist suspect for carrying lethal weapons on the London transport system??? 88|

la_spice [Member]
05/05/08 @ 20:44

Second thoughts :no:

Melinda_blog [Member]
05/05/08 @ 20:48

Does this go with this comment, or the previous one???

la_spice [Member]
05/05/08 @ 21:10

You've got me totally confused now!

Melinda_blog [Member]
05/05/08 @ 21:37

Dousing and hanging out???
I thought you were warning me off!

la_spice [Member]
05/05/08 @ 22:04

No! :no: second thoughts about the knitting silly!!! :))

davidjohn ^pro
05/05/08 @ 19:07

Well your picture proves the point I made; the central flowers, in the shade, are perfectly blue but at the edge just creeping in are the odd heads looking slightly bleached by the sun. I think I'm right but its a really really excellent picture ! Did you mean unconfined ? [Unbounded perhaps ?] That seems an odd choice of word ! David.

la_spice [Member]
05/05/08 @ 19:17

Yes unconfined as in not contained. You know like when a child can't contain its excitement on Christmas morning. In fact I think there are some words of a song/hymn that says "let your joy be unconfined".

la_spice [Member]
05/05/08 @ 19:20

I was wrong (again) it was Lord Byron who wrote:

"On with the dance! Let joy be unconfined"

http://www.music-lyrics-gospel.com/gospel_music_lyrics/sometimes_alleluia_10307.asp

la_spice [Member]
05/05/08 @ 19:24

I was right about a religious song too!

Melinda_blog [Member]
05/05/08 @ 20:46

Thank you! A favourite phrase of mine (though normally laced heavily with irony), and I never knew where it came from - Byron, eh?
now there's a thing... :))
Another one I like is 'Oh, my heart, my heart, my beating heart...'
But we both know where THAT'S from, don't we? :))

la_spice [Member]
05/05/08 @ 21:15

I don't think I know that one? :no:

Melinda_blog [Member]
05/05/08 @ 21:35

Ho could you have forgotten so soon?
Josephine to Ralph....
I'm disappointed in you :no:

la_spice [Member]
05/05/08 @ 22:03

Oops - :oops: