That's a good joke 'ME'. That's not your garden 'ME'. Love the photos.

Well here's my garden before and after. It's not as good as your photo's 'ME'.

Love the planter but what are you going to do for a toilet now?

You're right 'ME', we have spent a number of hours working on the front garden. I even roped my sister in when she come over for the Easter break. I have to say I watched while my sister and husband toiled. It was very hard going. They had to use a pick to break up the ground. The gravel was very compacted from cars driving over it. It's been worth it though. It's a great sun trap and it's not as windy as the back garden so it's great this time of year when the wind has still got quite a bite.

Super photo 'ME'. I love butterflies. We don't get anything that big here unless you go to a butterfly farm.

I love the photos, 'ME'.

I've taken some photos of some of the plants I'm putting in the front garden. One is an aquilegia, one of my favourite spring flowers. The only problem is I can't get the right colour when I take a photo. Here are 2 photos and neither are right – the second one is nearest. But the first one is the better photo. The muscari or common name grape hyacinth has come out quite well but again the colour is not quite right. I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong when I've taken these photos to get the colours so wrong. Let me know if you have any thoughts.

I know the grape hyacinth can be a bit of a thug but I don't mind that. I just dig up any plants that have seeded where I don't want them and put them somewhere else or give them away. In the garden our plants are about 3-4 weeks early, and nothing is normal about our weather right now. There is definitely something going on. I don't know if it's global warming or what it is.

On TV I saw some cycling from Switzerland and the weather looked lovely. I think Doreen is out and about enjoying it.

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I hope your daughter is okay, 'ME'. I look forward to your photos.

Sorry, Marie Ann, I meant to explain: my daughter is to be accessed for her needs in the next day or so as she will never walk again. The cancer around her spinal cord is putting pressure on the nerves and she has lost all sensation in her right leg, and very limited movement in her left leg. She now has a future that will see her confined to a wheelchair but that won't damage her sense of humour.

Absolutely nothing, Ann marie. It's quite rare to have a cancer around the spinal cord and the area is far to delicate for extensive surgery. Annette has experienced two courses of radiotherapy and that is her limit, it is feared that any more will damage the spine itself. She is in constant pain with her back so the spine may already be damaged by radiation.

Anyway, enough of the down side, the last thing she needs is for people to feel sorry for her. Once she gets her wheelchair there will be no holding her back, she will expect mag wheels and racing colours and everyone to get out of her way. In other words a typical woman driver.

You should be very careful on that statement. It is not cheaper in New Zealand, following on from the requests of the fair sex, we have equality and that means we all, both sexes, pay the same.

The last trip I had across the Tasman, on March 22nd, was by far the bumpiest flight I have ever experienced, for about thirty minutes it was extremely uncomfortable, so much so I nearly spilled my gin. The captain of the Boeing air bus was a young lady, I would guess to be in her later thirties, blond and very attractive. It was my wife who mentioned no wonder it was a rough crossing, we had a woman driver.