Hello, New to this forum but not to this country. Find this forum much, much more interesting than others I have visited as a guest. Hope I'm made welcome.
Olive trees are best uprooted, (poor things), in Spring after being severely pruned above and below ground. Have you considered the cost of transportation and types of vehicle one must have to do so? Best approaching a Vivaio or asking an Italian neighbour. Can't the olive trees remain for the cats to climb and dogs to scratch?
In my short time on this forum I have noticed that there are a number of very clever people here. Are you one of them Fillide? I feel privileged to be here. It has some similarities to my old school. The contacts I made there took me further than my very average brain & the very average teaching could ever have done. Contact with people like you could possibly produce similar results. When rubbing shoulders with the great & the good though one can become too easily drunk from the exciting & heady atmosphere, but experience has taught me to prevent my basic scepticism from becoming too relaxed. Be patient with me though and explain what you are trying to say in this last post. In simple language that I might understand. Over obsessive attention to spelling, punctuation & grammar is the mark of a pedant & I accept my share of blame here though make mistakes with appalling regularity. The English language is a wonderful gift yet time is an even more precious one. Let's not waste it.
If this passionate and brave senile old goat gets the boot then I am afraid I might have to pack up my kit bag and jump ship.Freedom of speech is a fundamental right.If someone is critical of the goverment of a fascist dictator they might expect recrimination. But, is this really the kind of governance we have here? I hope not, and I believe not. Or at least I prefer to believe the administration to be equable and fair till proven otherwise. If not they have no right to call this place a Forum.I had popped the kettle on for some tea and was just about to break out the ginger nuts, homemade of course, when you all started talking about curry. So, I'll just have a word with my curry wallah to slaughter a goat (good graciuos, not the old senile one of course) and get a good fire going.
I seem to have touched on a raw nerve or two here. There seems to be a measure of history on this forum of which I know nothing. I can understand there may have been some heated discussions in the past & even a degree of anger. You appear to have pruned away some rot but you forgot to cauterize the stumps. The stumps appear to still be bleeding & the drawing room carpet is ruined. However it all has nothing to do with me. I don't know what went on & I don't want to know what went on. Whether or not this is a young community or a born again community doesn't matter. It is not what you call it, it is what you do with it that counts. So, who's for some tea and biscuits?
Sorry Annec. Do forgive me...it is so easy to misunderstand on a forum, isn't it? And, I must admit my nature is one that can be easily hurt..but I hope you will forgive me that?
but, what is "one of you"? My avatar was chosen for personal reasons only...must I tell you what it means to me and my wife? Annec, if this is how you too responded on "the old forum" to perfectly innocent questions no wonder people left, and the forum became a place for unwanted & uncalled for critisism. Look to yourself.
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Olive trees are best uprooted, (poor things), in Spring after being severely pruned above and below ground. Have you considered the cost of transportation and types of vehicle one must have to do so? Best approaching a Vivaio or asking an Italian neighbour. Can't the olive trees remain for the cats to climb and dogs to scratch?
In my short time on this forum I have noticed that there are a number of very clever people here. Are you one of them Fillide? I feel privileged to be here. It has some similarities to my old school. The contacts I made there took me further than my very average brain & the very average teaching could ever have done. Contact with people like you could possibly produce similar results. When rubbing shoulders with the great & the good though one can become too easily drunk from the exciting & heady atmosphere, but experience has taught me to prevent my basic scepticism from becoming too relaxed. Be patient with me though and explain what you are trying to say in this last post. In simple language that I might understand. Over obsessive attention to spelling, punctuation & grammar is the mark of a pedant & I accept my share of blame here though make mistakes with appalling regularity. The English language is a wonderful gift yet time is an even more precious one. Let's not waste it.
If this passionate and brave senile old goat gets the boot then I am afraid I might have to pack up my kit bag and jump ship.Freedom of speech is a fundamental right.If someone is critical of the goverment of a fascist dictator they might expect recrimination. But, is this really the kind of governance we have here? I hope not, and I believe not. Or at least I prefer to believe the administration to be equable and fair till proven otherwise. If not they have no right to call this place a Forum.I had popped the kettle on for some tea and was just about to break out the ginger nuts, homemade of course, when you all started talking about curry. So, I'll just have a word with my curry wallah to slaughter a goat (good graciuos, not the old senile one of course) and get a good fire going.
I seem to have touched on a raw nerve or two here. There seems to be a measure of history on this forum of which I know nothing. I can understand there may have been some heated discussions in the past & even a degree of anger. You appear to have pruned away some rot but you forgot to cauterize the stumps. The stumps appear to still be bleeding & the drawing room carpet is ruined. However it all has nothing to do with me. I don't know what went on & I don't want to know what went on. Whether or not this is a young community or a born again community doesn't matter. It is not what you call it, it is what you do with it that counts. So, who's for some tea and biscuits?
We can only look forward to making sure this Young Community stays alive and well. And yes, maybe we could have a humerous section.
Touche..or should that be touchy. Sorry fenicela, I just could not resist.
Fenicela..I am sorry but I did not say "other Italian forums"
Sorry Annec. Do forgive me...it is so easy to misunderstand on a forum, isn't it? And, I must admit my nature is one that can be easily hurt..but I hope you will forgive me that?
but, what is "one of you"? My avatar was chosen for personal reasons only...must I tell you what it means to me and my wife? Annec, if this is how you too responded on "the old forum" to perfectly innocent questions no wonder people left, and the forum became a place for unwanted & uncalled for critisism. Look to yourself.
Have I made a blunder by asking? As said it was only an observation.