Conversation with my housemate yesterday

I'm sorry I missed this thread yesterday! (Too busy working) If I'd seen it, I would have invited ChapelSaint to tea! Godders is right; Swansea is indeed a wonderful city. I lived there for a few years,(actualy Langland on the edge of the Gower). Drinking in the Mumbles, walking over the cliffs from Pennard to Three Cliffs Bay, or roaming around the vastness of Rhossili and the Worm's Head, take some matching! Even driving to work in Swansea along the seafront, with its palm trees, tended to alleviate the gloom of life in the office.
Mind you, I'm not complaining. Life up here in waterfall country is rather splendid too! (and it's only 1/2 hour from Swansea)

 

You'll be lucky..! More likely NZ Cabbage Trees, or to give them their proper name, Cordyline Australis. They look remarkably like palm trees, but happily exist in the worst a British winter can throw at them, Gulf Stream or no Gulf Stream. Real palm trees would keel over in the British climate, although I believe the Scilly Isles have a few in a very sheltered botanical garden. I've got a Cordyline in my garden to remind me of my life in New Zealand.

 

the title of this thread is inconnect!!!!!!!

 

Sorry I haven't posted earlier lads but I have only just got up and about.

I didn't sleep well last night as I was up every 10 minutes for the bathroom.

I have not had an upset stomach like that in a long time.

Must have been something I ate!

 

Well, palms or no palms, they still looked nice and gave an air of the riviera to the drive along the front. (Anyone who has seen Swansea Bay, and the view towards Baglan and Port Talbot, will understand what a achievement that is).

 

That Bay is just like the Bay of Naples.

Don't knock Port Tlbort that place is an essential part of the economy of the area.

 

We have palm trees on the Island...they call them Isle of Wight Palms...very original. I can see two of them from my house. Whether they are actually palms I have no idea.

 

I don't doubt it mate. Cordylines look lovely. It's one of the reasons why people in New Zealand think they live in a hot country, when only the very top of the North Island actually verges on the sub-tropical, i.e. Palm Tree environment. The southern part of the South Island is relatively cooler than the South and South West Coast of England, at the respective warmest times of the year, and I don't classify that as hot.

Did you know there is a native species of NZ penguin..? They don't like it hot and they're never disappointed.

 

Pop a photo of them up on here, Fran. My arboreal recognition isn't so rusty that I'd have absolutely no idea. At worst, I'd get the Family or Genus.

EDIT: Never mind, Fran. Just looked up examples of Isle of Wight Palm Trees. They're Cordylines too. Think they may even be Australis. For info purposes, this is a proper Palm Tree [and crikey, wouldn't I like to go where these particular ones live ]


Of course, it's the wonderful Maldives.

Just looked at photos of Swansea Bay trees too. Yep, Cordylines. As I said, the Scilly Isles do have some genuine Palm Trees, tucked away out of the cold winter wind. Le God, doesn't this picture just make you feel great..?

 

Sorry...lack the technical ability to do it.

 

I'm so proud of what my latest thread, my baby, has become.

 

Really..? It's quite simple.

 

So am I.

I do not possess a phone with a camera for a start.

 

Just plug the thingymajig into the whasacallit, go to www.complicatedtechnicalwebsite.com and you're done. Easy.

 

When anyone says it's simple...I always want to reach for my gun. I usually start laughing hysterically after one sentence.

 

Nor do I. But could you not fetch a picture of a IOW palm off the net to here..?

 

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You're simpler than I thought.

 

There's a reason I don't have an avatar.

 

IOW palms I just gotten off computer:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/jay_mc/3461204242/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/nickhawkes/207410956/