Cheers Phil, yes we did, and yes you must. Well I have finished repotting mine and to give you an idea what I got for ?145.00 (my sums are wrong in my previous post) 6 Ariocarpus 5 Conophytum 5 Gasteria 3 Astroloba 1 Mamm 1 Poellnitzia 50 Haworthia So the average is just over ?2.00 each and bear in ...

Hi all Being the flash so ?n? so I writing this as we fly over the Belgium countryside at 500mph. So ELK, my first visit, well after setting off from home a 4:00 in the morning to catch my flight from Manchester to Brussels via Heathrow and then a 2hr train journey down to the coast followed by a lo...

"Bon voyages to all those who are going... I'm very jealous (but it's a long journey from Devon to Belgium!)"

Hence why I am flying, still over 2 hrs drive in the morning to the airport though.

This is the stuff that's in the hand scrub at work something like 70% gel solution, probably use it anything up to a dozen times a day.

At least I know I won't get RSM LOL

Hi All I should arrive sometime Friday afternoon and my flight back is not untill late afternoon Sunday, so I'll be there for the duration. Just toying with the idea of hiring a car or getting the train down from Brussels. Hmm Belgium beer can't stand the stuff either (reaches for another bottle of ...

Cheers Simon.

I do, I do, lot's of interesting stuff in there, it's a pity the search function is so basic.

Yes but there are several problems with this: 1. A few of us are either using old modems or have very slow dial-up connections (mines only 28.8kbps), if you inadvertently link to large files it can take forever for them to load. 2. If you embed the images in the post they are always there, but if yo...

Hi I use Photoshop but a simple to use programme if you are on XP is Windows PowerToys Image resizer from

Some garden centre,

Hi George. It's a cactus Opuntia type, I am sure someone with more knowledge of these than me will be along shortly to give you it's full name.

Yep that's one form of the Elephant Hawkmoth caterpillar the other is bright green, like the privet hawk.