First Rose to bloom 2009

I love the soft pink colour - can almost smell it!

its gorgeous

thanks...it is soft too..mmm...yummy..

Your not supposed to eat them Cat.

That was the deer talking..not me...

Don't worry Cat, I'm easily confused. They only let me out occasionally.

This is my favourite colour of rose. It's so delicate.

Toto ~ that's because you will insist on walking around with and eye patch and a parrot on your shoulder. LOL

And what's wrong with that?

Maybe he would scare the deer off..send a picture Toto..

I don't think you'd like it Cat. It's not the deer that would be put off, it's all the GOY members.

The deer would take one look and run a mile.....the GoY members would run two miles. LOL

You've seen a pic the Gilli! Was it on "Crime Watch"?

Yes it was Toto. With "WANTED" over the top and "DEAD OR ALIVE" underneath.

Well at least somone wants me then.

All this time I thought that cute little bird was you, Toto.
I can be gullible. (:-

He has had us all fooled..but then you know how we are...sheep got me..

True, so true....I've been meaning to ask you about that.

LOL..not really a sheep Sisty...still cute and cuddly though.

Oh? Huh-Ya just never know do ya?

Nope..ya just never do...

I am cute in a sort of ugly, demented sort of way Weeds. The Old Bill think I am too as they keep taking my pictures so that they can hang it on their wall.

As long as you don't have fangs, you're okay in my book. (What is "The Old Bill?" Sorry sometimes I don't speak English-English.)

The Old Bill is the Filth, Coppers, Policemen Weeds. Of which I was one in a previous life.

That comes as no surprise to me...lol...You are so Joe Friday...

Gilli, it's so nice to be "WANTED," isn't it? Dead... maybe not so much as alive.

Toto, Oh... you mean the Fuzz. Please speak English! LOL Did you like being Old Bill in your past life?

lol...now why would they be called Old Bill????? huh?...strange..

Now it's my turn to ask the questions Cat. Who or what is Joe Friday?
It was a long time ago now Weeds, but yes, at the time it was ok.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/alabaster/A295571

go to the website there Alan....it is about Dragnet and Joe Friday..."just the facts" Toto..."just the facts"....lol.

Toto...Joe Friday was one of those things you had to grow up with to understand.

P.C. Toto!!?? Chief Inspector Toto?? Detective Inspector Toto???

Just PC (Politically correct).

All we want is the facts Toto..."just the facts"

Toto I'll bet you have some stories to tell. Maybe you should blog us a Copper story! Let's see...It starts..."I'm Toto, I'm a Cop. I was doing day watch at Hollywood and Vine.." Then when you get to the part where you interview the witness and she starts to ramble, you keep her focused by saying, "Just the facts, ma'm, just the facts."
I think this has potential to turn into a book!

I don't think so Weeds. It's only the gory bits I really remember and that bit is better left in the past.

Yes, I guess you're right. People like you don't get enough thank you's for standing between the rest of us and the nasty parts of life. I have a friend who is an excop. He said he had seen so much bad stuff that he sometimes forgot that most of the world is good. Thank you, Toto.

It is easy to have happen...feeling like the world is not so good when your job is to deal with the bad stuff....You do deserve a thank you Alan..Weeds is right..hugs to you and your wife too..cannot imagine being the wife of a policeman. She is a brave woman too.

I don't want to accept too much praise as I only stayed in for a few years as my heart wasn't really in it. I went back to the job I first trained for in engineering.

Good then..got the police business out of your system..and got into what you trained for and now you get to sit by a river bank and take pictures..you are doing all right...I think.

I think so too Cat.

Oh, so there is a river at the asylum is there. I hope they fence it off with a nice high fence so there aren't any "swimmers"....or sinkers.

My brother was in the RCMP for many years. He ended up having a bit of a "breakdown" just before he retired. He saw so many very unpleasant things and it all builds up inside.

I have an uncle who ended up the same Gilli. It sure is not an easy job.

Not at all Cj. Not a job I would want to do.