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Can anyone advise what I should do if a piece of the failed Russian satellite lands on my magnificent sedum spectabile autumnalis tomorrow?
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pot it on in 50/50 mix of compost and grit - you never know :)

13 Jan, 2012

 

Take some photos of the squashed sedum ...

... make a blog entitled ...

... SEDUM SATELLITE SENSATION ...

... and I'll add it to GoYpedia Sedums ;o)

13 Jan, 2012

 

put the sedum carefully on the piece of satellite and label 'return to sender'

at the very least it should make the first sedum in space??

13 Jan, 2012

 

See what kind of people you are mixing with,on joining GoY,Robert ? ..the right kind,..with a sense of humour and sharp witted...looks like you will fit in very well Lol...We like to laugh,and have fun :o)))

13 Jan, 2012

 

Sue! (How's your Russian?)

14 Jan, 2012

 

haha - I was studying Russian at school - with a bit of remainder I could do the translation;-)

14 Jan, 2012

 

This should do it:-

Ваш проклятый спутник приземлился на мою очиток едкий spectabile, и я утверждая, полтора миллиарда рублей из Русского космической программы правительства.

Please don't tell Mr Putin I wrote this for you........

14 Jan, 2012

 

You found a bottle of vodka in the back of your cupboard,Gattina ? bit early in the day,methinks ! Lol.

14 Jan, 2012

 

what does it say gattina?

14 Jan, 2012

 

"Your damned satellite has landed on my Sedum spectabile and killed it. I am claiming one and a half billion roubles from the Russian Government's space programme."
Honestly. (Well, I THINK so)

14 Jan, 2012

 

Used to drink vodka when I was a student and wanted to look grown-up, Bloomer. I have better things to drink these days!

14 Jan, 2012

 

you will end up in the Siberian salt mines,if you keep making threats,Gattina..Lol.

14 Jan, 2012

 

Alternatively take the satellite [or the bits you can find] back to Comet and ask for your money back?

14 Jan, 2012

 

Oh Ho, ho, ho, Sticki, that's REALLY good! But only of you've got the receipt - could be a tad difficult, that one.

14 Jan, 2012

 

It was a gift, I dont have the receipt!!!

14 Jan, 2012

 

Well, That's not going to wash, is it, Madam? How are we to know you haven't lifted it from one of our other branches?

14 Jan, 2012

 

And taken the trouble to collect all the pieces and driven hundreds of miles, to get to Comet, waited in your very long queue and not even a chance to play with your products like it shows on the advert, I dont think so!!!

14 Jan, 2012

 

Make sure you take a Mars bar if you're going through the Galaxy via the Milky Way Sticki......

14 Jan, 2012

 

might not last long!!

14 Jan, 2012

 

Zdravstvuyte Comrade Rob

I think the resulting fireball and the then housefire will keep some of the frost off of the Sedum, but if it hasn't happened then you've got a real problem there so will have to protect it another way

14 Jan, 2012

 

Before I saw Gattina wrote down the translation, I Google translated the Russian and it made me laugh.

And Sticki, your comet joke made me laugh also.

It is nice to see people still have a sense of humour nowadays.

14 Jan, 2012

 

I have read all the comments from GOY friends, and as usual very funny made me smile

14 Jan, 2012

 

Sell it on e-Bay then you can buy two sedums.

14 Jan, 2012

 

Gosh, Bulba, those must be some very expensive sedums! I would have thought you might have been able to afford at LEAST three of them on the proceeds.

14 Jan, 2012

 

careful, must say 'for spares or repair'

14 Jan, 2012

 

Find out the odds at william hill Rob & put a tenner on it.

14 Jan, 2012

 

I am so very grateful for all your very good advice - thank you so very much.

Probos Grunt - that is the satellite's name - arrives today and so I have acted on ALL the advice very quickly.

Which is why, I suspect, why two begonia-type Russian destroyers and a frigate (sedum class) have been reported to be steaming up the Thames towards the Houses of Parliament.

Blue, blue skies - Probos Grunt where are you?

0-:

15 Jan, 2012

 

Фобос Грунт is supposed to be landing (or bits of it, anyway) this evening, and we in Emilia Romagna, are as likely to cop it as anywhere else (a 1 in 10,000 chance) , sometime between 7.15 and 7.45 Italian time.
I'll send you the debris, tavarisch Robert, assuming that it doesn't hit us head-on! (I'll let it cool down before the bubble wrap goes on)

15 Jan, 2012

 

The bad news is that you have not made a fortune out of the satelite, Robert.
The good news is that your sedum is safe for the time being.
The spacecraft is down in the Pacific Ocean.

15 Jan, 2012

 

How terrific - it's in the Pacific! (-:

Feeling a little bit Chile,

One report said Atlantic,

But sounded so frantic,

I think it was probably Scilly. (-:

15 Jan, 2012

 

Boom, Boom. lol

15 Jan, 2012

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