GoY Gardening Crossword.

great just done it Terra in record time lol will send answers and hope they are right haah :o)

Hi Sandra ... don't forget to choose between spaghetti, liquorice or twiglets...lol..

lol twiglets yummy haha

Well done, Sandra ... !!!
... your twiglets have been added above. :o)

thankyou so much Terra i shall enjoy my twiglets yum yum lol :o)

Grrr.got all except one..been trying to think..for ages...boo hoo,San,I wanted the twiglets...Lol.

Thanks TT, about to begin!

lol sandra hope you get last answer ;o)

No worries, Bloomer...
lots more virtual twiglets here, ready to be awarded :o)

Good luck, Beattie :o) x

Ok,..I am going to watch "Lark Rise to Candleford" now..it will give my brain a rest..:o))

Good idea, Bloomer ..
... have a rest, and then return refreshed..lol.

im off to have a try now ~ has sanbaz eaten all the twiglets?
doesnt matter ~ i prefer liquorice!!
i like the clever prizes!
lovely presentation TT ~ i can see that must have taken ages ~ thank you.

Thanks Sticki...
ironically, the very hardest task was getting the photos to fit into the grid spaces, without the black and white squares all transforming themselves into weird rectangles...Lol.

i dont know how you did it but im full of admiration

~ thanks ~ lol ...
trouble is ~ I don't know how I did it ... lol. ...

I was going to ask too. Did you upload the crossword grid as a picture to get it onto the blog?

Hi Beattie ..
... the only way I could do it was to scan my work and then add it to the blog as photos ...

well it looks very good ~ however you did it!

thank you :o)

Sticki speaks for me again!

Thanks Beattie ...
your virtual crossword prizes are in place ...
... don't eat all the virtual hoops at once ... ;o)

Well done Sticki on all correct answers ...
... which is your virtual prize of choice ???

ooh thanks
i like the look of those twiglets but i like the taste of liquorice, so i cant decide ~ please could i have liquorice flavoured twiglets??
||||| i quite like matchmakers!!?? oh and
jelly snakes ~~~
not that im fussy ~ i dont mind any ~ thank you!
oh i just thought ~ is the spaghetti served by a handsome italian waiter? cos if it is ~ thats what id like please!

Sticki ~
Your prizes are now in place ... sorry, your handsome Italian waiter dropped the matchmakers from his gondola and they all snapped in half... :o(

oh well he made me laugh ~ are they floating in the canal now? thank you TT

~ actually i tried to make my lines look like that but they didnt come out dotted ~ dont know why.

LOL. I tried to make solid vertical lines, but couldn't make them, so that's why you have broken matchmakers ..!!!

its got a broken line on the computer keyboard but it came out solid!!!

~ talk about getting our wires crossed

by George, I think I've got it ... |||||||

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LOL!! Broken Matchmakers!! Mint and /or orange?

Thanks for the bonus Hula Hoops TT ;-)

(I think we're barking! lol )

either for me beattie!
how did you do the dashed lines TT?
woof woof beattie

Hi Beattie ...

Those were replacement Hula Hoops O O O

the first ones got squashed, surfing
across the internet :o((( 0 0 0

My brain is still not refreshed Sticki..so watching TV didn't work..as I still can't get that last one...I will now concede defeat,but I'm sure Sticki will share with me, whatever she decides to have as her prize..well done Sticki...and I don't want the ones you fish out of the Grand Canal,....

~ ~ ~ wiggly fish sticks anyone?
of course i will share!
which one cant you get bloomer?

I noticed that your Hula Hoops were rounder than mine, it's probably sending them northwards that flattened my prototypes.

Broken Matchmakers can be found near the bottom left corner of your keyboard,
||||||
Wow! they're not broken!
||||| Great! I prefer orange, so that's what these are.

No thanks, to the wiggly fish sticks Sticki - they're pretty but I just don't like them.

Want a Hula Hoop? OOO

All done Terra, hopefully I haven`t missed out any of my answers, many thanks I enjoy a crossword puzzle.
I am very partial to liquorice please if my answers are correct,lol.....

I'll try and get around to doing this one!

Completed and sent via PM ... liquorice (allsorts?) please! : o ))

Well done Shirleytulip, Lincslass and Mavisc52 ...
answers correct for everyone ... !!!

... virtual prizes have been added above ...

Mavis ... I need to know your choice, please ..
liquorice ? spaghetti ? twiglets ?

Shirley ~ you requested liquorice allsorts, so I've included one of those whirly liquorices in with yours.... it is most strange that if I put more than one of those in the blog, i.e. ... @ @ @ ...

only one @ shows up on the published version ...

some sort of instant slimming I guess... lol...

Pipc ~
I'll catch up with your messages soon ..lol.
You're doing well :o)))

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... chocolate Matchmakers above ...
... broken and whole ...
... to maintain everyone's energy levels ;o)

thats very inventive/creative of you TT ~ i think i had better buy some of those @@@@@ to make me slim!

Morning Sticki ~
@@@ ... definitely the non-fattening prize ;o)

oh you put 3 on and i put 5 ~ well that will remind me not to be so greedy!!!
good morning! :o))

I ate two before the message was published :o)

ha ha! you are very quick! and its only 9 o'clock

oh well thats non-fattening for me then!!

i will just have to go back to the too-large box of thorntons we were given for christmas ~ im very willing to share if anyone wants one ~ or two!

I am going to be awkward and ask for spaghetti hoops?.A great crossword Terratoonie even with my eyes I managed the grid thanks :0)

Thanks Mavis ...
I'm glad you enjoyed the crossword ...
and that you could see it okay....
Spaghetti hoops ?
I'll order some, and they should appear near the top of my blog very soon.. ;o)

Spaghetti hoops now in place...
Sticki ... hands off.... you have your Thornton's ;o)

Thank's I will have them on toast for my dinner.....

what the thorntons or the hoops?

Hands off Mavis's prize, Sticki ...
she's having those spaghetti hoops with toast ...

Sticki ... on your toast, you can have your liquorice Twiglets and your broken Matchmakers ...

enjoy :o)))

yuk yuk yuk TT
i had better go out for lunch i think!!
perhaps the garden centre has cabbage soup or something slimming??

I STILL can't get that last answer..8 down..maybe I have got the wrong answers to the'across' ones..but never mind,I think I may have ended up with the fishy sticks anyway..

i googled sempervirens and then scrolled down till i could find a sempervirens that had 6 letters ? hope that helps. its a lovely plant ~ i have one and its a very refreshing clean looking plant in the summer ~ reminds me of snow on the mountain.

I tried S on goypedia,but couldn't find it,so off to Google now,if you will excuse the expression,Sticki..lol.Never thought of that...

its a permanent tab on my page!!!
im sure you will recognise it when you see it!

Well done David...
full marks for the crossword... !!!
...just awaiting your choice of prize ??? ;o)

good luck Bloomer with the final clue..... :o)

Thank You, Tt, this was great entertainment for my morning teabreak today. A prize, too???? Can I have the twiglets, please? Can i plant them out now, even in the snow? :-D)

You can share my spaghetti hoops if you Stikitoffee, cabage soup does not sound very appealing.

Hi Terra, thank you, I enjoyed your crossword:-) Perhaps if you gave the 'common name' of 8 across it would help? I think you're amazingly generous doing all these puzzles, it must be so time consuming. I'm too lazy even to send in the answers...unless there's a better prize than spaghetti hoops or cabbage soup that is....yuck:-)

That's a very generous offer, Mavis ! :o)))

David... planting instructions might be on GoYpedia under T for Twiglets...

... but the general advice is to wait till the snows have gone... so in Fife, that probably means planting out your Twiglets in July... ;o)

Hi Bornagain .. Thanks ...

If you mean Clue 8 Down, that is a photo from my previous blog [ 5th Jan. 2011 ]where it is labelled...

and Clue 23 Across is my recent GoY photo [ 30 Dec. 2010 ]... also labelled, so not too difficult to find..LOL.

I thought people were having a problem with it Terra, now I find they're just too lazy lol. I'll send my answers in so you won't think too badly of me, but could I have allsorts if it has to be liquorice?

Eureka...At last..it was staring me in the face all this time..Duh...I found a simple way to find it,..but I see you have since left a clue..Honest,I got it before you posted this Terra...:o)) but thanks..Is there anything left to claim as a prize..? Have the Spaghetti hoops gone somewhat soggy?.a bit cheeky ,I know,but can I have one of each prizes for perseverance please.??The very idea of a twiglet,Liquorice,matchmaker topped with a Hoop,sounds like sheer Heaven...

Congratulations to Bloomer for such perseverance !

A shining example to us all ...

Near the top of my blog, your butty prize is now in place :o)

Matchmakers? I never noticed them Bloomer:-(

I seem to be lagging behind again, TT, but will give this a go in the next day or two. It's all Millie's fault - she takes up too much of my time :)

mavis ~ you are very kind ~ thank you!
i havent got to the GC ~ im eating clementine cake instead!
congratulations bloomer! i knew you could do it

im waiting to see photos of the shootlets after david has planted his twiglets.

Well .... I managed to put a photo on GoY of Irish Coast Tomatoes, so who knows what pictures David might produce ? ;o)

Congrats. to Bornagain who has the correct answers and the prize of her choice... Bassetts Liquorice Allsorts .... :o)

oooh the real thing BA??!!
you must have been very good.!

im off to photograph my matchmaker shoots!

So glad my tasty butty arrived in time for lunch,Terra..a bit of Mayo on, and and it was perfection itself...everything I needed,protein,carbs,fibre..:o))))well worth coming ALMOST last...Lol.

The virtual Bassetts are as good as the real thing!
You're being SO creative with the prizes, Terra! :-)

Gee... I'll look forward to your answers ...
.. or maybe let Millie send her answers ;o) x

Glad you had the mayo handy, Bloomer ..
I couldn't send that via the internet...
makes such a mess of your inbox ;o)

I'm pleased everyone is enjoying their winnings :o)

Beattie ...
have you put a patent on that game of throwing hula hoops over your liquorice sticks ? Could make a fortune ...

oh dear oh dear ~ mayo coated inboxes!!
whatever next!!!
this site makes me laugh more than anything else! im nominating it for an oscahhaha

What are we all like,Sticki ? blinking crackers..that's what!...It just proves that we are all ready for some much needed gardening therapy...:o))

have a look at red aly's blog ~ retail therapy ~ it made me laugh till i cried!

LOL all! Thanks for the pointer Sticki - will look later.

We're all bonkers - isn't it great ;-)

absobonkerslutely!!

Yes do lally tap the lot of us ,but rather mad than sad. :0)

I have a complaint..no not that...there were none of those cylindrical white ones wrapped in liquorice, my favourites:-(

% would these do instead BA ~ its 2 white rolls with the liquorice inbetween
(0) or is this better?
i like them too
(o) one for you and
(o) one for me!

Thanks Sticki, that's the one:-)

July!!!!???? Sorry, can't wait that long. Will just have to eat them, then! :-))

make sure you spit out the pips ~ you could plant them?

Crumbs!! What a great idea, Sticki!

that might grow a crumble?!

Well done to Pansypotter ...:o)))

... all crossword answers correct... !!!

Liquorice prize now in place above ;o)

I've just pm'd the answers to you, Terra... Can I have a sausage sandwich, please? ... (ö)
(the dots are the tomato sauce)

Although Pansypotter and I are bottom of the list, I'm pleased you've shown our importance by making our names bigger than everyone elses lol:-)

Hi Bornagain....
on my screen the names are all the same size !

Well done to Pipc and Gee19 ...
names as winners added near the top of my blog :o)

Everyone from me down is in bold on mine, how odd:-)

I'm a 'big name' too, Bornagain, as well as Pipc. Perhaps we are the new Fab Four :)

Thanks for the mystery prize, TT, I am intrigued :)?

Gee...
I've drawn the edible virtual prizes next to your name.Lol.
Can you guess what they're supposed to be ?

Are the final names still in large print..? Which names ?

Latest news ...
Another crossword winner ... HYWEL...

well done :o)

virtual edible prize will soon be awarded ... ;o)

Every name from me down still bold Tt. Gee I like the idea of us being the new Fab 4, we may not have been the quickest with our answers, but the most important;-)

Hywel is there now ...
... so you've become the Fab. 5.... lol.

I've edited it, with different type of liquorice in Bloomer's butty...lol.. don't know if that helps with the font size. ?

Hywel ...
your Spaghetti Bolognese prize is now in place...

well done ;o) x

Looks like Gee19's prize is a set of three dumbells. :-/

Have some of my Hula Hoops, Gee. OOO

Just had a thought - they could be meringue nests ready for the strawberries and cream!! Yum!

Oh no...there's nothing special about us now:-( Terra, since when were we able to have whatever we want? I, like many, was given a list of 3 items....spaghetti, twiglets or liquorice. Now people are given carte blanche......and I want some of it :-)

Hi Beattie...

You are reasonably close with your first guess...
on the right "theme" ... ;o) Lol.

Sorry, Bornagain ...

carte blanche all gone ...
but other colour cartes still available..lol.

Can I have a little green one with pretty flowers in? :-)

♪ ♫ "It's not that easy being green;
Having to spend each day the colour of the leaves.
When I think it could be nicer being red, or yellow or gold...
or something much more colourful like that." ♪ ♫

Hurrah, looks like my prize is 3 pairs of new glasses? I will donate one pair to Hywel because I know he lost a pair a short time ago. Just looked at the above comments and think I am way of course! Millie thinks they are Bonios and all for her :)
Thanks for the hula hoops, Beattie. Do you fancy a bonio?

CORRECT ... YES ... Bonios for Millie :o)))
well-interpreted, Gee. !!!

Thanks, TT. Millie is very pleased as she virtually eats anything :)

lol ... lol .... lol

But what about the offer to Hywel ?
Is Millie generously donating the pair of glasses/Bonio ??? :o)

O-O these glasses are for Hywel. Millie is very reluctant to offer any more of her bonios!

Hywel might need the glasses to find the blog ...

O-O Hywel ... they are here :o)))

O-O
Thanks Gee lol I've now been able to find my plate of spaghtti Bolonese :o)))

Hywel...

just don't eat Millie's Bonios by mistake... ;o)

I won't now I have my new spex lol ;o))
O-O

WO-OF WO-OF WO-OF :o)

:D lol ! x

That's aw'fly kind of you Gee, but I'll pass on the Bonio, thanks, not having a dog, or all of my own teeth. If we're having carte rouge may I offer a ham and tomato sandwich?

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.tomato.
hamham
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Granary bread would be good, but all I could find on this keyboard was white sliced.

=;=;=;= Granary bread ? ;o)

Thanks Tt -
we can have a choice -

=;=;=;=
.tomato.
hamham
=;=;=;=

or

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.pickle.
cheese
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?

Nothing normal? Like traditional sambo fillings? Chicken? Cheese? or...

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peanut
butter
=====

??

Terra.... thanks for my prize! I've just eaten it... yummm... <burp>...love the tomato sauce!

Just thought I'd mention, I like granary bread...and Pip as the proud inventors of the sandwich will tell you, ham and tomato is totally normal, whereas peanut butter is an american abomination which you eat at your peril:-( Can I have a curry? :-))

Sure, white bread or granary?

.

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.curry.
=;=;=

As I didn't know which you wanted I gave you one of each.

Now I'm a happy bunny, thanks Beattie:-)

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tomato sandwiches are very nice ~ especially when sprinkled in salt and with a layer of mayonnaise ~ i think thats a summer sandwich

sorry i think this is coming out as a slanting sandwich ~ ive tried to make it straight but something keeps getting in the way!!!

We all seem to be overly obsessed with food lol:-)

Check out Linsuffolk's photo of Clementines ..
... the mouse was also obsessed ;o)

Been there, done that, and commented lol:-)

Thanks for the tip off about Linsuffolk's clementine story. I enjoyed the pics and everyone's comments.

That's okay..
I've nominated the photos for GoYpedia
"Citrus Fruits" .LOL.

I hope everyone saw the final pic in the series of photos.. where the mice are finally fast asleep ! :o)

Will one of you kind folk make my hubby`s packup please, looks far more appetizing than my efforts.......

Hi Lincslass ...
What would hubby like ?

... @@@ liquorice ?
... o00o0oo assorted fruit ?

i was wondering if he would like a tiffin?
one of those little stacks of tins of tasty things ~ different food in each tin?

then he could have
='='='='= granary bread
oooooooo tomatoes
~o~o~o~o pasta salad
))))))))))) a few pringles
}}}}{{{{ some twiglets
00000000 cucumber slices
(o) (o) (o) sausage rolls

would that be ok for him?