There's a certain comfort in blogging semi-anonymously, knowing that your caterpillar eaten vegetables and your mini-rants are on display but that you'll never have to look the reader sheepishly in the eye...
Potager at Chenonceau taken here
But then quite unexpectedly I find that I've discovered a whole new world of friendships, you lovely folk that I've met through this bloggy world. Such gorgeous people who offer understanding, support, advice and kindness - who else can you sob to over fox eaten chickens, who else will understand the anguish of carefully tended vegetables destroyed by slugs overnight, who else shares the simple joy of seed propagation, worm finding, composting...the peaceful contentment that comes from wandering about the garden first thing in the morning with a cup of tea, or sitting out quietly amongst the vegetable beds chooks clucking at your feet.
So...I'd love to meet you - really meet you!
If you're in Melbourne/Victoria and you're interested in meeting up, I'm suggesting we meet:
Sunday 6th November 2011
11am - Garden Tour
(join the free garden tour and I'll meet you there!)
Diggers, Heronswood
Now I know many of you Victorians live far and wide - so if you have any other suggestion for a meeting place please let me know! I'm happy to change the venue!
How will we recognise each other? Well I've posted pics of myself here before I think...but I'll make sure I wear a yellow bird brooch/necklace! How will I recognise you?
I'd love to see you there.
Oooo that sounds good. I think I could come. Maybe we should take your lead and all wear an identifying yellow something around our necks or pinned to us - brooch, flower, ribbon?
ReplyDeleteYAY! Hooray! I do think yellow is a very appropriate sunny spring kinda colour!
ReplyDeleteYou could also recognise me as I'll probably be the one desperately avoiding those noisy children hanging around an odd Irishman...
Oh I would so like to come and I've always wanted to go to Heronswood and my best friends live in Melbourne and and and, but alas I will not be able to make it.
ReplyDeleteI'm all the way up in Queensland, so won't be able to make it. Would have loved to though if I could have got there! I hope to read all about it on your blog!
ReplyDeleteIm in! I'll find something yellow to wear or maybe some kind of yellow flower... How exciting! I can't wait to meet my bloggy friends!
ReplyDeleteoh how i would love to meet you... but it is rather distant from my so california home... please post on your blog the happening - hope to find you with your yellow bird brooch / necklace smiling my way.
ReplyDeletebig virtual hug to you,
-xok.
I'd love to go and meet you Missus.
ReplyDeleteDon't think my bus pass will get me that far but I'll be there in spirit. Hope you have a great meet.
Ooo but I want to come too!!! And I am dying to go to Digger's. I WANNA COME!
ReplyDeleteI wish I could come and meet you! One day hopefully :)
ReplyDeleteWhat a great - and brave idea! Good on you. The world needs more instigators and more real people. Alas the small problem of distance and a young man turning 11 with stop me from joining (plus I'm always scared meeting people for real - what happens if they discover I'm a big, old, boring dag?)
ReplyDeleteThis sounds like fun! Wish I lived closer!
ReplyDeleteI will be there!....even though I am a big, old, boring dag! Mmmm! why doesn't your blog ever come up in my lists...frustrating!
ReplyDeleteOh I would love to join you, but I am at the totally opposite end of Australia! Have a wonderful time meeting up with each other.
ReplyDeleteWhat a lovely, lovely idea :) I wish I could come along but am sadly in the wrong city! I'll look forward to hearing how it goes though.
ReplyDeleteWhat a great idea, wish I could meet you but Sydney is a bit to far have fun.
ReplyDeleteWouldn't be wonderful to really meet? But I have to work. My passport has expired, anyway. I used to have two pen-pals when I was kid, both out of state. We shared a love, a passion for horses. I lost touch with one girl and the other girl passed on. I think that we would still be friends today. Now I have blogging friends, such a wonderful group friends. I enjoy reading about your family, your life, your chooks, Tim Tam. Perhaps I should retire my job and travel. Keep writing from your heart.
ReplyDeleteOh I'm in the wrong state, wrong city, but awesome idea Mrs Bok :-)
ReplyDeleteHello lovelies!
ReplyDeleteI'm so looking forward to meeting those of you that can make it - and I'll definitely post afterwards so that non-victorians can share in what we got up to :)
So...wear a yellow bird of flower of some sort!
Hazel, I'm so glad you'll make the drive out from where you are :)
Mr Bok has said he'll stay home with the little boks. I think he's afraid *cackles*
STOP HAVING FUN WITHOUT ME!!!
ReplyDeleteGreat idea, I'm too far away to join in, but hope it goes well! Kelli
ReplyDeleteWhat a wonderful idea! Pity I am in Adelaide and unfortunately cannot :o( However, should you ever be down this way, please, let me know and I too would love to catch up in person. Enjoy meeting all your fantastic blogger friends and I wait to hear how it all goes. Take care, Yollie Funny side note, Diggers have just opened up a shop at the Adelaide Botanic gardens, I was there on Monday with my daughter on our way to the Zoo. I actually had a similar thought that how amazing if I was walking among potential fellow bloggers/visitors and don't even know it. Your blog is the rest of this thought ... very cool ;o)
ReplyDeleteFab idea, I'd love to be able to say I can make it, but unfortunately I can't.
ReplyDeleteHeronswood is a great place to meet. .........please take lots of pics.
How much will that be, finally putting faces to names.
Claire :}
I would love to come and meet you too. Money is tight though and while I think that acting on a whim and flying half way across the world sounds like a whole lot of fun, my practical side takes over and reminds me that I am poor as a church mouse....Have a great weekend.
ReplyDeleteP.S. Now, I am wondering about who make the trip ....
Mrs Bok...It isn't that far...My daughter lives in Franga (Frankston) and am going to stay at her house on the Saturday and plant her summer veggies with the help of my grandsons. It will be a wonderful weekend, all around!
ReplyDeleteI'll have to look from afar..I love in Iowa in the U.S.A. I love you blog and all it's beauty..
ReplyDeleteI have found with slugs you need a plastic pop bottle.. cut it in the middle and put the top inside the bottom head first..staple together. Put in the slug bait and the slugs crawl into the trap and get out..Hope you can visulize what I said.. WHen the slug trap is full just throw it away.. I burn mine..
Have a tiggeriffic day ~ ta ta for now from Iowa:)
Hi down South, so not able to meet up but drop by the blogs sometime.
ReplyDeleteOh Mrs Bok, great idea. And I think I can make this one. I've never been to Diggers so it will be great to see that as well as meeting some fellow bloggers - all wiser in the garden than I. As for the something yellow, I'll have to work on that one, I'm not usually a yellow kinda gal but I'll find something. I will have Mr Good, Miss Two and Baby Good in tow though, so may look a little harangued (hmmm maybe I could dress them in yellow, they can pull it off better than me).
ReplyDeleteHello Mrs Bok and friends,
ReplyDeleteI'm coming too!
I'm very much looking forward to meeting you all. Ol'Pauly doesn't want to miss out so he is coming too. We've never made it to Herronswood either. So, perhaps Mr Bok and the Boklings should come along.
I can't wait to see what they have on the menu. Last time we were at St.Erth they were serving Raspberries and cream... OMG it was so good! I've been fantasising about having another ever since!
Can't wait!
Oh yeah! I almost forgot - I made a nice little yellow headpiece a while back. I'll wear that =)
ReplyDeleteWhat a great idea, I wish I lived closer! I'm waiting for Ali to set up a meeting spot for all us Brissy chicks!
ReplyDeleteHave a wonderful day, can't wait to hear about it!