Hi I am new!

[reninfrance]

Hi to everybody
I got so excited when I found this site exists that I made a total hash of the registration-- had to change my name a bit and register again!!
Anyway hello to all

[paul m]

Originally Posted by reninfrance

Hi to everybody
-- had to change my name a bit and register again!!
Anyway hello to all

Well, the more the merrier!
Welcome. Will be interesting to hear about the Vendee and the rest of your world!

[reninfrance]

I hail from yorkshire myself-a Tyke- then lived just south of you near Mansfield- so I know and love the yorkshire moors and the derbyshire dales
visiting there at the end of the month.

[goosey]

Hello and welcome!
I am glad you are so pleased to have discovered and joined our forum .
It will be good to hear all about your part of France.
See you around .

[reninfrance]

It is a fantastic area for wildlife.
Within half an hour by car there is coast, salt marshes and oyster beds--freshwater wetlands (the Grand Lieu Lake) as well as farmland and woodland. You can see storks, spoonbills, many raptors,purple heron and egrets from the car window if you know where to look.
My home was a cowbarn and my garden was the local tip. The habitat was little disturbed by us as we made our home slowly -by hand!
In the garden (which is not huge- 1000m square) I have green tree frogs, glow worms, swallowtail butterfly caterpillars, preying mantis, a colony of stick insects amongst other critters.
I know almost nothing about their needs and have become very nervous of weeding, so I really need the expertise of your website to protect them from me!

[goosey]

Originally Posted by reninfrance

It is a fantastic area for wildlife.
Within half an hour by car there is coast, salt marshes and oyster beds--freshwater wetlands (the Grand Lieu Lake) as well as farmland and woodland. You can see storks, spoonbills, many raptors,purple heron and egrets from the car window if you know where to look.
My home was a cowbarn and my garden was the local tip. The habitat was little disturbed by us as we made our home slowly -by hand!
In the garden (which is not huge- 1000m square) I have green tree frogs, glow worms, swallowtail butterfly caterpillars, preying mantis, a colony of stick insects amongst other critters.
I know almost nothing about their needs and have become very nervous of weeding, so I really need the expertise of your website to protect them from me!

Now you are just making us jealous , but truely, it sounds wonderful. Better get that camera out and start snapping .

[reninfrance]

working on the uploading
this is poor quality but interesting

[reninfrance]

made a mess of that I think I needed a thumbnail!

[goosey]

You can self edit, delete the code you have just put in and copy and paste the top code Linked Thumbnail: in its place.

Fancy cranes doing that!

[reninfrance]

oh dear !!
my ignorance is showing!!
guess I am here to learn if that's alright?
We do have storks here though. summer migrants- now I will have to go and photograph one.

[Suzanne B]

Hi Reninfrance
It's great to have you here and don't worry about getting anything wrong, we are learning all the time too!
(Have you seen Goosey's upsidedown spider thread?)
It sounds like you live in wonderful place and have so much wildlife all around you I'm feeling quite jealous.
Anyway, welcome from me too, enjoy yourself here and we'll see you around the forums.
Suzanne

[dmclean3]

Hi Reninfrance,
Welcome to the site
Hope you enjoy it as much as we do,
Duncan

[reninfrance]

thanks both of you,
yes I did see Goosey's upside-down spider thread. I cheered me up as I was trying to identify one and I think I have the same problem!
The marshes and the Grand Lieu are well known and well protected areas, but what worries me is what lives in my own backyard. how do I protect that.
I think I will start a thread and see what other people think!!
By the way does the clock on this site drive anyone else wappy!!

[goosey]

Originally Posted by reninfrance

By the way does the clock on this site drive anyone else wappy!!

If you look at the top left of the page in the blue panel, there is a Mouse icon which says control. Click that and go down to where it says Edit options. Click on that and near the bottom of all the options you can alter the date to CET, or 1 hour ahead of GMT, then don't forget to save changes. Hope this saves you from becoming more wappy (I have never heard of that word - did you make it up ) than the other members .

[Suzanne B]

I never knew that goosey, I've just tried to ignore being an hour behind all the time......you are clever!
No wonder I've been feeling odd since March though....I've been suffering from wappyitis....and it's all WATW's fault!

[reninfrance]

yipee!!
fixed
wanted to put a smiley face but just learned that I can't on a quick reply.
and wappy is a perfectly good yorkshire word cos you have to be wappy to come from there.
and probably from cumbria too!
Where are you frm Goosey,

[paul m]

Originally Posted by reninfrance

wanted to put a smiley face but just learned that I can't on a quick reply.

You can get smilies - you have to click the 'advanced' button to get the smiley menu