GardenersCardiff answers:

Well, I love to garden and I think the small greenhouses are just awesome for propogating plants. They are quite inexpensive and accomplish a lot! (see link below)

A butterfly bush would be nice; it has a long flowering season and produces plenty of seeds for more starter bushes to pass on as gifts to friends or to put in starter pots and sell at markets for a nice profit. It has tall, showy spikes of very fragrant blooms and tremendous butterfly-attracting ability. Hummingbirds love this plant also. To control, cut back flowers as they fade. (There are miniature varieties available.)

GardenersCardiff answers:

WHITE ELEPHANT GIFT EXCHANGE

Traditionally, a “White Elephant” is something lying around the house that you don’t want (some horridly ugly item that someone gave you as a gift or some other item unwanted for some reason). I am of the belief that in most parts of the country, if you tell someone to bring a White Elephant gift it will almost certainly be a gag gift and not something genuinely useful or desirable.

THE GIFTS:

1. This party’s gift theme is XYZ.
2. The gift should be valued as close to $xx.00 as is reasonable.
3. The gift should be something someone would actually want or use. It should be in new or good condition.
4. The gift should be wrapped or in an envelope before arriving to the party. Gift bags are OK only if a wrapped item is inside.
5. Gift certificates are OK only if it is accompanied by some other item as part of the gift. For instance, a $xx Starbucks gift certificate, by itself, is not OK, but a $yy Starbucks gift certificate together with a coffee mug is OK.
6. As guests arrive to the party, the gifts should be placed in an area where few people can see who brought which gift. All efforts should be made to hide who brought which gift.
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THE GAME:

1. Each guest who wishes to participate must contribute a gift. Everyone sits or stands in roughly a circle around the pile of gifts.
2. Prepare slips of paper equal to the number of gifts with clearly written numbers. Be sure to distinguish 6 from 9, 1 from 7. Each participating guest draws a number and holds onto that slip of paper.
3. On the first turn, the guest with paper slip #1 chooses a gift, opens it, and all admire it.
4. On the second turn, the guest with paper slip #2 gets the choice of “stealing” any unwrapped gift (#1’s) or choosing a wrapped one. If #2 steals #1’s gift, then #1 must open a wrapped gift.
5. On the third turn, the guest with paper slip #3 gets the choice of “stealing” any unwrapped gift (#1’s or #2’s) or choosing a wrapped one.
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Holiday attire is evening attire. Evening attire is not to be confused with f

The game continues based on the following:

1. If a gift is stolen from you, you can steal a gift (within limits, described below), or open a wrapped one.
2. The turn proceeds until a wrapped gift is chosen.
3. A gift cannot be immediately stolen back from the guest who just stole it.
4. The fourth “owner” of a gift gets to keep it. The gift is “dead” after it has been stolen three times.
5. “Owners” of “live” gifts must keep them visible and hold them up when requested.
6. The gift exchange ends when the last wrapped gift is opened. Usually, guests are encouraged to perpetuate the gift stealing as long as there are “live” gifts, but no one is obligated to do this.

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Holiday attire is Evening attire. You are there to dress to impress as they say. This is not to be confused with Formal attire. You dress should be considered after-5 wear and in extremely good taste. Treat it as if you looking for a promotion.

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White Elephant gift: go to the 2nd hand stores a set of ugly coffee mugs. Place a set of hot chocolate mix in each, Make them the stupiest, ugliest mugs you can find.

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GardenersCardiff answers:

Go to www.quotegarden.com They have TONS of quotes and separated in various occasions.

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GardenersCardiff answers:

This quote is about the Battle of Britain. He was exactly right too.

Dear Lord. Have we come this far that we cannot find a child who can find an attribution for one of the most famous quotes of the 20th century?

By going to yahoo search and typing in “Churchill Quote Arnhem” I found 2 websites within 30 seconds that contained Churchill Quotes about Arnhem.

Can you imagine what it was like for us old people when we needed quotes or comments? We had to go to a Library and troll through books, by hand, to find usable quotes.

I sound like my father. You youngsters have no idea how lucky you are.

To finish my rant. LOL

“There were 42 of us living in t` shoebox in the middle of t` motorway”

Ray