Comments on: Jasmine

By: Debbie

Debbie — Wed, 21 Jun 2006 16:49:08 +0000

Help! My star jasmine that grows up over the house has to be cut back because I am havingthe house tented for termites next week. They have already warned me the plant may die. Before this happens, is it possible to take cuttings off the plant and how do I do that? It is so beautiful, at least 15 feet high and in full bloom! It is too large to transplant the whole thing. Does anyone have suggestions for me? Thanks

By: erc

erc — Fri, 26 May 2006 15:30:06 +0000

I showed this post to a 9 year old called Jasmine at the weekend. I think it made her day – big grins all around!

And janet – that thing is too addictive!

By: Moshe

Moshe — Fri, 19 May 2006 16:03:30 +0000

I vaguely remember Sean blogging about that naming thingy, not sure when or where…

By: Clifford

Clifford — Fri, 19 May 2006 15:36:56 +0000

Janet:- It is *fantastic*…. Er, make it stop now please! I can’t stop typing names.

Help meeeee…..

-cvj

By: i

Thu, 18 May 2006 15:31:46 +0000

janet, you are right. i know of many people that can’t resist! it is too fun and too curious!

By: janet

janet — Tue, 16 May 2006 16:08:46 +0000

Speaking of baby names, this is totally addictive. If you can resist looking up your own name and the names of most of your friends, you have more self-control than I. The graph for Jasmine is apparently fixing to be the “witch’s hat” shape typical of certain girls’ names, e.g. “Lisa” and “Jennifer” — names that come out of nowhere and become very popular for a short while. A lovely flower, a lovely name.

By: Cygnus

Cygnus — Tue, 16 May 2006 04:06:06 +0000

Beautiful Flowers!

Strange that the usage “the mother” and “the father” sounds jarring to me too. However, the reason that it seems so weird to me is that I’ve heard such usage only in the case when the parents are estranged. Maybe it’s an Indian English thing. I’m just wondering if there’s any difference between the usage across the Atlantic between The USA and UK?

By: Clifford

Clifford — Mon, 15 May 2006 15:31:32 +0000

…or Clifford Johnson.

I was just writing what I felt at the time. No styles were invoked – that I’m aware of.

-cvj

By: Cynthia

Cynthia — Mon, 15 May 2006 15:18:50 +0000

interesting… striving to create prose convoluted as prose created by William Faulkner or James Joyce?

By: Clifford

Clifford — Mon, 15 May 2006 13:55:00 +0000

“You have a difficult and unusual style of prose.”

Thank you so much. That’s actually a very nice thing indeed to say!

-cvj