Again, Gay, may I point out that your first message on the WhatsApp garden group came through after 8pm Sunday night…
Ie A time when some people are getting their kids off to bed ahead of the school week, others are enjoying a quiet evening with devices turned off and some of us are out of town on almost no reception…. As someone with a keen interest in the garden, having arrived back in town early afternoon and reconnected to wifi, I’m feeling a bit tetchy that my not responding earlier is read as ‘a bit of silence’… when it might be called ‘having a life’ - !!!
By all means call a meeting for this Sunday, but I’m unsure if I can be there, pending another trip to Central, and I’m not sure what can be achieved before we’re on site.
Of course, you can advance your own plans for your own garden any time you want, I assume.
We’ll get there – and its all quite soon.
Regards,
Marianne
Marianne Quinn
Level 3, 115 Stuart Street, Dunedin
P.O. Box 20, Dunedin 9054
ph +6434773115 or 0211612050
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Subject: [Ucol-shareholders] Forming an Umbrella or "Focus" group to cover all gardening and related subgroups
A few of us have been talking about another garden group meeting to begin coordination of all landscape planning, execution and maintenance tasks – in other words to create what Robin Allison would call a "focus group” .
Currently, we seem to have several sub groups:
– a Vegetable Gardening group led by Donald and Miriam,
– a Garden Tools Group led by (I think) Ngaire,
– a Lawn-establishing Group led by (I think) Anthony,
– a children’s and young persons area, led by (I think) Jessica,
Some people have expressed interest in being part of the Heritage Fence Group.
But an overall Grounds Group would establish and coordinate subgroups for things ranging from important as design to as mundane as the rubbish. (Re design, Maria has signalled an interest in being part of this but not leading it.)
Does anyone have any thoughts about how best to establish this? Min, Jessica, Pip, Ngaire and I can all attend a meeting this Sunday to get things underway, but’s there has been a bit of a silence from others who are in the Whats App Gardening Group. Are we better to wait till we are in residence when attendance will be so much easier?