Dear Mary Sue, Dear All! First of all I want to thank Mary Sue for the wonderful job she has been doing for such a long time. She has always help at hand when not so skilled computerists get stranded.......... and she is a nice person I am sure although I have never met her personally. Please Do not retire from the list! Of course you are allowed a rest if necessary, but retiring.......... not allowed. I very much enjoy the topics of the week although I did not contribute a lot recently, I am so very busy. But I always look at the list of topics and read those that sound interesting. However, I noticed that some contributions do not appear in the list of topics that comes first, having noticed that when my own contribution did not appear in the list of topics but was then found lower down but looking strange with a lot of useless data included. This may explain that some people do not respond or their messages may get lost. (Hope it does not happen with this one....) I very much like the suggestion of a regular topic of what to do in Northern and Southern Hemisphere, this would open the eyes on how other people garden in different parts of the world and will for sure give new ideas and perhaps contacts. I do not see the necessity to have a topic each and every week and neither being Mary Sue the manager of all this all the time. Why can these things not be distributed in some way or the other? My time is limited but I am happy to do further topics in the future as long as I know about them early enough. It is very rewarding to write these contributions and has led to many new contacts, informations and last but not least new plants! So I would also like to encourage other people to do so. All the best with many greetings from uncomfortable cold wet and windy Germany Uli