Jayne is a vigorous beauty. I'm growing up a cutting and am surprised how easily she struck and how quickly she's grown. There are some fabulous pics of her on HMF, some of which may be Rick's. I can't wait to smell her. I'm now also wanting Dame Judi! Your pictures are beautiful. I love roses that exhibit many colours at the same time; it's like growing multiple different ones!

Please cancel the shade . I tried to cancel by emailing the sellar. They say they aren't sure I cancelled they can't read it?

Yes Lars, only you could see your response. The post still showed ”Be the first to respond”. FAQ forums need to pass through admins which can take days. Now that Judy changed that, prior posts are gone although they may or may not show up if the admins look at it. tj

I'm not sure she had such an impact over here. I certainly never came across her books when I was of the age she was aiming at. By age 14 we were doing D H Lawrence in school and were generally expected to be reading novels for adults. I do remember a parent coming into a library where I was working in the early 80's complaining about a book his daughter had taken out. But we simply ignored him and put the book back on the shelf. We mainly felt sorry for his child. I read Forever ... when I was at the library and found it rather saccharine and unrealistic, not least because there was a reference to relieving period pain by doing some simple exercises. Ha, ha, ha not in my world. When my own kids were small we had a tape of Blume reading one of the Fudge books. They quite liked it but there was a certain amount of US vocabulary and descriptions of American school experiences that needed explaining to them, so they were not huge fans. I watched the Amazon documentary last night. Interesting, but she did come across as being almost too good to be true and the contributors who said they were heavily influenced by her books were relating experiences far outside my own.