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MadCow1:
How much for a bouquet of fresh flowers..


12 red roses..

12 white roses

Ask Rosety Gardens. I don't work for them, but I believe they sell most of the commercial roses available in Lagos to all the florists. So it's cheaper buying from them. And you can have them mix up a bouquet of imported and local flowers which are even cheaper and last longer. I keep telling brides this, but they'll prefer to buy fake, cheap-looking stuff when my friend last year paid N20, 000 for 4 bouquets of fresh flowers for her wedding and they were lovely and people were fighting to keep them.

ahnie:
I hav this younger brother of mine....Bishop.he's the our last born(lolz)while growin up,you 'll never see him doing any chores,but he likes food.infact we nicknamed him FOODIe.haa i love him to pieces,he's a very compassionate lad.he is the only person i know that,gives me his salary to spend,witout him keepin a dime to himself,isnt that sweet?awwww.back in the days,he will always tel me...girlie i want yu to be spendin my money for me.just buy whatever yu want.i became his piggybank.till date,infact,if yu want to catch me,dont just waste yur time involin the police,boys scout or worefa,just arrest bishop,and viam,i'll resurface from my hidin.Even my husband has given up.anytime he(bishop)calls me,mehn ayam always elated.i remember back in the days,when mr ahlex(my husband)was wooing me...displayin his peacockic skills,and i invited him to our bunk(abode)my brother just saw him and frowned his face.the guy nor even welcome my husband.my brother later sat me down and started crying..mehn i was shocked.me also i came cry for africa,we started cryin together.i asked him...bishop why yu dey cry nah?he said...girlie if yu married now,whu go dey cook for me.yu know say ah nor sabi cook?i told him thus....ah go dey go and waybill the food for you.hahahaha i love my brother.before i forget,my brother can finish one big custard pail of dry garri...honestly i tell,there z power in soakin garri.how he does it,i dunno.if you ask him to cook indomie/noodles...your name na Sorry.firstly he will put the indomie insid pot,without puttin water,and set it on the stove,then allow the indomie to burn for few seconds before addin water,and the chilli pepper instantly.and he wil be grinnin from ear to ear like a jealoused snail.after few second,he wil turn the stove down n serve the brown pakistani indomie.and wetin dey vex me be say,the indomie dey always dey strong.and next thing,he 'll go straight to the fridge and keep the brownny pakistani indomie insid the freezer.

this is funny.

ForFun:
Please Apart from stomach infrastructure, what else can make the day fun!

any form of entertainment for such parties?

Well, people usually have lots of energy, are you and your friends open, jovial types? You could make it a Kiddie-Party for adults. Be a proud agbaya.

Mother-and-Daughter ten-ten match. Father-and-son Lime and spoon relay race. Dancing chairs for the adults (the older kids will control the dj). Get 4 of her friends to come up and tell a story from her past. When she's cutting her cake, give everyone a small amount of confetti (packets of it should be sold in markets not too expensively) and let the. throw it in the air (it will make a wonderful picture). Gele-tying competition for the husbands. And madam should wear a gold crown all through the party (just like a kid would). Get a big white shirt and have everyone sign it when they come, so you can have a keepsake rather than cards she'll throw away.

Let me think of some more ideas...

princesca:
Yes you re right about working with a visiting visa.but I already marked out my plans and have made contacts I have an underground plan to help me get a stay in 3 months with that I can learn the course I want to learn and moved from there.yes my kids re staying behind so I can get time to Heal.their father is coming to pick them in 6months it's not ideal to go with kids now I know that.just need to stay away from emotional stress.nothing stops me from working hard I'm feat but whenever I have an emotional stress that's what gingers the heart pains.to me I don't think I'm giving much information I just need to let it all heart so I can be at peace with myself for those of you who says I'm giving much information or unserious pls it's not the way you think pls .atleast if I can't trust no one with what I'm going through I should atleast pour my heart on here

I'm really worried about your plans. The U.S. is tough and you have a medical condition. You'll need medical help and drugs and U.S. is really bad on healthcare (expensive and everyone needs some sort of insurance). With these method you're using, you won't be eligible for even govt healthcare (unless you're going to a state like Florida or Californa, where they are used to undocumented workers and are more liberal). And what state are you going to, you need a lot of Nigerians there for your own protection, unless you'll end up as someone's house servant, isolated. And is it the same husband that refuses to give you money for drugs without insults here in Nigeria that will comfortably fork out cash for a course abroad? Who introduced you to these contacts, I thought you had no friends to help you here, how can you trust these people?

I think if you can get the money to do the course, hold onto it and start making other plans.

Orchids in Nigeria

Orchids are a beautiful, exotic flower, native to tropical forests like India and Nigeria and some other countries. They are pretty tricky to grow (the right fertiliser, watering and shades sunlight. But they are prized in the Western world, a single plant of a rare orchid can easily go for over $1000 and I know they sell orchid plants in Ikeja for N18, 000 per plant (and yes, there are buyers). And some of the varieties in Nigeria are considered endangered, so some of them are very expensive. At some point, the Nigerian Government even used our local orchids on our stamps and there has been a book written on them. So, for botanists out there, this is an opportunity and for professional gardeners as well. Ive been asked to get involved in them and if anyone is interested, let's talk.

Orchids are stunning as house plants and look fantastic in bouquets and they are pretty expensive bouquets.

rosety:
Bromeliads are wonderful indoor plants. There is a whole bunch of them in the family from the ones you have in the picture to ornamental pineapples, tilandsia and air plants. The airplants are the wierdest ones as they get all their nutrients from the air (they have no roots). Their flowers are very long lasting and colourful. Looks like plastic. Unfortunately I don't have any flowering bromeliads in stock right now and I am typing this post at a ridiculously early hour for me. As soon as I can I'll post some pictures.

Next to anthuriums, they are my favourite plant

I've heard of air plants and seen pics, but didn't know they could grow in the tropics. Ifyalwys, this might just be the plant for you: something that gets its nutrients from the air.

happybrother:
Used this flower to change our white chalk to light blue chalk in primary school when guys still dey carry wooden slate.

How did you extract the dye please?

Morning Glory

I have fond memories of this flower as it was the very first one dad taught me as a child. It's a vine and it smells good in the mornings. It comes in several colours (though the only colour I've ever seen is pale-pink-white). Some fun facts about this flower: the flower of our sweet potato is in the same specie as a Morning glory and the plant was used by Mesopotamians to vlucanise rubber 3, 000 years before the inventor of Goodyear tires did so. That rubber was made into a ball by the Mesopotamians and that is why South Americans will always be great at Football

Mimosa/Silk Tree

Alrighty, let's sing a small song!

"If you know you played with this flower as a small child, clap your hands"

"If you know you did Love-In-Tokyo under this tree as a youth, clap your hands"



This is so common, there's a pretty specimen at the first gate of Lekki Phase 1. In Nigeria, I've only seen it with pink and white flowers, but it apparently comes in yellow flowers as well. It's a tree that can be used as Bonsai and butterflies love this tree (great reason to plant it in your compound). It likes water but doesn't need fertilizer as (like sweetpea) the Mimosa tree improves the Nitrogen content of soil. Its ferns close at night.

valnelly:
It's no scam dude.. I participated, got my medal and certificate... I saw kipton when he was getting ready for the race at the starting point.

Well done on finishing you're the second person I know who ran. First was a young lady.

rattlesnake:
So they can't marry ordinary women again

It's either half caste
Billionaire daughter

Reality is, when you get to a point in life, you cannot look back. It's asking for trouble because the other party doesn't have the same background as you. If a guy is someone who sees nothing wrong with spending £500 on F1 tickets (minus flights and hotel) marries a girl who has never stepped on a plane, she may not understand his tastes and see him as wasteful. If you see a girl who thinks spending N500, 000 on a piece of Nigerian Art is no big deal, and proceeds to drop N50, 000 on her friend's asoebi, you who have never been to an art exhibition will be screaming in your mind with vex. Even with friendship, social class becomes more visible (when one has friends who think the fact you mentioned you spent all your holidays abroad, is boasting, meanwhile it was you just talking innocently). That is why one can tell. who's posing, because they will so desperately try to cover the fact that their background was different that they overdo things.

There's nothing wrong with coming from a humble background. Just that, well... social classes don't mix. Even when they go to the U.K., Nigerians wih humbler backgrounds will be desperately trying to mix with the Nigerians who grew up as members of Polo club and living in Knightsbridge, and you'll see how swiftly the wealthier one's friends will put them in their place. Same with the U.S.

thorpido:
They should encourage more women to jog.So many fat women around.

Health is wealth.

Bros, e no easy. Who will carry baby when madam wants to jog

Jokes apart, I spoke to a fitness trainer and she said it's an mainland thing to not be so much into fitness, on the island people are more health conscious.

(though it sounded a tad snobbish when she said it but she admitted that everyone who had approached her that day for fitness tips or to schedule a class stayed on the island).

Mods, I'm not sure this belongs in this section as Agriculture is mostly filled with commercial farming and states that is for Agribusiness and economics, and this thread is purely for pleasure. This thread will die here. We started it in the General Section to attract anyone interested.

Check out this cake covered in Engagement pictures

And we're back!

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mimzy:
Good afternoon sabi mums in the house. Please help o, my LO clocked one year on d 30th Jan, although she eats very well buh she has absolutely refused to take cereal or pap from her bowl. She will only accept it if I use her feeding bottle. Also, she prefers to eat with me, if I try to dish her food separately, she won't accept it after one or two spoons. She's walking already, she's healthy, meeting milestones, etc.
I also attached a pics from her bday. Lol. The struggle to tie her gele was real
Should I just let her be and follow her pattern, hoping that she will change with time. Please mothers respond o,. We are all here to learn and share Thank u mas

Cc. @kaffy4bill. Senior Beedam. MiracleMum.

abeg leave this pretty madam alone! Is it her fault that she's so fine, you now want to chase her away from your plate .

Newmum15:
Hi mamas in the house,My baby's arm is still swollen at the point he was given the BCG injection at 6 weeks,he'll be seven months next week and the mound is still there.Pls I'm worried,is this normal?what should I do if it isn't? Cc @onegai and other mums.

i wish I knew dear, ours has gone in (and she's the same age). Kaffy4bill, please help.

Allamanda

This is a super popular plant. Here's the thing though, I'm not sure if it's a shrub or a vine (climber). I usually see it when it's young as a shrub but it does climb over people's fences. Hmm...

Its most popular colour is yellow (aka the Golden Trumpet) but it's different from a regular trumpet flower. It comes in dark pink (I used to think it was striped from afar, its just the petals overlapping each other giving it a stripes look) and more rarely, white. It requires watering and sunlight and pruning occasionally to make it flower even more.

ZombieNation:
Read my post again.

Did you not see or hear of the near state of break down of law and order in parts of Monrovia badly hit by the Ebola Outbreak?

Are you not aware of the forced Quarantine measures carried out in slums like West Point, Liberia and resulting deaths caused by riot police drafted to enforce the quarantine?

Not saying some parts of your conspiracy theories aren't true (no-one likes Monsanto), but have you looked around you, looked at African countries in general? Near breakdown of law and order are the common daily mode of lifestyle for almost all African nations. Deaths caused by riot police happening during religious and secessionist protests are a certain occurrence here and no-one gives a da.mn (Iran was more concerned about what happened to Zakzaky than the average Nigerian). Ebola actually united us because it gave us a common enemy and our fear of the disease made us give our collective, individual greed and selfishness. All of you are shouting "conspiracy", how are you supporting your economy by buying made-in-Nigeria goods (so we are not dependent on foreign imports), how many of you will buy medicine made by an Indigenous company, are all of you not rushing to pour Sniper (one of the most dangerous poisons ever that should NEVER be sold on the open market) everywhere in the name of killing rats for Lassa fever, is it white people telling you to do that? The major Malaria research hospital in Gambia is funded by foreign bodies and not one single African nation.

Don't fear, Africans are doing their best to destroy themselves by themselves. What they're doing is giving you all a nudge, so that you get there quicker.

You can sponsor someone to run on behalf of a charity. My brother and his friends sponsored someone to run on behalf of a charity and for crossing the finish line, I think a company matched their donations and gave it all to the charity. So you can sponsor someone to run for Motherless Babies' Home and ask a company to match your donation if your runner finishes the marathon (not win, just finish). I'll like to run next year, for personal reasons.

She needs a lawyer. To sort out her bail and get the kids out. Once she gets a lawyer, the police will cool their craze and let her go. Ask your neighbours and friends for a lawyer to go to the station and say he's representing her. That is the only effective thing that can be done, so if it's urgent, start asking for a lawyer to go asap.

tearoses:
seriously?
then you should consider exporting them
I dont know why they are so expensive to be honest
They don't appeal to me cos they only flower once and need very special conditions and care to get them to flower the next day
Me I just throw a bucket or bowl of water on the plants
Orchids wont last one week in my hands

Hmm (thinking), meanwhile you should see the prices of even a common Double Hibiscus ($15 plant) that people don't send in naija.

I think I've seen Floribunda in Lagos (light pink-white colour) and the gardener told me it was a double Hibiscus. I'm not sure sha..

So quick Google shows that Floribunda is used in Nigeria for wood! So it's common. Any Botany students can help shed light on this please?

Woged2005:
-I hope you did a little psychology at school. When ladies do everything to get married because their peers are are getting married, do you ask what is pushing them?

-when you buy a red bag or blue shoe because you saw it look good on another lady, do you question what your motivation is?

-When you hear the stories of miracles a pastor did and rush to him to pray for a problem you have, what too you there?

- even in science, when you place a plastic near a heat source it melts by convectional heat even if it's not in the fire.

Lessons: Most things we do in life are either influenced by external forces or coded in our DNA. the same way an academic counselor can influence you to change your course, a sustained negative taunting and reinforcement can change your behavior pattern.

If the external things are the driving actions behind one's personality, then that person is a weakling and an idi.ot. Because strong people don't let anything outside bring them down. After all, most people have had their emotions bruised in Love but only the childish ones go about carrying on top their heads. So if this thread is referring to "mentally young and weak" men, I agree and ask everyone to avoid them.

tearoses:
Tea Roses ......one of my favourite flowers
I love the colour, the shape of the flower and most especially the scent.

I managed to get them to grow in Nigeria, but rather than have lots of flowers between May and Aug as it should do, it only has about 7 flowers on the plant all year long. The flowers are also smaller than normal.

"Hybrid tea is an informal horticultural classification for a group of garden roses. They were created by cross-breeding two types of roses, initially by hybridising hybrid perpetuals with tea roses. It is the oldest group classified as a modern garden rose"

Please what did you do to get them to grow here? Shade, greenhouse, singing, catfish sacrifice to one spirit somewhere, abeg tell us.

tearoses:
Im with your hubby on this one
The funny thing is that orchids are very very expensive flowers

I know, right? I hear we have even more orchids in the forests of Nigeria. Imagine the money we could be making exporting them. I like these ones, I think they look nice in a group (though it's the pretty orchids everyone likes).

Yellow Scorpion Orchid

First hubby saw this plant, he said "you bring it home, I pour Omo water in it" and I replied "You buy a t.v. with curved edges, I pour Omo water in it". So we have an uneasy truce: orchids stay with my mama, he doesn't buy gimmicky tv set. We don't get what we want, since we are all being childish innit

Orchids are a love or hate thing, because they're so exotic-looking. This particular one needs shade, plenty of space to grow, cattle manure and a support (it's a climber). It grows fast if you give it all that. it is really long-lasting in bouquets and flower arrangements.I think it only comes in these colours of yellow-brown.

Red Bromeliad or Ananasgiller

Good luck saying that fast

I don't know much about this, I know it's part of the pineapple family (Bromeliad) and it's tropical. I spotted it in a professional garden in Festac-town, Lagos and I don't think the gardener gave me much info on it. So if anyone knows about this plant, please share.

tearoses:
fuchsias

These are one of my favourites and I have about 6 of these in my garden.
Some species are hardy so they come back year after year

"The fuchsia flower is a beautiful, exotic flower with striking two-tone colors. The fuchsia flower is quite unusual with regard to its shape and the fact that they are really delicate. These beautiful flowers are great just about anywhere in your garden".

That is just so pretty.

aye88:
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I doubt she will get Tylenol here in nigeria but Emcap infant paracetamol is another option readily available or any other brand
Thermometer
I will also recommend Saline nasal drops/spray for catarrh/blocked nose.
Methelotum or silver bird eucalyptus oil for cold too

Good one. See what I said about every child being different? I don't have saline drops because we've never had a cold or cough (thank God). I'd go with Eucalyptus oil because mehnn, Metholatum is even strong for me self.

I think because drugs are so easy to get in Nigeria without prescription, they get abused easily. Because one doctor prescribes even Funbact A for one child's skin, everyone will be rubbing it even though they don't know why.