PeelerSheila

Thankyou! In this case, under watering would be a factor because our hose isn’t long enough to reach that corner of the garden properly 😆 I think I might dig it out, replant a section of it and pot up the rest.

CrI have a “what should I do?” question. I’ve had this happen:

I’m not sure how it happened, whether the plant got too heavy and fell over or a possum or visiting dog jumped on it, but it’s kind of fallen over without breaking. As you can tell from the second picture, it’s trunk is about as thick as my wrist. Should I attempt to rite it? Should I just chop the fallen over bits off? Should I replace it with a younger bit of itself? I don’t even know what it is, but what should I do with it?

I’m sorry but that just sounds far too intelligent and reasonable.

Hydrangea question

Mr P wants to know if he can move this 60yo hydrangea. It’s in a bad spot; it used to have the shade of an apple tree but that was removed years ago. It also has the outlet air from the split system blowing right at it. He wants to save it as his Nan originally planted it. Can he dig it up and move it without killing it?

There’s something a bit NQR about this, can’t quite put my finger on it. Shooter pops 7 shots into a crowd and doesn’t injure anyone else? Maybe I’m a cynic, but Mr Bone Spurs acts a little too cooly for someone who just got shot. And that fist shaking defiant pose? What secret service/security people would pause to let him do that?Looks more staged than a Christmas special lol.

Edit: apparently a rally attendee was killed. Not the right one, unfortunately.

Better than elf on a shelf

I never really stop buying icecream through the winter. Demand for Streets Blue Ribbon vanilla ice cream or those generic brand Cornetto knock offs is fairly consistent in this house.

Tried out a new cafe near my place. Was unfortunately overpriced and a bit meh. Doing some cooking and life admin (especially laundry, gotta make an assault on Mount Washmore every week). Got car insurance coming up so have to spend little until it’s safely out of the way.

Hey, maybe they thought you’d like to buff your stuff while they stuff your crust?

I hate to say it but I think they will attempt to shut the gate after the horse has bolted. I hope it’s just my GenX cynicism talking. I don’t want to do this again either. The last time didn’t exactly fill me with confidence, with all the politicking and social and mainstream media misinformation, and people just openly breaching the guidelines because they didn’t care enough, the antimaskers and antivaxers and sovereign citizens. After all we went through, I still see people not washing their hands when they should and coughing all over people in public places. It wasn’t that long ago, not long enough to have forgotten so easily, and it makes me angry and sad.

Might be just the motivation I need!

Thankyou for sharing this deeply personal experience Baku. As the parent of a child that suffers from anxiety and school refusal I’m hopeful that people will gain a better understanding of the intricacies of the issue. As with my child, there are often a lot of complex and/or contributing factors which combine to lead a child to this point. It’s not just kids refusing to go because they’re being recalcitrant.

That’s a perfectly reasonable question, and the answers are many. It was the house she and dad bought together, and after he suddenly and unexpectedly died, she was really attached to anything which held her memories of him. They had been active in volunteering in the area and had many friends and a strong connection to it, and she just didn’t want to move anywhere more affordable where she didn’t know anybody and had to “start again”. She had an extensive garden which was her main hobby and which gave her an enormous amount of pleasure, and she was loathe to give it up (it was admired by local people and when she died, people came to take photos of it). Mum had Parkinson’s disease at the end, and found mobility a challenge, so the house was easy to modify for her increasing disability. The truth also was that the house itself was kinda crappy and wasn’t actually worth very much and she wouldn’t have gotten much more than it cost for a unit in the area at the time (prices for units in that area were starting to get a bit crazy). After dad died she got all morbid and was talking as though she was going to die soon too, even though she outlived him by about 20 years lol. I guess she thought, why go to the trouble of moving when I’m just going to die anyway? I hope my answer hasn’t bored you with rambling on, my apologies if it has.

I think using your super as a deposit for a house is a terrible idea because you could basically end up like my mum: an elderly homeowner having to pay to maintain and repair an ageing home and no income other than the pension to live on. She’s long gone now, but I’ll never forget how hard it was for her, and how she had to borrow money from a friend to replace the old heater that broke and couldn’t be fixed. Every pension day it was decision time, what to pay and what to delay. Meanwhile the house was slowly falling into disrepair.

Thanks for sharing this, I’m going to save it for later. From an initial skimming, it’s got some stuff which really resonates with me. I’m interested in what it says about earlier first smartphone ownership, increased use of single use plastics and consumption of ultra high processed foods in wealthier countries.

Same here. I’m an old fart, and I can read things my parents wrote easily. But when you get to what my grandparents or great grandparents wrote… the further back you go the more decorative flourishes the copperplate style seems to have and I’ve found it’s not easy to make out every word.

The Big Gig

Awesome, thanks! It might sound funny but I love little creeks like this, clear and you can see the river pebbles at the bottom.

Beautiful, where’s this?

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