[-] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago

Most certainly!

And then being told off for messing up the living room.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

I have brambles sprouting up all over the place from where they were left to spread by the previous occupant. And that sodding bindweed stuff.

If it wasn’t for my wife it’d be full of veg.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago
[-] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago

A lot of hard work!

We moved in at beginning of December and it was just an overgrown mess. It's basically plant things and see what grows best and where. Sunflowers OK in some places but not in others, brambles and bindweed sending up suckers everywhere. There was some overgrown bush things at bottom of garden - they had to come out for new fence/gate and I couldn't get all the roots out. So shoots from that keep appearing and when I dig them out, they've spouted from a piece of root less than a cm long!

We inherited a rhubarb plant that we've had two lots off of and it just keeps on going.

Have always been in army barracks or a flat, so when we got this bungalow it was a dream come true. Dad had green fingers and so do my two sisters, appears that I have as well.

The result is that I now have suntanned legs and spend a lot less time online :-)

[-] [email protected] 6 points 6 days ago

I prefer the term ‘Self entitled wankers’.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 6 days ago

My first garden. Coming to it a bit late at 67, but we have our first potatoes. There are a tomato and a couple of chillies showing and the runner beans have quite a few flowers. Sunflowers are different sizes.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago

My wife for the past few weeks. In fact since I met her about 6 years ago.

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Small bird rescue (beehaw.org)
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So yesterday I rescued a young Robin that caught its leg in our garden feeder. All OK.

Yesterday evening I went to the kitchen to start dinner and there was a sparrow flapping about by the kitchen window. The kitchen door next to window was wide open, but our cat Daisy was prowling round so that probably stopped the sparrow from flying out. Managed to get hold of it and it too was uninjured. Off that went as well.

Don’t think Daisy had caught it as she is too slow. So much that that she either ignores the birds (apart from making funny noises at pigeons and magpies), or they stay out of her reach.

Wonder what animal rescue I have today.

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submitted 1 month ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

Ryanair once again proving they are scumbags.

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Very thought provoking.

[-] [email protected] 43 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Overdue - more national media needs to take this step.

The US presidential election campaign served only to underline what we have considered for a long time: that X is a toxic media platform and that its owner, Elon Musk, has been able to use its influence to shape political discourse.

It's not like they weren't warned though.

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submitted 8 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

My daughter is visiting and left her case open.

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submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

Mum! There's a submarine driving down the road!

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The Expanse (beehaw.org)
submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

Rewatching The Expanse for the nth time. It always cracks me up to see Bobby Draper stuffing those cucumber sandwiches into her face. Do you want some?

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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

Probably not what you're expecting - but the fact that the once iconic 'British' car is now made in China.

I spent many hours under the hood of my MGB GT :-(

[-] [email protected] 37 points 1 year ago

I never thought they couldn't. Glass phones were an absolutely ridiculous idea.

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Farewell King Theoden (www.bbc.co.uk)
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😢

[-] [email protected] 34 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

This should come as no surprise. The UK's MOD did similar, albeit on a smaller scale, for training troops for deployment in Northern Ireland, and Germany/Europe.

I think we all know China is gearing up to attack Taiwan as they make no secret that, as far as they are concerned, it belongs to them. The fact that the Taiwanese don't agree is neither here nor there.

Same with Russia.

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submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

Am trying to make a dark rye loaf like you'd find on a stall or in a shop. Not the really dense 'pumpernickel' style but round or oblong tin shaped.

Have tried various percentages of strong dark rye, muscovado sugar and black treacle but the loaf is still not that dark. I did try some cocoa in one loaf but that just gave an odd colour.

Am using a Panasonic bread machine and in over 5 years it's only ever produced a couple of duff loaves - which were down to me (forgetting yeast, mixer blade or water) and often use it for the dough function and then finish in oven. Am not averse to resorting to full manual though if needed.

Any ideas?

TIA

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New budding author (atulipinacup.substack.com)
submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

My daughter is studying Creative Writing and English Literature at Birmingham (UK) University. She's put together some pieces on Substack. Most of them are over my head, but this one hits right in the feels. Apart from a couple of technical inaccuracies, it's spot on. Hope you like it ;-)

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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

Won't be doing any laundry just yet then.

Edit - pic didn't load

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submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

And now I know.

[-] [email protected] 50 points 2 years ago

Holy crap, that's depressing.

And whitey wonders why the locals have got the arseache.

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