My succulent is flowering! There’s something about it that makes me think little shop of horrors. I don’t normally grow succulents, was gifted a little tiny bit a couple of years ago, left it on the dashboard of my van and it thrived. It’s outdoors now for the summer and seems to be loving it

Yeah you’re spot on, we all gotta work with what we have. I know people who have no growing space at all but do kind of guerrilla gardening stuff in public spaces. I’m lucky really that I have room for plant pots. Yeah no worries I’ll do some updates.

Thanks for reminding me of that! Yeah I’ve had some success with copper in the past, more than I did with beer traps etc. I’ve also tried planting suicide crops - marigolds are a good one, slugs fuckin bee line to marigolds. But I’m never quite sure if this distracts the slugs from my sunflowers or if my marigolds bring all the slugs to the yard!

Yeah maybe I should try copper again next year, don’t have any copper wire right now so I’m just trying to put pots with vulnerable plants high up where slugs gotta work for it until the plants are well established. A mature sunflower has a kinda hairy stalk, anti slug protection. The challenge is keeping them safe until they reach that stage.

Tbh I feel like last winter was too mild and didn’t knock the slugs back hard enough.

Lol that is not a new joke. Part of my family comes from a travelling community, and I first started living in vehicles maybe thirty years ago. You can joke, but it’s more sustainable than bricks and mortar. My electric is solar, my heating reclaimed wood. No part of the land had to be concreted and built on so that I could have a home. It’s not right for everyone but I believe in sustainable community living and I put my money where my mouth is. You?

Quality staircase, I love it.

Yeah, the bill and Melinda gates foundation does a lot of good work. Doesn’t mean bill gates is a good person but maybe there are some billionaires higher on the arsehole scale.

Yeah, turned out I was actually more loyal to the app I was using than I was to the platform. Though I was also pretty good to the platform, I contributed and interacted daily and often spent money buying gold. I tend to take the attitude that if I’m getting a lot of use out of something I don’t mind spending a little to support it. That’s all in the past now and I wonder how many other paying users they burned.

AMA used to be a pretty big draw for lots of people who didn’t regularly use the site and often made international news, but they fucked that right up.

Yeah, this IPO will probably go just fine and a bunch of wankers will make a bunch of money. That’s what it’s all about, after all.

If I ordered shepherd’s pie and it came with any meat other than mutton I’d be unhappy because it’s not shepherd’s pie. Maybe this is just a regional thing though.