I've just started exploring the new garden. Two plants I can't identify. The first is http://upl.co/upload/g3Io1Vs3F It looks very peony like to me but has no foliage and is v close to the ground. The...
My first attempt to post an ad in Gumtree - they have readily taken the money from my account. Yet no response to my answers either to gumtree or the seller. Tried several times to contact them - they...
Frankie tells me when he and his sister want to be fed. He howls, yowls and cries until I go and feed them. If I am too slow the claws are used. This cat is much more subtle...
Just been reading that the animal belonging to the Russian victims have died. Sad in itself but horrible to read that the guinea pigs died through lack of water while the house was sealed and that the...
Someone else asked this question on another thread earlier, but it is such a striking question I believe it merits it's own post. Why, indeed, do ghosts wear clothes? If there was any logic to the...
Anyone know of a good garden variety with good size flowers or attractive leaf colour ?. I'm thinking of planting some in my wildlife garden. I've seen some good swathes of it this year, in the wild,...
I had a gastroscopy today... When I started to take off my shoes to climb....it's a climb for me....onto the bed I was told to keep them on. During the procedure my mind was mulling over all sorts of...
My daughter works in the front line in the health service. She is pregnant and her midwife has not forwarded some form to the authorities so she has missed out on the Down’s syndrome test. She is...
Just loaded up the Google page and noticed that they have an illustration of Maya Angelou - American Poet , Singer and civil rights activist . Apparently she was born on this day in 1928 . Also today...
I speculatively cold called several companies Dec last year and got through to the head decision maker, who asked me to send my cv and a week later sent this follow up. Hello, I sent a speculative...