It seems to be the light colours that are suffering and the red ones seem ok. I just keep pumping them full of water and keeping my fingers crossed.
The scaffolders are back next door and waving poles and planks over the only shady bit of the garden so the kids are trapped indoors and can't use the paddling pool. They also insist on using ratchet guns for all the pole connection bolts which is unbelievably noisy. It does drown out the sound of the constant swearing though (from both sides of the fence ).
If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
No shortage of water. The plant has not wilted .The blooms are crispy and some leaves scorched but all are still ( is turgid the word?) apart from the crispy ones. Arthur Bell and Margaret Merrill are shrugging it off but not deep secret. It's been moved to safety for now.
We have a stream at the end of our back garden that takes the But now there's a tree outside of the lines of our property on the deeds, but on the stream's bank on our side, that's grown to a stupid height - bigger than a big thing on steroids. Whopping. What concerns me is that I doubt that it's covered by our insurance - as it's not on our property - and I don't think it's ours to just cut down (or back to a reasonable size). Now I'm paranoid as there's a house behind ours that's potentially at risk should anything happen to the tree.
Is anything likely to happen to it? What's a stupid height? Ring a tree surgeon.
The scaffolders are back next door and waving poles and planks over the only shady bit of the garden so the kids are trapped indoors and can't use the paddling pool. They also insist on using ratchet guns for all the pole connection bolts which is unbelievably noisy. It does drown out the sound of the constant swearing though (from both sides of the fence ).
I feel your pain.. next door has recently had their house re-rendered. We're all still cleaning up the dust.. bl++dy pikeys.
@raisingirl It's an interesting analysis but at election time and afterwards you get discussions among pundits and experts about the way constituency boundaries favour labour. Indeed the last few election nights I recall that it's equivalent to about 30 or 40 seats.
There's some interesting figures in this guardian article.
If you want you can check it out as the actual voting statistics for all the elections mention mentioned are very easily found out. Wikipedia has them if you struggle with BBC or other UK sources. Looking at what has happened gives better insight than quick calculations especially if they're based on assumptions.
I suspect when people see the tories winning it is easier to assume there's a bias in their favour. However it's more likely that the issue is closer to the labour party itself. Internal issues seem to me, and more informed people, to be the bigger problem with election failure. That aand the people who were their target voters have changed in a way the Labour Party hasn't.
I think it's simpler than that @NorthernJoe. Brexit shifted all of the old loyalties and completely re-drew the lines. It will work it's way through eventually and we'll all forget, but whether things will revert to the old habits or whether things have permanently shifted is impossible to say yet
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Ring a tree surgeon.
It's an interesting analysis but at election time and afterwards you get discussions among pundits and experts about the way constituency boundaries favour labour. Indeed the last few election nights I recall that it's equivalent to about 30 or 40 seats.
There's some interesting figures in this guardian article.
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2020/jan/01/labour-not-the-tories-benefit-from-first-past-the-post-voting-system
If you want you can check it out as the actual voting statistics for all the elections mention mentioned are very easily found out. Wikipedia has them if you struggle with BBC or other UK sources. Looking at what has happened gives better insight than quick calculations especially if they're based on assumptions.
I suspect when people see the tories winning it is easier to assume there's a bias in their favour. However it's more likely that the issue is closer to the labour party itself. Internal issues seem to me, and more informed people, to be the bigger problem with election failure. That aand the people who were their target voters have changed in a way the Labour Party hasn't.
“It's still magic even if you know how it's done.”
I felt disenfranchised