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  • raisingirlraisingirl Posts: 7,093
    I think modern types of music (in many genres) get a lot - a lot - more air time than classical
    Gardening on the edge of Exmoor, in Devon

    “It's still magic even if you know how it's done.” 
  • Hostafan1Hostafan1 Posts: 34,889
    There seems to some misunderstanding . 
     I LIKE Glastonbury.
    Nobody this year made me want to go and catch it on iPlayer but usually there are some. Killers, Foo Fighters, Beyoncé  and Travis spring to mind .
    IMHO it's hard to be overly curmudgeonly about something which only lasts 3 days a year.
    Devon.
  • LynLyn Posts: 23,190
    Just been to Morrison,  1st time since 1st lockdown,  hundreds of plants, all displayed  on fancy racks,  trees in pots,  the whole lot hanging,  absolutely dried right out,  doubt they could even be resuscitated. 
    Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 

  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    My daughter indulged her partner by going to The Eagles thing in Hyde Park. She said the performance was suspiciously similar to  their recordings but he enjoyed it without suspicion. Maybe that's the way to go. Get on stage with your zimmer frame and mime😊
    Off to check out who zimmer was.
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • ErgatesErgates Posts: 2,953
    B3 said:
    Off to check out who zimmer was.
    Not the zimmer you’re looking for, but you are bound to find Hans Zimmer, one of my favourite composers of film music!
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    Apparently Zimmer is like Hoover as in "I've bought a Dyson hoover."
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    There must be a fat and prosperous spider living above my bedroom window - outside fortunately. I'm forever cleaning off bits of insects . Hoping they're mosquitoes or gnats.
    The weird thing is, I keep finding dessicated woodlice too. Why would they crawl to to the first floor? Do some spiders hunt prey and bring it home?
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • philippasmith2philippasmith2 Posts: 3,742
    I regularly find Woodlice indoors - upstairs and down but I keep a lot of indoor plants so often in the compost ( I assume ).  Old house tho and no DPC plus a cellar which is damp in places and the odd roof leak. They tend to stroll about but presumably if they can't find any food, they die and wouldn't take much to dry out.  
    Never seen any of my indoor spiders go for them but can't say for sure that they wouldn't. Not seen any remains in their webs.
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    I suppose they get lost and keep travelling upwards. No evidence of the spiders eating them here either.
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • wild edgeswild edges Posts: 10,497
    B3 said:
    The weird thing is, I keep finding dessicated woodlice too. Why would they crawl to to the first floor?
    I once read a paper that suggests the name of 'tecticolous' should be applied to any creature or plant that lives on the roofs of buildings. This along with 'synanthropic' are two of my favourite pretentious words to drop into reports now to make it sound like I know what I'm talking about. Spend some time on roofs though and you'll find out that they often support quite a rich diversity of life. Just ask the jackdaws who pick all the moss off mine in search of creepy crawlies. My point being that woodlice crawl down as well as up.

    If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
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