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  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    I don't know why people think wildflower gardening is an easy option. At least with a more formal garden, you just have to pull out what you didn't plant . You don't need to bother with thug identification and refereeing
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • KT53KT53 Posts: 9,016
    Wild flower gardening definitely isn't the easy option, particularly if you are trying to convert old veg beds or similar.  Those beds will have had manure and fertilisers added over the years, and wild flowers tend to do better with less nutrient in the soil.  The real thugs seem to thrive on veg beds and completely swamp everything else.  My neighbour tried to create wild flower beds when her husband died but ended up covering the lot with weed membrane and slate because it looked such a mess.
  • Hostafan1 said:
    What about Blackpool and Whitehaven?
    And what about blackfly, whitefly, bluebottles, blackcurrants, whitecurrants, redcurrants?

    I could go on - and often do!!😁
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    There was a gastro type pub not far from here, called The Blue Bottle. Not something that you want to think about when you go out for a meal😐
    It's had a name change and probably a new owner.. 
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • BenCottoBenCotto Posts: 4,718
    Our local chippy is called the Silver Fish. 
    Rutland, England
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    Yuk
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • steveTusteveTu Posts: 3,219
    Grima Wormtongue here...
    I thought AI was a threat - but I thought that threat was still at least a decade away. But with the power in quantum computing and advances in AI, it seems that the rate of change is going through the roof. How do you then stop AI when AI decides to advance AI? What levels of computing will AI devise that we haven't even dreamt of yet - and what is the end - AI drives computing that drives AI.
    This isn't just about job loss - that is trivial in comparison, but comes down to the fundamentals of science and religion - what is man, why are we here, what is here and how did here come into existence. Did AI create man to create AI to create man to....

    The insanity is that every country wants AI as they don't want to be left behind in the AI race - but what is the goal of that race - where is that finish line?
    UK - South Coast Retirement Campus (East)
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    An awful lot of PITA plants have willow in the name.
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • KiliKili Posts: 1,104
    BenCotto said:
    Our local chippy is called the Silver Fish. 
    That brought back memories @BenCotto . When I was a kid we never had a fridge and every time I went to get the butter from the larder the damn silver fish would scurry for cover. Fortunatly we kept it in a dish with a lid but, I hated those damn things yuk!

    'The power of accurate observation .... is commonly called cynicism by those that have not got it.

    George Bernard Shaw'

  • Kili said:
    BenCotto said:
    Our local chippy is called the Silver Fish. 
    That brought back memories @BenCotto . When I was a kid we never had a fridge and every time I went to get the butter from the larder the damn silver fish would scurry for cover. Fortunatly we kept it in a dish with a lid but, I hated those damn things yuk!
    I found ours in the sideboard, between plates.
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