Dad to two lovely grown up kids, hubby to a beautiful human; Brit, Chartered Accountant, aid-worker, entrepreneur, outdoor enthusiast, green(ish), fly fisherman, axe carver, politics are strongly anti-right, S&G enthusiast, terrible guitarist and worse singer, born in 1971; he/him
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Last Notes npub1cxkvevxpvvcqndmrk02a5qw9a4s84zlr233w3arxfhnjzj5hmm8symjc7z JimmyB (he/him) So I did a thing this year in the #garden: unplanned a succession…. Woohoo. Basically implanted sweet peas into pots last autumn I. The greenhouse; planted them out into the garden end of Feb; and planted morning glories around their roots to take over when the heat had killed the sweetpeas. And it worked! npub1cxkvevxpvvcqndmrk02a5qw9a4s84zlr233w3arxfhnjzj5hmm8symjc7z JimmyB (he/him) Hi Masto #gardening and #bird people: can you help me with a bird ID please? It’s about robin sized and very much robin behaviour: just dug a big plant into a hole and it was hopping about close to me in the bare soil. npub1cxkvevxpvvcqndmrk02a5qw9a4s84zlr233w3arxfhnjzj5hmm8symjc7z JimmyB (he/him) there was some shocking figure from arrests made at a Reform anti-immigrant rally in Bristol recently: something like 2/3rds of those lovely ‘we’ve got to protect our women and kids from these evil immigrants’ blokes had prior domestic abuse charges. Something like that. Spoke to a Met policeman a couple of years back who wanted to quit coz they didn’t do any ‘real policing’ - just attended domestics. npub1cxkvevxpvvcqndmrk02a5qw9a4s84zlr233w3arxfhnjzj5hmm8symjc7z JimmyB (he/him) yeah - I can’t see how I can weed effectively or plant potted plants without a bit of dig! npub1cxkvevxpvvcqndmrk02a5qw9a4s84zlr233w3arxfhnjzj5hmm8symjc7z JimmyB (he/him) @npub1a6t…6zr3 npub1cxkvevxpvvcqndmrk02a5qw9a4s84zlr233w3arxfhnjzj5hmm8symjc7z JimmyB (he/him) Morning Martin: after a day in the trees with a pruning chainsaw, I need to find a break in the weather to turn that lot into woodchip. Planting tomatoes too: having a nice greenhouse means I can supply the neighbours in April with a bunch of healthy plants which is always great... have a great day! npub1cxkvevxpvvcqndmrk02a5qw9a4s84zlr233w3arxfhnjzj5hmm8symjc7z JimmyB (he/him) I've been playing too: pruned two hazels yesterday and made a basket for delphiniums to grow through with the offcuts. npub1cxkvevxpvvcqndmrk02a5qw9a4s84zlr233w3arxfhnjzj5hmm8symjc7z JimmyB (he/him) martin - I’m so with you (though more growing sweet peas than X country skiing…😃) npub1cxkvevxpvvcqndmrk02a5qw9a4s84zlr233w3arxfhnjzj5hmm8symjc7z JimmyB (he/him) I’m #gardening… I grew Brugmansia from seed last year and noting how they all died previously coz they aren’t hardy, I put them in pots so I could bring them in. The problem is they seem to like their space so when I came to move them (and they flowered beautifully from September) I found they’d all escaped through the pot to the ground below. npub1cxkvevxpvvcqndmrk02a5qw9a4s84zlr233w3arxfhnjzj5hmm8symjc7z JimmyB (he/him) there’s something horrible about the situation on the left when it turns out, yet again, you were always right. npub1cxkvevxpvvcqndmrk02a5qw9a4s84zlr233w3arxfhnjzj5hmm8symjc7z JimmyB (he/him) without any evidence to confirm it I’ve always hoped I was in a group for whom advertising would always be a negative: ie I am less likely to buy your product if you direct marketing at me. npub1cxkvevxpvvcqndmrk02a5qw9a4s84zlr233w3arxfhnjzj5hmm8symjc7z JimmyB (he/him) Just bought an ePub file here - a format I don’t normally use. I (much) prefer hard copy. Anyway, when I go to open it (on my phone) the option is Apple Books. Ok. And then an ominous ‘let’s get started’ (wha…??? I just want to read this thing!) and then a long load of ‘How Apple will use your data’ npub1cxkvevxpvvcqndmrk02a5qw9a4s84zlr233w3arxfhnjzj5hmm8symjc7z JimmyB (he/him) I can see the size of the protests growing if they are seriously going to play those kinds of fascist games npub1cxkvevxpvvcqndmrk02a5qw9a4s84zlr233w3arxfhnjzj5hmm8symjc7z JimmyB (he/him) head is all over the place closing up out in #Zurich so it’s all fine! And she was a nice and very interesting lady - was a privilege to meet her in fact. Sometimes life throws these things at you. npub1cxkvevxpvvcqndmrk02a5qw9a4s84zlr233w3arxfhnjzj5hmm8symjc7z JimmyB (he/him) I’ve had one of those mornings: I couldn’t sleep so spent ages awake and then slept and then couldn’t get up. Thought screw it I’ll walk to the office to clear my head. Then found a blind lady who was looking stressed and lost with a fairly useless guide dog. Short version spent 20 minutes getting her to where she needed to go. So then hopped on a tram to catch up and realised as I arrived I’d forgotten my laptop. So now can’t check Libre! npub1cxkvevxpvvcqndmrk02a5qw9a4s84zlr233w3arxfhnjzj5hmm8symjc7z JimmyB (he/him) excel does have histograms (I think??? You’re making me doubt myself now but surely???) - and I’m really surprised if Libre office doesnt? I’m going to go find out now! npub1cxkvevxpvvcqndmrk02a5qw9a4s84zlr233w3arxfhnjzj5hmm8symjc7z JimmyB (he/him) it is alarming tho that the new CEO was a founder of the place we are all trying to get away from. I mean could they really not have found someone - anyone - else? npub1cxkvevxpvvcqndmrk02a5qw9a4s84zlr233w3arxfhnjzj5hmm8symjc7z JimmyB (he/him) I think the idea they need to put their house in order is last it’s sell by date. They’ve been agreeing to do that for decades. Disband and completely rethink law and order is actually what’s needed I believe. Any resources should be focused at the big players - and a lot more into sorting out poverty… npub1cxkvevxpvvcqndmrk02a5qw9a4s84zlr233w3arxfhnjzj5hmm8symjc7z JimmyB (he/him) I'd second the recommend for Farmer Gracy. I don't know anything bad about them, but they do deliver promptly, costs are fair I think, and the products have always been good for us other than one order a coupole of years back which had a higher than reasonable number of soft bulbs. I think that was a one off though. And I've used again this year. npub1cxkvevxpvvcqndmrk02a5qw9a4s84zlr233w3arxfhnjzj5hmm8symjc7z JimmyB (he/him) A common misconception! Tax havens are only effective for really wealthy people. Sadly, being a committed leftie who won't use tax avoidance structures, I pay double tax on a good chunk of my income... Not poor relatively. But not a tax avoider / evader either. I've got trapped on projects where, if I leave, others lose their jobs. It's been a pain in the arse tbh... npub1cxkvevxpvvcqndmrk02a5qw9a4s84zlr233w3arxfhnjzj5hmm8symjc7z JimmyB (he/him) Last day working on a contract that sees me commute from #Jersey to #Zurich every signle week. For 7 years. npub1cxkvevxpvvcqndmrk02a5qw9a4s84zlr233w3arxfhnjzj5hmm8symjc7z JimmyB (he/him) Day minus 10 and counting 😀 npub1cxkvevxpvvcqndmrk02a5qw9a4s84zlr233w3arxfhnjzj5hmm8symjc7z JimmyB (he/him) My usual happy Friday morning here, having got home late last night. It's grey and miserable but... the Burgmansia's are flowering madly (what was wrong with July????), the dahlias have come again strongly, winter veg planted a couple of weeks back is loving the mild weather. npub1cxkvevxpvvcqndmrk02a5qw9a4s84zlr233w3arxfhnjzj5hmm8symjc7z JimmyB (he/him) Woohoo… nearly home and I realised today that, as I’m not coming home next weekend, this is the penultimate commute home I will have to do. Potentially ever. Big woohoo! npub1cxkvevxpvvcqndmrk02a5qw9a4s84zlr233w3arxfhnjzj5hmm8symjc7z JimmyB (he/him) I think that this is a fundamental difference between left and right: the left angsts about complexity and nuance. The right ignores all of that and blames immigrants. npub1cxkvevxpvvcqndmrk02a5qw9a4s84zlr233w3arxfhnjzj5hmm8symjc7z JimmyB (he/him) days! I’ve quit the contract I’m working on as at end of November. Travelling weekly is disastrous environmentally and not great for me personally. So screw that. 😀😀 no idea what I’m doing next year but it won’t be this npub1cxkvevxpvvcqndmrk02a5qw9a4s84zlr233w3arxfhnjzj5hmm8symjc7z JimmyB (he/him) usually corporate nonsense today knowing I’ve got 15 more of them only before getting a break from it all and a complete reset. So can’t whine! Good luck with the job. npub1cxkvevxpvvcqndmrk02a5qw9a4s84zlr233w3arxfhnjzj5hmm8symjc7z JimmyB (he/him) I think B Corp is sincere in its aims and it is very difficult to navigate this territory. So I credit them for trying - sincerely - to help here. npub1cxkvevxpvvcqndmrk02a5qw9a4s84zlr233w3arxfhnjzj5hmm8symjc7z JimmyB (he/him) Hope everyone had a good weekend? The mild weather is extending the flowers remarkably. So lovely day clearlng back, prepping beds and planting out winter tolerant veg yesterday in the sun. And picking a bazillion figs. Made a thing: slice each fig, fry in butter with a sliced, skin on, tangerine on top; add cognac and honey; served it in left over brioche. Nom. Proper nom. npub1cxkvevxpvvcqndmrk02a5qw9a4s84zlr233w3arxfhnjzj5hmm8symjc7z JimmyB (he/him) I really wish it were the virtuous circle it’s supposed to be but for us it really did not turn out that way. The exercise was useful but turned into more of an exercise certifying what we already were, then being able to say so officially, than changing our behaviours. Interesting exercise. npub1cxkvevxpvvcqndmrk02a5qw9a4s84zlr233w3arxfhnjzj5hmm8symjc7z JimmyB (he/him) yes - it was a very big decision for us to go for B-Corp certification. We had one member of staff do almost nothing else for 18 months - in itself painful. But that lack of impact was shocking: we had one customer - a posh Uk bank, who allowed supply chain management to remove us from their PSL because we are too small: in direct contradition with B-Corp principles. Sort of realised it’s meaningful for some of us and a badge for others npub1cxkvevxpvvcqndmrk02a5qw9a4s84zlr233w3arxfhnjzj5hmm8symjc7z JimmyB (he/him) my firm is B-Corp certified. It was very expensive for us to get, long winded but focused on important issues. npub1cxkvevxpvvcqndmrk02a5qw9a4s84zlr233w3arxfhnjzj5hmm8symjc7z JimmyB (he/him) That is excellent! So many EV owners think they are saving the planet.... as has been pointed out so many times: EVs don't save the planet, they save the car industry. npub1cxkvevxpvvcqndmrk02a5qw9a4s84zlr233w3arxfhnjzj5hmm8symjc7z JimmyB (he/him) Odd isn't it? We had a health system which was the envy of the world (apparently), then you actively work to diminish it, & replace with American style which manifestly kills a lot of Americans each year through negligence and lack of access. npub1cxkvevxpvvcqndmrk02a5qw9a4s84zlr233w3arxfhnjzj5hmm8symjc7z JimmyB (he/him) 2/n There is no commercial value in saving the life of a 2 year old with a bad illness. npub1cxkvevxpvvcqndmrk02a5qw9a4s84zlr233w3arxfhnjzj5hmm8symjc7z JimmyB (he/him) Up front declare: this is not a sad story. It's a very happy one. Via some tricky bits... npub1cxkvevxpvvcqndmrk02a5qw9a4s84zlr233w3arxfhnjzj5hmm8symjc7z JimmyB (he/him) I'm ok with them existing as long as they NEVER stand against each other. right now the Greens definitely have the ascendency and the clout, while YP is floundering under the mess of it's own making so they have to be prepared to stand back. npub1cxkvevxpvvcqndmrk02a5qw9a4s84zlr233w3arxfhnjzj5hmm8symjc7z JimmyB (he/him) I genuinely think that their public spats make them now just an annoying, vote-splitting, distraction and they should disband and get behind the Greens. I know their enthusiasts would be appalled by that - but as a minimum thye need to agree not to split the vote. npub1cxkvevxpvvcqndmrk02a5qw9a4s84zlr233w3arxfhnjzj5hmm8symjc7z JimmyB (he/him) for me it’s always about the people there now. So Polanski is sounding the best we’ve got right now so gets my support, specially as he doesn’t seem to be crossing any of red lines (anti-genocide, pro-trans, pro-nationalisation and I think pro-PR). So he gets my vote. YP needs to deal with its trans issue npub1cxkvevxpvvcqndmrk02a5qw9a4s84zlr233w3arxfhnjzj5hmm8symjc7z JimmyB (he/him) Yes - it may be, though I don't know. I don't know anyone involved at all and I'm nervous to speculate. I have a defensive thing for Corbyn - not because of him really, but because of the utterly extraordinary mobilisation of the wealthy against him. He definitely had some stuff very right, to have attracted that level of investment in smearing him. A man who's spent his life fighting racism of all kinds is antisemitic? npub1cxkvevxpvvcqndmrk02a5qw9a4s84zlr233w3arxfhnjzj5hmm8symjc7z JimmyB (he/him) They cannot have professional advisors. I mean - they jsut can't. Surely? npub1cxkvevxpvvcqndmrk02a5qw9a4s84zlr233w3arxfhnjzj5hmm8symjc7z JimmyB (he/him) Hey Masto Stockholmites - new vegan cafe - Klattermusens Verkstad - opened on Nytogsgatan and they’ve got a workshop with the fabulous Julia Kalthoff, carving-axe maker extraordinaire, on Nov 6th, 17:30 to 20:00. Won’t be anywhere near Stockholm that day but I’d go if I were! npub1cxkvevxpvvcqndmrk02a5qw9a4s84zlr233w3arxfhnjzj5hmm8symjc7z JimmyB (he/him) yes. Love cats too but hate what they to the birds. Remember a childhood cat - devastating hunter - catching a spotted flycatcher in our garden once. Never saw another one npub1cxkvevxpvvcqndmrk02a5qw9a4s84zlr233w3arxfhnjzj5hmm8symjc7z JimmyB (he/him) it is and they are fabulous. But I hate seeing them raid nests in the spring - they are such vicious predators. A bit anthropomorphised I know but then I am an anthropomorph (??) npub1cxkvevxpvvcqndmrk02a5qw9a4s84zlr233w3arxfhnjzj5hmm8symjc7z JimmyB (he/him) so we feed thru the winter and the number and diversity is good. But it does bring pigeons and magpies in which I’d prefer stayed away… npub1cxkvevxpvvcqndmrk02a5qw9a4s84zlr233w3arxfhnjzj5hmm8symjc7z JimmyB (he/him) Yes!!!! Great point. npub1cxkvevxpvvcqndmrk02a5qw9a4s84zlr233w3arxfhnjzj5hmm8symjc7z JimmyB (he/him) Was wondering, as #gardening is on the agenda here this morning... what are the things which I think really improve my garden? So for me, I think thick mulch (sea weed, woodchip and as much compost as I can make) - like a foot deep or so, every 2 or 3 years; getting the watering regime as right as I can in the summer; prepping the soil properly before planting out. npub1cxkvevxpvvcqndmrk02a5qw9a4s84zlr233w3arxfhnjzj5hmm8symjc7z JimmyB (he/him) I was thinking about this: the # of veg which self seed in my garden - sometimes with a bit of help shaking seed heads out perhaps - is growing, and welcome. npub1cxkvevxpvvcqndmrk02a5qw9a4s84zlr233w3arxfhnjzj5hmm8symjc7z JimmyB (he/him) #TechHelp needed please: I need to transfer files from my #iPhone to my PC. Not photos or videos. Just files I've saved to the phone. And it seems to be virtually impossible. Any help welcome npub1cxkvevxpvvcqndmrk02a5qw9a4s84zlr233w3arxfhnjzj5hmm8symjc7z JimmyB (he/him) Nice silver lining to my daughter's useless boyfriend deciding that commitment is not in his lexicon: she's now free to come and join me in Devon to learn how to use a chisel, a plane and the like in December for my week course. When the kids grow up and live overseas doing their own thing, these moments are pretty special. Bit worried about what the pair of us might manage, staying in a real ale pub for a week but hey ho...I'm sure we will be very brave and cope somehow. npub1cxkvevxpvvcqndmrk02a5qw9a4s84zlr233w3arxfhnjzj5hmm8symjc7z JimmyB (he/him) Another morning another set of depressing headlines (what an embarrasment our racist fuckwit Prime Minister is). npub1cxkvevxpvvcqndmrk02a5qw9a4s84zlr233w3arxfhnjzj5hmm8symjc7z JimmyB (he/him) More good financial news... npub1cxkvevxpvvcqndmrk02a5qw9a4s84zlr233w3arxfhnjzj5hmm8symjc7z JimmyB (he/him) The cuts to judiciary were done as a matter of deliberate policy. This situation is deliberate: we have been deliberately impoverished (access to justice is very much a matter of poverty) by the deliberate choice to defund the courts. npub1cxkvevxpvvcqndmrk02a5qw9a4s84zlr233w3arxfhnjzj5hmm8symjc7z JimmyB (he/him) That's pretty much what the recent leadership election was about: TERF versus anti-TERF. Anti-TERF won and the TERFs are now complaining that they are unwelcome in the party. npub1cxkvevxpvvcqndmrk02a5qw9a4s84zlr233w3arxfhnjzj5hmm8symjc7z JimmyB (he/him) I mean - if after the absolute debacle of their public spat they do actually launch (and I was a founding, funding member - there with my wallet at first call) then having 2 parties will be less effective than having one. npub1cxkvevxpvvcqndmrk02a5qw9a4s84zlr233w3arxfhnjzj5hmm8symjc7z JimmyB (he/him) I don’t remember that regime but they’re going to have to build something. Seems counter productive to try to build 2 things which are essentially the same (assuming they are?) npub1cxkvevxpvvcqndmrk02a5qw9a4s84zlr233w3arxfhnjzj5hmm8symjc7z JimmyB (he/him) do you think they wait for Farage to speak and then adopt that as their new action/policy? npub1cxkvevxpvvcqndmrk02a5qw9a4s84zlr233w3arxfhnjzj5hmm8symjc7z JimmyB (he/him) Annual northern hemisphere reminder good Masto #gardeners, that squash plants hybridise very easily and can then produce toxic fruit. If you’ve got a plant producing funny looking ones, taste the flesh raw first and feed the compost not your friends and family if it’s bitter. npub1cxkvevxpvvcqndmrk02a5qw9a4s84zlr233w3arxfhnjzj5hmm8symjc7z JimmyB (he/him) I am finding the celebration of this ‘truce’ shocking: we cannot just wipe out the war crimes. Trump is not a hero - he is a monster. As are our leaders. Presumably somewhere some advisors have realised they are losing this one and need to change tack. npub1cxkvevxpvvcqndmrk02a5qw9a4s84zlr233w3arxfhnjzj5hmm8symjc7z JimmyB (he/him) Funny how those who push 'personal responsibility' always seem to have a few quid... npub1cxkvevxpvvcqndmrk02a5qw9a4s84zlr233w3arxfhnjzj5hmm8symjc7z JimmyB (he/him) Yes - absolutely. First hand experience here might help maybe? The culture of wealth, impunity, and that thing I think of as a male-derived thinking pattern that goes 'I thought it so its true' abounds where money exists. npub1cxkvevxpvvcqndmrk02a5qw9a4s84zlr233w3arxfhnjzj5hmm8symjc7z JimmyB (he/him) I'm sure you're right. I work with these folks & their lack of shame about inequality is extraordinary. But the one time I really see them go quiet is whewn confronted with the 'is that fair and/or OK?' point. npub1cxkvevxpvvcqndmrk02a5qw9a4s84zlr233w3arxfhnjzj5hmm8symjc7z JimmyB (he/him) what a great idea! What I love about this is it targets the isue head on - and names it. npub1cxkvevxpvvcqndmrk02a5qw9a4s84zlr233w3arxfhnjzj5hmm8symjc7z JimmyB (he/him) hi could you get Gaza verified please? npub1cxkvevxpvvcqndmrk02a5qw9a4s84zlr233w3arxfhnjzj5hmm8symjc7z JimmyB (he/him) Failing miserably to deal with the shitfest world or the corporatism I’m mired in daily I’ve quit my work contract end of November and booked a week course practising hand woodworking tools. I’ll be in N #Devon - staying in a pub in Sheepwash (what a great name) from 7th to 12th Dec. It’s a bit remote but if any friendlies are nearby and want a beer one evening I’ll be there… npub1cxkvevxpvvcqndmrk02a5qw9a4s84zlr233w3arxfhnjzj5hmm8symjc7z JimmyB (he/him) oh! No - definitely not aimed at you! Sorry: I was just ranting… apologies. npub1cxkvevxpvvcqndmrk02a5qw9a4s84zlr233w3arxfhnjzj5hmm8symjc7z JimmyB (he/him) I find this 'we have to save the Labour party' thing odd: it's well beyond saving when it has embraced genocide and totalitarianism. npub1cxkvevxpvvcqndmrk02a5qw9a4s84zlr233w3arxfhnjzj5hmm8symjc7z JimmyB (he/him) A really simple way to collect more tax - entirely - legitimately - would be to look through trusts, esp. offshore trusts, and tax the settlor on the income and gains. npub1cxkvevxpvvcqndmrk02a5qw9a4s84zlr233w3arxfhnjzj5hmm8symjc7z JimmyB (he/him) I think the issue is that in fact they can't go back to basic socialist principles because in fact, they don't believe in them and never really did. npub1cxkvevxpvvcqndmrk02a5qw9a4s84zlr233w3arxfhnjzj5hmm8symjc7z JimmyB (he/him) Hello fedi-friendlies: anyone in the #woodworking world any experience of Rowden Atelier in N #Devon? npub1cxkvevxpvvcqndmrk02a5qw9a4s84zlr233w3arxfhnjzj5hmm8symjc7z JimmyB (he/him) Great work and thank you. npub1cxkvevxpvvcqndmrk02a5qw9a4s84zlr233w3arxfhnjzj5hmm8symjc7z JimmyB (he/him) Good luck Ireland and Wales this weekend - this is windy.com forecast for sat 8am npub1cxkvevxpvvcqndmrk02a5qw9a4s84zlr233w3arxfhnjzj5hmm8symjc7z JimmyB (he/him) I really want to lay the hedge opposite my house. It gets cut mechanically twice a year as part of the land owner's legal obligation to keep the road side clear (called 'Branchage' in #Jersey). I don't know how to lay a hedge but anything I do has to be better than the tractor and flail used now... npub1cxkvevxpvvcqndmrk02a5qw9a4s84zlr233w3arxfhnjzj5hmm8symjc7z JimmyB (he/him) had a French business partner for a bit. I used to say to him: you cannot be so direct with English people - they find it rude. He said to me: you cannot be so dishonest with French people because they find it rude. npub1cxkvevxpvvcqndmrk02a5qw9a4s84zlr233w3arxfhnjzj5hmm8symjc7z JimmyB (he/him) I am one of many men, I suspect, who found out way too late in life that many women walk round in defensive mode in public. npub1cxkvevxpvvcqndmrk02a5qw9a4s84zlr233w3arxfhnjzj5hmm8symjc7z JimmyB (he/him) Birthday next month and got asked what I want by the family. Usually that’s easy - books or plants. But we might be moving so plants don’t work this year npub1cxkvevxpvvcqndmrk02a5qw9a4s84zlr233w3arxfhnjzj5hmm8symjc7z JimmyB (he/him) Are any of the #Welsh Masto friendlies going to the Aber food festival this weekend? Would love to hear what it’s like… npub1cxkvevxpvvcqndmrk02a5qw9a4s84zlr233w3arxfhnjzj5hmm8symjc7z JimmyB (he/him) I wondered about that myself. It's a totally meaningless statistic in a way. If you have a house worth £500k and live in Surrey then that won't be particularly flash. npub1cxkvevxpvvcqndmrk02a5qw9a4s84zlr233w3arxfhnjzj5hmm8symjc7z JimmyB (he/him) thank you! I will. And I’ll spend as much time in the #garden as is reasonable (given family 😀). It’s sounds so hippy coming from a middle aged fella like me but it is very healing. #gardening npub1cxkvevxpvvcqndmrk02a5qw9a4s84zlr233w3arxfhnjzj5hmm8symjc7z JimmyB (he/him) I’ve got the very unusual opportunity to go home today instead of my usual overnight Thursday / Friday am. I have never been so grateful! Feeling burned by interactions with ignorance, bigotry and conservatism. But wife, son and garden await. Fruit to harvest! Plants to plant! Can not wait… last leg to do and I’m there. Woohoo! npub1cxkvevxpvvcqndmrk02a5qw9a4s84zlr233w3arxfhnjzj5hmm8symjc7z JimmyB (he/him) Well here we are… having a few days out of work, and away to the mountains. While it’s unbelievably good to get the break, unfortunately a bit of solitude contemplation (and mozzie bites) don’t make me long for more corporate nonsense. I think the bon mot is juxtaposition…. And nothing can erase the genocide and global nightmare. But it’s still wonderful and I know how lucky I am to be here. Mountains, fire, cabin, clear lakes and rivers. And a stunning aurora last night #Norway npub1cxkvevxpvvcqndmrk02a5qw9a4s84zlr233w3arxfhnjzj5hmm8symjc7z JimmyB (he/him) Just yourregular reminder that, however much you want it to be, #BlueSky is run on the same principles as all commercial social media - and true to those principles, has recently banned inoffensive #Palestinian accounts - a poet very recently. npub1cxkvevxpvvcqndmrk02a5qw9a4s84zlr233w3arxfhnjzj5hmm8symjc7z JimmyB (he/him) bamboo splits into 2 groupings: creeping and clumping. The former needs serious containment, the latter much less so. You need to know which yours fits into. Apologies but I don’t but your plant nursery should npub1cxkvevxpvvcqndmrk02a5qw9a4s84zlr233w3arxfhnjzj5hmm8symjc7z JimmyB (he/him) Yup - my 23 and 26 year old kids - both politically aware and astute; both supporters of Jeremy Corbyn and the Greens (especially now an anti-TERF has won the leadership). npub1cxkvevxpvvcqndmrk02a5qw9a4s84zlr233w3arxfhnjzj5hmm8symjc7z JimmyB (he/him) So it's a good argument but I feel is lacking an essential ingredient if it does not talk about press ownership... we can do nothing while PE funded fascists get over platformed. npub1cxkvevxpvvcqndmrk02a5qw9a4s84zlr233w3arxfhnjzj5hmm8symjc7z JimmyB (he/him) We recently had an exciting visitor to our #garden - an Old World Swallowtail - resulting in a handful of spectacular caterpillars. All but 2 got eaten by birds. 1 made it to Chrysalis - and the other has become a short term pet, in an airated box with food in (obviously called Colin). All good. npub1cxkvevxpvvcqndmrk02a5qw9a4s84zlr233w3arxfhnjzj5hmm8symjc7z JimmyB (he/him) When a news source has shown themselves to be completely dishonest, then it is uynaccpetable to just quote them as though they are telling the truth - and as if their words are the accurate story. npub1cxkvevxpvvcqndmrk02a5qw9a4s84zlr233w3arxfhnjzj5hmm8symjc7z JimmyB (he/him) yeah think it’s dock! If it is a) get the whole root out and b) letting it go to seed means a big invasion next year. npub1cxkvevxpvvcqndmrk02a5qw9a4s84zlr233w3arxfhnjzj5hmm8symjc7z JimmyB (he/him) Looks like dock. Have you got a picture further away? npub1cxkvevxpvvcqndmrk02a5qw9a4s84zlr233w3arxfhnjzj5hmm8symjc7z JimmyB (he/him) I bought a Ph kit a while back and have never got round to using it! Apparently home kits are a bit rubish anyway. But wouldn't surprise me if we are a bit more alkali than that - though farmers around us seem to do pretty well with what looks like minimal effort! npub1cxkvevxpvvcqndmrk02a5qw9a4s84zlr233w3arxfhnjzj5hmm8symjc7z JimmyB (he/him) Serious excitement in the east side of #Jersey - we’ve had 6.3mm of rain this week. That makes a total of 8.4mm in the last month. And pretty much zero the month before npub1cxkvevxpvvcqndmrk02a5qw9a4s84zlr233w3arxfhnjzj5hmm8symjc7z JimmyB (he/him) yes - I was following the system but my issue was that the plants just didn’t grow well enough… I don’t know why tho. What was there seemed to fertilise ok but the plants are weak and the pods small. I’ll keep trying tho npub1cxkvevxpvvcqndmrk02a5qw9a4s84zlr233w3arxfhnjzj5hmm8symjc7z JimmyB (he/him) I need a bit more of that knowledge: again this year, despite major efforts, my sweetcorn are rubbish. npub1cxkvevxpvvcqndmrk02a5qw9a4s84zlr233w3arxfhnjzj5hmm8symjc7z JimmyB (he/him) For any following: the story really is not about 50k 'illegal' immigrants in small boats. Its about the closure of all legal routes. npub1cxkvevxpvvcqndmrk02a5qw9a4s84zlr233w3arxfhnjzj5hmm8symjc7z JimmyB (he/him) Hi Gardners and insect people - I need some advice: we have had an exciting visitor to the garden - an Old World Swallowtail butterfly. I didn’t see it but we had a small number of caterpillars. We found them on the mass of fennel I have let grow outside our door. Sadly though: only one seems to have made it to chrysalis stage. Birds got the rest. I have now found one more on a different plant: about half size so far. So should I remove it and keep it somewhere away from the birds? npub1cxkvevxpvvcqndmrk02a5qw9a4s84zlr233w3arxfhnjzj5hmm8symjc7z JimmyB (he/him) interesting dynamic - and part of the PE mentality which has swept boards in the past 20 years, originating I think in the US. Anything which looks like discretionary cost is cut. npub1cxkvevxpvvcqndmrk02a5qw9a4s84zlr233w3arxfhnjzj5hmm8symjc7z JimmyB (he/him) Had to look her up to remind myself! npub1cxkvevxpvvcqndmrk02a5qw9a4s84zlr233w3arxfhnjzj5hmm8symjc7z JimmyB (he/him) yes - I think that’s fair. I think his time tho has to be seen in the context of the unbelievable resources which were expended on slandering him. Daily. The PLP, the media…the ridiculous shit which filtered into public perception. He couldn’t win against that and tbh, that’s my takeaway: doesn’t matter who it is a social dem will always face that in the UK npub1cxkvevxpvvcqndmrk02a5qw9a4s84zlr233w3arxfhnjzj5hmm8symjc7z JimmyB (he/him) my differences with Corbyn were always political not personal. I didn’t meet him but he was my MP for a bit. So I wish he’d been more vocal on Europe (70% pro-Europe wasn’t helpful) but the concerns with accountability are legitimate. FRONTEX is a great example of no accountability for eg. But careful analysis wasn’t what was needed. Very nice fella tho npub1cxkvevxpvvcqndmrk02a5qw9a4s84zlr233w3arxfhnjzj5hmm8symjc7z JimmyB (he/him) manifestly colour based racism is objectively different from non-colour based racism exactly as she pointed out: you know who’s black when you look at someone. That may not be true for a Traveller or Jew. The actions arising might be the same but the route to it is not.
