Fixing it up
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More summer flowers!
My favourite flowers are now starting to appear in our wildgarden! Lavender, brown-eyed susan and queen anne’s lace, all roadside plants. I love them so much, reminding me of my hours and hours of time in nature when I was a kid. Apparently, yet again, research shows nature (paticularly biodiversity) is really good for us.
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Britain’s decline more about austerity economics than Brexit
https://boingboing.net/2024/06/25/john-oliver-britains-14-year-decline-more-about-austerity-economics-than-brexit-but-all-of-it-sucked.html It had been so, so long since I had seen the Boing Boing jackhammerer-in-pigtails icon – this time on Instagram – that I really had to stop for a moment and sort of re-set. What was I seeing? Boing Boing, one of the OG link-list blogs of pre-social-media internet fell way off my radar…
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How to patch a leaky mattress
Leah’s so excited (as Theresa and I are) about her upcoming birthday bash at our family cottage. Friends and family will be coming (note to friends and family – if you read this and have NOT received an invitation, it most likely was swallowed by a spam filter, so please do call us! You ARE…
Dave Howard 