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Please try and find wildflower seeds that are local to the country you live in. Often there may be cheap imported wildflower seeds but they may bring invasive species or not be as much support to the local wildlife.

Depuis le 1er janvier 2006, tous les propriétaires de piscines privatives doivent équiper leurs bassins de plein air d'un dispositif de sécurité visant à prévenir le risque de noyade. Au choix :
Barrière.
Couverture de sécurité.
Alarme.
Abri de piscine.

Loi 2003-9 (Journal officiel du 4 janvier 2003).

• Hard cover you can walk on is best, but expensive.
  
• Alarm is the cheapest and easiest to meet regs, but they can be flaky.
  
• barrier has to be a certain height and distance irrc. It's s probably the best on balance, but the worst looking and requires drilling holes in the paving to fix the poles. But they're not especially obnoxious.
  
  

He should already have one, and is liable if say a kid broke in and had an accident.

If budget is a consideration and you're after safety rather than regs I'd be tempted to get an alarm and barrier. (assuming it can be relatively freely accessed by your daughter)

https://www.lfgss.com/conversations/176057/

Fwiw when I moved in did exactly that and got a great show for a couple years before deciding what to do with the garden. I was gifted some seeds, think they were National Trust but I only see novelty bombs in their online shop now.

These look promising https://meadowmania.co.uk/collections/100-wildflower-seed-only-mixtures-no-grass

Where are you? Someone in the gardening thread will probably offer you spares

Ta

He’s in the UK. So I’m trying to use other regulations to work out what’s best for us to do.

Given his initial starting point last year was a non life saving float vest and she’ll do it a couple of times before learning (lol) we’ve come a fair way to a suggested fence, where the poles are potentially removable.

I think a cover might be best mind, I don’t understand the dislike for the aesthetic of a fence. Although he has a decking area around the pool which might make a weight bearing cover difficult.
Also tricky as we don’t spend huge amounts of time there.

Over in Devizes (UK). Thanks I should have probably started asking on the gardening thread in the first place!

Ah, the SE London gardening massive might not be so convenient then...

Thanks this is why I thought I’d ask. I’m reluctant to buy from that big warehouse that delivers next-day for this very reason.

Pictorial Meadows are well regarded but I’m yet to get to the part of my to do list where I actually place an order.

Sadly not. I’m up in London for Jane’s Addiction on the bank holiday Monday, not sure how convenient fistfuls of plants will be at the gig though. Possibly wrong kind of buds.

Poppies are probably fine

Ah OK, I didn't realise this was the UK and regulatory adherence wasn't a consideration.

I don’t understand the dislike for the aesthetic of a fence.

They look like this:

Without worrying about regs and someone selling/fitting a regs compliant solution you've got a lot more freedom. So you could even have a nice looking hedge or something.

Also the alarms are descret and removable and look like this

If you need to convince him further look up the stats on pool related deaths pre the introduction.

One step ahead you should see the stats for those with autism!

I recently purchased a Welsh dresser and would like to breathe new life into it with a lick of paint and new handles (knobs vicor).

The handles don’t have any mechanical fixing and are likely glued. how would I get the handles off? chisel, saw, thinners? Any thoughts?

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Broad chisel.
Buy new handles.
And filler.

Thanks Jurek, I’ll give it a crack at the weekend so.

Before you chisel, double check it’s not a screw that’s been painted/filled on the inside.

I’d have been tempted to grip and twist, in case they are screwed in or simply to see if torque is enough to bring them away.

Sound advice.

Or that it's not a screw embedded in the handle.

a screw embedded in the handle

I bet it is. Glue would not have been the manufacturer's first choice.

a screw embedded in the handle

The old double ender, aka dowel screw

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Hot.

This is what I couldn’t verbalise. Would expect this.

I have an exposure Diablo, I have one of those out front garmin mounts.
I don’t want to use the go pro mount option if I can avoid it.
Is there a way to mount the light in bit the garmin goes in? Rather than the bit the camera would go in.