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Keir Starmer with Netherlands PM Dick Schoof

Have same issue here where it's in every garden and scrambling all over the trees, fences etc all around. Roots are everywhere in top soil, and it'll grow from just a tiny piece.

I'm trying to avoid chemicals too so this year i've just weeded it out as it grows, every 3 days, and will try keep on top of it for a few years. If you do go down the glyphosate route, grow up a trellis so it's easier to treat and then put it into a plastic bag when you apply so overspill doesn't affect neighbouring plants. Best treated in late summer/early autumn i think, and mix with a bit of fairy liquid to help penetrate leaves better.

On flip side, the flowers are good for bumblebees and leaves feed visiting convulvus hawkmoth larvae

Guy Shrubsole, an environmental campaigner and author of The Lost Rainforests of Britain, said: “This is fantastic news, and not just because I’m a Totnes resident. Everyone benefits from the restoration of temperate rainforest

We have slugageddon in back garden, anything from garden centre is demolished overnight (nepeta, salvias, coreopsis etc + more). I tend to slug pellet around them when first down to give them a fighting chance, but i think the issue is more just fresh new leaves and optimal growing conditions.

Once in for a bit, the plants seem to "bitter up" and even completely stripped plants come back if growing conditions are ok. Seedlings/small plants are buggered though.

Mid Devon and exmouth Tory MPs keeping their seats by 60 and 120 votes respectively.

Re sports, it was the EPL’s choice who to sell the rights to. And terrestrial channels still require tv license, which in combo with ad revenues I guess ultimately forces there hands in terms of where they spend their money. Not sure you can blame Sky, a for profit entity, for wanting to obtain content that enables them to make a profit. Agree that you don’t have to like it.

Yep, in agreement here! Feel it rarely actually comes up where people interrogate why politicians are in politics, or you just get some inane bullshit. Except to say perhaps their dad was a toolmaker.

I could well have misinterpreted what was meant. But to take the earlier example, being CFO of Sky I don’t believe means you shouldn’t be considered as an MP (although again no idea on Andrew Griffith)

Yes, 100% agree. Equally as much an issue that particularly for last 10 years, nobody spends more than 9 months in a position and quite frequently ministers are not matched to their (often quite limited) expertise, or are promoted solely on the basis of loyalty.

But to willingly discount MPs on the basis they’re rich, due to a previous successful career outside of politics (as opposed to a massive family wealth etc) seems against our collective interest and short sighted at best.

Am I the outlier here for wanting highly skilled people, with experience of running large complex businesses/entities to be at the higher end of government? Parachuting in and no connection to local area probably means, yes might be a shite local mp. But when it comes to ministers I don’t really want people making it up as a they go along, with no clue what they’re doing or how to do it (although aware that ministers aren’t running things day to day).

No idea regarding the competency of Andrew Griffith, but if a CXO of some major business/company wants to take a massive pay cut and attempt to make things better for the country (rather than use it to further line their own pockets) is that that terrible?

Thanks had been looking for a while!

Oke doke. Does it seed especially vigorously? If it makes up majority of next years growth will snip it back. Also had a couple of these spikey leaved plants come through - are these cowslip or something else?

Tried to start a wildflower patch in the garden this year, completely digging it over back in March. Looked pretty terrible for a while, and I sowed in a complete mix from emorsgate and a cornflower mix to try provide a bit of cover. Main winners have been a surprise mix of things I haven’t planted, common mallow, petty spurge and ubiquitous creeping buttercup. Got some salad burnet, musk mallow and corn cockles coming through though too, and hoping more next year. Am I correct in thinking best way to manage it is cut from autumn, plant some yellow rattle and then keep short until next April?

Just spotted a great looking one in Argos cycles, when I went to drop off my lemond. Nice porter rack on the front, anyone’s on here?

Looking at getting something for my dad as he’s after a bike computer. I’d get him an edge explore like I have, however it’s £250 and he doesn’t need mapping.

What’s a decent, budget computer that will realiably record rides, do HR and speed, and has a reasonably large display that’s easy for an older bloke to see? Edge 130+ or is screen tiny?

Bristol central is a new (or returning) consitutency, but a two horse race between Carla Denyer and incumbent Thangam Debbonaire - shadow sec for culture, media and sport. Seems it's the survation poll which is predicting labour, yougov and ipsos mori for green

Poll predictions here:
https://yougov.co.uk/politics/articles/49809-second-yougov-2024-election-mrp-shows-conservatives-on-lowest-seat-total-in-history
https://www.ipsos.com/en-uk/uk-opinion-polls/ipsos-election-mrp
https://www.survation.com/mrp-update-first-mrp-since-farages-return/

Thanks. What confuses me is I think they’re working off the same poll data?

For those interested, I'd take some of the tactical voting advice from getvoting.com with a pinch of salt. They had bristol central a labour to hold with 55% of vote off newest voting intentions. This seemed surprising given local election results and all the previous data suggesting neck and neck or a green lead. Electoralcalculus.co.uk has greens with a 20 point lead and 50% of vote share, and YouGov has greens taking the seat.

Not sure how analysis of the same data set can lead to such vastly different results, unless someones massively cocked up or telling porkies.

Yep - newly hatched imago. Wings are soft and folded up to avoid damage as they drag themselves headfirst out their pupal case

Maybe they became suspicious after he became Andrea Medio within a few weeks?

Few more here. Some obvious beetle voyeurism, little cryptic leafhopper and I’m guessing a parasitoid wasp of some sort

Ah cool - visited there once. To be honest was wondering about doing a little study in my spare time locally to see how many are knocking about in Ashton court.

Yeah, my futuresister in law was asking if I’d been vaccinated. Not common over here that I’m aware of, plenty of other weird tick borne diseases about.

Super warm and humid out here so pretty much perfect for them, + they’ll be extra hungry.

More so than uk? Think it’s about 4% of ticks here. This big old Ixodes ricinus was literally just off the biggest tourist attraction in Heidelberg so can understand a lot more people getting bitten. Plenty in Richmond/bushy park though