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) right! Or you could buy a lathe? 😃😃😃 npub1cxkvevxpvvcqndmrk02a5qw9a4s84zlr233w3arxfhnjzj5hmm8symjc7z JimmyB (he/him) what a loss! npub1cxkvevxpvvcqndmrk02a5qw9a4s84zlr233w3arxfhnjzj5hmm8symjc7z JimmyB (he/him) personally I wrap in tin foil, with butter, tarragon (then French version - estragon - not the Russian imitation), white wine and eat with new potatoes and broccoli….but I need to catch a medium sized one first 😃 npub1cxkvevxpvvcqndmrk02a5qw9a4s84zlr233w3arxfhnjzj5hmm8symjc7z JimmyB (he/him) morning! Going to try to catch a sea trout in Svendborg with a 5 weight fly rod 😃😃😃. Cold but very sunny and wind from the NW so good chances later I’d say. Have a good day! npub1cxkvevxpvvcqndmrk02a5qw9a4s84zlr233w3arxfhnjzj5hmm8symjc7z JimmyB (he/him) Is there anything better than seeing a #garden come to life in the spring? npub1cxkvevxpvvcqndmrk02a5qw9a4s84zlr233w3arxfhnjzj5hmm8symjc7z JimmyB (he/him) Masto #Gardeners - some advice please: half my pear trees have got this diseased leaf - anything I can do about it? npub1cxkvevxpvvcqndmrk02a5qw9a4s84zlr233w3arxfhnjzj5hmm8symjc7z JimmyB (he/him) for those who light be confused here: my mum is an enthusiastic #Zionist. Donates money, eats and repeats the propaganda. npub1cxkvevxpvvcqndmrk02a5qw9a4s84zlr233w3arxfhnjzj5hmm8symjc7z JimmyB (he/him) Doing a little experiment today: I overwintered chilli plants in my greenhouse. Didn’t cut them back just put them on the floor under a table and let them go pretty dormant. With a little water a couple of wees back leaves are sprouting now so repotting and will see if this is a quick route to fresh chillis or if try r new seedlings are just as good. npub1cxkvevxpvvcqndmrk02a5qw9a4s84zlr233w3arxfhnjzj5hmm8symjc7z JimmyB (he/him) something every country should be doing. Good leadership from the Danes! npub1cxkvevxpvvcqndmrk02a5qw9a4s84zlr233w3arxfhnjzj5hmm8symjc7z JimmyB (he/him) it’s weird that so many believe that markets are ever ‘free’. They never are: whoever is able to manipulate the market, always does to their advantage. So the idea that Government is illegitimate in that game is only because sometimes they act in the people’s interests, to the direct discomfort of corporates who want it all their own way. npub1cxkvevxpvvcqndmrk02a5qw9a4s84zlr233w3arxfhnjzj5hmm8symjc7z JimmyB (he/him) it’s a great example of a moved Overton window where repetition of the ‘we need to slash red tape’ line, pushed by the FS sector, the hard right - the usual gang - has been widely adopted. npub1cxkvevxpvvcqndmrk02a5qw9a4s84zlr233w3arxfhnjzj5hmm8symjc7z JimmyB (he/him) I have been just delighted what enthusiastic mulching has done for our very poor soils. What were once pretty nearly worm free and not productive are now worm central and I grow loads. Mulch is the answer to all my #gardening questions! (Maybe not *all* but it’s a very big part) npub1cxkvevxpvvcqndmrk02a5qw9a4s84zlr233w3arxfhnjzj5hmm8symjc7z JimmyB (he/him) I was stunned by the comment… npub1cxkvevxpvvcqndmrk02a5qw9a4s84zlr233w3arxfhnjzj5hmm8symjc7z JimmyB (he/him) someone must have photos of Starmer shagging a dog or something. None of this makes any sense at all 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) oh yes! Absolutely! I also just bake it flat on a low temperature with salt and rosemary and call it a cheese biscuit 😳 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) need to do that today myself… my sourdough starter is rubbish at the moment tho so think it will be a yeast bread today npub1cxkvevxpvvcqndmrk02a5qw9a4s84zlr233w3arxfhnjzj5hmm8symjc7z JimmyB (he/him) Clearly loving the bit of extra heat they get in the greenhouse…. Pretty sure they shouldn’t be flowering but I’ll take it. Promises well for summer. npub1cxkvevxpvvcqndmrk02a5qw9a4s84zlr233w3arxfhnjzj5hmm8symjc7z JimmyB (he/him) Not really a joining kind of person but I’ve just joined the #Green Party. I don’t live in the UK and as an overseas voter my MP doesn’t have to interact with me or represent my views (I know: I’ve tried). But Zack’s call to overtake Reform makes complete sense. So +1 from me npub1cxkvevxpvvcqndmrk02a5qw9a4s84zlr233w3arxfhnjzj5hmm8symjc7z JimmyB (he/him) turns out - yup suspended and reinstated. That’s nice…. npub1cxkvevxpvvcqndmrk02a5qw9a4s84zlr233w3arxfhnjzj5hmm8symjc7z JimmyB (he/him) ok - thanks and understood. German law is pretty clear about the illegality of genocide denial which this account is clearly engaged in. Doesn’t that beat vague questions of freedom of speech? npub1cxkvevxpvvcqndmrk02a5qw9a4s84zlr233w3arxfhnjzj5hmm8symjc7z JimmyB (he/him) I'm not blocked by that account any more either. Weird! npub1cxkvevxpvvcqndmrk02a5qw9a4s84zlr233w3arxfhnjzj5hmm8symjc7z JimmyB (he/him) @npub1a6t…6zr3 npub1cxkvevxpvvcqndmrk02a5qw9a4s84zlr233w3arxfhnjzj5hmm8symjc7z JimmyB (he/him) huh! Was reinstated? Was defo suspended the other day npub1cxkvevxpvvcqndmrk02a5qw9a4s84zlr233w3arxfhnjzj5hmm8symjc7z JimmyB (he/him) That account is suspended...happy days. npub1cxkvevxpvvcqndmrk02a5qw9a4s84zlr233w3arxfhnjzj5hmm8symjc7z JimmyB (he/him) yeah - blocked instantly. 😀😀😀 but I got a report in first. npub1cxkvevxpvvcqndmrk02a5qw9a4s84zlr233w3arxfhnjzj5hmm8symjc7z JimmyB (he/him) I can't help wondering if Starmer has sucked up so hard to Trump because someone important (say Tony B) needed redaction? npub1cxkvevxpvvcqndmrk02a5qw9a4s84zlr233w3arxfhnjzj5hmm8symjc7z JimmyB (he/him) my company is giving up it’s very hard and expensively won B-Corp certification when we are assessed next year. Too expensive for no meaningful benefit. And there needed to be commercial benefit coz we don’t need others to tell us how to behave. And there been none npub1cxkvevxpvvcqndmrk02a5qw9a4s84zlr233w3arxfhnjzj5hmm8symjc7z JimmyB (he/him) yeah. All that chat about being better and it was all BS. Sexual harassment rife, and beer was often pish. So no massive loss really npub1cxkvevxpvvcqndmrk02a5qw9a4s84zlr233w3arxfhnjzj5hmm8symjc7z JimmyB (he/him) they were one of the few companies to lose their B-Corp accreditation. Not a great look really npub1cxkvevxpvvcqndmrk02a5qw9a4s84zlr233w3arxfhnjzj5hmm8symjc7z JimmyB (he/him) QQ for Masto #gardeners - I need some help: so I absolutely love delphiniums. Don’t know why really but I do. However they are a complate pain in the arse to grow starting with the spotty germination. npub1cxkvevxpvvcqndmrk02a5qw9a4s84zlr233w3arxfhnjzj5hmm8symjc7z JimmyB (he/him) Those who saw me post last year may have noted my excitement as our perennial echium - taken as a cutting some years ago - flowered spectacularly for the first time in April - photo below. npub1cxkvevxpvvcqndmrk02a5qw9a4s84zlr233w3arxfhnjzj5hmm8symjc7z JimmyB (he/him) it is dreamy! We too have absolutely dreadful soil (very sandy) but I mulch thickly every year with seaweed (we are 200m from the beach - hence living effectively on a sand dune), woodchip in a range of states of decay, municipal soil improved and home made compost. In reality now I’m mostly #gardening into that layer. We bought it as a dodgy rectangle of scrub grass and shrubs but have spent a lot of time getting it to be productive. I love it! npub1cxkvevxpvvcqndmrk02a5qw9a4s84zlr233w3arxfhnjzj5hmm8symjc7z JimmyB (he/him) well - I have a really lovely greenhouse where I spend a lot of time at the moment because I’m not working for a bit… so I start on heated mats in there and then move to the greenhouse benches to grow on. npub1cxkvevxpvvcqndmrk02a5qw9a4s84zlr233w3arxfhnjzj5hmm8symjc7z JimmyB (he/him) yes! I start planting some in December and then just keep going… tomatoes and chilli’s in Jan. I’ve got heating mats to get them going npub1cxkvevxpvvcqndmrk02a5qw9a4s84zlr233w3arxfhnjzj5hmm8symjc7z JimmyB (he/him) I know it so well! npub1cxkvevxpvvcqndmrk02a5qw9a4s84zlr233w3arxfhnjzj5hmm8symjc7z JimmyB (he/him) It’s the time of year where there’s never enough space in a greenhouse so I’m trying to improvise. I’ve got lettuces which are clearly unhappy in their little pots but too early to put them out. I’m repotting into the same pots therefore (that greenhouse space thing) but with new compost I’m enriching with seaweed to act as a slow release fertiliser to get through the next 8 weeks or so. npub1cxkvevxpvvcqndmrk02a5qw9a4s84zlr233w3arxfhnjzj5hmm8symjc7z JimmyB (he/him) Hi Masto friendlies: does anyone know how to get a search engine to not return entries for specific websites (like Amazon for example)? npub1cxkvevxpvvcqndmrk02a5qw9a4s84zlr233w3arxfhnjzj5hmm8symjc7z JimmyB (he/him) masto #gardeners : some planning help please. npub1cxkvevxpvvcqndmrk02a5qw9a4s84zlr233w3arxfhnjzj5hmm8symjc7z JimmyB (he/him) QQ Masto #Gardeners in Europe: does anyone know if we are expecting to get the US freeze coming over? If we are I need to dig up my citrus but I can’t find any weather site which says it’s happening. npub1cxkvevxpvvcqndmrk02a5qw9a4s84zlr233w3arxfhnjzj5hmm8symjc7z JimmyB (he/him) well yes. I do take note as well of what the Gardeners’ World lot do and their timings. I pinch out the leading shoot to make them less etiolated - which seems to work well. And then the just sit there and sulk for a bit when planted out - whatever time of year - and then go for it in late March I think. I’ll mix morning glory seeds in there too but direct sowing because they are more drought tolerant and keep flowering through the whole summer… #gardening npub1cxkvevxpvvcqndmrk02a5qw9a4s84zlr233w3arxfhnjzj5hmm8symjc7z JimmyB (he/him) well I will@let you know coz I have some December ones too! Not planted out yet tho npub1cxkvevxpvvcqndmrk02a5qw9a4s84zlr233w3arxfhnjzj5hmm8symjc7z JimmyB (he/him) I’ve been #gardening (again). And - having more time than previously - I’ve been a little organised. I mean - not crazy stuff like really planning where plants will go or anything. But planning all the same. So lists and timings for sowing in the greenhouse and then planting out. I have no idea if I’ll manage to keep to it but… it’s something. npub1cxkvevxpvvcqndmrk02a5qw9a4s84zlr233w3arxfhnjzj5hmm8symjc7z JimmyB (he/him) auditing has always been a scam. It’s now developed into quite the scam where the point is to make the partners £1m a year (or equivalent locally). When they take kids with zero experience and ‘train them on the job’ (plus cramming classes) they literally add nothing. It’s a tax on business, used to train accountants. npub1cxkvevxpvvcqndmrk02a5qw9a4s84zlr233w3arxfhnjzj5hmm8symjc7z JimmyB (he/him) I recommend him too - and @npub1rgf…7ecj 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) Hazel is good because it bends so well and if I go slowly, at worst creases rather than snapping. Apple off its I planted into my fruit hedge (it’s not a thing I know: I just used some off cuts from a plum a couple of years back for a pea hedge and they rooted - and produced fruit this year. So now it is a thing and im adding 😀) 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) T|he thing about these cases, is for me, less the facts and stats but more what it tells us about the mindset of our politicians and thereby, the civil service: poverty is suspect; benefits claimaints are dodgy; being 'hard' on claimants is morally right to reduce benefit fraud. 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?
