The twilight barking, I still hear it sometimes round where I live.

The flowers are edible. They taste like cucumber but less so. And they look pretty in a salad. Just saying.

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Hi yeah so this is a follow-up post. I posted a pic of my garden maybe a month ago and said I'd post more pics over summer, so here is its current state. As you can see, the gladioli are coming and going, the calendulas are bullet proof (those fuckers will flower when temp drops to zero). There's a couple of grafted apples in the mix, my marigolds got nailed by slugs (lotta slugs and snails this year). I'm not growing any food aside from the apples which are too small to fruit and the heritage beef tomato someone gave me. The sweet peas are almost over, gutted cos I love how tarty they smell! But I've been saving seed pods. There's a bit more stuff in the mix.

Obviously growing in pots and crates is challenging but as you can see I live in a van and my plants have to be able to move when I have to go. Also there's fuck all soil where I am right now. I'd love a proper garden but I'm doing my best. Anyhoo, the bees and butterflies love it, and so do I.

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My crate garden (lemmy.world)

Hi yeah so I'm not sure if this fits here but I'm posting it anyway. I live in a van so my garden has to be in pots so I can move it when I have to. Also there's fuck all soil where I am right now. I'm mostly about flowers, I'm not growing any food this summer except that tomato plant in the blue crate, someone gave me that and I couldn't not give it a chance. I think it's a heritage beef tomato. There's a couple of apples in the mix, one of em flowered in spring but they were only cuttings& grafts last year so doubt it'll fruit. The rest is meant to be pretty stuff, sweet peas, calendulas (dead headed, hopefully back soon, those fuckers are bulletproof), marigolds (slug attack but couple survivors) gladioli, couple of roses, snap dragons, sunflowers be coming late due to sluggery, cornflowers, the orange crate is supposed to be meadow flowers, we'll see what happens there. Anyway, if no-one tells me not to I'll post another pic in a few weeks cos all being well it'll only get prettier

[-] Regrettable_incident@lemmy.world 16 points 1 month ago

If they're very small and kickable this might be cool.

[-] Regrettable_incident@lemmy.world 27 points 2 months ago

Yeah, my job sometimes requires me to drive round areas where people may be sunbathing. What I do is drive in first gear even if it is frustrating and be observant because I don't want to hit anyone. Seems like this ought to be common sense when you're driving and humans may be lying on the ground.

[-] Regrettable_incident@lemmy.world 20 points 2 months ago

Yeah that's what I did when reddit shit the bed. I'm spending the free time with books and getting back into gaming. It's an improvement really.

[-] Regrettable_incident@lemmy.world 35 points 3 months ago

Yeah, a whole lot of working folks are one missed paycheck from homelessness. I'm old enough to remember that it wasn't always like this, if you were working you didn't have nearly so much anxiety and exhaustion, you could afford to look after a kid or have the occasional holiday, maybe own a home. Not anymore. The rich are getting richer though.

[-] Regrettable_incident@lemmy.world 33 points 3 months ago

We've never really needed to use photo ID in England and never had problems with fraud. You can only visit one polling station one time, the system worked fine. The Tories changed it to deliberately disenfranchise the poor who are less likely to have these types of ID, and they did this because they're scum.

[-] Regrettable_incident@lemmy.world 20 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

The problem with democracy is that to really work it requires an informed electorate, and a lot of the information the electorate get is propaganda. But like you say, I don't have a better alternative to offer.

[-] Regrettable_incident@lemmy.world 23 points 5 months ago

Maybe you're getting incorrectly billed, have you checked the meter readings? Smart meters don't have a great reputation.

[-] Regrettable_incident@lemmy.world 32 points 5 months ago

That doesn't seem funny at all to me, maybe it's in the delivery.

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Squid hat (lemmy.world)

Spotted in the wild

[-] Regrettable_incident@lemmy.world 27 points 5 months ago

I'm not necessarily saying there should be a violent far left committing crimes. . . but the right keep trying to both-sides their terrorism shit, that's how you get a self-fulfilling prophecy.

[-] Regrettable_incident@lemmy.world 33 points 6 months ago

Indeed. Some of us prefer being locked in the pantry.

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