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My friend said he'd bought something called a wren nestbox, but how could this work when the male builds multiple nests?

Think ahead, mate. Global warming

Call me old fashioned, but imv the replies to this post show there's as many tw*ts here as on X, just a different kind. I'm off to write my Santa list.

Proust said something along the lines that the main requirement for being a good writer was not about having a grand imaginative conception, but having a great capacity to relate what you saw and heard around you. Alan Bennett is a good example of this, I think.

But, if you do the math, a third of £1.5m+ farm estates in 2021/22 included AIM shares.

These aren't farmers. They're wealthy people buying AIM shares *and* farmland for tax planning purposes.

Or there's a subsidy scheme such as for environmental management?

But anyway, putting the future of smaller farms at risk is precisely what Labour says it isn't doing. Hence the various mitigations they point out. Out of interest, what would be those better ways of securing food independence you allude to?

Raggedy looking killing machines, if you ask me.

You'll never see that many eels these days. Sad

Isn't that $50 dollars a bible? Seems a lot for something out of copyright.

A small thing, but this is the first bit of breakibg news I've picked up pn bluesky. Thanks, I'll watch later, and hope you're feeling a bit better.

These days made up issues are the ones rhat seem to eork best. Don't know why

I could do that. Phew

Bada Bing

Could well be, tho I hope not, for America's sake. All I'm saying is, don't underestimate MAGA's ability to come up with fresh culture wars or new public enemies to excuse their failures and keep fire in the bellies of enough of their supporters.

Don't count on it. It hasn't really happened in UK yet post-Brexit.

Ah, I must have misremembered. Thanks for pointing that out.

Her hand shaking..did I read somewhere she suffered from Parkinson's Disease?

What's a starter pack?

French victory?

An entirely commonplace observation from Rawls about the value of education, but alarmingly absent from contemporary political discussion.

If you're ever up that way, Minsteracres Monastery near Hexham is approached along a drive lined with Redwoods.

To answer my own question, yes it is Wakefield Prison across that wall. I've just checked on Google maps. Not so romantic then imv.

What is his objective for X?

Do you water your cactuses at this time of year? If so, does it promote flowering?

That's a very high wall. Is Wakefield prison on the other side of it?

I'm not a philosopher, but when I try to think what nothing might be, all I keep coming up with is a type of something, albeit with not much in it.

That's a great phrase...still so true