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Aug 2020
3:45pm, 11 Aug 2020
18,250 posts
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EvilPixie
the stuff in the raised bed is fine - but too hot to eat the veg! It's the pots
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Aug 2020
5:04pm, 13 Aug 2020
4,359 posts
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run free
Just had one plant die from the heat. It was in a pot and had somehow missed it. Oh well the rain has come.
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Aug 2020
5:06pm, 13 Aug 2020
18,284 posts
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EvilPixie
Seriously considering building more raised beds
Neither of us are gardeners
Garden was full of shrubs when we bought it
And ivy has invaded so current beds no use and soil is crap!
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Aug 2020
5:06pm, 13 Aug 2020
4,360 posts
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run free
OH just pulled out some ties that he will probably never use except to use to dress up with at a retro party. The ties look great to convert into "business masks".
Good bye business ties!
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Aug 2020
5:10pm, 13 Aug 2020
4,361 posts
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run free
EP - agree - raised beds are so much nicer to work with. Sounds like you need to dig out the soil in the current beds and replace. We dug a large bed out. I painstakingly removed the bits of roots (ivy).
Threw all my "not yet done compost" in + leaves, branches from a tree had to cut back + soil. The plants are loving it.
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Aug 2020
5:16pm, 13 Aug 2020
192 posts
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Snoot
WFH is definitely becoming the norm even though some colleagues are starting to return to the office but only for a few days. I've been in 2 half days since March! Don't think we'll have the capacity in offices for a very long time for everyone to return so at the moment it's only go in if you need to or prefer to.
As others have said, a cashless society is a concern and it's not just the disadvantaged. My in-laws don't like the idea of using cards at all let alone contactless. Throughout lockdown their daughter who lives nearby has done all the shopping and they give her a cheque. I'm sure there must be many others of their generation with similar concerns?
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Aug 2020
5:23pm, 13 Aug 2020
4,364 posts
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run free
Pre-Covid, there was an elderly lady having difficulty using her card at the bank. She couldn't remember its pin number. She had a lot of frustrations. The bank told me they find a lot of seniors have difficulty remembering pin numbers. It is normal. My elderly lady (95) across the road said that she used to go into the bank pre-Covid days. She finds it difficult to use the cashless ways.
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Aug 2020
6:31pm, 13 Aug 2020
4,619 posts
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jennyh
It’s a bit of a shame about the ties - my OH loves his ties, and has amassed quite a collection, including two new ones he’d bought just before lockdown and hadn’t had a chance to wear in the office - seems a bit of a shame if they would never be worn again, although with the nature of his job we assume he will be back in for at least some of the time in the new year.
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Aug 2020
9:51pm, 13 Aug 2020
644 posts
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Non-runner
Perhaps some enterprising craft-y person could make masks out of surplus ties? Or matching ties and masks? Joking aside, I sympathise, my OH was a tie aficionado before retiring and so looks forward to wearing one on the odd occasion nowadays.
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Aug 2020
10:00pm, 13 Aug 2020
4,366 posts
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run free
Having spoken to about 4 different companies, where the employees wore ties, all of them wore t-shirts and no tie. These are formal companies.
Jenny / NR - probably be something either like the dicky bow - guys wear it to define who they are - or at very formal / special occasions.
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