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I think sometimes we miss the point - we don't have elephants here but we do have our own native species which we cull due to someone deciding they are considered disruptive and/or too many in one place and not all are used to provide food. Killing any animal solely for "sport" is to be...

Wonderful to have desert cacti flowering at this time of year, and on such small plants too, congratulations

This is on BBC iPlayer, if anyone bored with the cold and dark evenings

Have finished "If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies" about superintelligent AI. Possibly the most enlightening and unforgettable book I have read all yr. Of course, me reading it doesn't help at all. It needs to be read by those with the power to do something about it before it is too late. ...

I like the scent of the Sarcococca - not many flower scents I dislike. Some people do tend to lose their sense of smell ( and taste) as they get older.

Good idea. I only realised after I removed mine that it had been propping up the neighbour's fence, which promptly fell down.

Hi,Many thanks @Logan your reply is bang on; I'm finding it to be very slow whilst waiting for the forum to respond; it must be due to the Christmas rush? I've been in the workshop this morning making the enlarged sheet music support; I had quite a number of scores enlarged; one seen...

You've been very busy, Steve! Those Christmas tree ornaments are lovely; we have a lot of hand-made ones too, but they were mostly created by our children at an early age - not exactly refined, but we still love them.We also have foxes visiting, two vixens, we think, and like yours, they...

This is what we did with ours:-I'm just about to pressure wash the patio so these are a bit mucky

I got my parents a little miss figgy fig tree last year so if it grows well i will take a cutting , i got my medlar tree yesterday took nearly 2 weeks to arrive bare root sealed in a big green bag , just considering now do i put it with other apple trees or ither side of garden beside the rown...

The shops always have arrangements of plants in baskets or whatever, trimmed up with ribbons/bows/general glittery tat, and they seem to sell well. I fear most of them will barely last longer than a bunch of flowers though.

50/50 - partially ignore, partially tidy up. I have loads of ivy climbing the wall - it (ivy) tends to bush up on the top of the wall every year; cherry laurels in the end of the garden - not my choice, they were there as large trees when I moved in - I had a gardener to reduce those to bare...

Wow, some fantastic displays! I must take a picture of my efforts tomorrow!

My last bloom, probably for the year ...

Nope, no deer.