5% VAT on domestic heating fuel. Petrol/diesel/bioethanol/biodiesel (and blends) for vehicles is 52.9p per litre excise duty (except red diesel...
Hmmm. VAT. I don't mind paying 20%, or even more, on things that are truly luxuries, that everyone could choose to do without or to replace only...
Cloudy today but dry and breezy.
I have. I don't know what did the deeds - I rarely manage to catch them in the act - but something outside that flies judging by the locations and...
Yesterday's rain turned out to be nothing much, 1.5mm. Today is forecast fine and quite warm, 18C, so the washing is out to do its thing while I'm...
I don't know about the feeding, but in the first (greenest) pic, the cut ends of the blades are looking brown and ragged. That suggests to me that...
According to Mr. Google they also root in water so just for fun I might try snipping off a couple of bits and popping them in a jam jar or small vase.
I don't know about the fungus @pattie, but just in case if you have some non-flowering shoots you could take cuttings. I took fairly big ones, put...
I have another one that is similar, "Eyes for you". The blotch is more purple and it doesn't have the yellow in the newly opened flowers, more of...
When you hover the mouse over your name, go to "Personal Details" , "Signature" etc instead of "Your Profile Page" - that should get you to pages...
Nice steady rain at the moment, and all the forecasts seem to agree on it continuing until teatime. Yesterday they said rain but we only got one...
I also have deep plum single annual poppies. When they set seed I scatter them around the areas where I want more. I also save seed in case one...
Here are mine, all pruned sometime around late March. First S. "Black Lace" pruned to about 2'6", now maybe 7' or so, I have to look up to the top...
If it is a Ceanothus, not only are they fairly short-lived even in the best of conditions, but also they like well-drained light soil, and they...
For me Sambucus "Black Lace" puts on a lot more growth in a season than Cotinus "Royal Purple" from the same sort of fairly hard spring pruning....
Mostly cloudy but dry yesterday, I got the grass cut and more forget-me-nots and other gone-over stuff pulled out. It rained a bit overnight and...
My sis uses other herbs and spices. The taste is different but is OK. She's fine with well-cooked onions or leeks as well (but not raw). Any dish...
Another pale-skinned user of high-factor sunscreen and DEET here. And I still got an insect bite yesterday, on my face :yikes:.
I don't peel or eat bananas. Yuk
I always start slicing from the flower/non-stalk end but it occurred to me yesterday (for the first time, probably getting on for 50 years since I...
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