This is really not good for the kids who are in that situation. It should be fully subsidised.

It mentions it.

have heard of people at school who have ended up using flea treatment as a course of action. Or even little girls, I know one of my son’s friends had to have her hair shaved…

Perhaps I am misunderstanding your point, but if someone crashes into me at high speed and maims me, I don’t think knowing it was their “personal responsibility” would make me feel any better about it.

I’d like all three.

What are your ideas for how to get better drivers, out of interest?

I love oxford comma propaganda. This one’s a beaut.

Maybe. I think it may be an example of the perfect is (fiscally) the enemy of the “she’ll be right”.

Thanks, I love that!!

“Replacing signs because of behaviour like this is not a good use of taxpayers’ money.”

Maybe it’s because I’m a relic of a more casual era, and went to a uni that constantly had a Pus Formation kiosk, but I don’t get why they keep throwing entire signs away. Just patch the vandal’s work until you catch the vandal.

Wtf, is all I can say.

If you have 1h47 to spare, the old documentary Someone Else’s Country is quite good.

Ha ha ha I love it. Poor Volcano lady missing out.

Community bookshelves are awesome. I love the ones that look like houses for elves.

Lots of different winds. Neat photo!

Indoor space is on my lotto list too! I like your ideas! 😄

Just went out and killed a bunch of aphids. I normally don’t kill insects but those guys are like humans and will actually kill the whole plant if left to their own devices.

That is the million dollar question. As far as I know you can only get them as packets of seeds (from the Butterfly trust people, not garden centres).

To grow them bigger than last time, I’ll need to find something a bit bigger to keep them in, somewhere to put it, and have enough well days to not neglect them.

I guess another idea would be to get heaps of seeds and try to just scatter them all through the undergrowth and hope for the best, but not sure it would work with milkweed.

Didn’t think of that - it might be, since formal dementia diagnoses are symptom based not biomarker based.

This is what’s happening at the moment with long covid studies to some extent because it’s not just one illness, it’s a raft of illnesses that have been caused by the same virus.

Here’s hoping! The other possible problem is OE, a protozoan parasite. According to wikipedia I should try again to establish tropical milkweed, which would be awesome because it’s so pretty.

Last time all my seedlings got eaten by snails when I planted them out (unfortunately I don’t have the capacity to actually garden) so will have to think of a new method if I get time/energy.

Oh yikes not another one. Honestly thinking about getting a tattooed list on my forearm of the “mistaken for dementia” conditions when I hit 70, so that I can try to get checked for them instead of being thrown into a dementia ward.

Its sort of post apocalyptic, there aren’t nearly as many plants as I would like but the ones we do have are huge and there’s hardly anyone on them yet!

Definitely. It feels like it will be a turning point in how it is managed, especially if health funders figure out that it will cut costs and actually fund it.

A bunch of brain illnesses/injuries trigger sickness responses, it’s a problem for sure. The warning signs for this in adults sound like common problems too (headaches, poor balance, concentration problems, needing to wee a lot). Being able to wave a “wand” and see if your shunt is working sounds like magic!

I think people do that if their plants are small? Usually where I live there are a couple of big plants on the go (over 2 m high) from year to year, so if I see any caterpillars trying to eat seedlings I ferry them over to those.

I’m not actually the owner of the garden, and the plants are self-sown, so it’s all a bit random. If I ever win lotto the butterflies, birds, and bees can have a whole garden of stuff though.