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Traceyjayne @Traceyjayne (10720) • United Kingdom 14 May

You may remember the fun and games I had last week , when i was invaded by a million caterpillars ....maybe not quite a million ...Well, The Mister found out that it was them crazy critters that had killed off a bush in our front...

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Fleur @Traceyjayne And the most annoying thing - apart from the sheer numbers - is that they don't just eat all the leaves but they chew through the stems at the base of young shoots so they just die and fall off. Some people have reported that birds eat them but...

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Fleur @Fleura (34704) • United Kingdom 14 May

I was chatting to our lodger about the changes in the availability of food over the past century or so. Yes diets have changed in some ways (the availability of ready-made meals for example) but many other things have not changed...

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Fleur The 'nouvelle cuisine' style I guess. That was a fashion here for a while but it seems to have waned in popularity again I think. Or maybe I just don't go to posh restaurants.

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Michael Duff @Wrexxo (1152) 7 May

I go to the bank often .Their is this elegant lady I reall fancy...she is dark skinned ,really pretty and always dresses nicely. She is usually sitting behind the cashier glued to her computer. The first time I got a closer look...

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Fleur Exciting stuff!!

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Michael Duff @Wrexxo (1152) 23h

Yesterday morning around 8 AM, on my way to the bank, heavy traffic backed up the entire road. At first I thought it was the usual rush hour madness, but as I got closer, I saw a crowd gathered across the street...what could...

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Fleur I hope they managed to get her out by now. If that slab had been fixed it could have saved so much trouble!

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Fleur @Fleura (34704) • United Kingdom 14 May

I was chatting to our lodger about the changes in the availability of food over the past century or so. Yes diets have changed in some ways (the availability of ready-made meals for example) but many other things have not changed...

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Fleur It's a vicious cycle isn't it?

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LindaOH @LindaOHio (220852) • United States 14 May

I'm interested in knowing who is still working and who has retired or maybe you never worked. If you're still working, in what field are you working? What has been your career path? If you retired, when did you retire? Was it...

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Fleur I originally worked in science and medical research, then I've had 15 years as an editor of scientific papers. Now I'm looking for something new - work has dramatically fallen away in the last year or so and I blame AI because its ability to translate and...

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Judy Evans @JudyEv (379817) • Rockingham, Australia 14 May

We’ve been in this retirement village for almost five years. In that time, we’ve downsized to one car which means we now have more room in the two-car garage. It was time to reorganise our tools and bits and pieces. We moved...

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Fleur That looks very tidy. Our garage was getting better until I came home with a car-load of scrap wood so now it's just a dump again, and no chance of playing table tennis

14 May

Amber @AmbiePam (119195) • United States 14 May

I have a surprisingly pretty view, which is one of the few (only?) things I like about where I live. I face the woods, with big trees and very pretty greenery. This picture is from the top of Coronado Heights Castle, in Kansas...

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Fleur We don't really have much of a 'view' as such from here, because we're set quite low and the neighbour has huge trees along the boundary. But I am basically looking out at my garden all around which is nice enough

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Traceyjayne @Traceyjayne (10720) • United Kingdom 14 May

You may remember the fun and games I had last week , when i was invaded by a million caterpillars ....maybe not quite a million ...Well, The Mister found out that it was them crazy critters that had killed off a bush in our front...

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Fleur This sounds like the invasive box tree moth. They are a massive problem and in most cases the only 'solution' is to get rid of any box and replace with some other type of shrub. I've been fighting an infestation on my little box hedge for the past three years....

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Traceyjayne @Traceyjayne (10720) • United Kingdom 8 May

So, we found out where the millions of caterpillars came from. We had a smallish bush in the front garden. We noticed that it was dying off, the back had gone. It looked like it had been attacked by something ….some...

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Fleur Was it a box bush by any chance?

14 May

Fleur @Fleura (34704) • United Kingdom 14 May

I was chatting to our lodger about the changes in the availability of food over the past century or so. Yes diets have changed in some ways (the availability of ready-made meals for example) but many other things have not changed...

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Four Walls @FourWalls (85893) • United States 4 May

This discussion is for the birds. Let’s talk Audubon. Have you ever heard of Alexander Wilson, the late 18th/early 19th century Scottish ornithologist who did work in America? You probably haven’t, and the reason for that is...

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travel

kentucky travel

john james audubon state park

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Fleur Looks like a beautiful place to stop.

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Four Walls @FourWalls (85893) • United States 2 May

The Derby winner today was Golden Tempo, which made history! For the first time ever, a female horse trainer won!! Congratulations to Cherie DeVaux, who is on top of the horse racing world with her talents! Derby Day, however,...

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Fleur That sounds most unpleasant; glad it wasn't serious. And congrats to Cherie DeVaux and Golden Tempo!

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Kevin @excellence7 (3698) • Mauritius 7 May

Last year, I bought an agricultural land of around 2000 m². It is not too big. It is located in a farming zone, not too far from poultries. As an immediate step, we planted pumpkins, bananas, chilies and eggplants on the land. My...

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Fleur It sounds just perfect already!

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Fleur @Fleura (34704) • United Kingdom 5 May

You must be getting used to all my tales of plumbing by now Sometimes it seems that lots of things go wrong at once. I guess if many household items are around the same age it stands to reason that they will wear out...

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Fleur @Ineeddentures I've decided to go for those magnetic catches, should work nicely (and at ten of them for £2.49, worth a try!)

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Eva James @wolfgirl569 (134393) • Marion, Ohio 5 May

He got his thumb stuck in a rat trap this morning. . Of course I was laughing at him once I knew why he was yelling for help. . I rescued him. So I am still a good wifey. I have everything...

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Fleur @wolfgirl569 I hope he doesn't do it often!

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BarBaraPrz @BarBaraPrz (51761) • St. Catharines, Ontario 28 Apr

I've lost my keys! All two of them. I have a spare house key, but not one for the padlock on my shed. Usually, I just have to say, "Keys, where are you?" and they show up in a few minutes, but not this time. I've looked and...

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Fleur @BarBaraPrz Oh, bother. I lost my house keys some months ago and I never found them. Usually they turn up but not this time. I suspect that they might have fallen out of the car when I opened the door somewhere and I didn't notice. Had to get another set cut...

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Fleur @Fleura (34704) • United Kingdom 4 May

Jut found this and it makes me smile even though I have seen it four times already (because I have to keep showing it to everyone else!) Even our arachnophobic lodger thought it was cute! Apparently little was known about peacock...

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Fleur @RasmaSandra Goes well with the music doesn't it?

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Jim Bauer @porwest (112271) • United States 5 May

I know, I know, when I tell you that braised pork steak was for dinner last night, even though I have been gone from here a couple of months, everyone will be highly shocked. What? Pork steak? You'd never! But that was...

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Fleur @porwest Oh yes 'bottom-of-the-fridge soup' LOL

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Fleur @Fleura (34704) • United Kingdom 5 May

You must be getting used to all my tales of plumbing by now Sometimes it seems that lots of things go wrong at once. I guess if many household items are around the same age it stands to reason that they will wear out...

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Fleur I admit we are feeling quite smug that we managed it between us!

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