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I agree. Midnight I can understand when it's celebrating the start of a new year (under whatever system) but not otherwise. Though re the wildlife, it's going to affect them whatever time it is, I don't suppose they know it's gone 11pm!

Looking for someone naughty on the ground? What other reason would there be, if it hasn't landed anywhere?

Yes I get your gist, but maybe you could just name a few of the very many you mention? I'm not sure why you find it very concerning that somebody would leave Labour for the Greens? So have many people, including me.

Were your concerns to do with her, as your MP? If not, then I'm sure she had more than enough to do without taking on things which weren't within her remit! She always took a very proactive role in local issues (eg the closure of the ED delivery office) and she also attended various demos with local Labour Party members, though I can't now remember which ones (demos, not members!) I thought she was an excellent MP, and I'm sure she still is.

Which "crazy street and road schemes" are you thinking of?

Not been cynical, I'd say he can't stand for a party which has moved so far to the right it has come to represent things he does not believe in. Quite apart from what happened to him personally, which was disgraceful.

Good call!

Oooh! Hot chocolate! Thank goodness it isn't nearer! I'd have doubled my weight in a month 😄

I recently sent my granddaughter a birthday card. I posted it really early to make sure it got delivered in time. Over two weeks later it still hasn't arrived, and in retrospect I think I shouldn't have put "Do not open until 12 February" on the back of the envelope. I really hope I'm wrong, and I have a suspicious mind, but I wonder if someone somewhere in the postal system thought there was money in it 🙄 Obviously there wasn't, I'm stupid but not that stupid, she got her birthday money by BACS.

I wouldn't be going all the way to Dobbies just to take flowerpots! 😀 It's a very good garden centre with a wide range of well kept plants and helpful staff, at least it was on the only occasion I've visited it, last year!

Thanks, I live round the corner from Forest and I don't recall seeing a box, but I will ask! Bill and Ben were made with proper terracotta pots! I have lots of those too, many really old, but I like looking at them 😀

I thought it was enthusiastic people celebrating Pancake Day/Shrove Tuesday early!

Millionaire doesn't mean much these days round here, house prices being what they are!

Where did you get that info about Southwark? Can you give a link? That's not what I found when I just googled! And what's a "soft plastic" pot?

Southwark apparently doesn't recycle them in the blue bin collection, although you can take them to the recycling place off the Old Kent Road. I have no idea what they do with them there. I've tried to give them away in the past. One community garden took a load one year, but I haven't had much luck otherwise. People are probably trying to get rid of their own 🤣 I don't know why nurseries don't use biodegradable pots, but I suppose it's because they would biodegrade before the plant reached the plant centre/retailer and then the gardener at the end of the chain. ETA: I just did some googling, and apparently Dobbies garden centres take them. There's a good one near Wallington, so I might take them there next time I'm down in that direction.