Sue

We can but hope!

Yes, but as you said "at last" you had found a good reason not to vote for the greens, I wondered why you would want one. Plus it seemed (to me, at least) a very strange reason and didn't seem to have anything to do with the party's policies.

Why would you have to look for "a good reason to not vote for the greens"? What a very strange thing to say. Would you like to explain your logic?

Yes I agree, that's why I specifically said "re the wildlife"!

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 being 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 😀