Sue

I joined the Greens yesterday. I'm now a paid up member.

Hooray! I hope it survives this year!

Out of the corner of my eye I thought I saw a white (?cabbage white?) butterfly. It's awfully early, isn't it?

To be fair, whilst it's obviously extremely annoying to be stuck on a bus whose service is being regulated, if tfl didn't do this, people would still be complaining because they would wait ages for a bus and then several would arrive at once. Traffic conditions may vary for all sorts of reasons, some which can be predicted in advance but also some which can't, and if a bus catches up with the one in front but the one behind it is on its predicted schedule, there would be a very long gap between the second and third buses.

Is there a fault code showing on your boiler? Surely they wouldn't all stop working at once due to all of them needing bleeding? Btw I just this evening had a problem with my boiler (no heating or hot water), and ChatGPT talked me through a fix. But if you can't sort it, I highly recommend Tommy Rooney https://www.trooneyheating.co.uk/ ETA: Oh. Just noticed the OP was two weeks ago, so probably it is sorted by now.

Do you mean they are chopping branches from trees in your garden? I would definitely get advice on that eg from the neighbourhood police. I'm not familiar with the law, but that sounds like trespass to me, even if they are not actually standing in your garden. People are entitled to chop off branches etc which are overhanging their own garden, but I am pretty sure they are not allowed to lean over and chop off anything in yours, whether they dislike it or not.

Some or all charity shops will take them. I have given bags to the hospice shop on Lordship Lane in the past.

Sadly I think you will never convince people like this. They think gardens have to be kept chopped back and controlled. My theory is that this comes from being (or trying to be) controlling in every aspect of their lives, so I doubt if anything you could say or show them would have any effect. But are they actually coming into your garden or leaning over into it and pulling up/damaging things? If so, maybe one of our community police people could have a word with them?

Do you mean put out things like live mealworms for the parents to feed to the young? Or that the parents will eat the food you put out and therefore can save "wild" live food for the young rather than eating it themselves? On another matter, several weeks ago I moved my bird feeders to another part of my (very small) garden because the area they were in was totally scratched up by pigeons, and I lost several plants I had had for decades and was very fond of 😭 It is now just bare earth with no plants, and I've got to start again. And block up a fox hole in one corner. I suspect the foxes are tunnelling beneath the garden, as there are several holes. I hope the ground doesn't suddenly collapse beneath me! I cleaned everything and put in fresh seed, but so far all that has visited the new area (that I have actually seen) is one rather fat sparrow. And a cat. Sitting hopefully beneath the feeders 🤬 No goldfinches (I have a niger seed feeder and have seen the occasional goldfinch in the garden) and no tits, though I've heard both blue tits and great tits nearby. Plus the flock of sparrows who used to come and seem to have deserted the garden. Hopefully they will find the feeders. I've cut back some of the greenery, which doesn't help, as they have less shelter.

So when will we find out? Is it going to be a big reveal on some specified day? If not, why can't you tell us now?! (I'm presuming you mean the new boss of Franklins. It would be too much to hope for that the Palmerston had a miraculous return to one of its better past incarnations. Never mind the food, they could bring back the lovely quirky painted column things of over twenty (?) years ago, and remove the hideous "art" that has sadly been installed. I feel really sorry for the staff, because it can't be just my partner and I who rarely go there any more. I suppose the only hope is that it does so badly that it changes hands again and that the new hands have better taste. Sorry, all off topic.)

I would hope that is extremely unlikely. If people accidentally vote for someone, that's their own fault, isn't it?

I'm not deliberately swerving anything. What exactly have they said in their communications in languages other than English that you object to? Why would they put those communications in other languages when the whole point was to connect with a specific group of people? Apologies if I've missed your point.

I would have thought approaching Muslims (and other ethnic groups) and using their own language was being inclusive, and demonstrating that they were being inclusive. Unlike Reform, who appear to deliberately stir up hatred of particular groups of people. Unlike Labour, who appear to hate supporters of Palestine. But this thread is supposed to be about James McCash's move to the Greens, so if people want to discuss more general political issues, perhaps someone could start a thread in the lounge?

Could you be more specific as to how "the Greens have practiced this on a far more significant scale in Gorton and Denton"? How exactly did they "try to exploit ethic tensions"?