Lynne

Ex-OU tutor & student; mother of four assorted adults. No pets, just a computer. 'Scotland is a country, not a county' (A. Salmond) @lynne2024.bsky.social

[Lynne @bld2013]

@PaulSuttonKing I've replied to the original thread. Think it may be 'Hr' for 'Higher', as this is how the same enumerator writes H in House.

[Lynne @bld2013]

@TheRegencyCook Superscript letter definitely a lower case r. This is the same enumerator's writing of 'House' & the H looks very similar to your squiggle. Might it be 'Hr' meaning 'Higher'?

[Lynne @bld2013]

@Lostock_Henge Dad paid up front for his own cremation & we were happy for him to spend most of the rest on his (lovely) care home.

[Lynne @bld2013]

@Lostock_Henge To be fair (to his parents) if he's 35 now, he was named before the first HP was published.

[Lynne @bld2013]

@PaulSuttonKing @oldishbird1 @JoanneJolilley #BinnyMcBinface - bring it on!

[Lynne @bld2013]

@PaulSuttonKing @_F_B_G_ Corsets!

[Lynne @bld2013]

@Lostock_Henge @Dr_Ellie There's a lot of ignorant bilge in the cmments.

[Lynne @bld2013]

@Lostock_Henge @PotNoodle Not awesome at all, I suspect. The mash would collapse into a disgusting mess stirred in with the noodles. Also the sausage would have to be chopped really fine to dehydrate successfully. But pork sausage flavour would work😀

[Give A Shit About Nature @giveashitnature]

Swiss farmers planted flowers between their crops and watched pest damage drop by over half. The UK is now running the same trial across 15 farms. The reason this works is embarrassingly simple.

A Swiss study on winter wheat found that fields with wildflower strips had 40 to 53% fewer leaf beetle pests than fields without. Crop damage dropped 61%.

The mechanism is simple. Wildflowers feed hoverflies, lacewings, parasitic wasps, ladybugs, and ground beetles. Those insects eat the aphids, beetle larvae, and caterpillars that farmers would otherwise spray for. A few meters of wildflowers hosts an unpaid pest control crew that would jump at the chance to whoop some aphid ass.

In apple orchards where no insecticides had been used for five years, plots with wildflower alleyways had 9.2% damaged fruit. Control plots without flowers had 32.5%.

The UK is now running a five-year trial across 15 farms placing 6-meter flower strips through the middle of fields, not just at the edges, because the beneficial insects can't reach the center of a large field otherwise.

This works the same way in a backyard vegetable garden as it does on a commercial farm. Plant native flowering species near your tomatoes, beans, and squash. The pests still show up, but the predators show up too.

Study doi: 20151369

[Lynne @bld2013]

@Lostock_Henge Splendid!

[Lynne @bld2013]

@PaulSuttonKing @MarkHay55822123 Interesting explanation in Wikipedia.

[The Sting @TheStingisBack]

Dame Penelope Keith has sadly passed away.
This stairway sketch from the 1977 Morecambe & Wise Christmas Special is still one of the funniest things ever shown on TV. You can see all three trying (and failing) to keep it together. An absolute classic.

[Lynne @bld2013]

@Lostock_Henge @swearysnork Tested negative :-)

[Lynne @bld2013]

@Lostock_Henge 😂

[Lynne @bld2013]

@swearysnork @Lostock_Henge Scientific, innit? Hot weather = fluid retention = weight gain. Cooler weather = flushing it out!

[Lynne @bld2013]

@Lostock_Henge Think my mum must have shopped there😆

[Lynne @bld2013]

@PaulSuttonKing I remember spending some very satisfying hours sleuthing him! I see he's still nagging the kids about writing back to him.

[Lynne @bld2013]

@OlgaWojtas @ByClaireWilson Same. Which were your two omissions? Fax & boombox for me.

[Lynne @bld2013]

@PaulSuttonKing @AncientHistorry Bots don't care.

[Lynne @bld2013]

@Lostock_Henge Do I even want to know what 'weinkls' are?