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Nicest day of the year today I reckon. Down here in Exeter at least. Sunny all day and 15+ degrees.

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It would prefer sun. Just make sure it gets enough water if the weather turns hot and sunny, trees can dry the soil out quickly in pots.

Also good for keeping witches from your door apparently, (as in the Scottish tradition I think.) It shouldn't be relatively easy to dig up and relocate, growing as it is in what looks like gravel.

Bugger Wordle 1,034 6/6 🟨⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜🟨🟨🟨⬜ 🟨🟩⬜🟩⬜ ⬜🟩🟨🟩⬜ 🟨🟩⬜🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 If only I'd used a pen and paper! 😂

I'm not sure that pen and paper is allowed you know. WTF! One of the frustrations is that you can't fill in boxes from the rhs. I.e. if you've got some green letters towards the end of the word, you can't put them in first to give you a feel for what the beginning letters might be. Tricky to explain.

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I'm going to start later with some TOAST, then maybe some BACON, and then a ROAST. No CURRY though as that would just be a waste.

Here's a good dirty five letter word.

Thanks for the corroboration mate. 🙂

I quite like that trunk form actually, it's somehow got the form and grace of a belly dancer.

So you want the three most dangerous drugs by far, the three that cause the actual vast majority of drug related deaths to remain legal, whilst the rest, lots of them far more benign btw, to remain illegal or unregulated. Why? That stance makes no sense. What do you propose we do to tackle the drug problem? That's a genuine, not rhetorical, question. I'm not advocating everything be legalised by the way, I'm just not sure that's the right way to go on this. It's a complex issue for sure, one that requires a nuanced, multifaceted approach. Simplistic, narrow minded thinking, like trying to ban everything we can't yet get a handle on isn't the answer. It's just running away from the problem and trying to pretend it doesnt exist. Worse than that actually, it's abandoning the less fortunate among us, and leaving them to their feat of miserable, untimely deaths. Not a good look. If not legalisation, then at least bringing drugs under under some kind of state control and hence regulation would be a step in the right direction. Leaving the production and supply in the hands of criminals is obviously not going to be beneficial for anyone concerned. Apart from said criminals. First step though is to have a grown up, educated, open minded discussion. You seem to be falling at that first hurdle.

I would remove it. With damage like that, whatever it is, it's days are probably numbered. The tree looks to be quite young and small from that photo; easier to do it now rather than when it becomes more of an issue as it grows bigger.

Maybe because he is educated? Deaths from alcohol almost 5 times more than drugs. And that's all drugs, crack cocaine would only be a part of that ~500k total. Deaths attributed to tobacco, alcohol and drugs OURWORLDINDATA.ORG In blue are shown the estimated annual number of deaths attributed to tobacco, alcohol and drugs. In red are shown the... Smoking dwarfs all the rest obviously. It'd be interesting to see the total for deaths attributed to poor health and obesity due to poor diet. Here we go, slightly more than alcohol. Obesity WWW.WHO.INT Obesity has reached epidemic proportions globally, with at least 2.8 million people dying each year as a result of being...

Wordle 1,033 4/6 ⬜⬜⬜🟨⬜ ⬜🟩⬜⬜🟩 ⬜🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 That was a struggle. I often forget about using a letter more than once.

Yep, that struck me as well. I don't blame them. Also, his GF must be the most understanding woman ever!

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Prohibition never normally works. Heroin is arguably much safer than Fentanyl. Taliban poppy ban puts Europe on fentanyl alert – POLITICO WWW.POLITICO.EU Drug users could switch to more dangerous synthetic opioids as heroin supply dries up.

I did, and I don't. I was merely trying to share a bit of positivity. Maybe I should have considered the tread title more fully first. 🤔

Seven countries now generate 100% of their electricity from renewable energy WWW.INDEPENDENT.CO.UK Scientists say we have reached an ‘irreversible tipping point’ that will see fossil fuels phased out

Wise choice, that might have smarted a bit I'd imagine.

So this film was on the telly the other night. An incredible feat by a world leading athlete. Genuinely cringey at times, (in a good way, nail biting stuff). BBC iPlayer - Free Solo WWW.BBC.CO.UK Solo climber Alex Honnold prepares to achieve his lifelong dream of scaling El Capitan.

Britain's food tsar Henry Dimbleby steps down over obesity crisis WWW.EURONEWS.COM Henry Dimbleby, the UK's food tsar, has quit over what he calls a 'lack of government action' over obesity in one of the worst...