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What's with the house obsession?
Not being snarky but having low rise flats with parks take up less space and make public transport and community centres / childcare more viable as you have enough of a population density.
Yes we are in a house, cos garden and few apartments on offer in Belfast that aren't either grim or super £.
The gardens that people pave over cos of "maintenance" those things :)
I got told by someone their estate agent said flats don't hold their value is that why?
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Adding fallen street tree leaves might have worked for mine, I got a bunch of worms now.
Nothing last year and now I got lots. 8 got a bee in their bonnet on a rainy night and escaped through the holes to get fresh air.
Worms can also travel to your bin and set up, but of course that's only works with ones with lots of holes.
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I got a bunch of snail and slug munching ground beetles. I believe they need rotting wood so a stick or untreated log pile somewhere can help?
A mesh area filled with leaves might also help to get beetles i think?
if you check online on the RHS site they have some tips.
Blackbirds definitely like a good slug seen our male wiping one clean of slime and then eat it.
I swear my slugs have little parachutes lol 😂
I can forget about sunflowers but dahlia grown out and then planted make it ok. -
Looks great!
We have Hosta and slugs, they get nibbled on but not so much they are completely eaten.
If you want them looking perfectly then probably not an ideal plant...
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If you have a phone with an image search function, the fake wasp can be IDd to a species possible if you enjoy taking snaps and checking them :)
We have at least 10 pretend-wasps in the garden, and logging species helps all sorts of groups checking biodiversity data. I love the fake wasps, most of them are hoverflies and kinda goofy.
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Only the river flows: Chinese Noir about a police detective that gets conflicted when the obvious suspect may not be the killer.
There are some surreal elements, it looks stunning and is well acted and paced. I am not sure about how the surreal elements hang together, in classic David Lynch/Silent Hill 2 the game you really wonder what is going on as it's all interlaced in a way that makes you think, here not entirely sure if it worked or not. Worth a watch.
Not entirely sure it gets the mood of the story it is based on, but I have not read it.
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The Netherlands houses repeat anti social behaviour social housing tenants in container homes. However they do get help with financial and alcohol issues and the housing isn't so remote they can't take a bus to town.
Not ideal of course, ideally people don't end in that state.
A mate of ours lives in social housing one guy is trying to steal his motorbike, another is causing lots of noise issues. Most people are fine just two out of 30 are causing hassle and they have a right to be housed and the social housing company can in theory kick them out but then who will have them?
Private rent nope, if you transfer them you move the issue. Of course there isn't much help for them, but our mate has to deal with the stress of it.
In private housing you just get kicked out by the landlord for that. Usually...
But I have to agree that the "I own my place so whatevs" or "private landlord kicked me out of greed" or issues of course won't get addressed by container housing, neither do all the new houses going up in the bad Belfast riot area suddenly become affordable.
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Fuckers planning a return to Belfast. Ugh.
Some politicians still saying "valid concerns" in relation to protest. Nope. NOPE. No. This is organised violence.
Heard that shit as a white immigrant during "totally not xenophobic" Brexit and this is a million times worse with organised violent attacks.
Aside from what's already been said what worries me most is the impact on people :(
People feel unsafe and are scared and there are fundraisers to help, groups are organised to help impacted people and find safer shop areas, but how does a city and people now being / feeling unsafe heal from that? What can we do?
Keep talking and gathering funds to help?
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Some people need to be locked up in school instead of prison ;)
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Some groups are paramilitary fronts and the DUP should stop giving them a platform.
What's happened here is criminal activity, there has been extortion and racist attacks in that area for a while. Nobody will say anything cos then they get burnt out.
What does the dup community minister say; rioting is bad but legitimate concern. Nah. Condemn that shit.
The rioting at Broadway roundabout is the typical ussuns Vs themmuns throw bricks at the PSNI "fun" ...
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I won't be shellfish about it, thank you :)
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Yep some rioters just don't think and want to throw stones, not everyone is politically motivated. Fighting the cops and all that. Definitely racist and criminal elements in the Belfast riots though.
It's messed up though that now people don't feel safe after their shops got burnt out.
That's what I don't get, why get involved in that shit? That's well past throwing bricks at the riot police. Weird idea of fun...
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Maybe comes at a surprise but yes they exist. Bit sure keep thinking all of Belfast is just what some news tells you 🙄
I'm welk aware some are paramilitary fronts, but some are genuine groups running food clubs, art courses and employment classes.
Windsor women centre, gvrt, tree are genuine groups in that area.
Wouldn't drink in the Royal though dodgy AF
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Disappointing to see some politicians mention "genuine concerns" no, this is thuggery and anti Muslim bigotry. And racist scum flying the UK and ire flags together is not the United Ireland we need ;)
Those scumbags are egged on by criminal groups and while that area has work to do they now happily undo the work of the local community groups.
I used to live there, yes there are issues but also people trying to improve it and now someone got seriously injured.
And people are living in fear, it's going to be hard to heal.
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Agree, not helpful.
Reporting might be ok if in court it was proved beyond reasonable doubt the ASD was linked to the stabbings. Right now it's just speculation.
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We have Scottish in our Dutch ancestry from 1660 Might be a guy trying to escape the religious wars in Scotland around that time.
My french husband descends from 300 years of farmers. He did find a few decorated soldiers as offshoots of the line.
Me? 300 years of farmers and fishers.
Lots of Fitzwilliams in Ireland too. The posh cunt here is your man that got lough Neagh for free as his ancestors got it for killing people here.
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...sigh
Next, reform raising funds for the suspended cop incoming with dubious accounting?
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More Brexit Benefits
https://www.theregister.com/2024/07/16/campaign_group_complains_to_uk/ data scraping by Meta not happening in the EU, UK groups have to go to court. This was also warned about before, but.. project fear :)
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Aw lovely :)
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Oh the same populism part caused by checks notes unregulated markets?
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There is a USA company called Wilcox that does stainless steel indestructible trowels, if you want to try those.
Sneeboer also seems the business.
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Lord Faw Faw, love it lol.
Thinking about it, he may be playing to his audience with this, who also don't want to face any questions about why they like him and neither want to admit they really are ok with the racist views they have.
And the BBC is "mainstream media' so "biased" so it's ok to boycott them for the tinfoil hat brigade.
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Wants to be in politics, can't deal with being called out.
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Glassine paper bags, then in a plastic takeaway box, cool place in house.
After that ensure to forget to label seedlings for maximum confusion :)
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That can be a problem in some areas, but surely if other countries can solve it...
I understand people can be a bit nervous about that. You don't want a hike in fees with no maintenance anyway.
In Belfast there simply isn't a lot of land inside the area and roads are super congested.
The public transport isn't quite there, and due to the rivers splitting Belfast in half it's genuinely hard to cross over from say North Belfast to East. But yet, few apartments are being built.