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Not sure if I should be amused or be annoyed or despair at the amount of people screeching online with phrases such as:

"freedom of speech is under attack" (which has f-all to do with bank accounts, but OK, perhaps they are advocating UBI for all so we don't need to tow a line?) "they will come for you too" (late to the party perhaps, unless climate activists/refugees/immigrants don't count?) "the UK is going fascist" (have you read the news lately...oh, that's all MSM now...?)

I suppose alarmist grifters are nothing new. Oh well, we haven't been refused any bank accounts so, I guess we are not politically spicy enough in our house if we can believe Fartage's persecution/victim complex :)

I'd have a think about the size/location/soil.

As there are lots and lots of options, I have some David Austin's and they are great, if you need pollinators not all roses attract those, so you need to check. More "primitive" flowers do, but the really complicated flower types don't.

We love fancy flowers, bees and so on don't.

If local wildseeds charities don't have it, eBay might? I get lots on there.

Kinda hilarious he's dumb enough to get caught after all the dodgy Russian links. Boris, the donations that were not checked properly with a toothless Electoral Commission that could only "educate" not invalidate the referendum etc. etc.

But who will have him? For mainland EU he needs a visa, and "persona non grata" is what he may hear. The USA? Biden is not keen on him I imagine. Canada? Perhaps...unless he pissed off enough people there.

And if he thinks he's as welcome as a fart in an elevator in England, he should try Ireland :p

HSBC was caught laundering drug money in the USA.

Taking away the banking license would have caused an economic shitshow, so it could have been done, but wasn't.

Sounds like the type of law that is very loosely enforced.

But Russian money connections, well, you really ask for it. Maybe he can open an account in Belarus ;)

Farage has had his bank account closed...waiting on a proper article (the news just broke) but at least some good news ;)

He is of course playing the victim, hard. Claims no bank wants to give him an account (which is either BS or very, very strange unless he's touched something Bad)

Now, banks can be a bit difficult if they feel like it. Somebody on a forum I am on cannot buy a house simply because the cash they earned was made in a country the UK laws don't like. And sometimes accounts get closed for other reasons, banks cannot be bothered anymore etc.

So perhaps he didn't really do anything wrong, and got unlucky. But my account which gets only payroll £ into isn't being closed, just saying... ;)

My tomatoes are outside and it's been pishing down rain in Belfast.

Have to see how they go... on the upside, 0 pest issues as they are planted in between other plants, are growing OK and the slugs don't eat them.

Physio seems to have worked, feeling better. Lots of clicking the past weeks, but it's the "getting back to the normal position" clicking :)

But the deadlift still annoys my lower back a little, so not ready to deadlift hard. Will ask her if there are any exercise I need to do, the block deadlift seemed ok. So it's the last 2 inches that seem to do it.

Adding overhead press to one day, both of us are hip dominant cyclists so the upper body isn't the most developed part.

That's all true.

With the home office being shitty, and staying shitty, it's for safety reasons as well.

We are all in the same shit when it comes to inflation, climate crisis, housing,NHS....citizenship has no bearing on that, improve the UK only comes from doing.

Trying my bit there but of course action doesn't require a piece of paper :)

Tx!

There was a question about Northern Irish £ Bank notes which amused me 😁

Very much..."oh we colonized lots of places but they are happy now and that thing in Northern Ireland and the great hunger were just small things"...

The officer was very welcoming and seemed genuinely happy with all of us joining the UK club which was quite wholesome.

Wait, that's where the song comes from???

What did he say Ulster is British or give Ireland back? 😁

Oh and I'm a Brit now, screw you home office and bigoted brexiters 😁

I'll be good! 😁
I promised! 😆

People (in general and that's true for me too) are stupid.

We have a limited capacity to follow politics cos we are busy, and we get emotional.

I know a Brexiter via a mate and she's. .ok. Abusive ex took him to court, fought to get her kids, always worked in social housing strong woman, she's a unionist my mate is nationalist.

So not a fucking awful nutter but identity politics and gammon media can get to people. See also an ex colleague.

Now you vote for it, well yeah the shit this has unleashed is unreal. If we ever are able to heal a calm acknowledgement of the hurt us definitely needed.

But having fucking oxygen thieves on the media all the time, great way to ensure there's no healing and the hurt will get re exploited politically

Bunch of 🤬 like garage Johnson, Habib and the other sociopaths and co need to fuck off and the adults need to acknowledge the hurt.

Good luck with that! But I am choosing to park the anger occasionally. It's just shit to have Brexit crap on all of us and if the game is to divide us all the time i refuse to play it!

While loudly complaining with the husband in the house I'm no Saint lol

I have done this with a Gala apple. So far the tree is alive after 3 years but suffering from rust every year. So I doubt I get fruit but willing to try.

Fruit trees are grafted on rootstock and many commercial ones aren't very hardy.

So worth trying but don't expect too much :)

Wasn't sure we had hedgehogs but we do. This chunky one was asleep, we thought he was dead as he just laid uncovered. Found him at the back of the garden in full view so we picked him up and checked him over and rang the vet.

They said they sleep superdeep and as he's chunky and no fleas or lice jumping or injuries just put him outside. He ate the food we left and is away now.

Exciting! Time for a wee house and feeding station for later so local hogs can fatten up.

Yep they don't like the dry weather very much.

They don't like the tomatoes I have planted, so at least I can grow those in the ground. The peas are also safe. Salad veg though, lol,good luck.

If you have room for a shrub mahonia / forsythia also flower early and help bumblebees, underplanting with snowdrops, alliums etc. also helps.

Some Geranium take shade and are very tough, and attract pollinators and flower later in the year.

Re hosta: clay is nice and damp and slugs and snails love that and hosta...

Mine is ok and only nibbled on by tiny snails but it'll end up with holes in it for sure.

For shade I believe hellebore can take some shade? They add some early pollinator flowers.

Just back from this

https://gardenshowireland.com/

I went for the rare plants, they didn't have many rare one, mostly usual stuff.

But one Dutch bulb merchant had loads at good prices, including phlox bareroot and incarvillea which I've not seen here.

There was also a local shop with no import plants, most plants were still imported from the Netherlands and some from France.

Didn't go to the talks but there were lots so for beginners it's probably a great learning show, for rate plants Ballyrobert garden centre is probably better.

The local agriculture college sold great plants 5 for £20! Prices were ok for a show similar to shops.

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2023/jun/17/uk-delis-could-be-forced-to-put-up-prices-after-new-brexit-tax?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

£43 government fees to check certain food imports from the EU to GB. Charged per consignment so more of a problem for businesses importing smaller amounts of lots of different foods.

Yep you are so right.

I will dig out the grass, then shake out the poor soi and put it back in AND get some Yellow Rattler seeds to see if that works.

It will still require weeding for quite some time, but that's OK. Don't mind giving it a go.

Ironically, the grass near work which just gets moved and no special treatment has turned into quite the wildflower lawn. Ah well! :D

From Ulster Widlife:

Ulster Wildlife
Hi JWestland – Congratulations on winning one of the Let Nature In packs! The best time to sow your wildflower seeds would be early Spring (March/April) or late summer (September). We’d advise choosing a small area of your garden that is open, has grass and gets lots of sun - wildflowers do well in poor quality soil. Strip the grass or scratch back the top soil and seed with your wildflower mix. Then sit back and let it grow! You’ll find much more info on caring for your wildflower patch on the ‘Mini Meadows’ info card included in your Let Nature In pack.

The ending scene is great, sure it's a bit thrashy but nothing wrong with that!

Brain Damage is another great thrashy classic.

Will do!

Clay is...a thing. The geranium don't mind it, but many other wildflowers don't love it. Creeping buttercup and hedge vetch dies grow for me.

I have self-heal growing in building sand that must have gotten some humus or compost blown in, every time I move it, it dies. But it loves that mix nothing else can grow in! :)

The roses seem to enjoy the sun, mine are flowering very well even though it's dry.

I have won something, let the wildflower lawn battle begin... I have emailed the seeds company as I've no idea what's in the mix and what sort of poor soil they need. Rock hard clay it probably isn't.