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Lord Mandy of Ethics? Don't make me laugh!
Composer Tom Lehrer remarked that satire died the day Henry Kissinger was awarded the Nobel Peace prize. Kissinger was Richard Nixon's Secretary of State and had held a number of U.S. government offices, including director of nuclear weapons study and membership of the weapons systems evaluation group for the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
It doesn't get much more peaceful than that. So I wonder what Lehrer might have made of the news that Peter Mandelson has been appointed head of 'ethical' banking at Lazard International.
You couldn't make it up.
Beyond satire: Lord Mandelson has been made head of ethics at investment bank Lazard
When it comes to 'ethics', the name of Mandelson is not one that you would expect to find in the same sentence.
This is a man who was twice forced to resign from government amid allegations of financial impropriety.
Mandelson, you may recall, lied to his building society in order to secure a monster mortgage on a house he couldn't afford without a secret £373,000 loan from his wealthy Labour colleague Geoffrey Robinson.
He was extremely fortunate to avoid the attentions of the fraud squad, yet somehow managed to hold on to the profit when he had to dispose of the property.
Mandelson also employed a legal but highly dubious accounting trick to avoid having to pay the full whack of stamp duty on another home. Since then he has slithered his way up the property ladder and is currently residing in an £8 million pad next to London's Regent's Park. Quite a journey for a man who, when Labour went into government in 1997, was living in a one-bedroom flat.
The source of his wealth is shrouded in mystery, since his income is shielded by a corporate structure and, until next March when this loophole is closed, does not have to be revealed in the House of Lords Members' Register of Interests.
Secret loan: Financial arrangements between Mandelson and Geoffrey Robinson (right) caused controversy
Eyebrows were raised when he bought a previous house for £2.4 million while still a European Commissioner on a comfortable, but not wildly extravagant, civil servant's salary.
Mandelson attempted to explain away where he had got the money from, but even back-of-the-envelope calculations didn't add up.
We do know that he seems to spend a considerable amount of time bog-snorkelling his way around the murky financial waters of former Soviet states.
He has interests in oil-rich Kazakhstan, for instance, and was introduced to the world of high finance by his close friend Nat Rothschild, of 'Yachtgate' fame. He has also worked for Lazards as an 'adviser' for a reported fee of £1 million a year.
Now he has been made chairman of Lazard International with a remit to reconcile 'the financial with the ethical'. It would take a heart of stone not to laugh.
I can't think of anyone who has had dealings with Mandelson at Westminster who would describe him as 'ethical'. His political stock in trade has always been dissembling, distortion and downright dishonesty.
Shamefully, he was indulged by some of the Boys in the Bubble who were happy to be spoon-fed his self-aggrandising fairy tales.
My first encounter with Mandelson was on the day he became Labour's press officer a quarter of a century ago. He lied to me and then attempted to bully me out of reporting the truth.
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You will not be surprised to discover that he didn't succeed and will understand why I haven't trusted a single word he has said since.
After a lucrative exile in Europe, he was elevated to the peerage and brought back into government by an increasingly desperate Gordon Brown, who had previously given every impression of despising him. Frankly, I have never understood why anyone would give him house room.
The New Labour years were the grubbiest in modern Parliamentary democracy, culminating in the routine abuses of expenses by members of all parties. Mandelson, like Tony Blair, epitomises a generation of politicians who have used public office as a springboard to personal advancement and financial gain.
They have wrapped themselves in ermine and filled their boots to the max.
Whatever the cost of last week's police commissioner elections, it was worth it just to see entitlement junkie 'Lord' Two Jags get his well-deserved come-uppance.
It's hardly surprising that turn-out is so woeful when voters see so many politicians playing the system purely for their own enrichment.
I can see what's in this new job for Mandelson, but what's in it for Lazard? He is forbidden from lobbying ministers and civil servants in Britain.
Mind you, Peter Mandelson: Merchant Banker is a headline I'd pay to read. Let's hope Tom Lehrer would have appreciated it, too.
We don't hear an awful lot about 'joined up' government these days. That's probably because one half of Whitehall appears not to know what the other half is doing.
A few weeks ago, the news was all about a plan to cull 100,000 badgers to stop them spreading bovine tuberculosis. That was put on hold after protests from animal rights activists, but ministers insist it will go ahead next year.
Meanwhile, another department is spending £2 billion of taxpayers' money to save the lives of the 50,000 badgers who are said to be killed every year crossing the road.
Transport Secretary Patrick McLoughlin said: 'We are investing in 14 managed motorway schemes across the country. We will build boxes for bats and tunnels for badgers.'
Fifteen tunnels have already been constructed as part of a dual-carriageway project on the A46 in the East Midlands.
A couple of years ago, I brought you news of a special bridge for dormice that had been slung across a bypass near Pontypridd at a cost of almost £200,000.
I remarked then that any society which can be bothered to worry about the impact a new road would have on dormice can't be all bad. But there are limits.
Britain is supposed to be broke. Can we really afford to blow £2 billion on tunnels for badgers? Maybe it would be cheaper to hire a few extra lollipop ladies to help badgers negotiate the traffic on the A46.
Since we are planning to kill 100,000 badgers anyway, why not cut out the middle man and let them take their chances?
It does seem a bit daft sending out hunters to shoot badgers while at the same time spending a small fortune to help them make a safe getaway.
Mind how you go, Sausage
Plenty of reaction to last Friday's Mind How You Go Awards, especially from former cops despairing at what The Job has become.
But I fear I may have jumped the gun in provisionally nominating for this year's coveted title the Hartlepool Plod who called out a helicopter to tackle a scarecrow in a hi-viz jacket he had confused with a scrap metal thief.
In South London, an entire neighbourhood police team has been sacked after the officers were caught playing cards, board games and cleaning golf clubs when they should have been patrolling the streets.
And from Glasgow over the weekend came news that a man has been charged with feeding a sausage roll to a police horse.
Francis Kelly, 41, thought the animal 'looked hungry', but has been accused of acting 'aggressively' and committing a breach of the peace.
This case appears to be right up there with the Oxford student who spent a night in the cells after asking a mounted policeman if his horse was 'gay'.
Mr Kelly is due in court soon. I wonder if the horse will be called to give evidence.
My attention perked up when I read the headline in a Sunday paper: Parliament may close for five years.
Sounds like a great idea, I thought. Britain works perfectly well when Parliament is in recess.
Missing you already.
Then I realised that the story referred merely to a temporary relocation of MPs while the House is refurbished.
Have they considered the Outer Hebrides?
Intolerance of tolerance
For the record, I've no strong feelings one way or the other about gay marriage. This column has always supported civil partnerships, even when it wasn't fashionable.
But I do object to self-styled 'liberals' who announce that the matter is 'settled' and seek to persecute those who give voice to their reservations.
Last week there was the deeply religious housing manager demoted for posting on Facebook his sincere opposition to same-sex church marriages. Now we learn that primary school teachers who refuse to promote gay marriage will be sacked.
It is always the case that those who shout loudest about 'tolerance' are among the most viciously bigoted towards those who don't share their beliefs.
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Betty Clay Powell, 65, of Fredericksburg passed away Sunday, July 20, 2014, at Mary Washington Hospital.
Mrs. Powell was a member of Salem Baptist Church. She retired from the Naval Surface Warfare Center in Dahlgren after 31 years of service. She was a recent past president of Mary Ball Woman's Club, Fredericksburg Chapter, and past board member of Maranatha Music Ministries. She was an avid traveler and a devoted wife, mother and grandmother.
Survivors include her husband, Joseph G. Powell Jr. of Fredericksburg; sons Scott Powell and wife Barbara of Fredericksburg and Eric Powell and wife Paula of Dublin, Ohio; brother Jerry Clay and wife Diana of Richmond; grandchildren Christian, Andrew, Connor and Kathryn; and several nieces, nephews and cousins. She was preceded in death by her parents, Gerald and Betty Clay.
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On this day, back in 1894, our forebears made what was arguably one of the greatest mistakes in history.
November the 6th is the day that Long Island City and the rest of what is now known as Queens voted to give up their sovereign rights as independent municipal entities to join with Manhattan and the Bronx, Staten Island, and the City of Brooklyn to form the City of Greater New York. An enormous section of Queens just stayed out of the whole thing, and became Nassau County. The whole consolidation effort was run out of Tammany Hall over in Manhattan. It was Dick Croker and JJ Byrne's personal project, and it all became official in 1898 when our modern five boroughs were established.
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At the election held November 6, 1894, the question of consolidating with the City of New York was voted upon by the residents of Queens County. The majority of votes in favor came from the Long Island City section whose inhabitants, because of their proximity to New York, had been in favor of the project for many years. The western part of the county therefore became part of the City of New York, and is known as Queens Borough; while the eastern part of the county was erected into a separate county, known as Nassau, taking its name from the early name for Long Island.


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Following the release of a recent survey found that more than three-fourths of Americans fear that E15 fuel (15% ethanol by volume) may damage car engines and fuel system components, the American Motorcyclist Association has responded by supporting U.S. Rep. Bob Goodlatte's (R-Va.) H.R. 1462, the RFS Reform Act of 2013. This new legislation would help protect the 22 million motorcycle and ATVs in the country – and the riders who depend on their safe operation – from inadvertent mis-fueling. Also, more than two-thirds of those surveyed believe that using more corn for ethanol production could force up food prices, the AMA said.
In October 2010, the EPA approved E15 for use in model year 2007 and newer light duty vehicles (cars, light-duty trucks, and medium-duty passenger vehicles). In January 2011, it added model year 2001-2006 light duty vehicles to the approved list. This new legislation would help protect the 22 million motorcycle and ATVs in the country – and the riders who depend on their safe operation – from inadvertent mis-fueling.
E15 is not approved for use in any motorcycles, all-terrain vehicles, boats, lawn mowers and other small engines. Since 2011, the AMA has repeatedly expressed concerns to government officials and federal lawmakers about possible damage to the estimated 22 million motorcycles and ATVs currently in use by the inadvertent use of E15, which is now becoming available at gas stations.
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"The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel" is a retirement destination in India for "the elderly and beautiful." It has seen better days, and if you want to see what the better days looked like, just examine the brochure, which depicts a luxurious existence in Jaipur, a popular tourist destination in Rajasthan. To this city travel a group of seven Brits with seven reasons for making the move — although the most urgent is that the local prices make retirement possible for them.
As we meet them jammed on the bus from the airport, we suspect that the film will be about their various problems and that the hotel will not be as advertised. What we may not expect is what a charming, funny and heartwarming movie this is, a smoothly crafted entertainment that makes good use of seven superb veterans.
We're introduced to them while they're still at home in England. In the order of their billing, they are Evelyn Greenslade (Judi Dench), who has been forced to sell her London flat; the sniffy Muriel Donnelly (Maggie Smith), who doesn't like foreigners but requires a cheap hip replacement; Douglas and Jean Ainslie (Bill Nighy and Penelope Wilton), who are not merely unhappily married but have lost a bundle on their daughter's Internet company; Graham Dashwood (Tom Wilkinson), who spent the happiest years of his life in India and has now returned to seek his young love; Madge Hardcastle (Celia Imrie), who is open to the possibility of finding a husband, and Norman Cousins (Ronald Pickup), who is open to the possibility of finding a one-night stand.
Greeting them at Best Exotic Marigold Hotel is its exuberant and optimistic owner, Sonny Kapoor (Dev Patel from "Slumdog Millionaire"). He's inherited the shabby inn from his late father and plans to run it himself, against the objections of his mother, who wants him to live with her in Delhi and marry the bride of her choice. Sonny already has a bride picked out: Sunaina, who works in a call-outsourcing agency — the film's nudge that the West has not only outsourced many of its jobs to India, but is now outsourcing many of its senior citizens.
How can I suggest what a delight this film is? Let me try a little shorthand. Recall some of the wonderful performances you've seen from Judi Dench, Maggie Smith, Tom Wilkinson, Bill Nighy and the others, and believe me when I say that this movie finds rich opportunities for all of them. Director John Madden ("Shakespeare in Love") has to juggle to keep his subplots in the air, but these actors are so distinctive, they do much of the work for him.
Graham is the most affecting character. Reared and educated in India, he moved with his parents to England, leaving love, regret and guilt behind. His character is instinctively open to India and wanders off on daily secret missions, which excite the curiosity of the others and may involve no more than sharing cricket tips with street kids.
Muriel is at the other end of the scale. She dislikes India and indeed anyplace that is not England, and refuses to eat any food she cannot pronounce. Awaiting her affordable hip replacement, she notices a low-caste girl who is sweeping the hotel and gives her a hint. Smith, we discover, spent her entire life in service, raising the children of others, and now in retirement, there is no one to take care of her.
Evelyn apparently spent most of her life having her husband settle all important questions, something to regret after he dies and she finds herself broke. She focuses on young Sonny, his struggle with his mother and his optimistic plans to renovate the hotel. A good start might be chasing the pigeons from the rooms.
The story is light-footed and cheerful for the most part, especially when Evelyn does job-hunting and the romance-seekers experiment with online dating services. Still, there's a fair amount of humanity in the screenplay by Ol Parker, based on the novel These Foolish Things by Deborah Moggach. Events move along so engagingly that they sneak up on a few surprisingly touching developments, especially the payoff of Graham's story.
India itself is a supporting character. People in other places begin to seem standardized in contrast with the brash eccentricities here, and you might wonder if Dev Patel, as the hotel owner, possibly learned his job by watching reruns of "Fawlty Towers." Let us suggest that if you were an aging Brit with a limited income and you moved into the Best Exotic Marigold Hotel, you could have done a lot worse.
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Sending another 300 is currently under consideration. What follows is a timeline of how we reached this point in Iraq, beginning with the fall of Mosul. What were then ISIS jihadists overtook the city of Mosul on June 10. Breibart News reported that ISIS followed the victory with the declaration of a new state – the Islamic State – out of captured Iraqi and Syrian territories. They also shortened their name to the Islamic State from the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS). The formation of the new state was then followed by the execution of clerics in Mosul whose views were too "moderate" – i.e. clerics who would not pledge allegiance to the Islamic State. Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi was named chief of the Islamic State and took the title Caliph Ibrahim. A two-week Islamic State offensive followed the fall of Mosul and resulted in the capture of the northern city of Tal Afar and an airport on June 23. The push into northern Iraq continued. 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They drove these women out of the city in trucks but killed the older women, dumping their bodies in the streets. Reuters reported the woman would be used as "slaves." On August 6 the UK Independent reported that IS militants had "trapped thousands" of Yazidis on Mt. Sinjar. The members of Iraq's religious minority were faced with a frightening choice: stay on the mountain and starve to death – or die of thirst – or descend the mountain where IS militants waited to slaughter them. On August 9 airstrikes began, targeting militants who were shooting at Yazidis. The Guardian reported that the strikes allowed approximately 30,000 of those who were trapped to escape and flee to Syria, whence they were "escorted back into Iraqi Kurdistan by Kurdish forces." 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"A rose by any other name would smell as sweet," says Shakespeare's Juliet, affirming her contention that names are less important than substance.
A number of firms have changed their names – some of them quite well known.
Before it was Xerox (NYSE: XRX [FREE Stock Trend Analysis]), it was Haloid. Would sales have plummeted if office managers had tried to install Haloid copy machines?
Target (NYSE: TGT) began as the Dayton Dry Goods Company. Everybody knows the target red dot but what would the logo have looked like under the original name?
Speaking of rolling off the tongue, would investors have shown as much interest in Jerry and David's Guide to the World Wide Web as they have to what is now Yahoo! (NASDAQ: YHOO)?
With Research in Motion (NASDAQ: RIMM), now BlackBerry (NASDAQ: BBRY), maybe it will be a story like Target or Yahoo, but Wall Street didn't watch Wednesday's unveiling looking for a name change. They wanted to see a product that changed the smartphone landscape.
As Breakout suggests, Research in Motion needs more than a name change. What it needs is for at least a third of its existing 80 million user base to migrate to the new BlackBerry 10 platform, according to Eric Jackson of Ironfire Capital. If it happens, the company could earn $4 to $5 per share next year. It also needs to bring users that migrated to an IPhone or Android back to its ecosystem.
The problem emerging from early reviews of Wednesday's event is that CEO Thorsten Heins called it an "entirely new mobile experience" but it's far from that. CNET called the new OS "pretty good" but in a market where huge innovation is the only way to get consumers' attention, "pretty good" often equals failure. Even Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) is under scrutiny for its lack of giant-sized innovation with its IPhone 5.
As for the new Blackbery Z10 and new OS, Walt Mossberg, of All Things D tested the new BlackBerry Z10 and says he decided to approach it, not as another BlackBerry, but as a new product from a new company.
Mossberg found it a work in progress, saying he likes the way BlackBerry has designed its new virtual keyboard and camera, and the way it gathers all your messages into a single Hub.
He says, however, that it will have a fraction of the apps available from its iPhone and Android competitors, and is missing some very popular titles. Mossberg also bemoans the lack of a cloud-based ecosystem for storing and sharing files, like Apple's iCloud or Google Drive.
Name change or new product, so far the street's reaction has been less than enthusiastic, to say the least. Research In Motion, now BlackBerry, closed the day Wednesday at $13.78, down $1.88 or 12 percent. To be fair Apple often experiences "sell the news" price action after a big announcement but not 12 percent. Investors clearly wanted more than a new ticker symbol.
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Clint Eastwood's J. Edgar is a portrait of the ultimate bureaucrat. John Edgar Hoover, head of the Federal Bureau of Investigation for nearly 50 years, made it his business to know everybody else's business, by hook or (more often) by crook.
His story hinges on a major irony: the man who raided others' privacy, to the point of eavesdropping on the Kennedys and sending anonymous crank mail to Martin Luther King, was terrified of letting slip his own secret life. As scripted by Dustin Lance Black, an Oscar-winner for Milk, Hoover was a repressed homosexual who took to heart his adored mother's warning – "I'd rather have a dead son than a daffodil for a son" – yet managed to brazen out a lifelong companionship with his second-in-command, Clyde Tolson. Truman Capote called the pair "Johnny and Clyde".
It sounds like a juicily conflicted life, and yet it makes for a deadly drama. Eastwood hopscotches back and forth through time, between Hoover's rise to prominence in the 1930s and his twilight reign in the 1960s, but for all its fairness – Hoover pioneered fingerprinting as a forensic technique – the directorial viewpoint remains oddly neutral. Leonardo DiCaprio in the title role struggles with the noncommittal attitude, unsure whether to play self-tormented or to go for the full-blown monster of legend. Our first sight of Hoover as an old man, caked in prosthetics with the bulge-eyed look of a constipated frog, takes some getting used to, as does the quavery bad-actor voice that narrates throughout.
The virulent anti-communism and control-freak tendencies are always to the fore; what's missing is that spark of manipulative cunning that made his name so feared in mid-century America. Nothing Hoover does here feels truly surprising, or almost nothing. I knew that he was inclined to dress in women's clothes – I didn't realise they were his mother's. (Like Norman Bates in Psycho; some reckon the resemblance didn't end there.)
It is incendiary material of a sort, though to non-American audiences its appeal will be limited: who needs a 137-minute study of a desk job? Eastwood and his cinematographer, Tom Stern, shoot it in austere brown tones, and bury it in shadow to emphasise the dark arts Hoover made his obsession. The film dabbles in self-justification, with the boss reciting his memoirs to various Boswellian amanuenses and gilding his own crimebuster past in the process. And still the material never comes to life, marooned somewhere between myth and gossip (did he really fire an employee because he disliked his moustache?).
Two performances catch the eye amid the lugubrious duns and blues. Naomi Watts is excellent in the early scenes as Helen Gandy, the watchful woman who turned down Hoover's marriage proposal, and instead became his loyal secretary and chief keeper of secrets. Armie Hammer is touching as the not-so-straight-arrow Clyde Tolson, urbane, sensitive and quietly adoring of the man whose love would dare not speak its name. Let down by the make-up department, which turns his liver-spotted dotage into a Borg from Star Trek, Hammer still conveys a strong pathos in the final stretch.
Where Eastwood's Mandela biopic, Invictus, was too much in awe of its subject, J. Edgar feels too guarded and selective. No attempt is made to explain why Hoover failed to tackle organised crime. The boss, running to fat, is twice assured that he's only carrying "solid weight", which fairly describes the film. It just squats there, heavy and implacable, filling the screen without convincing us it has any vital message to impart.
Another infamous American is at the centre of W.E., Madonna's vanity-project valentine to Wallis Simpson, the divorcee who sparked a constitutional crisis in 1936 after she ensnared the heart of Edward VIII. The script's line is that the lady was more sinned against than sinning, that contrary to the official version she was helpless to resist the besotted royal. Ignore the couple's blithe espousal of the Nazis – the film certainly does – and you have a scandalous romance for the ages, distinguished in part by Andrea Riseborough's admirable turn as the social-climbing Wallis, poised in the regal presence when most were scared stiff. James D'Arcy isn't so assured as the king, wearing the dandy-ish duds pretty well but not quite the air of the spoilt playboy.
What drives the movie over the cliff is Madonna's nutty decision to interleave the Wallis-Edward crisis with the fictional story of Wally Winthrop (Abbie Cornish), a socialite unhappily married in 1998 Manhattan and injecting herself with fertility drugs. Wally keeps visiting the Sotheby auction of Wallis's personal treasures, poring over clothes, trinkets and furnishings like some fetishist stalker. Later, she communes with the ghost of Wallis as she wonders what it might be like for a man to sacrifice himself for love. As if that weren't enough, a security guard named Evgeny (Oscar Isaac) allows Wally to roam free through the sale exhibits after-hours and revel in the fabulousness of her heroine's taste. It transpires that Evgeny is a widower, pianist and good guy who lives in an enormous cool loft: possibly Madonna doesn't know that most people can't afford vast apartments in Manhattan, least of all low-paid menials.
The two stories don't resonate or comment on each other, they're just mashed together, boringly, fatuously. There may be an unacknowledged layer of meaning in the title, W.E. referring to Wallis and Edward's twinned destinies but also hinting at Madonna's identification (WE two) with a sexy and supposedly misunderstood American interloper. She's welcome to think that. It only becomes a problem when she tries to impose her own warped reading of history, such as the scene where Wallis dances with a Masai tribesman to the Sex Pistols' "Pretty Vacant". Did she think this was a great joke? A daring anachronism? I fear she has only made herself look a bit of a wally.
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'I'd always heard about Dubai as this place of wealth and luxury where everyone whips about in sports cars – in fact, it was the charm of the sports car that got me on the plane. I've been in Dubai for 11 years now. When the Royal Mirage was starting up I was offered a job to help with the opening.
'It's tremendously different from South Africa here. It doesn't have the greenery and the nature that SA offers. In SA, when you go from one city to another you're in a whole different environment. Unfortunately, because the UAE is smaller, it's not as easy to experience such diversity. Having said that, you have the desert less than an hour's drive away – it's practically on your doorstep!
'Personally, I feel like Dubai offers an easy life. For me it's pretty stress-free and the set-up is easier than it would be in other countries. The entertainment is great: you can step out for dinner, catch a movie, watch sports – it's all very laidback. Although I do wish there were more sporting facilities. Of course, sometimes I wish I felt more at home. I do like going for dinner at The Meat Company, a SA chain. There's also a pretty strong SA theme at the Grand Grill. And it's always good to have an African-style barbecue.
'I think I'll stay here for at least another five years. I recently started a business and I'd like to stick around and see how things progress. I do still feel homesick at times, especially when watching sporting events in SA. But I visit home about twice a year; it's important to stay connected with your roots.'
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do i take it that, the original garden was on somebody's property? i am a bit confused. it was a very nice garden, i must admit.
its one of the major problems us urban gardeners face. i have two neighbours who live in a block of flat with no gardens but about a dozen odd cats. i try as much as possible to cover all bare ground with plants. during the winter months, its futile, so every few days i go into the garden and pick all the stuff and lob them over the fence. i am always chasing them, so as soon as they see me they run off, but they still come back in the night or when noone is around. i have tried all manner of products which only work for a few days, so i dont waste money on any products, but use the cash on new plants instead. these bleeding urban cats are a pain in the backside. lol
i have a little mouse as well. i grew a whole seed tray of seedlings which were doing fine, but within a few days the whole lot was eaten. so beware seedlings and mice dont mix. lol
the stored tubers are quick off the mark because they are normally started off indoors which is a lot warmer but the ones in the ground take a bit longer for the ground to warm up before they start off, but eventually they do catch up. the problem with seeds, is u never know what colour u are going to get. the colour could be something u dont want or it might not fit in with the colour scheme of what u want to achieve.
I am wondering, when is the best time to mulch , autumn or spring? what are the advantages of one against the other? any advice will be appreciated. thanks
looks like finished flower heads from the picture. just cut them off, keep the plants well watered and give it liquid feed once a week and u should get flowers till the first frost. good luck.
its ironic how we struggle and fuss over growingcertain plants in our gardens, and at times u go out on the trains and country walks and these same plants grow happily on railway verges without a care in the world. i travel between london bridge and east croydon often, and just before u arrive at east croydon ( on the slow line) there are loads of lupins standing tall among all the brambles and weeds. it always brings a cheer to my face. i guess, its nature trying to tell me it can do it better and in a spectacular way too. lol
hmm, i hate forget me nots and the annual poppies. they spread everywhere. the bees love the poppies. i dont mind the bees feeding on the poppies, but they can get very huge overnite and crowd every other plant in their way. my favourites though are sweet peas and lilies, that is, if i can get the lily beetles away from them.
they do. They just bite bits of it to taste first. if its not tasty they move on to something else. the tip of my dianthus has just been bitten off cleanly but was not eaten. i suppose the snail spat it out and shouted "yuk" that tastes awful. lol
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"We have been purchasing our Christmas cards from Tiny Prints for years and this is definitely one of my favorites! Simple but elegant, and we chose Signature Matte and the print quality was excellent (photo from professional photographer). We opted to stick with the regular square corners, and card is still beautiful! Thank you, Tiny Prints!"
"The card is modern and well designed. It looks good on the pearlized paper. Be careful to make sure the photo is not too dark as the word "joyous" will not be as visible."
"I loved the option for personalization of this Christmas card with color, text & images. The quality of the paper and printing is incredible and it arrived on time. Very easy to customize your card with the software tinyprints uses."
"I wanted a simple card that would highlight the photo I chose. This one is perfect. I chose the rounded edges rather than the one displayed. Tiny prints comes through again!"
"We used this as a way to get most of our family a picture of our new baby girl. It is a super lovely layout since the majority of the space is used on your picture! The sparkle text is super pretty, the very last line of text is small, and hard to read. Overall, we loved this card!"