Tidying the Garden and the Return of the Stubborn Snail ...
Tidying up the communal garden has become a bit of an ongoing project. Much more than I thought it would be. I start one task and it dominoes into…
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Border Control: Fixing the Communal Garden with ChatGPT and the Case of the Missing Bin!
I’ve been on holiday, so I haven’t done much gardening for a couple of weeks. Over the weekend, I…
The Reluctant Gardener ...
As yesterday was a fine day, I decided to do a little gardening. The operative word being "little". One of my tasks was to replace the old white ornamental pebbles in the…
Weeding Between the Cracks and My Continual Battle With Blooming Nature
This morning, I went down to our communal garden to do a bit of tidying up. I spent some time pulling up the weeds from between the cracks in the concrete. I bought a little…
New Boots, New Garden Incinerator, and Blackbirds With Moss Throwing Issues
I finally managed to buy some new boots. My old pair had gotten wet so many times, they were now smelling like rotting flesh. I decided to try them out by doing a bit of…
Helping Hands in the Garden
While I was helping a relative with some pruning in her garden, the beautiful Japanese prunus serrulata cherry tree stood out as the centrepiece of the garden. Since I prefer…
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WEEK 3 - The Hive Garden QOTW (Question of the Week) 🌱 🌿
Welcome to Week 3 of the Hive Garden Question! We hope you appreciate the extra ideas for writing on Hive as sometimes writer's block is a killer! So if you're fed up with the…
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Earthquakes frightened people in Bangkok, causing panic and fear.
Last Friday (March 28, 2025) around 1.30 pm local time, strong earthquake tremors rocked buildings and frightened people in Bangkok. I was inside an IT shop with my new laptop as…