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So Judy and I just raised our first Monarch butterflies to adulthood. We were nervous about trying, but then we read that only about 5% of Monarch caterpillars in the wild make it to adulthood. We figured we could do better than that.
via Our First Home Grown Monarch Butterflies — gardeninacity
Most gardeners after about 40 years in the asparagus patch begin to at least consider downsizing. You know, cutting back to only three-quarters of an acre of weeds, fewer disease-plagued rose bushes and compost-pile-death to those ever-needy iris and day lilies. The same with back-yard fountains. Sure, they offer bubbling sounds and elegant gushes of…
via Making Peter Great Again – One Fountain at a Time — Garden Rant
We fell in love with Comida Independente at first sight. It is a new gourmet grocery store in Lisbon that has a selection of food and wines curated by its owner, Rita Santos. The shelfs of the elegant shop are filled with the best of Portugal: wines, olive oil, sausages, canned fish, salt, herbs, spices […]
via Great products from small producers at Comida Independente — Salt of Portugal
The Beers and Brewing exhibition explores pubs and brewing in the past and today. We’ve already written blog posts about the historic Steward and Patteson brewery and the modern Kings Arms Pub. This post is about the two modern breweries in the exhibition. Beeston Brewery Mark Riches started brewing at Beeston Brewery in November 2006. Today he […]
We left Orchard Park in Hull in last week’s post in a bad way, in some ways a typical peripheral estate with what by now seemed the usual problems but in other respects an example writ large in terms of its poor quality design and level of social disadvantage. A further element was introduced by […]
via Orchard Park, Hull, Part II: ‘It’s never had it better than now’ — Municipal Dreams
The Met Office Chief Scientist, Professor Stephen Belcher, appeared on BBC Newsnight on Tuesday evening to talk about current extreme temperatures and climate change. The interviewer Emily Maitlis asked if the current hot temperatures we are seeing can be considered the ‘new normal’. Certainly, there can be no doubt that the summer of 2018 has been […]
via Summer temperature 2018 – the ‘new normal’? — Official blog of the Met Office news team
By the early 1980s, Orchard Park in Hull was described as ‘one of the poorest peripheral estates in Britain’. (1) Anne Power was describing its relative affluence – or lack of it – but for many people her words would also reflect a judgment on the quality of the design and build of the estate. […]
via Orchard Park, Hull, Part I: ‘One of the poorest peripheral estates in Britain’ — Municipal Dreams
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