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Wow, some lovely homes and yards here! I bow before all of you. We have a townhouse in Victoria with a little strip of garden beside...

In my part of the US, gardening is generally considered a subset of yardwork. Gardening might be working in a decorative or vegetable...

Seems reasonable to me!

So, just for clarification and cultural comparison, I would say that in the UK, the word “garden” refers to front/rear/side areas...

Currently living in a flat in Vancouver so thankfully no garden issues, but had a house and garden in the UK for 30 years so yeah...

OTOH while that’s a nice Musk reference that guy isn’t the equivalent of Musk. AB does a great job of noting the problems but doing...

Though there is that great meme / set of panels from Absolute Batman where Bats breaks the racist's arm. If nothing else, it sure...

Assuming this thread is a bit more for general discussion of what we’ve read rather than simply noting what we’ve read, I’d like to drop...

Hmm. It’s Casualty.

This is the most authentic and admirable clinical scene I’ve ever seen. “Yeah, I’ve got boundaries, you should look into that, and so...

Langdon: “We’re short staffed tonight.” Joy: “Damn that’s crazy. Good luck tho.” Langdon: “We could use the extra help.” Joy: “Yeah I...

A Visit to the Husband Archive by Kaliane Bradley is a disturbing and thought-provoking short story, part of the Amazon-exclusive...

I think Re-Up is a streamlined approach to WEG d6. It seems less fiddly to me. It's nice to have so much info at your fingertips. D6...

Also finished When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi, a neurosurgeon who died of lung cancer at the age of 37. The book is short but...

Finished Emily Wilde’s Encyclopaedia of Faerie by Heather Fawcett, which seems to be the first of a trilogy about our eponymous heroine...