I’m gonna lick some mercury laced with cyanide, sprinkled with foxglove seeds. Betcha can’t lick more times than me!

Never mind, it didn’t really matter…

I tried “art with the theme of joy” in an Ecosia search and got a variety of results that looked decent. A search like that should be a good starting point. Take note of the artists that have used that theme and see what else they do. You could follow up by searching for books about what you find. Also, look on art gallery websites etc for what exhibitions are or have been that may cover your theme.

Do you have a local art group (even for people who get together to make art) and ask them?

My California lilac and rosemary are getting all the attention at the moment. There’s still a lot of trees etc in flower at the moment so don’t dispair yet! I expect my green alkanet and viper’s bugloss (when it flowers later) will be busy once the spring moves to summer. Geraniums and salvias too!

Very true! He’s just a gobshite.

If you like bumblebees, get lots of plants in the borage family, they go made for them! Aromatic/culinary herbs are also great.

Last year was an absolute wash out, so wet and grey for so long. It’ll probably be worse again at next year’s count. Hopefully the warm dry weather atm will help a little.

Killing in the Name will still be titled the same but with different lyrics “Thank you, I’ll do what you tell me!”

As some others have said - try to avoid those that could clearly be problematic and I’ll add that the ideal buyer has cash and no chain. Full stop. But they’re a rarity!

Moving house is so stressful you want a buyer who is not going to mess about or pull out last minute, though it’s very difficult to know what they will actually be like. No chain at their end always adds a little comfort in being less likely to fall through.

I couldn’t care less who buys from me and you’re just creating more opportunities for problems by trying to be nice or favouring someone you perceive to be ‘better’. You’ll never truly know them.

Do you do the same selling your car or furniture? I very much doubt it. Same thing here, and some given the money involved.

Talk factually to your viewers is my advice. Don’t try to please, the facts will do the work for you. If it’s not right for them they’ll be more likely to pull out if you manage to twist their arm! Bear in mind, most viewers will be lead around by an estate agent most of the time so give them space and time to amble about a bit too.

As a buyer I don’t care what the seller says. They’ll always be trying to make it sound great, but that’s not necessarily ‘bad’, just biased/selling talk and as a seller you’ll do the same instinctively. I get a survey done and view the house with my wants and needs in mind, something the seller will largely be oblivious to, partially as viewings are more often done with an estate agent rather than owner.

They don’t exist without them though, and it is sometimes necessary to make a point to all companies and their sentient rulers by e.g. boycotting them, forever.

What is this? A fear and loathing… interactive recreation?? ;)

The hidden tracks were the best!

Just leave the bottle on the counter

They used Cat GPT? meow wonder its such a mess, searching out all that catnip and snoozing all day long is hard work!

Thanks for your reply, nice and clearly described for my amateur physicist brain to follow! ;p I’ll reply in full when I’m less tired, but intrigued by your reply about time! In summary I think of it as a way of describing how something changes, rather than time actually existing. I.e. it’s relative to the energy the object has…so is a way of describing how much energy it has. I see you talk about black holes in a reply to someone else and my first thought is - the idea that time slows as your get closer (or is that a popular misconception?) relative to my thinking is that actually the particles are loosing energy, not time actually changing - and therefore would any particles actually catch up with each other as you describe? Let alone be observable to be moving.

And thinking about your last paragraph - are you not simply describing that object A which entered the black hole before object B, is simply is closer to the centre than B at any given ‘time’ which err doesn’t exist. And neither does space come to think of it. Space is the nothingness between something, so also just a way of describing how something changes or interacts with something else. E.g. 2 particles exert a force on each other and move closer together through an exchange of energy - space is simply part of a description of how much of the interaction has been completed, similar to time, hence why they’re thought of together and also as one and the same.

The distance thing is therefore how much force, what force and how strongly a force is being exerted rather than a physical thing.

Which (now a bit of side thought I had half an hour ago!) makes me think that black holes have no centre and the singularity is rather like the surface of a sphere, at which point all matter has no energy left to move - or perhaps its better to describe it that all matter’s energy is now potential energy due to the immense forces at work, a bit like a compressed spring.

Erm ok so I replied a lot in the end! I hope it makes some sense, I could probably ramble on some more but I’d better stop fir now! though I do realise there may be some concepts that I’m ignorant of that could destroy my thinking, so feel free to deconstruct!

So nothing to do with ice or fire then, just some dizzy electrons, gotcha.

I love how everyone goes “it wasn’t chiselled!” and my first thought is, someone probably wrote this for them/recorded it for the court (or ancient equivalent) is the actual issue with the post!

Please explain entanglement and how two particles can be inexplicably connected despite being gajillions of light years apart! Bonus question, do you believe time exists?

Good work and thanks for the update and info :) a good reminder that there’s people out there looking after our communities whilst we doomscroll away! ;)

Classic tune!