it is small and in a tiny pot, it bloomed at Christmas for the first time giving 9 flowers.
Now it is in bloom again and has 4 flowers out and another 8 flower buds.
is this unusual ?

I did a load of washing in my machine including a safari jacket.
In the pocket was a mini torch, which I forgot to remove.

It spent 40 minutes being washed in hot water, tumbled and high spinned.
The torch came out of the pocket and I could see it being tumbled around.

After the wash had finished, I tested the torch and it still worked perfectly !!
Has anybody else mistakenly put articles in their washing machine ?

Have you seen this? Water companies are still releasing raw sewage into rivers more than 1,000 times a day.

It’s absolutely shocking - but there’s a glimmer of hope. The head of Ofwat, the UK’s water regulator, said last week that water company bosses’ pay should be directly linked to the pollution they pump into our rivers. You can bet they’ll start taking sewage pollution a lot more seriously if their paychecks are at stake!

This is a great idea, but it’s not yet reality - and it’ll take a lot of work to stop water companies shooting it down. That’s where we come in! If thousands of us sign an open letter today in support of Ofwat’s suggestion, we’ll show them - and the government - that there’s massive public backing for this.

A huge show of public support right now could give Ofwat the confidence to hold water company bosses to account over sewage pollution. Will you add your name to the open letter today?

https://tinyurl.com/ya5o6ng2

Seems genuine

Saturday Night Football sees the blue halves of Liverpool and Manchester meet. Get your predictions in by 5pm.
Good luck

A. at my local Wilko shop.
A lady in front of me had just paid for some items, when she said to the member of staff, "I've also got this lotto ticket that has won a free lucky dip, how do I claim it".
The staffer asked her where she bought the ticket. The lady said Asda. The staffer said she had to go back to Asda to claim her free ticket.
That is so wrong, you can claim any winning lotto ticket at any retailer. Unless the win is over £500 when you can only claim at bigger shops like Sainsbury or Tesco or the Post Office.
Wilko have done similar before to send customers away. Once telling a customer asking for a refund they had to return to the shop where the item was purchased

it was getting feisty and entertaining me on my way home.

prices going north people queing

Friday night football. Will it be a cakewalk for one team or a hard fought draw. Get your predictions in by 7pm.
Good luck

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/feb/24/kyiv-furious-as-eu-wavers-on-banning-russia-from-swift-payment-system

What a lovely idea

https://www.royalgreenwich.gov.uk/news/article/2025/the_royal_borough_of_greenwich_instates_covid-19_memorial_benches_in_23_parks_and_open_spaces

The wording
“Be still and find me in your heart”
Sit a while and remember those taken too soon by COVID-19

The Queen will be giving medals

https://www.ohmymag.co.uk/uk/queens-platinum-jubilee-will-prince-andrew-and-prince-harry-receive-a-medal_art10506.html

These are privately funded

I've just received my renewal notice, and it has gone up by 27.5% to 76.49. Who do you use, and what do you currently pay?

Tonight's match is the 2nd leg of their round of 32 Europa Conference league tie. Leicester won the 1st leg 4-1. Get your predictions in by 5.15pm.
Good luck

The Ukraine situation may remind us of Berlin and the wall that used to divide the city between the East and the West. But did you know that it's not, however, the only one of its kind. The small village of Mödlareuth was situated on the border of West and East Germany and was divided by a wall until 1989. It earned the nickname "Little Berlin". The effect can be seen by visiting it on Google Maps or Googling images of the town.

https://www.carbonbrief.org/eradicating-extreme-poverty-would-raise-global-emissions-by-less-than-1

Famous as Olive in on the buses and in Eastenders as aunt Sal

https://uk.yahoo.com/news/rats-hold-breath-three-minutes-152817490.html

Just caught up and watched this. It really brings home how bad some people were hit by covid and how very lucky most of us were. I feel lucky just to have minor lung scarring after watching this programme. My best wishes go out to all of the families who are going through the long term impact of it xx

Tonight's match is a Champions League last 16 1st leg tie. Get you predictions in by 7pm.
Good luck

My contract with Talk Talk for broadband and home phone ends soon and I have been trying to arrange a new deal with them or switch to another supplier.
After yards of technical stuff I don't really understand it seems i cannot get the 'normal' landline anymore.
Got to have something called an eero and an engineer come down to drill through the wall to set it up.

Just done battle with my supplier [EDF] over their proposed new DD price.
In the last 6 months I have used £420 so in my mind [perhaps I'm wrong] a year should be £840, Even with the 54% increase predicted this would be £129.36 per year so £107.80 per month.
But they want the new DD to be £136
I have agreed at £110,
Have I got this all wrong ?

https://vm.tiktok.com/ZMLhRyWoJ/

Incredible. It appears she cannot even construct a sentence!

I see our dear mayor was in the north of England, attending sporting jollies, with his wife, while London was being battered by storm Eunice!!. It also transpires that he has received at least £17,000 of tickets for sporting events!!

Ant and Dec do Drag and they say it’ll help the LGBTQ community

https://vm.tiktok.com/ZMLhRYxUy/

What was so different when Danny La Rue or Paul O’Grady did it?

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/newsbeat-60464528

https://news.sky.com/story/ukraine-crisis-putin-recognises-breakaway-regions-in-ukraine-as-independent-bringing-war-a-step-closer-12548265

Tomorrow, you can read the date from left to right, from right to left and upside-down. A palindrome and an ambigram.

There weren't any experts actively supporting this change at the press briefing on today's announcement, I understand. Had the chief medical officer and chief scientific officer supported the change of policy, surely they'd have been speaking up for it.
A number of others have spoken up - but against the change, not for it - in the form of an open letter, which members of the public are invited to sign too. I haven't spotted anyone else posting this yet, so here's the link.
https://openletter.earth/open-letter-from-uk-scientists-and-medics-re-early-end-to-englands-isolation-rules-14a731a1?fbclid=IwAR04QEx21plnePkXAqaUuK9vMEjvjIXpv-y5AOJcmc6p3VDkGVhB2unPH6I

It is still windy here [ the bins have just blown over] and the people over the back of my garden have a big bonfire going, seems wrong to me.

https://www.theguardian.com/news/2022/feb/20/credit-suisse-secrets-leak-unmasks-criminals-fraudsters-corrupt-politicians Wow.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-60465983

Good job it didn't snap off!

https://news.sky.com/story/remi-lindholm-winter-olympian-suffers-unbearably-painful-frozen-penis-after-cross-country-skiing-race-12547898

First the charity run by his daughter Hannah Ingram-Moore tried to pay her a salary of £150,000. That is over 10% of the charity's assets. Basically she award herself that salary. The watchdog stopped her.
The latest is that an extension built onto her house was paid for out of the charity's funds. She made the excuse that her house is also the head office of the charity. The watchdog said the extension is personal living space and should've been paid for with personal funds.

Taken by a friend on her morning walk this morning at Gorleston, Norfolk.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10533519/Royal-charity-spent-98-cash-raised-one-year-paying-just-10-staff-probe-reveals.html?ito=email_share_article-top

10 pm local news reporting people still without electricity hoping to connect by Tuesday. --- adding --- “ for more information tune in to local radio”
I better go out and buy a wind-up one.

Following on from the reports of poor working conditions and pollution relating to cobalt mines in Congo, contaminated drinking water from Indonesia’s largest nickel mines - both for electric vehicle batteries.

https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2022/feb/19/we-are-afraid-erin-brockovich-pollutant-linked-to-global-electric-car-boom?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

National Rail and South Eastern are recommending you do not travel tomorrow due to the weather.

Here's another, very topical and invaluable petition - trying to stop the idiot government from ending free public testing for Covid-19.
Do please sign and share it as widely as possible, ideally before there's any official announcement of the ending of such testing.
https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/593320?fbclid=IwAR0nhn37VJz25-ko8zy4cHiONceYIneVSb8bRtZoQ8ZE6IHzgm-ytHr9smU

Today's Super Sunday match. Get your predictions in by 4pm.
Good luck

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-60284352

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-60439796

Just listening to her talking on BBC radio 2
Does anyone know anything about her?
Seen her on tour?

Good news for a change

https://news.sky.com/story/more-than-220-new-animal-and-plant-species-discovered-in-greater-mekong-wwf-says-12525571

Poor dogs

https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/uk-world-news/heartbreak-13-dogs-electrocuted-power-26273288

Today's Saturday night football. Get your predictions in by 5pm.
Good luck

Have a lovely day