Say goodbye to slugs, snails, mice and badgers

 Posted on April 16, 2024  |  3 minutes  |  541 words  |  Aldo Pusey

James Wong on gardensGardening adviceHere are four good ways to help plants withstand outside attacks – all cheap, easy to apply and natural Plants are amazing things. Tethered to the spot, unable to run or hide from environmental threats, they have instead developed an arsenal of chemical weapons to help shield themselves from the everyday onslaught of the outside world. With a few tips and tricks you can hijack these defence compounds and put them to use with the other plants in your plot to help them withstand almost everything the summer might throw at them. [Read More]

Siberia's forgotten women a photo essay | Russia

 Posted on April 16, 2024  |  4 minutes  |  806 words  |  Valentine Belue

Pudani Audi, born 1948. Photograph: Oded WagensteinPhotographer Oded Wagenstein visited a remote community in the depths of Siberia to discover the impact of ageing and isolation on the elder tribal women by Oded WagensteinIn a remote peninsula in northern Siberia lives a group of elderly women. They were once part of a migrating community of reindeer herders but today, in their old age, they spend most of their days in the village of Yar-Sale, cut off from their nomadic relatives and friends. [Read More]

Warriors Draymond Green reinstated by NBA from suspension after 12 games | Golden State Warriors

 Posted on April 16, 2024  |  2 minutes  |  276 words  |  Kary Bruening

Golden State WarriorsWarriors’ Draymond Green reinstated by NBA from suspension after 12 gamesWarriors forward reinstated by NBA from open-ended banGreen has been away from Golden State since 12 DecemberDraymond Green was reinstated by the NBA from his suspension on Saturday after the Golden State star missed 12 games for hitting Phoenix center Jusuf Nurkić in the face on 12 December. The league said Green “demonstrated his commitment to conforming his conduct to standards expected of NBA players” during his suspension, which began on 14 December. [Read More]

Why are the keys on my mobile phone arranged 123 456 789 but the keys on my computer keyboard arrang

 Posted on April 16, 2024  |  2 minutes  |  308 words  |  Aldo Pusey

Categories Nooks and crannies Yesteryear Semantic enigmas The body beautiful Red tape, white lies Speculative science This sceptred isle Root of all evil Ethical conundrums This sporting life Stage and screen Birds and the bees NOOKS AND CRANNIESWhy are the keys on my mobile phone arranged 123 456 789 but the keys on my computer keyboard arranged 789 456 123 ? [Read More]

Clarke Peters: my family values

 Posted on April 15, 2024  |  4 minutes  |  663 words  |  Aldo Pusey

FamilyThe actor and writer talks about how his brother got him his first job in showbusiness, his grief at his young son’s death and why he’s now celibateI grew up in a place I renamed Angel Wood – Englewood, New Jersey. Wonderful artists such as Dizzy Gillespie lived there; and it was one of the first American cities to integrate schools across race, religious and class lines, thanks to parents getting together to demonstrate for it in the late 1950s and early 1960s. [Read More]

Home Office resumes asylum hotel evictions despite freezing weather | Home Office

 Posted on April 15, 2024  |  5 minutes  |  868 words  |  Valentine Belue

Home OfficeHome Office resumes asylum hotel evictions despite freezing weatherExclusive: Sadiq Khan calls refusal to extend three-day pause ‘horrifying’ as local authority cold weather protocols continue The Home Office has been urged to reintroduce a pause on asylum hotel evictions after resuming the practice in recent days, leaving refugees out on the streets in subzero temperatures. In December the Home Office said in a letter seen by the Guardian that it would halt evictions from asylum accommodation for up to three days while severe weather emergency protocol (Swep) was activated by a local authority. [Read More]

Johnny Depp could face 10 years in prison for taking his dogs to Australia | Johnny Depp

 Posted on April 15, 2024  |  2 minutes  |  291 words  |  Kary Bruening

Johnny Depp This article is more than 8 years oldJohnny Depp could face 10 years in prison for taking his dogs to AustraliaThis article is more than 8 years oldThe Oscar-nominated actor has been threatened with a lengthy sentence after failing to declare his pets when flying to the country After illegally bringing his two dogs to Australia, Johnny Depp could face up to 10 years behind bars. The actor, who is currently filming Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales, landed himself in trouble earlier this month when he brought his two Yorkshire terriers to the country on his private jet. [Read More]

Modernist love: stylish 1930s living in the Isokon building

 Posted on April 15, 2024  |  6 minutes  |  1114 words  |  Aldo Pusey

HomesThis design masterpiece in north London was once home to celebrated artists, architects and writers. Meet the man who has made it his dream home Not everyone wanted Tom Broughton to buy the flat he now lives in. The tenant who was there when he viewed it three years ago said, “You don’t want to live here. It’s freezing. It’s mouldy. You can’t hang pictures.” Broughton’s surveyor “strongly recommended” that he didn’t go through with the purchase. [Read More]

My son seems to blame me for his anxiety. How can we reconnect?

 Posted on April 15, 2024  |  5 minutes  |  906 words  |  Kary Bruening

Ask Annalisa BarbieriMental healthYou are trying so hard, but at 22 he needs you to take a step back so he can breathe My 22-year-old son is about to start his third year of a four-year degree course, and he is living at home. He has always been quiet and introverted, but popular. Three years ago, when challenged by one of his sisters as to why he never tells us anything, he confided that he had been suffering from anxiety and feeling worthless. [Read More]

Novelist Jesmyn Ward: Losing my partner almost made me stop writing | Fiction

 Posted on April 15, 2024  |  12 minutes  |  2389 words  |  Aldo Pusey

FictionInterviewNovelist Jesmyn Ward: ‘Losing my partner almost made me stop writing’Emma BrockesWhen the father of her children died suddenly, the US National Book award-winning author’s world fell apart. Three years on, she talks about grief, starting over and how she wrote her searing new novel about slavery Jesmyn Ward is at home in DeLisle, Mississippi, where she grew up, and where she has set much of her fiction. Her two eldest children are at school and her youngest, the care of whom she shares with her new partner, is at home, while she talks to me on Zoom about her fourth novel, Let Us Descend. [Read More]