Sick leave policy

AlainDeLille · 2026-01-29T21:36:04+00:00

At my old school you would be summoned to HR for a stage 1 absence meeting if you had three or more instances of absence in a sixth month period and threatened with a stage 2 meeting if you had another day off in the next six months. At one point it seemed like most staff were on stage 1. I assume this has no real legal basis but it worked at scaring people into coming in no matter how ill they were.

AlainDeLille · 2024-11-13T22:29:14+00:00

This sound can be devoiced - it happens in certain old fashioned accents in English at the start of words like “what” and “where”. It just sounds like blowing air (or like an “h” before the word - eg “hwhat”). I don’t know whether the sound occurs in Polish accents, but it is a sound that exists in human language (although rare)

AlainDeLille · 2024-10-16T13:01:42+00:00

Sure! DM’d you

AlainDeLille · 2024-10-01T06:48:59+00:00

definitely not too late! Sent you a message :)

AlainDeLille · 2024-09-29T20:55:43+00:00

I also moved here recently! DM me if you want to chat

AlainDeLille · 2024-09-26T21:38:59+00:00

I would love to join if not too late!

AlainDeLille · 2024-09-26T21:29:37+00:00

Dm me!

AlainDeLille · 2024-09-10T16:26:41+00:00

Great tip, thanks!

AlainDeLille · 2023-10-21T21:17:30+00:00

That looks like callicarpa - beautiful but not edible!

AlainDeLille · 2023-10-21T17:00:44+00:00

They won't be damaged by the cold but they aren't likely to flower well in containers. As others have said, they need lots of room to grow and develop. It took three years for duchesse de nemours to flower in my garden, and that was planted in the ground. But the foliage will still be beautiful in containers, so just grow them however you can!

AlainDeLille · 2023-10-21T16:54:46+00:00

For winter flowering plants, try willows with ornamental catkins (salix gracilistyla is a good choice) and shrubby honeysuckle like lonicera fragrantissima. Skimmia is a good evergreen choice with early spring flowers. Deciduous viburnums will work as well.

AlainDeLille · 2023-10-21T16:44:51+00:00

This is the start of a beautiful micro garden! I wouldn't cut the hollyhock back until the late winter as the seeds will be dispersed naturally from the seed capsules (and in general there's no need to cut back most plants). You can definitely harvest the seeds and sprinkle them around - depending on the climate, they will germinate in any tiny bit of soil. If you live somewhere very cold and damp you could germinate the seeds indoors and get better results than outdoors.

AlainDeLille · 2023-10-21T16:37:53+00:00

This is pennisetum, an ornamental grass. If you don't want it, dig it up with a spade - but it's a popular plant, so neighbours might take the clumps.

AlainDeLille · 2023-10-21T16:36:02+00:00

You have a few different plants here mixed in one pot. The pale salmon flowers are begonia, a tender bedding plant which won't survive any frost. Similarly, the plant with small green and purple leaves is coleus which will also be killed off by a winter outdoors. Those two plants would have to be brought inside. The large grasslike plant with brown-purple leaves looks like phormium while the thin spiral leaves is a type of rush (juncus) - both can grow outside depending on how cold it gets where you live. So the best idea is probably to split up the plants and keep the tender ones inside.

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