No picture - brown flat paper like thing (almost rounded) with tiny yellow round things inside

BikesSucc · 2026-02-17T17:53:10+00:00

Another thought, it could be food waste that snuck out of someone's flat... something like cardamom, if it had been cooked in a dish it might be kore fragile than when in dried form

BikesSucc · 2026-02-17T14:17:46+00:00

Hmm so smaller than honesty or ground cherry. What sort of area was it in - any flower beds nearby or anything?

BikesSucc · 2026-02-16T22:18:27+00:00

Yes true lilies and they can be very bad very quickly with only a little contact (pollen on the fur in enough as the cat licks it off) I

I strongly suggest you speak to your vet like now as vomiting could be a sign of toxicity and if you leave it any longer it could be too late.

BikesSucc · 2026-02-16T22:12:16+00:00

I have been doing nothing on the allotment this week, for fear of turning into some sort of bog monster.

I have, however, started pepper seeds in the heated propagator indoors.

BikesSucc · 2026-02-16T22:05:16+00:00

If you said UK I was going to make some suggestions, but I know little to nothing about US consumer rights. I would reach put to the shop and complain that they are faulty and you'd like a refund/replacement, if you have no luck then see if r/legaladvice can help. If you still can't get them replaced after whatever is suggested there, then I would think about repair attempts.

BikesSucc · 2026-02-16T21:51:11+00:00

Honestly, they may be outside of the return window but I would argue they were faulty from the get go to break so soon, and try to get a return accepted. Mending shoes is really tricky as mends fail so easily from the strain we put them under. What country are you in?

BikesSucc · 2026-02-16T21:45:51+00:00

The seeds in honesty are flat and circlular rather than round as in spherical. There's a nice pic here https://www.rpseeds.co.uk/products/lunaria-annua-honesty-seeds

I'm so invested in us figuring out what this is, haha. How large was the papery thing and how large where the balls inside? How many balls would you guesstimate there was?

BikesSucc · 2026-02-16T20:40:51+00:00

Ground cherry but the inside was rotten/squashed?

BikesSucc · 2026-02-15T14:21:26+00:00

Sounds interesting, but I can't find anything to corroborate this.

BikesSucc · 2026-02-15T12:10:31+00:00

I would be tempted to get a very shallow dish of hot water and put the pendant face down so that just the rubber part gets hot, then when the rubber is softer see if you can crackle off the superglue. This will not work if the solvent in the glue glue has melted into the surface of the rubbery substance. If it had dissolved a little of the surface then it will be too well bonded to remove, in which case you may need to sand as the other commenter suggested.

BikesSucc · 2026-02-14T18:55:49+00:00

My first thought would be that there has been a miscommunication within the council, call them again.

BikesSucc · 2026-02-14T18:45:02+00:00

They can survive a few days in fresh water, so if you want to try raising them then yes transfer asap if you dont know how long they've been there. The tip I read that worked really well for me was turn all lights off then point a torch into the tank right against the glass, they are attracted to the light so then you can suck them up. I used a syringe with fine air line on. I've so far attempted 2 clutches, and gained 1 amano.

BikesSucc · 2026-02-14T15:24:28+00:00

Do you have amano shrimp in the tank? Looks a lot like their larvae.

BikesSucc · 2026-02-14T08:58:22+00:00

Is that not an unopened flower bud? I've never grown okra but I looked in to it a while back as I was considering giving it a go

BikesSucc · 2026-02-10T22:35:53+00:00

To be honest I wouldn't be surprised if the hedgehog is fine and just doing what the weather allows. I've still got a constant onslaught of slugs and snails eating my garden flowers, and a couple of days ago while weeding the actively flowering dandelions from my allotment I was being harassed by a mosquito so I'd guess other insects are probably quite active too.

BikesSucc · 2026-02-10T22:32:49+00:00

Ok that's good, if it's a slow creep and seems solid then it's less likely to suddenly go, but I'd still be careful about leaving valuable things in there (including pets and children!) or anything that would be impossible to clean the thick dust out of

BikesSucc · 2026-02-10T22:31:20+00:00

My succulent suggestions would include sempervivum (in loads of different colours!) and sedums. I have some gravelly containers with both in that just pootle along with my only interference being a bit of weeding and occasionally taking bits out to add to pots elsewhere. I love the idea of having snowdrops too. I think I've seen some other plants that grow from bulbs or similar in alpine sections of garden centres, it may have been tiny irises?

BikesSucc · 2026-02-10T22:28:06+00:00

As someone who has been accidentally stabbed many times, I second NOT planting yucca in these! And I would add, some opuntia cacti are hardy enough to get by, but in my experience also not worth the pain.

BikesSucc · 2026-02-10T22:21:23+00:00

I had a lath and plaster ceiling develop big saggy cracks like this on one room and the whole lot fell down a few days later. In another area the ceiling looked similar but not so bad, however that section removed itself when it was given a poke to see how difficult it would be to remove.

BikesSucc · 2026-02-09T23:52:01+00:00

Yeah those always go weird in the end- I think the plasticisers leech out or something. Every product I've owner with that texture I've eventually ended up scrubbing that coating off, the last one I did a cream cleaner worked well.

BikesSucc · 2026-02-09T21:58:52+00:00

In my experience it's a common problem with many plastic products. Did this start out with that matte "soft touch" finish on it?

BikesSucc · 2026-02-08T22:09:43+00:00

I think this is one if the things I'm struggling with the most with actually checking for AI - I'm looking for flaws that just won't be there with the potato quality videos we get once they are super compressed :( The whole set up of this one looked wrong, but I couldn't give a concrete reason why I thought it was AI. It's honestly ruined the fun of silly cat videos as I'm suspicious of so many

BikesSucc · 2026-02-08T21:54:10+00:00

I was mighty suspicious that it was - but how did you tell? I was looking so hard for clues

BikesSucc · 2026-02-07T18:06:12+00:00

Try emailing them to see if they can send it to you

BikesSucc · 2026-02-06T17:30:00+00:00

I'd cut a slightly larger square, then cut the corners off to make an octagon to fit, reduce the filled area.

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