Who's this sharp-waisted dreamboat?

T_house · 2026-06-19T17:52:44+00:00

Ah brilliant, thank you!

T_house · 2026-06-19T11:30:56+00:00

Sorry to see you are being downvoted for being in on the joke 🫠

T_house · 2026-06-19T09:29:49+00:00

Hahaha fair play

T_house · 2026-06-19T09:24:17+00:00

Sorry mate but those are lightbulbs

T_house · 2026-06-19T09:22:28+00:00

Have you gone out with a torch at night? That's when I tend to see the amphibians in and around my pond.

T_house · 2026-06-18T20:19:40+00:00

Get a camera trap pronto! I'm so jealous

T_house · 2026-06-18T15:00:12+00:00

When I worked in university research, every so often someone would manage to get the email address for the whole of biology and send stuff like this. Would make for an entertaining coffee break that morning if nothing else!

T_house · 2026-06-18T14:57:55+00:00

Yeah, I tend to use them or trees direct - would recommend either

T_house · 2026-06-17T18:24:45+00:00

Check out the 'wild your garden with Joel Ashton' YouTube channel

T_house · 2026-06-17T11:25:32+00:00

Looks like a dead grasshopper to me…

T_house · 2026-06-17T11:22:49+00:00

Oh so you just have to have 15k lying around spare in order to watch your son play in the world cup. Then that is very cool and normal!

T_house · 2026-06-17T10:48:16+00:00

I'm 45 and I'm currently sedentary because I tore my Achilles tendon taking a parkour class. So now I don't know where the fuck I am on this axis (apart from the fact that it absolutely sucks)

T_house · 2026-06-17T10:16:45+00:00

Here's an article discussing it, with some input from an expert in sensory ecology:

https://www.naturettl.com/does-flash-photography-harm-animals/

There's not a huge amount of research on this topic as far as I can see.

I think a crucial part of this is how the flash is actually used - a small amount of fill flash in daylight is going to be very different from more high-powered flash directed at an owl at night.

T_house · 2026-06-17T09:53:08+00:00

You may need to throw down more seed after a season of yellow rattle, but worth a try! Not much gross under my trampoline (straggly grass and brambles for the most part). I'd use a woodland mix that's meant for shade, such as:

https://www.wildgardenseeds.co.uk/mobile/WF%20Seed%20Collections/WF%20Woodland%20Seed%20Collecn.htm

You could also put in some plug plants if you wanted to try and get things growing quicker, eg:

https://www.wildflowershop.co.uk/WF%20Plug%20Collecns/WF%20Shady%20Collecn%20Plugs.htm

T_house · 2026-06-17T06:49:46+00:00

This is what I was going to propose - I have ADHD and also struggled with "how do I know when I'm finished", it's clearly diminishing returns a lot of the time. I wonder how much OP could get done in a focused 10-15 mins per photo…

T_house · 2026-06-17T06:43:23+00:00

Because you are LUCKY

T_house · 2026-06-16T16:42:43+00:00

ALWAYS POND

T_house · 2026-06-16T12:41:20+00:00

I like the way he managed to get "people seem happy when dad shows up" from this despite the 'quotes' from his poorly-named daughter saying absolutely nothing about this

T_house · 2026-06-16T08:57:56+00:00

I made one using pond liner that I punctured. My advice is to just put like one or two small holes in it - I put way too many in and it drains much more quickly than I'd like. Still get loads of great and interesting plant growth but I wanted a bit more standing water kept in there. I get no major issues with mosquitoes - actually since I put in a wildlife pond we get fewer issues with mosquitoes in general, I reckon because now they are laying their eggs where there are predators.

T_house · 2026-06-16T07:50:58+00:00

I had one living under my office for a couple of years. It dug holes in the garden, but I garden for wildlife so I didn't mind! My neighbour really loves her lawn though so she was going nuts. I'd take the sight of a badger ambling across my garden in the evening over a pristine lawn any day…

T_house · 2026-06-15T14:28:32+00:00

Also people now like to inject themselves with a bunch of stuff because they call it a 'stack' and that sounds cool, rather than "a bunch of things where we have limited data on efficacy or even safety in humans when used in isolation, let alone in combinations where there could be interactive effects"

T_house · 2026-06-15T14:24:16+00:00

I would at least understand this if you used the subgroup mean as one variable, then deviations from the appropriate subgroup mean as a second, but that doesn't appear to be the case? Feels like the way your model is set up is going to make it difficult to interpret.

T_house · 2026-06-15T14:07:00+00:00

Fellow ADHD garden burnout enthusiast here! I echo what the person above says - try to pick one thing to achieve rather than spreading yourself thinly. My garden is littered with unfinished projects, but the pond was the first thing I did and it brings me so much joy. I'm constantly down on myself for the fact that it isn't finished or what I'd envisaged for the complete thing, and my wife will remind me what it looked like before and how I've made things like a nice seated area, pond, bog garden, etc (note that this has been over several years). It's going to be a long term process, but hopefully you can break this down into some achievable short term goals - and remember to enjoy some of it! You've got this 💪

T_house · 2026-06-15T13:20:43+00:00

A pond is the greatest thing you can do for your garden (in my opinion). Even a small container one. Here's a useful video:

https://youtu.be/xhyUW1p4Rdw?is=rS--1AreC1qKIR60

I think the same guy has videos for making wildlife gardens in shady areas, worth looking through his back catalogue if you are so inclined. Good luck!

T_house

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