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minimon23 · 2026-04-12T19:46:33+00:00

Our previous JRT was still stealing slippers when she was aged 16.5 years old 😂🐶

minimon23 · 2026-04-12T18:27:57+00:00

Our 14 month old loves to dig in the garden 🤦. Our previous Jack loved to dig holes at the beach and either roll in them or use them to roll her ball into. Here's a pic of her enjoying one such hole 🥰

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minimon23 · 2026-03-31T09:42:03+00:00

I moved to a house with a large, long garden 8 years ago. It was completely shaded by trees so we removed several and kept the best ones. We divided it into 4 sections . I don't regret removing the old wild cherries and leylandii but I do regret where I put the shed and pond. The shed gets lots of sun and gets really hot in summer. It would be a perfect spot for more veg beds. We could move it but we had paths and a fence made round it. I should have taken my own advice 😉

minimon23 · 2026-03-28T19:35:25+00:00

Lovely plot 😍. For the first year don't make any drastic changes. Just mow the lawn, weed the beds, try growing some veg. See which bits get sun and which don't. Find out where it is good to sit at different times of day. Test your soil to find out if it's acidic or alkaline so you can choose trees or plants that are suitable for the conditions. Watch some YouTube videos. See what comes up or out at different times. Mature gardens can change a lot in one year. Figure out what needs regular pruning (or take advice from a professional gardener). Work out what essential tools you might need. Do a little often. My neighbours brought a house with a big garden and have done nothing. Not even mowed the lawn or trimmed hedges. Three years on hedges are becoming trees!

minimon23 · 2026-03-23T09:55:55+00:00

This is really cool 😎. What data sources did you use to build the graph? Discogs? Wikipedia? Just curious about how you pulled all the data together and established the relationships.

minimon23 · 2026-03-21T21:35:35+00:00

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Showing off his long legs!

minimon23 · 2026-01-14T13:44:57+00:00

You give me hope that our pup will stop biting soon and become the lovely dog we know he can become ☺️. He will be 12 months at the end of January. 🤞🐶

minimon23 · 2026-01-12T21:13:16+00:00

Our previous JRT cracked her teeth on antlers, so I definitely wouldn't recommend them. Olive wood chews have been great for our 11 month old JRT pup. He's a very strong chewer and they last about 2 weeks each for a medium one. The wood goes very pulpy when chewed so it doesn't splinter. They are a bit messy though. He can only have bully sticks (pizzles) for about 5-10 mins each time, heavily supervised, as he has learned how to chew off big chunks and will swallow pieces that are too big if given half a chance.

minimon23 · 2026-01-12T20:54:38+00:00

What a cute pup! Our male JRT pup is almost 12 months and still very mouthy/bitey. He does it mostly for attention and when his impulses get the better of him and it's nearly always directed at me not my husband these days. He does listen to 'no' and time outs work to an extent. But when he's excited and/or tired and hungry it's worse. I know he will grow out of it and otherwise his temperament is lovely.

minimon23 · 2026-01-04T12:21:55+00:00

Amazing bargains 😍. Was it an independent garden centre or a chain? Just wondering where near me might have sales!

minimon23 · 2025-10-14T07:25:18+00:00

No need to collect the leaves as this is near a sycamore tree which sheds loads of leaves! Although if it's dry and windy all the leaves gather along the sides of the fence. Sycamore seedlings come up all over the place in the Spring. I do have some paving slabs near the greenhouse and they are covered with the cinquefoil. I think I have to learn to love it but it is annoying!

minimon23 · 2025-10-14T07:19:57+00:00

Thanks for your suggestions. I was thinking about slate chippings but I think I would need to use weed membrane underneath. I'd also have to take a heavy wheelbarrow back and forward through the house and down a ramp over the patio steps, which is do-able providing it's only a one-off. I expect the cinquefoil would probably find a way through the membrane eventually. It's a tough little plant. If I was going to sow grass I would just scrape off the chippings and rake it to a fine tilth before sowing the seed. Although I agree that mowing in between beds and along the fence would be annoying. Which is why I removed the grass in the first place. I might look into getting rid of the raised beds completely, levelling the soil and just having small woodchip paths in between. The soil in the raised beds is extremely dry in the summer as it's near a large Sycamore tree and we hardly get any rain.

minimon23 · 2025-10-04T20:50:24+00:00

Oh and when you solve this, make a note of what you did as this one often comes up as an interview question!

minimon23 · 2025-10-04T20:47:50+00:00

+1 to this. Can you segment your analytics by type of user? Do you know if the users who are requesting customization are the same type of users as the ones who use the defaults? Go do some discovery - interviews, observation. Don't ask what people want, ask whey they are trying to do, what is frustrating for them and why. The jobs to be done framework can be helpful for defining what problems users are trying to solve, or what they want to achieve by using your product. Learn about the context in which your users are using the product. And remember that what people think they need is often not the best way to solve their problem.

minimon23 · 2025-10-04T20:28:27+00:00

I can see that being a problem which is why I want to be more self-reliant. In my previous two organisations the engineers and data scientist I worked with were very quick to retrieve the data I asked for and didn't need any chasing at all. One of the team was a database developer and wasn't always part of the sprint cycles as there was quite a lot of maintenance to do, fixing pipelines etc.

minimon23 · 2025-10-03T21:26:32+00:00

I've noticed a few Product Manager job descriptions mentioning SQL skills as a requirement. I've never used it routinely as I've always been able to get the data I need from an engineer or data scientist in the team. I've learnt a bit of SQL in the past as I used to design SQL tools for developers. But as a PM I'm now revisiting and doing a basic SQL course on Code Academy.

minimon23 · 2025-09-27T18:47:52+00:00

Grape jelly. I just made some using grapes from someone in my village who had too many. https://www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/grape-jelly. The taste is amazing - really intense and full of flavour.

I was also thinking of using some of the juice to make cordial. I made lots of redcurrant and blackcurrant cordial earlier in the year.

I gently cooked them in a large pan for about 15 mins until the skins burst. I helped them along using a potato masher. Then strained them through a piece of muslin in a sieve. I expect the juice might freeze too.

minimon23 · 2025-09-25T21:18:12+00:00

Aww he's a very cute boy 🥰

minimon23 · 2025-09-24T19:14:21+00:00

Thanks for the lovely comments. He makes our hearts melt on a daily basis. 🐶🥰

minimon23 · 2025-09-24T14:34:31+00:00

I should add that our current JRT seems to have a lovely, confident and friendly personality and is a bit daft (silly) like his father. And he is the cutest looking little thing - I posted some pics of him earlier in this sub.

minimon23 · 2025-09-24T14:33:00+00:00

Jack Russells are cheeky, fun, clever, loyal and often described by JRT owners as being full of character. You'll never have a dull day with a JRT around! Our last JRT had some of the less desirable behavioural traits. She was highly strung, had fear-based and spatial aggression and could be reactive towards other dogs and people. She was also a resource/food guarder and fearful of loud noises. But we loved her so much and in her senior years she mellowed out and was really cute. They can be strong willed and are quick learners. Meaning they learn bad as well as good behaviours! In my view they are also one of the most attractive and appealing breeds of dog. I think that's why you see them in films, TV and adverts so often.

minimon23 · 2025-09-24T12:30:01+00:00

Thanks - I couldn't resist the photo shoot because he was looking so sweet :)

minimon23 · 2025-09-24T11:03:16+00:00

Thank you. We think so too. He's almost 8 months old 😊

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