Notices by Laura Ritchie (lauraritchie@mastodon.social), page 2

@tbeckett thank you ! I will get some and BATHE that area in it.

I had never heard of that - had to look it up! Thank you!

@tdorey I can't reach though. :(

When we rebuilt our kitchen they put a concrete floor and didn't finish the wood floor bit under the cupboards, so they just come in at the edge of the concrete. Wahhhh!

The thing is they go INSIDE that wall to try to find a way in. I know there are millions of them in the ground and our ground is SO fertile. -so I try not to stress. With my little defences we only have about 6 a day for two weeks in summer. I'd love to get rid of them.

@Downes HAHHA!! I greet them with the power of my Dyson.

it's the time of year when ants come up through the added bit of our house, built right on the ground. With hindsight we would have dug a cavity between the floor & the ground.

I have an elaborate combination of ant poison, bicarbonate of soda (like a little castle), & then chilli flakes (looks pretty). The chilli and baking soda are deterrents from them coming further in to the room, the ant stuff is supposed to help actually get to the nest, but they come back every year. advice is welcome!

@clintlalonde it's that but from a learner perspective, I don't want to be 'guided' like that. I want to think I have agency in genuine discovery - I'd be wary of what the adaptive stuff did - or required. Suggestions are fine, but not if it 'makes' you do stuff.

sometimes I am quiet for a long time because I think, well that's already been said, but then I remember that everyone is living their first time now - as in we weren't all there to hear it being said 'then' and there's value in the perspectives we hold.

That's meta, but so am I 🌸
Still figuring out how to say what there is to say - the right medium, the mode. Thinking is one step...

@clintlalonde it reads really well and the 'addressing/taking the voice of the community' type focus is an inviting perspective. I would want to know more about 'adaptive' systems. That rings huge alarm bells personally for me with both monetised data collection corporations and with wondering how the adaptive tech syphons the learning and creates bubbles instead of encouraging exploration?

Our systems are very different here - there are NO required textbooks and any paywalls are paid for ss.

@Downes high and might on that rock - an attitude sheep with altitude.

It used to fascinate me (and freak me out a bit) that sheep's pupils are rectangular. I wonder what they see???

@GwenfarsGarden we had spitting here too - and it was in the middle of my run! Plants are liking it though

@Downes I particularly like 8, 10, 13, 15, 17, 21.

Of course you're not 'not educated enough'. In fact, in terms used by an article you recently cited, I think you could say you are excellent.

and I agree with you there too, we can all be excellent.

and the fruit is coming!!! Breakfast time!

This year I did get the blueberries netted and I have won over the blackbirds. (they still have at the raspberries, but there are more of those, so that's ok) My only challenge with the blueberries is not disturbing the bees on the lavender when I go to pick them. -that's a nice problem to have and as long as I'm quiet and slow moving, the bees don't mind me.
#garden #fruit

The bees are so happy in our garden . All the holes in the rose leaves have been cut by bees! We only have 10 in the bee house, we must have a bazillion living in nooks in or under the shed.

Nice pics but of bees, so marked as sensitively case people don’t like bees. #smallstories #bees

There's a lovely lunar eclipse on the full moon if you can see it rising now

#moon

@abc @dadegroot San Paulo, Universidade São Francisco slightly outside the main city in Campinas.

I've never been and am very excited!

@ghost_bird sounds all good to me.

I have a similar list, but I might need armour as my dust bunnies are seriously galvanised. :)

and I have on my list - 'find the boiler.' (the plumber arrives in 30 mins!) eek!

@dadegroot I actually have a student from Brazil who is fluent in Portuguese and he could translate.. Can you imagine their surprise if I did that!?? ;)

So my trip to Brazil next month - they just asked to have my presentation in a week (3 weeks early). No problem. Then it dawned on me - they want a SCRIPT, not just slides, so they can *translate* it.

I have to script it all. script? I can do that, but it takes being in a very different head-space to make the script authentic and still extemporaneous, yet understandable.

Next few days work are cut out for me.

@clhendricksbc that sounds lovely!

ps Happy Birthday! :)

@clhendricksbc congratulations all round!!!

Do you do any special traditions or types of cakes?

I recently found out that my husband used to have a Mary Berry recipe of a cake with a clock face on it for his birthday as a child. :)