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Does anyone have recs for cute, gentle animal videos on Youtube with a small amount of plot/narration? Darcy likes watching them with me and I get bored of the ones that are just random animals, but also find constant narration irritating. The best I've found so far is mugumogu, which posts things like "Maru meets a new box" which mostly just shows the cats doing their thing but adds cute little humourous title cards describing events.

After a billion (ok, like...4) years I finally got around to getting my garden neatened up. I tried Weeding Women but they were booked up, I instead ended up hiring someone off serviceseeking.com.au which was pretty easy to use and quickly acquired me a heap of potential gardeners. The one I ended up hiring was fine, and now it is done!

Since I know other people have had trouble getting gardeners who are interested in actually turning up to do ones gardening(*): I just got my garden weeded and reticulation fixed by Grant Industries in Bayswater, and they were quick friendly and cheap ($35 an hour, and didn't charge me extra when it took an hour longer than they estimated) 0415819908 or 92754154

He didn't quite do all the things I expected to get done, but did do all things I asked for so I guess that's my fault for not being clear.

I think the trick is to use the local paper not the yellow pages.

(*)I'm pretty sure that every single time I have left my number with a gardener for them to call me back it wasn't returned.

So! indescribble(*) just came to my house, we chatted for a bit, then I had a nap. I woke up and we had lunch, I had another nap and when I woke up from that, my garden was magically weed free! She is in the market for any more odd-jobs, so if anyone else needs gardening done she is the girl to call (I made up the fee of $20 an hour off the top of my head but that may not be the market rate)

Yaaaaaay my garden is weeded. That has been increasingly worrying me.

(*)Who apparently does know lots of people in fandom but I only met her at Femmeconne

I'm not feeling 100% so sorry if this comes out garbled but I am rather worried. Do any of you know what would cause several different species of plants to just die off in sections, in some cases dying completely and others being fairly healthy but with the occasional new shrivelled bit?

They look like they're suffering from underwatering, no signs of disease or bugs or whatever (well, none I recognise). But they're getting a reasonable amount of water, and the golden diosma(*) are dying in neat discrete sections rather than shrivelling in bits like the others (and the golden diosma I killed fom underwatering at the house without automatic reticulation). Also the not-sick plants all look perfectly happy, and the sick plants only wilt as a prelude to shrivelling and do not perk up after water.

So far I have a small tree, a golden diosma and a grevillia dead with two trees (of the same type-I-don't-recognise as the first) and two shrubs looking a bit peaky, and was ok with that while it was stable (which it has been for like 2 months) but now another golden diosma is dying off in sections! :(

And no, they're not all near each other, but the four plants which have been sickest longest (one of which died) are all together. Hmmmmm.

On the plus side, the icon for "worried" is cute.

(*)I think that's what they are, from this page I found on google. Man I suck at gardening!