But it us going to or might have already be banned in Europe. If nurseries there were sourcing peat moss from other countries then that will affect supply

A few years ago Australia was having a formula problem. It wasn't anything to do with supply, but rather people were buying the whole shop supply and onselling to China.

Is that because there will shortly be a ban on peat moss It is extremely damaging to the environment to mine it

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Continue schoolwork that is what we have always done. School year round. If it is a particular nice day then we took the day off and went to the beach.

another idea is to look up the entrance requirements of the different fields of engineering at various universities. it will help with selecting what subjects to study now

Do the faculties at University have open days with info over there?

Geometry, trigonometry etc

The wearer It is mostly dh that leaves things in his pocket. When a coin gets stuck in the washing machine pump entrance, he is the one that gets to fix it🙃

I know University is vastly different in USA compared to Australia, but here not having physics would limit the type of engineering degree a student could get into

Regarding splints and playing sport. Here contact sports players wear strapping tape. I did a training course once. It is amazing the injuries they just strap so a player can keep playing. It needs to be put on in specific ways to support each type of injury. The training course was a bit of an accident. I thought I was going to do a course to help identify a injury to stop injured children playing basketball, the game I was refereeing, but instead the course was how coaches can keep injured players playing

My son is an aerospace engineer. He found it hard to get a job, thousands and thousands of people were applying for every job, he would get to the top 10 and be told he was too intelligent and the company knew he would move on to something else d they were looking for a long term position. went back to uni and got a job as a research scientist after a placement.

My grandmother wore her wedding ring for 30 years after her divorce, until she remarried then wore her new ring. She said she felt safer waring it, as men didn't bother her, assuming she was married. I have no idea if any man did bother her or not. she did things like that. Like if she left her home to go shopping she would leave the radio on so people would think there was someone home talking, and she had a stuffed dog that she would shift from one window sill to another to make it look like she had pets.

Fancy wrapping paper? fabric with a small all over pattern so no need to be careful of pattern placement?

I personally know a few that have said, about themself, it is no problem, if She gets pregnant she will have an abortion like last time. To them it is a form of contraception.

Is it ? I wouldn’t know. I have been told less painful than a miscarriage. But I would have thought same level of pain. as to expense medical is free here.

Yes to miscarriage that needed medical attention. I was 12 weeks no to all other questions. I have only ever had one partner. Never used a condom, use other forms of contraception I have however been offered abortion by doctors. They seem very eager to offer it here as I know multiple people who go to the doctor for their first maternal appointment and it is one of the first questions the doctor asks. I found it confronting/worrisome/concerning. And yes here people use abortion as a form of contraceptive. Something like 1 in 3 women have .

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We do this In January DH bought flowers for his aunt in Germany who turned 101 and his mother in Canada who turned 100 It was over $100 au each. Flowers cost a lot, but it isn't every day that someone lives to such an age

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Not covid but I lost my sense if smell after having sinus surgery. For the first couple of years I could smell nothing at all. Then I could smell things if it was humid, like just before rain. It is now 20 years since surgery and in the last 2 years I can say I can smell things again, probably not as much as I could before, but enough that I can smell flowers just walking past a plant

I had to have mine cut off 6 months after being married and resized. I was very under weight when I got married . I was pregnant when I had it resized. It has fit ever since

Have no pets. The amount of food needed for pets is massive. Let alone all the plastic toys that people buy them for them to tear up, and all the pet poo that people bag in plastic instead of composting and all the other consumer products that people get for pets.

Forgot one of the neighbours, he bought the 5 acres, retired, and bought a kabota tractor with a scoop on the front. He spends all day driving it back and forth scraping the dirt and shifting piles of dirt constantly. Like a toddler in a sand pit with a tonka truck. A blade of grass wouldn't stand a chance. No mowing needed.

Sand, pure sand. Right by the ocean. We only have grass because we are right by a swampy waterway, our neighbours are up higher and only really need to mow in very early spring and autumn. One of my neighbours went to work in Africa for a year and had a friend sporadically stay for a week here and there. Her block is all native scrub and a slash of borders is all that is needed once a year. The other that travelled would be back and forth throughout the year. Not in a solid block. So did his garden maintenance then. The people at the end of my street just have horses, they don't live there, but check on the horses regularly. Us neighbours watch out and ring them if something is amiss like the time the horse pulled the tap off the pipe and made a water fountain. The people across the road have hired my twins (dh goes with them) to check on their horse, give it a scoop of chalf and feed the goldfish for the month they are away right now.