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« on: Today at 08:22:56 AM »
I don't think anyone minds G4 being talked about here. It's just not front and centre I suppose?
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« on: Yesterday at 08:56:23 AM »
 Ponyfan. My trivial complaint - the tall cupboard has mould in the back again. We had some issues with a leaking roof a while back which has now been fixed. BUT getting the mould permanently out of the cupboard has been so difficult. I am resorting it now to try and improve the ventilation, but it's so annoying. A few G4 ponies in packaging bore the brunt of it on shelf 4. Most are fine, but one had to be decarded. I have no real emotion over G4 on card, thankfully, so throwing the packaging out was not a big deal - but it makes me worry a little bit about my G1s in the other cupboard... Fortunately the most valuable (to me) thing on that shelf, Wedding Bells Confetti's box, is unharmed. Anyhow, one pony got unexpectedly decarded as she's fine but her package was toast. Another one needs to be decarded but it's a pony I already have loose so I'm not really sure what to do with her. The others wiped down fine, thankfully. It's not a massive mould infestation, just a line of it along the back wall where the water seeped in and we didn't manage to spot it. But it's annoying and unpleasant.
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« on: May 13, 2024, 09:02:33 AM »
They were one of the earliest nirvana ponies to be talked about really. I mean, I don't even want to use the term Nirvana because that term didn't exist back then. I feel like a lot of the knowledge around them from then may have disappeared over time, since they don't get a lot of discussion now there are more jazzy variants to talk about. But we were definitely having conversations about Indian ponies before Argentina and Colombia, and even Greece became prominent in the discussion.
I haven't seen them mentioned in a very long time though.
I used to shove pictures of variants on my website, long before the Nirvana Gallery or the term Nirvana was a thing, because I collected Italian ponies and there wasn't anywhere else really dealing with variants - but I never knew a whole lot about them beyond them being made in India under licence. And there only being the first six.
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« on: May 11, 2024, 10:46:22 AM »
Yay for the Ficus! So glad it's starting to show green  The Dill is clearly a trooper, too
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« on: May 11, 2024, 10:45:12 AM »
We had a conversation about this at work today, and it transpires absolutely none of us knew it was going to happen xD. We're so well informed.
My trivial complaint is that I had a borderline creepy conversation with the security guard guy today. He's a joker kind of a guy and we all often have banter with him, but I also don't really like when people make intrusive comments or questions...it's just something I don't really enjoy. I don't think he meant any harm by it, but I was definitely not comfortable.
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« on: May 11, 2024, 10:36:21 AM »
I just caught up with Yona. Honestly everything is so O.O at the moment I'm not quite sure where we are from one chapter to another. But I liked this chapter anyway. I feel like it was a good chapter for Yona and who she's become overall. I also feel like...the author has been messing with us big time and is still messing. Ponyfan, you might want to hold onto those volumes a while before you read them... Genuinely a spoiler Spoiler Also, this is an actual spoiler. So just saying... Spoiler I'm so amused that Zeno got a good telling off from his dragon. I love Zeno but this time he needs a proper good shake.
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« on: May 11, 2024, 10:31:21 AM »
I really don't have one. I do think Oakly and ChaCha are nice, but these weren't ever part of MLP in the UK so I always look at them a bit weird...lol  They're cute but I can't pick one out over the others. I do think Cutesaurus is the maddest one though. Nope, dinosaurs didn't go extinct. They moved to ponyland and became radioactively neon...
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« on: May 10, 2024, 01:39:39 PM »
The media here keep saying the Czech entry is the favourite.
I admit, I don't really watch Eurovision anymore - I used to as a kid but haven't in a while. I have heard samples of most of the songs but I don't really know what folk are likely to vote for.
Just that there seems to be a bit of 'weird'...
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« on: May 10, 2024, 09:47:19 AM »
Okay, got it! I thought I'd have to put them all in the sink or something 
Well, you know, you can always ask them if they fancy a spa bath xD
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« on: May 10, 2024, 07:41:44 AM »
What's the best way to do that. water from the bottom? I have shallow saucers.
Depending how shallow the saucers are, then I would put water into that directly rather than onto the top of the pot. If it's very shallow, you may need to do it in small bits and let it absorb it up. The plant shouldn't need to stand in water, so it should absorb into the soil relatively quick and if it doesn't, then it probably doesn't need water. That depends as well on how good the drainage in the bottom of the pots is, though.
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« on: May 09, 2024, 04:22:16 PM »
You could try dish soap, but also as I said on the trivial complaints thread, they lay eggs in the moist topsoil, so watering plants from the bottom for a few weeks should break the cycle. We had this with one of our plants over the winter and that sorted the issue out (along with nasty sticky cards).
Today was hot, and the decorator has finally finished, so I took my poinsettia outside and repotted her. I took off some of her more rangy and unstable branches and her new pot is a bit taller so she is now well above the rest of the unit (it will be a while before she can reach my fire tablet again, mwahaha, she won't be changing my audio books any time soon). I am always nervous when I repot her because poinsettias hate their roots being messed with, and she's an oldish plant, but I think it went quite well. Fingers crossed.
Yesterday, I went out to water the greenhouse and found dad's tomato plants had blown over. One of them was hanging UPSIDE-DOWN off the edge of the staging. No idea why it didn't fall headlong, except luck. They're all fine, thankfully.
With the weather warming up, hopefully I'll get tubs and the basket planted up soon. It's been a stressful few weeks with one thing and another...getting out in the garden will be a nice break (watch it rain now for the next fortnight, LOL).
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« on: May 09, 2024, 11:53:52 AM »
I'm not so hot on G3 anything, but iirc wasn't she very limited in her release outside of Europe? I am 99% sure she's one I have still MIB, and the main reason for that would either be that she was a European release or I got her very late and never deboxed her... I can't speak for what a current good price would be, but being that you're in the US - where I have a feeling she was less common if not nonexistant - you might get more interest (because of lower shipping) from domestic buyers. Hopefully someone with more specific G3 knowledge will be able to give you a good benchmark. She looks in nice shape
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« on: May 09, 2024, 07:25:10 AM »
The stickies are gross but they do work.
Also, watering the plants from the bottom so the topsoil dries out can help as well. The flies lay eggs in the top soil when it's moist, so if it dries out it breaks the cycle.
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« on: May 08, 2024, 01:48:37 PM »
I honestly don't know what the state of play is with releases of most English manga over here but I suspect it's probably worse than the US or Canada, honestly. Whenever I see anime or manga related stuff here, it's only from a limited handful of pretty mainstream and popular shows. My library has manga but it's all pretty old as well xD.
I haven't checked up on the new Yona chapter yet. It's been a stressful month, and I think I need to be more Zen (zeno?) before I read it, given that each month ups the drama.
I love the Apothecary Diaries but there are moments that the story dabbles off in a funny direction before coming back to Maomao and Jinshi. Or maybe I just like Maomao and Jinshi interacting and don't care so much about some of the broader themes.
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« on: May 08, 2024, 07:56:20 AM »
I have been saving from my salary for the last several months to get a new PC, as this old warhorse of mine has a keyboard that is...well, half stuck on with sellotape is not an exaggeration. I love this computer, it's been absolutely brilliant, but it's battery is shot and it has seen better days.
So I got my new PC this morning. I had it all beautifully set up. Then Windows did an update and...it refused to boot. So I had to reset it back to factory and start over again.
And the decorator is still here so I can't even rant and swear about it.
Not only that, every time it goes to reboot during reinstallation I am here worrying it won't boot up again.
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