I have a similar issue (UK garden) where my cats have trodden a desire path into my lawn over years, plus some over-shaded areas from an evil combo of a fig and a buddleia.
I'm tempted to sow some clover, but equally I'm sure some lawn-gurus here might be able to advise on what would be best to keep some plant cover?
A good, easy to fold, bike like a Brompton, is amazing.
Obviously storage and portability are the main benefits and that makes them perfect for commuting, but they're also an excellent mutli-modal transport component, especially in the UK.
I live in the middle of nowhere, so if I travel to a town or city I can park somewhere cheap outside any ULEZ type zones, or get public transport and then cycle around and, critically, avoid having to leave my bike somewhere (since bike thefts are off the charts in a lot of places), and you can put a Brompton under a table or at a coat check in most places. Or just carry it of course.
Plus I live in a small house - my shed is packed so bike storage is at a premium, but a well folded bike I can pretty much stow anywhere.
The only downside is that they are consumables. Even brompton hinges eventually wear out (the pins you can replace a few times but their repair procedure is to drill out and replace the pins etc. so eventually you run out of space!). And they're outrageously expensive, of course.
Flowers and a card - if my wife was a mother? I'd probably go a bit more high effort but what that means will depend on what she wants generally!
I'm also British so Mothers day has been and gone (it's tied in with Easter here), and I don't bother with the superfluous additional one...
13 days, not that I'm counting...
Pretty good. I'm working a notice period so I'm trying hard not to phone in everything and leave a total shot show for the colleagues I'm leaving behind who actually work hard and don't suck.
Got to sit in the sun on my weekend too which was nice.
Cashiers are rarely permitted to do anything about shoplifting for what it's worth. When they do (and why you would I don't know) they often get disciplined or fired. And the labelled as jobsworths by the gutter press when they follow "company procedure".
It's basically the breakdown of the social contract, as engineered by a small group of people and then blamed on the rest of us.
What, and pay for a) some new machines, b) people to maintain them? Get wrecked. (Not that I'm a cynic).
This is why ETRTO matters - everyone should know 622 is 29, 28, and 700c (and honestly, using the a, b, and c, "standards" is insane anyway.
Finding the joy in the mundane is 100% the trick to life.
100% not dull!
Loved doing repairs like this when I was a bike wrench - incredibly satisfying to save components from the scrap bin.
To avoid accusations of some kind of class war, I expect.
Difference being, of course, that this would likely be a progressive tax, like the mansion tax or income, so as to impact the "big fish" and allow movement of others.
Depends - there will be a lot of local things around the place; in Oxford a choir sing from Magdalen College Tower to a crowd below.
There's lots of local things like the 'Obby 'Oss, maypole dances and so on.
But it's not really a big thing nationally over here.