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Hello,

I am planning on what to put in my relatively small (150cmm by 75cm) vegetable patch. As the patch is East facing it gets sunlight for only part of the day. As I live in the South of England the weather is relatively temperate for the UK.

Raised bed with soil/compost which is 15cm deep.

As soon as I cleared the grass/weeds to put the raised bed over the cats decided it was a great place to poo. I have done my best to clear away any trace of cat poo but inevitably there will be some lurking around. It's likely I've already been infected with toxoplasmosis in the past as have lots of people, having grown up caring for kittens and eating rare meat, but I'm not sure about growing root veg etc. Is it okay if you grow root veg but make sure to wash and peel them?

Thanks!

Hello.

Management company are trying to tell me that they are obligated to get an asbestos survey of the bits of my (totally non-communal, asbestos free) flat which they have responsibility for, i.e. the outside walls and the outdoor privvy. They obviously want me to pay, including their arrangement fee. I've had a good read of the HSE guidelines and to my mind it is quite clear that there is no obligation to survey domestic properties with no common areas. Am I wrong? HSE infoline were partially helpful but they couldn't define any of the terms in the guidance.

The neighbours said when the surveyor came round he had no idea what to do so took a sample from inside the property, which he wasn't supposed to do at all. Didn't even go in their garden. Anyone able to confirm or deny the obligation for management companies to survey non-communal structures?

Many thanks!

Ps) If you don't know how to answer this, please don't google or cut and paste from the HSE website as I've reviewed all their stuff already.

I'm going to buy a garden parasol from a well known Swedish emporium. They have parasols which block 97% of UV, which is important for me because I burn lobster red after an hour in the sun even with SPF 30 sun lotion. The parasol comes in white and black. I know that black absorbs more light, but I have a White table and unbelievably i've been burnt whilst wearing a White sunhat in the past due to rays bouncing back from concrete etc. So what is the better option for me?

Many thanks in advance.

Yesterday my cat had an abscess wound cleaned by the vet under general. I had no idea it was there until it became visible after rupturing and I took her straight in. It was very nasty and she is on antibiotics but they've sent her home with me, where she is confined in one room and miaowing most pathetically.

They've stitched in a drain to get the best chance of getting out the infection, so she has a very raw looking 2 1/2 inch wound on her back leg. Vet didn't instruct me to bathe it in saline, but he also didn't tell me which day to start the antibiotics and I had to chase that up later. Stitches are non-dissolving. Ought I to bathe it in a little cooled-boiled salt water? It's Sunday now and I can't phone to ask them.

Many thanks

Hi.

Any ideas about where in the UK you can get cable pet-protector casing?

My 2 yo cat has a big chewing problem. She likes to nom through cables - ideally the very thin ones like mobile phone chargers, or christmas tree lights. She has in the past chewed through live cables (with an adaptor on them) - no idea how she managed that with no trouble. I worry about not just her electrocuting herself but a fire starting.

I've tried training her not to - the behaviour is very resistant. Now she just does it when I'm not looking.

So I'm just wanting to buy some of that clear casing you can put over your cords and cables that tastes horrible. Although I wouldn't put it past her to like the taste. I've seen it listed in Canada and other countries but I'm looking for a UK source ideally.

Any ideas? Thanks

Hi - I picked up my two new pairs of glasses on Friday, both are plastic and nickel free. Last night the skin on my nose where my glasses rest bubbled up in a lovely display of contact dermatitis. I've never had this problem with plastic glasses before.

Any ideas what might have triggered the contact dermatitis? Ethanol or something even worse? I've asked the opticians to get back to me with the ingredients of the lens cleaner. I know that alcohol gel used to give me dermatitis when I had to use it regularly.

Thanks

I understand that different tiger moths have different levels of toxicity. Google hasn't helped much further than that.

My question relates to what I assume to be a standard British Garden Tiger Moth (Arctia caja). How toxic are these moths? Would they be poisonous to my cat who keeps trying to eat them? (Yesterday she vomitted, and if they do taste bad, she hasn't been put off yet as I found another chewed dead tiger moth this morning.)

I've already asked this under pets, but thought zoology might be a better bet. Many thanks.

I've got a major tiger moth problem. Seemingly they are an endangered species in the UK because they all like to sneak into my house where my cat catches them. I'm not even sure how they are getting in.

I know they are poisonous to birds, but bats can eat one or two and it's not fatal. My cat has just left a chewed up tiger moth body in the hall. I think it's something to do with neurotoxins and cholinesterase but all I want to know is will eating a tiger moth cause problems for my cat? Other than puking?

I've lived in many houseshares and now own my own home and have a lodger. Things are not going well. Previously I've always gone for the keep it bottled up approach, because when the conversation starts it can escalate - I'm far from perfect and living with other people is in part an art of politely weathering the annoyances. But now I'm living with someone who makes me feel like it's not my home anymore, and I'm one step away from handing her deposit back and wishing her well. Help! Would you try to talk it out, or just grin and bear it and hope it's a phase that wears off?

Okay, so I can't tell you more than this as it's not me who is trying to remember it.

It's a music video comprised of stop-motion of hands playing each note on the piano. It's not recent and I cannot find it on youtube via the obvious search words.

It's not Sledgehammer, or Close to the Edit, so we can rule that out. any ideas?

For research, do you have to buy copies of the HADS like you do the BDI or can you reproduce it by typing it out or photocopying, like you can with some other measures?

If Im looking at the assessment data (T1) for a group pre-treatment, and running a series of correlations between the assessment measures, what design is that? It's obviously not between group or between subjects. But the definitions of within- ss/gps don't exactly fit either. It's late and my brain is frazzled. Can you help?

Many thanks,

Hi, I'm trying to impute missing data, but unfortunately my small dataset (n=29) does not include any variables for which there is no missing data. SPSS won't run the EM as my predictor variables have missing values. Any suggestions?

Sorry, I mean do the apple store hold stock of in-store, not can they order for me.

I've got this memory of a UK kids TV programme that scared me when I was little. I think it might have been from Dramarama on CITV. It was a drama about separated twins or something and they each had one half of a yin/yang ring or amulet. I think there was a church tower or clock tower in it.

Any ideas?

About a year ago a fox dragged and ripped open a bag of used sawdust kitty litter in my garden, right in the middle of my lawn. I cleaned up the bulk of it but some of it had got stuck in the soil.

Not long afterwards I found some fox (and possibly cat) poos where the sawdust had been. The grass died away but reseeding was successful until recently. Now I have a soggy patch in my lawn which stinks of ammonia where I suspect the foxes are marking with urine. My cats use another end of the garden for their business.

Any ideas for treating the soil to make it more hospitable before I try reseeding? Or will I have to dig out the top soil and replace before patching the lawn with new turf?

(Please don't suggest fox hunting or reading the lawn a story, etc.)

Thanks

I live in a London borough that is a designated smoke control area. I have three fireplaces in my Victorian flat, and one of them appears to be at least partially unblocked, given the dirt and rain that came down it... I know that smokeless fuel still is not great for the environment but fancy having an open fire on Christmas eve...

Am I allowed to burn smokeless fuel in London?

Is it a problem that the other chimney places are blocked?

Do I need to have the chimney checked or just swept?

Will it affect the above flat or adjoining flat?

Many thanks...

I have a long, thin patch in my garden that I'd like to use as a veg plot. Want to make a skinny raised bed, but have read conflicting info about what timber to use - pressure treated is poisonous etc. and whether it should go straight on to the soil beneath or be lined. The soil beneath has some weeds coming through, but I'm concerned about drainage as it only gets sun for a few hours a day.

Questions - Which type of timber is best, and if lining the inside of the bed what should I use?

Thanks

Hello - please only answer if this is something you have tried or know how to do. No, I don't have an elephant to chain my bike to, thanks.

Okay, so I've acquired a safely shabby looking second hand bike, (a very ugly rusty 80s Raleigh) but discover it has a height adjustable seat, so you can take the seat off. And given in London people will steal half a packet of crisps if you turn your back, I'm keen to make it secure.

I've heard about bolts that can be used to make the seat non-adjustable. Any ideas on what they are called, and where I could get them in the UK? Is it a job I can do myself?

Many thanks