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I don't know about indoors, but there was a green wall planted outside in Islington, and it sadly failed due to problems with the irrigation system so that many of the plants died. I would have thought indoors you'd have to be very careful about damp? I'm pretty sure that there are companies who specialise in this, if you Google. They may be able to advise you even if you aren't going to use them. And I agree that Pearspring may well be able to help. I have found them both helpful and knowledgeable.

Dear oh dear, BNG! :)) :)) :))

Oh great. Well it got as far as "Looking for new photos and videos" appearing on my laptop. So far so good. Then, it says 7463 !!!!!!!!! items found so far. WTF. My mobile appears to have photos on it going back to 2001. I didn't even have a phone with a camera then. And now the laptop page is just sitting there. It doesn't appear to be doing anything at all. The 7463 number is not moving, and no photos are disappearing from my phone. I've already cancelled it and started again once. I'm giving up for the night :( ETA: Oh great. I just noticed some photos moving across the top of the screen rather quickly saying "view/keep". Surely it's not going to show me over 7,000 photos one by one?? Is that how this works?

Yes. Everything on my laptop is backed up by Carbonite. I just found that some series of photos on my phone had three or four identical copies of each :( This must have been due to copying backwards and forwards at various times in the past I suppose, without actually transferring them :(

Ah. "Share across devices" is on. I'll turn it off pro tem. But I'm not sure how that may affect things if I then turn it back on. I want to share things like emails, Facebook and Twitter, how would that work? Had a look, and although it's turned on, it says "You haven't given access to any apps or services yet. Once you do, they'll show up here". So presumably that can't be affecting anything. OK, I've gone into Autoplay, which I didn't even know existed, and I've set the phone to import photos and videos to photos as a default (rather than onedrive or dropbox). So HOPEFULLY that should sort it. Even I'm getting bored with this now :)) :)) :)) Thanks very much again all, fingers crossed! I'm having a rest before I try it!

I've just done a live chat with Moto. The person was very helpful. Though embarrassingly, I discovered that my existing phone is a G4 Plus not a G6 Plus :)) Maybe I've had it longer than I thought :)) Anyway, she has told me to do what I think people have told me to do on here, ie connect the phone to the laptop via USB, then press on MTP/file transfer or transfer files. Then move the photos from the phone. She says this won't sync via google. It had better not!!!!! ETA: Sadly there is no option with Moto Migrate not to transfer the photos, so I have to get them off the old phone first.

Thanks RichH. I have Windows 10. I've just looked, and my phone isn't listed under "your phone". The other option I have is to find out if there's any way I can adjust the Moto Migrate app so that it doesn't transfer the photos. I'll have to do a bit more googling! I wouldn't mind if the photos stayed on my old phone pro tem, I just don't want them on the new one. The problem is, last time I tried to transfer photos from my phone to my laptop, I ended up with photos on my phone going back to 2002 GRRRRRRRR.

What I stupidly don't understand is, if they are saved on my phone but are synched by Google, if I delete them from my phone does that mean they are deleted everywhere else as well? Because I'm also worried that I will somehow lose all my photos.

Thanks both, but last time I connected with a USB cable but nevertheless they seemed to automatically synch. I think I've got too many to back up to cloud, plus presumably then you can only access them if you have an internet connection? As you can see I'm not a techie :))

Hoping someone can help! I have an Android phone. Last time I tried to transfer photos from my phone to my laptop, I somehow ended up transferring zillions of photos from my laptop to my phone, which are still there, going back to the mists of time. They are also still on my laptop. I think! I've got a new phone, and before I transfer everything from the old phone to the new phone ( they are both Moto Gs and I can do it via one app and holding one phone over the other) I want to move all the photos off my old phone to my laptop. Can anyone tell me how I can do this without it all synching again? I've googled but can't find the answer :(

Have you contacted the bus company and your insurance company? I'm so sorry, it's an absolute pain when something like this happens.

Asset Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I've seen a blackcap in my garden recently, only > the once. > I get long-tailed tits, blue tits, great tits, > goldfinches, robins, wrens, parakeets, blackbirds > regularly, dunnocks and even a goldcrest > occasionally. > Never a sparrow though. How weird, my visitors are almost all sparrows. I'd love to see some long-tailed tits in my garden. They are my favourite birds! Do you live near the woods?

carlafindle Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Imagine what it's like in Woking? :)) :)) :))

How on earth did she learn to swing on door handles? Clever cat! :)

fishbiscuits Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > > But at the same time, the "woke" middle class > liberal narrative on squatters tend to be rather > naive. Struggling creatives, victims of a > dysfunctional housing market, passionate about > respecting and maintaining period properties... Surely, as with everything (or most things) you can't lump everybody together. Some squatters will look after the property. Some won't. Some would otherwise be homeless. Some won't. Some will be "creatives" (terrible word), struggling or otherwise. Some won't. You can't lump all "'woke' middle class liberals" together, either :)

seenbeen Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I'm surprised at the number of people who do not > lock the mortice when they are indoors as each > insurance company I have used in the last 20 years > have specified using a BS mortice lock and a Yale > lock on the front door and window locks and at > least triple bolts on the french windows etc etc > in order to actually BE insured Same here. And my present policy requires the keys to be removed from the mortice lock overnight (understandable, but it worries me a bit in case of fire, even though I leave them in a place nearish the front door but not visible from it). I always double lock the door and have a chain on when I'm in the house.

Penguin68 Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > How exactly had the ivy "destroyed" the trees? > > Whilst ivy does not take nourishment from trees > (it isn't, in that way, a parasite) it can damage > trees in two ways - (1) it can compete with the > tree's own leaves for sunlight - hence reducing > nourishment and long-term tree health and (2) it > can over-weigh trees such that they become > unstable and may be brought down or damaged by > winds. For deciduous trees, which might otherwise > weather winter storms, such a weight of evergreen > leaves may be sufficient to topple them entirely. > > Ivy just on the stems (trunks) of trees and cut > away from the branches (and kept away) isn't a > problem. The ivy flowers and berries are a useful > source of food for insects and birds. I accept all that. I'm just wondering how these particular trees had been "destroyed".

bobbsy Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > It's not as expensive nor time consuming as you > might think to have the floorboards lifted, the > void insulated and then the floorboards refitted. What sort of price would I be looking at to have that done in a through living room in a small terraced house?

applesandpears23 Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- all > the ivy growing in the garden had destroyed the > trees that they said they were protecting. How exactly had the ivy "destroyed" the trees?

I have lots of sparrows using a hanging feeder in my garden.

What a great happy ending :)

I was up at my allotment quite late the other day (due to a delivery) and a bat started swooping around me :) I've never seen one so close in this country.

Nigello Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > The under floor insulation would be expensive. A > much cheaper (and probably less effective) way > would be to use a special kind of bendable, thick > tape that wedges into the gaps. > https://www.google.com/search?q=gaps+in+floorboard > +filler&rlz=1C1GCEV_en&source=lnms&tbm=shop&sa=X&v > ed=2ahUKEwjflZC8mIPnAhUxoXEKHXWXBnsQ_AUoAXoECA4QAw > &biw=1188&bih=872#spd=11147586910290357765 I have used StopGap. Although it is very easy to fit, and does stop draughts coming up between the gaps, it does not stop the rest of the floor being very cold, due to lack of insulation. Admittedly I have painted floorboards, though I do put rugs down in the Winter, but due to a pile of earth and rubble in the coal hole/cellar, I can't easily insulate beneath the floorboards without taking the whole lot up, because I can't get at them from underneath :(

DulwichFox Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Just a thought EDmummy ! Were you wearing it and > it came off or carrying in a pocket or something? > > Were you wearing Gloves ? If so look in the > glove. > Very good thinking!

Too big to be a wren?