Lies, Liberal Democrats, and statistics

We are being deluged in local election literature here, especially by the Liberal Democrats, who have evidently decided to make a big push in this area. And they are driving me up the wall by constantly and presumably consciously repeating the same outright lie and associated graph showing voting figures 'at the last election' -- "together we can stop the Tories from winning here".

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The impression I get is that, whatever their national political stance, the local party consists of cynical, opportunistic liars who will do anything to get into power... and as that is the view that the majority of the general public currently holds about all politicians, it is more than a little unfortunate to find them actively living up to it :-(

Poppies

The California poppies have opened :-)
They are a bright orange-yellow that is close to the colour of the pot-marigolds, but not quite the same.

Embarrassingly, it turns out that there are *two* vigorous plants with slightly different foliage shooting upwards from in the middle of the dill seedlings (which are understandably suffering from the competition), either one of which could, from the one photo I have, be the missing Cumbrian yellow poppy -- I shall have to wait for one or other of them to send up a poppy-seed-head before I can possibly tell!

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I have potted on the 'pink' Swan River daisies, and really need to pot up the normal ones (which are several weeks behind due to the failure of the first batch). I have also potted up a second batch of towel-tomatoes into a large pot, which gives me six of those and three of the heritage tomatoes -- probably still too many (I think I had five towel-tomatoes and two magazine-tomatoes last year, and the former were very crowded). I still have five more towel-tomato seedlings which I mean to give away if I can get them to a decent size :-)

Rat sketch

I drew a thing!

https://www.deviantart.com/igenlode/art/Rat-914810801