Bess

If you want replacements rather than a bare flat, the ones I have kept with cats for years are calathea, parlor palm, hoya and peperomia. All on the non-toxic lists, all forgiving, and none of them tempting enough to bother with once the cat grass is there.

Ask what they actually need before optimising. If it is going onto a web player they will re-encode it anyway and your huge file only wastes their upload. If it is going to broadcast or archive, your file is correct and the previous editor undercooked it. Deliverable spec first, settings second.

Most supplement timing questions end that way. The exceptions are things with a genuinely acute effect, and you are not taking any of those.

Half the size and a meaningful number of clients cannot open it in whatever they use to review. Great for archive, risky as a client deliverable.

Bones are a separate question and the answer is no on any home timescale. I put chicken bones through a hot heap that ran well for a whole season and sieved them out looking bleached but entirely intact a year later. Soft meat scraps go, bones stay, and you will be picking them out of finished compost forever.

Whatever you decide, don't do what I did to a family book before I knew better. I reattached a spine with a contact adhesive from the hardware shop because it was strong and it was in the drawer, and it is now permanently welded, discoloured through the paper, and no conservator can undo it without destroying the leaf edges. Reversibility is the whole ethic of the craft and I learned it the one way you can't take back. Wheat starch paste and a good PVA, or a professional, and nothing from a tube that says instant.

Seven months, and the honest reason it took that long was that I was afraid to ask. I had built a thing I liked and every week I did not ask anyone for money was a week I could still believe it would work. The day I finally did, the first person said yes in about four minutes and I felt ill rather than pleased. Five months with no revenue is not necessarily a market signal, but five months without asking definitely is not one.

Fair, but I need somewhere to start so I am not opening jars every week in a cold basement for no reason.

Four to six weeks is much longer than anything I read. Does it keep improving that whole time or is it just slow to get going?

Shadowing helps for the same reason. You are forced to produce at native speed with no planning window.

That was my experience too. Middle of the heap was clean, the crumbly stuff off the sides was a nursery.

I would warn anyone about the smell before they try the bucket method, because it is genuinely appalling and it will be somewhere near your washing line for six weeks. I bag perennial roots in black plastic in a sunny corner for a season instead, which is slower and much less offensive to live with.

Check the water level in your drainage layer before anything else. Mine had risen above the mesh and was sitting in the substrate, and I siphoned nearly two litres out of a tank the same size as yours through a bit of tubing pushed down the back corner. The smell was gone in three days without touching the plants.

It depends entirely on what you changed, and splitting it this way stopped my product churn:

• Shampoo or conditioner swap: 2 to 3 washes. You are judging how it feels, and that is knowable fast.
• Scalp treatments: 4 to 6 weeks, because you are waiting on the skin cycle.
• Anything about shedding or growth: 3 months minimum and honestly 6.
• Damage repair on existing length: never really, because damaged keratin does not heal. You are only ever judging how it behaves.
  Change one thing at a time or the whole exercise is wasted.

Write the date and the single change in a note on your phone. It sounds excessive, takes four seconds, and it is the only reason I know which product caused what.

The revisions are where my time went, not the edit. Get a rough cut approved before you colour, mix or add graphics, otherwise you do all the fun parts twice.

A bowl of peel a day is definitely a dose problem then. Is chopping enough or does it need to rot first?

Oil on protein-stiff hair makes it feel coated and it still snaps. The test is easy: overloaded hair is rough and rigid when wet, genuinely dry hair is limp and stretchy when wet.

Read your whole shelf for hydrolyzed anything, plus keratin, collagen, amino acids and wheat or soy protein. They hide in shampoo, conditioner and leave-ins, so people who add a treatment are often quadrupling their protein without realising it. My routine had it in four products while I thought I was avoiding it.

The glycerin thing took me years to notice. Same product, gorgeous in April, unusable in August.