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Before you talk about the multiple at all, ask for three years of business bank statements and match them against the declared takings line by line. Not the accounts, the statements, plus the card processor reports and the till Z-reports for a sample of weeks. Then ask what has been run through the business that a new owner wouldn't spend, because that's how a seller inflates owner earnings without technically lying. If they hesitate on any of that, you have your answer and it cost you nothing.

Second this. My first attempt died in a pile of duplicated entries from three different browser exports.

For actual lookups, keep the reference layer separate from the reading layer. The Oxford English Dictionary is the thing that matters if you can get access, and a lot of public library cards give you free remote access, which people constantly forget. Below that, the Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology edited by Onions and the Barnhart or Chambers dictionary of etymology are both compact one volume references that are properly sourced. Etymonline is genuinely useful and free, but understand what it is: Douglas Harper compiling and summarising published scholarship, so it is a very good index into the literature rather than an independent authority. When it and the OED disagree, the OED is the one with the citation slips behind it.

Same here, and I only worked it out when I saw white crust on the soil surface and around the drainage holes. Easy to miss under a top dressing.

Whichever you choose, add a self-watering reservoir or a simple wick from a bottle for the courgette specifically. Courgettes in containers at 38C are relentless drinkers and they will be the plant that defeats your once-a-day rule.

Get both parties on one email thread and stop being the messenger. Every time you carry the story between two offices they can each keep blaming the other. One email, both addresses in the To line, subject "Stipend payment date - grad assistant, dept of X", short factual timeline with the four late dates. The blame game only survives in private.

Third option nobody mentions: take four cuttings while you are at it, root them in water, and put them back in the same pot in spring. You end up with a fuller plant and an insurance policy if the parent sulks.