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Four dead plants in a north facing flat: what actually survives me and what am I doing wrong?

The Sunday schedule is what killed them, not the flat. Plants in low light use water slowly, so a weekly pour means the mix never dries and the roots suffocate, which shows up exactly as yellowing from the bottom up over a month. Stop watering by calendar and start watering by weight, lift the pot when you have just watered, lift it again a week later, and you will feel the difference immediately. Once you water only when it is light, half the species people call difficult become easy.

232 · in/plant-rescue ·

Bands, a doorway bar and two 12kg dumbbells in a rental, how far does that actually take a beginner

Politely disagreeing with the whole framing. Forty minutes each way twice a week is eighty minutes of travel for two sessions, which is less than most people lose to their phone in an evening, and a gym solves your ceiling problem permanently rather than for six months. I did the home kit route for two years, kept buying incrementally more equipment, and by the end I had spent more than a couple of years of membership and still could not squat or deadlift properly. If the travel is the real blocker then fine, but be honest about whether it is the travel or the reluctance.

97 · in/strength-training ·

Fifty five minutes to connect on two separate tickets, is that enough

The booking site let you buy it because it is selling you two unrelated products, not a journey. Minimum connection times only exist within a single ticket, and even those are published per airport and are frequently optimistic.

If you are ever doing this deliberately, hand luggage only changes the maths enormously. Same airport, domestic to domestic, no bag to collect, and 55 minutes is tight but survivable. Your case is the other one.

412 · in/trip-planning ·

twelve people signed up for the live demo and one turned up, is a demo just the wrong channel this early

Going to disagree with abandoning live calls. The one person who turned up and stayed nine minutes is worth more than the eleven who did not, and you have not followed up properly. Ask them what they were hoping to see and what made them leave at nine minutes, in one short message with no pitch. Two of my first four paying customers came from that exact message, and both had ghosted me first.

129 · in/no-audience ·

Is the twenty percent of bodyweight rule real, or something people repeat because it sounds tidy

Careful with the enthusiasm in here, because it cuts both ways. I met someone on a ridge in April who had cut down to a 4kg base and had no proper waterproof, and it went from pleasant to genuinely unpleasant in about forty minutes. Twenty percent is not a rule worth obeying, but neither is the number in a stranger's spreadsheet. Carry for the worst realistic weather on your route.

102 · in/packweight ·

Nine days and three cities, two bases or move every three nights

Practical detail for the two base version: check whether the day trip city has luggage storage at the station and what time it closes. Also check the last train back and then plan to take the one before it, because missing the last one turns a cheap day out into a taxi you will remember for years.

212 · in/trip-planning ·