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Cake day: June 14th, 2023

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  • If you’ll be there for a few years you might want to consider a green wall for that side of the house. Best approach is to build a structure off the wall to train the plant, but you can also just let something like a boston ivy grow and you get the benefit of shady leaves (e.g. transpiration/cooling) during summer, and they lose their leaves over winter so you’ll get direct sun again. I experimented on the side of an old house and had temps more than 10deg lower behind the leaves/on the wall than the ambient 35deg. https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2019/oct/20/dont-bother-with-living-wall-plant-ivy

    I realise this won’t help the window issue. The shade cloth will work but I think you’ll want something more tensionable than ocky straps… a big wind could have them whipping round. Edit: see other posts about not attaching to the guttering.

    You might also want to look at planting something deciduous to shade the window during summer too.



  • Word. Thanks for sharing, didn’t know this had happened. I think my favourite part is the rolling stone review:

    “André 3000 is a kind, gentle, creative soul, that’s been marred by our collective capitalist greed. Let this man play his bass clarinet across America in peace” - Rolling Stone

    I listened to the last track, couldn’t pass up a dungeon reference. It has a mood, might be worth listening to the rest I skimmed through.