Daphne is a pest. The innocent-sounding alternative name for Spurge Laurel (Daphne laureola) fails to soften my heart as I face this scene, an area of forest floor crowded with what is an invasive plant in Vancouver Island, a “noxious weed”. These Daphne plants have become established in Francis/King Regional Park, on the north-west edge…
A clean install:
It was time to get out the bristle brush and scrub the insides of my old iMac (“old” in hardware terms of course, it’s actually only 2014 vintage). The beachball of death was bouncing around the screen frustratingly often, and my expletives were turning the air in my study blue to the extent that the…