Greetings, Manor Hors! Periodically, "The Roving Pecker" presents urgent missives from filthy esteemed guest writers. Today's post is written by D'Hermitage! ----------- Horlettes, stay with me, it’s a bit much. When Covid happened, some people began to realize how much they’d like to have a little greenery inside their house, since they were no longer able to go outside and ignore them on their walks because of lockdown. A lot of people experimented and shared their experiences online. This is a distilled version of that. THE WHAT: Just wood chips or pine bark and perlite - we’ll refer to this combination as substrate from hereon. You can add or mix coconut chips, pine bark, fern fibre, your old wooden sculptures or grandma’s bones but the basics are wood chips (like those for orchids) and perlite. My wood chip to perlite ratio is one bag of wood chips/pine bark + 1/3 of a bag of perlite. FYI: You can also just buy a bag of orchid soil then add 1/3 of the perlit...

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Credit: Warner Bros Nicole Kidman and Sandra Bullock have been making the rounds to promote the release of Practical Magic 2 . And like any good witch movie, of course it has a kitty cat!  In an interview with BBC, Kidman said that she has always been a cat person. She had one cat named Priscilla as a kid and another she fondly named Pinkle Purr. Aww.  She also confirmed that Sandra Bullock cast the cat in the header pic who plays Kidman's familiar in the movie, "purely for vanity choices.....that cat was much more attractive than the cat you wanted" Bullock joked. Practical Magic 2 comes out next Friday! Source: BBC

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Greetings, music sloots, and welcome to another edition of Manor Music Monday, today with two - count 'em, two - wonderful, mostly forgotten jazz songbirds. Yet they're not forgotten by DJ Li'l Scratch, who's lived many lives, as you know, and has seen and heard so much, and in fact was born with a brood of five wee kittens in the smoky backroom of " The Green Mill Jazz Club."  But that's a story for another day.  Tonight only at the Manor's "Shuck 'Em and Funk 'Em" after-hours lounge and taqueria, DJ Li' Scratch will be spinning tunes by two chanteuses from the "cool jazz" period in the late 1950s through the early 1960s, or tunes with hushed tones, smooth, steady tempos and complex harmonies. First we have Joy Bryan, the epitome of the All-American girl-next-door, don't you think? Yet looks can be deceiving - and all is not vanilla. Joy was yet another one of those terrific, highly regarded late 1950's-era West...

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Getty Images It will be the end of humanity if we let it. Well, it'll be the end of road-tripping white people, that's for sure.  Gas. Station. Food. Just ask Dr. Bernard Hsu, better known as Chubbyemu. He's a toxicologist and former competitive power lifter whose YouTube channel  with 3.9 million subscribers is a wonderland of horrifying medical emergencies. Many of these cases originate with, you guessed it, gas station food.  As someone who's constantly on the bus going from one gig to another, and who used to routinely take the four hour bus ride from Vancouver to Penticton, I have regularly taken my life in my hands and availed myself of an innocent-looking sammich, or perhaps a plastic clamshell of Caesar salad. In fact, I did so just yesterday.  Then I turned on the tv. That was my big mistake. It's dry, but is jerky really safe either? Nachos, apparently, are not . We surely all know to wipe off the top of a pop can before taking a swig, right? What else can...

Wheeeee! Post your pup! Today's the day. Share your own or any that you like. And if there's a photobombing cat in the background, that's okay, but really, yesterday was Caturday, m'k?

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  You've heard of the Boston Molasses Disaster of 1919, but there's a new disaster in town: the Quebec Mac & Cheese Powder Disaster of 2026! This Friday, a truck travelling along Route 32 in Brossard, QC was overturned, spilling cheese powder all over the ground. The driver was taken to hospital with minor injuries and luckily no one else was hurt in the crash. Now you Peckers know I love me a bowl of Kraft Dinner. Paired with cut-up hot dogs?! Michelin-starred meal right there. If I lived closer to this crash I'm not ashamed to say I would have scooped up some free powder. I am better than no man! Let's hope the driver is doing OK and there won't be a mac and cheese powder shortage.  Tabar-Mac, amirite!

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