Hey there folks- quick question: If a car is due for inspection but is being transferred to someone else does it need to be inspected before attending licensing to have the transferred effected or will it be done when we go to transfer it and a sticker issued?
Happy Monday everyone! I’m so excited to show you guys my very first Vanda! As you can see in the background I usually get my orchids at a younger stage but the flowers on this Vanda made it impossible for me to leave the garden centre without her.
Does anyone know what variety this might be? Either way I’m super excited about her! I’m even thinking to name her. Suggestions welcomed.
After nearly a year, my one remaining plant has finally set fruit!
It's been such a whirlwind. I started a packet of seeds back in November 2025, and while most sprouted, it's been a struggle ever since. I transplanted them in January, but it took five full months just to see the first flowers. Shortly after, pests moved in and decimated everything except this single survivor.
I was so close to quitting gardening entirely. I felt defeated but I kept at it. Today, in July 2026, I'm finally looking at a respectable piece of fruit. Phew, what a journey.
I’ve noticed throughout my career is that employers and employees are often working from completely different assumptions when it comes to compensation.
Employers tend to believe they’re paying fairly based on internal benchmarks or limited market signals. Employees often aren’t sure whether they’re being fairly compensated either. And in many cases, the “market data” behind those decisions is just a Glassdoor search, a recruiter conversation, or what a peer at a similar company is doing.
That gap is what makes compensation conversations so subjective.
It also made me realise how little shared ground there actually is when it comes to “fair market rate” in remote roles especially across Legal, Finance, Operations, and Virtual Assistant work, where structures vary widely by region and hiring model.
I'm currently putting together a small benchmark study across these areas (employers + employees, across the globe) to better understand:
The aim isn’t to prove a point. I'm trying to map where perception and reality diverge, and publish the findings so both sides have a clearer reference point.
If you hire remotely or have worked in any of these roles, I’d genuinely appreciate your input. It takes ~4 minutes and is fully anonymous.
Happy to share the findings here once it’s done if people are interested.
For employers: https://forms.gle/Dx8oet7muHY6ghVL8
For employees: https://forms.gle/xDbKawBY4XfMjD4t6
And yes I used ChatGPT to help draft this post but I'm a human founder trying to better understand the perceptions of key stake holders in my field.
So as far as I can remember I've always, at certain periods of life, been able to "predict" extremely near future events. Nothing grand like the lottery but always simple things. It doesn't happen in a way thats feels like I'm psychic or anything more like "oh thats funny I was JUST thinking about that". For instance, I'll think of my mom who I haven't seen or heard from in a while and 2-3 minutes later I'll run in to her. With my partner, I'll think I haven't heard from them in a while and within 30 seconds, i'll hear from them. This morning it happened twice in quick succession (what prompted me to post this). I walked in to this office and saw someone brought a bag of rare fruits that I love. I said to myself "Wow thats awesome, I love this so much but I actually was in the mood for some XYZ cultural dish". Ten minutes later, my friend brought a one part of that dish pair and I thought "Oh wow thats great, imagine if we had the tomato dish that goes with this" and boom a few minutes later my boss walks in and says "I brought some [THAT SPECIFIC DISH], it's in the kitchen. Now, I understand that they could've of planned that but they didn't know I had thought of it a few mins before, I hadn't been craving it before this morning and they don't interact with each other enough for it to have been planned. Any who, all of this to ask - What is this exactly? I'm hardly ever able to manifest things and when these things happen I don't know its a "prediction" until it passes. It always feels like a fun thing the universe is doing to/with me. Are there any explanations you could provide or what it might mean and how it could help in the manifestation process? Also it only happens in periods. Sometimes it won't happen for weeks or months and then suddenly there's a period where its happening a lot. Insight on that would be appreciated too.