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Winter to Wonder: February Gardening & Allotment Podcast Update
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Feb 27, 2025
🎧 Winter to Wonder: February Gardening & Allotment Podcast Update! February may still feel chilly, but the garden is slowly waking up! ❄️➡️🌱 In this episode, I’m sharing what’s happening on the allotment, what seeds to sow now, and how to get your garden ready for the exciting season ahead. Tune in for fresh ideas, allotment inspiration, and a look at what's next! #GardeningPodcast #AllotmentUpdate #GrowYourOwn #SpringIsComing #FebruaryGardening #AllotmentLife #UKGardener
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regular and then I disappear again and
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then I come back again and wor than
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neighbors but yes we are back for a new
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today and it's nearly the end of
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February so there's no point doing my
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podcast on what to plan in in February
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as it's nearly at the end of the month
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but we shall do our podcast for what's
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planned in March coming up in the next
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few days so stay tuned for that and we
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don't really start sewing stuff until
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March anyway March is the main sewing
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time you're best off Not sewing anything
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in February you're best off waiting
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until it gets that little bit warmer and
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reliable on things
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germinated so where have we been what
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have we been up to why did we
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disappear the questions you may ask but
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we have been obviously putting more
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YouTube videos up we've been putting
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quite a few of those up at the moment
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and one's just gone up of a tour of my
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allotment so you can have a look around
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my plot see what's growing and what's
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not growing we're going into a bit of
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detail of what we're planning on doing
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on our allotment as well this year
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sharing some of the things what I've got
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going off in my head on where I want
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things to grow and how I want it to grow
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sharing with you how things are looking
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on my plot at the moment so make sure
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what I've just posted we've also posted
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one about what free seeds you get in the
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grow your own magazine this month as
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well as that's one of my favorite
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magazines the grow your own magazine and
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the kitchen Garden Magazine where it
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shares 10 free packets of seeds every
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month I know it's not free because
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it's free and it's worthwhile to be
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honest because the packets are worth
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more than a pound each generally so
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you're getting your money's worth out of
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them so where have we been up to and
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what have we been doing well we've had a
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little trip to Manchester uh I needed a
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nice little break and that was to go and
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see my favorite TV show Neighbors which
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the day after I found out it were
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getting axed so I glad I went and saw
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that show in
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Manchester we also did a tour of
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Coronation Street and I met the famous
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Tracy bow so yeah that was very good she
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was a lot more nervous in real life than
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I thought she would have been I thought
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she would have been a strong person but
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yeah she were very nervous uh but it
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were great to see her and then yeah I
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just went and did a bit of touring
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around the city so what have we been up
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to on our alotment recently well we have
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been obviously keeping the birds fed on
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a regular basis I'm fighting with those
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squirrels at the moment I'm not happy at
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all every time when I go down there's a
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bird feeder missing and I end up having
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to look all over my plot for bird feeder
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what's gone missing the squibbles keep
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pinching them and taking them down my
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plot so thankfully I keep finding them
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so I've not had to buy any more but
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they've chewed through some of them so
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I've had to a place my nut ones way of
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holders so they weren't that expensive
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but hopefully they'll last down the
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squirels won't be able to chew through
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them but since we've done that the
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squirrels have now started going in my
9:41
shed where I store my bird food and
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actually opening up Tupperware boxes and
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getting inside and eating the seed and
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the
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nuts you can't win can you I do love to
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see the squirrels for but they're just a
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bloody pain so so yeah that has been our
10:01
bird update and our squirrel update we
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seeing the robins on a regular basis
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they always around and we've seen quite
10:07
a few more blue tits as well now so I'm
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hoping that they do find the bird houses
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and they do nest in them this year
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because that will be amazing to have the
10:17
birds nesting on my allotment for third
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year in a row and hopefully we'll be
10:21
able to get some footage of that if that
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happens so we've been doing that we've
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been feeding the birds we have obviously
10:28
also started a few things off from seed
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like I said it's best off waitting till
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next month but I got a bit too eager and
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quite a few people have commented on my
10:39
post saying you're too early you're too
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early but I have method in my madness so
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I've started off some melons what I've
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started growing I've potted them on
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because they have grown a bit laggy so
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hopefully this will survive and still be
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all right and I've potted all them up
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there's about 20 of them I think 10 10
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to 15 to 20 maybe of them we've also
11:05
sewn all our melon varieties that we've
11:08
got we got six other varieties so we're
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going to be inundated with melons
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fingers crossed this year which I can't
11:14
wait for cuz I absolutely love melons
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they're absolutely gorgeous to taste and
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if we get some good crops I'll be happy
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with them because melons are expensive
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as well to buy so we've done all them
11:25
we've also started off some gigantic
11:28
tomato
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now these are the biggest Tomatoes ever
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to be grown and these were released in
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2024 so I'm hoping for some giant
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tomatoes we won't be growing those
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Outdoors because they'll struggle to get
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ripen but we'll grow those in the poly
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tunnel where it'll hopefully be a lot
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able to keep an out them
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specifically so we' started them off
13:44
we've obviously also got us peppers
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growing as well they're growing
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fantastic they're all potted up and they
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currently sat in my flat at the moment
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so we're keeping them warm and I'll take
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them down to the alotment probably in
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March when it's starts to warm up
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because we don't want to take them down
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there have a cold spell and it kill them
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off so we've got all them sewn but next
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month is the vital month when I'll be
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sewing all my seeds literally everything
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will be getting soon so make sure you
14:14
stay tuned for that and me sharing the
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videos and the tips on that so we've
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been doing all that we've obviously also
14:21
been doing some repairs to the polyon
14:23
we're being in that all in order mind
14:25
you after today's wind I might need to
14:27
repair it again it might have actually
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blown away this time uh we are waiting
14:32
for the day when it actually does blow
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off and non-reparable but we keep on
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fastening it back up and it keeps
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lasting another year so whever I keep
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doing that I'm happy with it and if it
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does ever come off my polyon or cover
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I'll just replace it with netting
14:48
instead and have it like as a cabbage
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frame uh type thing to stop uh
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butterflies and stuff eating the
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cabbages so I'll do it as a brassic cage
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if that does happen so yeah we've been
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doing that we've obviously been keeping
15:04
the plotting tidy tidying it all up
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getting it all in shape uh I've still
15:08
got a lot to do I've got all my beds to
15:10
tidy up and uh screw back together get
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them all painted which is another job
15:15
but we won't do that until spring comes
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until it starts getting dry cuz we don't
15:19
want to paint them all and then it just
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all wash off again because it doesn't
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last long at all that wood paint what
15:24
you get by it certainly doesn't on my
15:26
allotment that's for sure so we'll be
15:28
painting them up and making them look
15:30
nice so yeah we have been very busy down
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at the plot in recent times and I'm
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preing myself ready for that March
15:40
season because that's when all the
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gardeners Rejoice that's when we all get
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happy that's when we all start sewing
15:46
those seeds and wait going down visiting
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every day seeing waiting for that new
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life to come because that is the reason
15:54
why I say to do all these jobs on your
15:57
allotment that need doing any repair any
15:59
maintenance any changes to it throughout
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the winter period because March onwards
16:04
you are busy with sewing the seeds
16:07
puttting them on keeping them watered
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that takes a lot of time up so that's
16:11
why I use the winter period to get my
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allotment turned over and get it all
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might not be as regular but we'll start
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putting them out there and doing a few
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more regular uh at least three a week uh
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we'll give it a try as I do know people
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like them and I have had messages of
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people saying that they're missing them
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so I am back every so
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often I just won't commit myself to
18:34
doing them for every day at the moment
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because it is a hard job recording them
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and uploading them and stuff like that
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so yeah I hope that you've enjoyed this
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episode and if if you've not checked out
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my YouTube videos go and check them out
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because we're putting quite a few
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YouTube videos up there now for you all
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to watch because I know people like to
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see the visual side of things it's okay
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people like to see what I'm actually
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