Perhaps we should have a rule that the winner has a limited time to supply the theme for the next month, and if he doesn’t, that it falls to the runner-up. Not sure how long the deadline should be, but ten days into the next month is way too long.
Perhaps we should let @Mean_Mr.Mustard select the theme and if he comes up dry, pass it down to @Crane.
No, it was @turek who won in February, it is theirs to pick.
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It’s now ten days into March, and @Turek hasn’t picked. If we’re going to have a contest for March, someone has to pick the theme, very soon, and it doesn’t look like @Turek is going to do so.
Do we know for sure that that’s the case? It seems equally likely that they did pick and PMed @TwoCarrotSnowman, who has not yet posted it here.
TwoCarrotSnowman emailed me after the last round and I told him I didn’t have any good ideas that were general enough (I’ve been super busy with work and honestly there was a bit of griping about my last topic.) He said he’d pick one.
OK, if nobody objects, how about this for a theme:
Patterns.
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Works for me.
I vote aye.
“Patterns” should get some interesting pictures. Great idea.
Since I don’t hear any fussin’, I’m going to go ahead and make a thread for the March contest.
Hopefully @TwoCarrotSnowman is well and will be back with us very soon to take over.
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Thank you.
Thank you, Mr. Mustard. (You sure are awfully nice for a Mean guy…)
Dang, I’m gonna ruin my reputation.
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Mr. Mustard the Merciful!
Hoping @TwoCarrotSnowman is okay.
Thanks for setting up a new competition mmm.
I am really liking the entries in the Patterns competition.
13 days until the deadline. I think I know what I want to submit, but I want to dig into the archives to see if there is anything better.
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Re your submission: as you suspected, a bee house for carpenter bees.
I know these things by the name Bug Hotel.
Is this just a British term, then? They’re fairly common here - we passed one in a park in Lewes today.
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No doubt you’re right. That picture looks more like what @Mean_Mr.Mustard posted.
In Germany they are called Insektenhotel, wikipedia knows that term too: