Thank you for your lovely comment and omg I want a Marsarrium! I’m gonna put an Alocasia Flying Squid in it – it’s definitely an alien species.

You have answered all my questions, without me even asking them and did so with intelligence and wit.

I chuckled a few times, nodded then made notes which piqued hubbies interest and he took a peak. He immediately started searching for bulbs for our lamps and for suitable grow lights for my many -and when I say many I mean more than I care to confess to – houseplants and self made terrariums (including a “Marsarrium” for my space mad hubby) and yes, I know, there are zero plants on Mars – yet – but, a little artistic licence goes a long way 😉

It was in fact a light for his Marsarrium, which sits beside him in our dark late Victorian/early Edwardian living room that does not detract from the decor that led me to stumbling across this witty and informative piece.

So, £170 later and we think we have all we need ordered and on their way, that is until I show him the two terrariums I am working on for our matching chest of drawers in our equally dark bedroom 😉

Keep on writing and keep on being you and don’t forget, those who hide behind the title “anonymous” are the sort who sit behind their keyboards looking to bring others down because they have nothing else to do.

I have so many thoughts on your words. So many. But the one sentence that sticks out is ‘however, if you were trying to be funny, this wasn’t the context for it.’ This is my website, on which I write in my writing style. This is the perfect context for it.

I’m also a bit concerned that you think my words are dark…they’re really, really not. Like, at all.

Also, I didn’t scorch my reader. I scorched someone on Facebook. AND I’D DO IT AGAIN.

“IN ALL SERIOUSNESS” when you ridicule your readers for sincerely asking questions who might not have similar awareness about something, you demonstrate a huge lack of respect, compassion, and courtesy for them. In essence, you’re telling your customers to ‘go away’ if they don’t know what you know. However, if they did know what you know, you wouldn’t have real readership in the first place.

If that wasn’t enough, your unnecessary use of the “f” word with other swear words are definitely off-putting, per this section, “People will tell you (I used to be one of them – sigh) that grow lights can’t be more powerful than the sun and TECHNICALLY it’s true. But the sun burns plants. Sometimes pretty much to death. Grow lights CAN burn plants, but you can adjust the position of the plant and you’re done. The sun MOVES. ALL DAMN DAY. In a thrilling opposite move, the sun sometimes seems to completely fuck off. Sometimes for months at a time (yes winter, I’m talking about you). I know it’s still there enough to keep me alive but what about my rubber plant???!!?!?”

Like another reader, I stopped reading at that point and instead took up reading a few of the comment. When you provide a way for people to comment, then you discredit their feedback with insults and explanations that don’t help (and without any apologies), you alienate your readers.

I’m sure that you don’t care what I think, but I decided to post anyway in part to acknowledge those readers whom you offended or diminished. Maybe, like a plant, one day you’ll wake up and “see the light” and recognize the “darkness” of your words. I looked back again and saw the year was 2020, so perhaps you were struggling with Covid, or perhaps you were trying to be funny. However, if you were trying to be funny, this wasn’t the context for it.

I had clicked on three more articles to read (of yours), but I will not be reading them and hope you will consider how your words might negatively impact people before you go “scorching” anymore readers.

D:

You’re welcome, glad it was helpful.

Thanks so much! Always happy to be a bad influence!