What's happening in your world?

[Lord Punctual]

Nuytsia: I eat raw garlic but I'm almost certain that I'm not to blame for your garlic vandalism. Your down under animals must be way tougher than ours here in Canada, because nothing has ever eaten my planting garlic, ever. (Well, except my father once, but he didn't realize it was for planting.)

I hope it was a spider and not bed bugs. We're having a bed bug epidemic in North America right now. *shudders* Luckily I am bed bug free for the time being.

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I'm an instructor at a Sea Cadet corps. (A seamanship instructor, in fact.) In this context, cadets are teenagers that we dress up in strange hats and teach naval knowledge to.

In ones shirtsleeves refers to wearing a shirt that would normally be worn with a jacket over it. So, if one is wearing a suit and takes off ones suit coat or blazer, then one is in his or her shirtsleeves. In our case, it means we were outside without our uniform tunics on on account of the warm weather. (Also because we were building a gyn, which is a giant tripod for lifting things, and that tends to damage ones uniform.)

At least, that's the Canadian usage of the word. It might be different elsewhere.