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Can talk about gardening with the best of the rest of the world. Fowls are not my thing - not since leaving home and leaving keeping hens behind many years ago. Deceased husband was into showing bantams in his early days (and keeping goats) which I missed much to my happiness.

Someone elsewhere on the internet said that being tidy (!!!!!!!!) and putting the same things together stopped you buying another one when you didn't need it.

That sounds a bit like one of those Marie Kondo tidying up ideas to me but I do see what the intention is.

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Fink that the rules changed on 1st January. It's the phytosanitary certificate that is causing the trouble. It all used to work under the general EU rules which applied to everyone. Now the UK has to do its own thing and showing that seed potatoes and plants meet the required regulations - well sh!t...

Got up to walk round as the knee gets like that in the middle of the knee - well somewhere near dawn or something. Anyway the snow has settled so not gardening weather. But the son-in-law raided the allotment shed yesterday and found a dozen potatoes from last year's crop that will keep for starting...

Exactly Ina. You can only be so self sufficientish. Even on the farm in my youth we had a 5% chance of outside "stuff" and something to do.

No problems with food delivery. No problems with going out at present until the knee is trained. But it is boring. The real problem is that none of the village hall events have been able to start up again even when lock down rules are loosened. So there's no chat club for older folks, no craft club,...

The gal's gone, starts her placement next week. We've just discovered we've got Covid in our village, so won't be venturing out for any reason. Stats up here - so many cases in the nearest four or so miles that this whole village could be laid up with the virus. We're in a real virus hot spot. Not ...

Excuse me but it was -7.0 here last night. That's just plain cold and not growing weather.

Now that we are under a national lockdown, it's good to have had a big supermarket delivery on Tuesday that has left the cupboards bulging. May get some strange meals but shan't starve doing a live out of the cupboard challenge. As I'm only just a couple of days after the stitches have been taken ou...

I put winter onion sets and garlic sets on the allotment in raised beds under netting in November knowing that I'd be off the road training the repaired knee when they should go in if doing spring ones. That's the extent of growing for now.

Don't knock the rubbish sold Weedo - it's the economy that counts and selling of tat finances government income

The work that went into the Christmas family gatherings when I was a youngster living on the farm are a memory of hard labour. Everything from the Christmas pudding to the Christmas cake and mince pies were home made. Fruit and veg had been preserved all through the summer and autumn. Jam had been m...

If you celebrate Christmas what do you consider to be a self sufficientish one?

Part of the family has just discovered that it is in tier 4 which is the same as a national lock down in all but name. What a difference a day makes. Luckily the grandson and his lady are pretty self sufficient in a lot of things, can work at home. But they had to put off their wedding last summer. ...