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I wonder if living in a tent might be cheaper.

I reckon that the estate agents just show people the ones that have been on the books the longest that they want to sell.

Interesting Weedo. It's quite widespread on our allotment site (along with Mare's Tail) but this is the first time that I've ever had to deal with club root. Just one more problem on a plot with "interesting" soil. Thing is - we get the odd day over here where temperatures are high enough to eradica...

Hmm - minimum waste is the best I can hope for it seems. Junk mail is a problem - postman is paid to deliver it which doesn't help as are a couple of other firms who must do cheaper and more focused than the postman. And also we seem to get a lot of "charity bags" hoping for our second hand clothes....

Yep hygiene is considered essential - a lot of people have to go to paid work and the unwashed hippy is not really acceptable. As most of us would appreciate.

Yep that applies to me too AmalWarrior with regards to the electricals. And as for figure hugging clothes - hey but you don't get too far on the allotment if you can't move for the tightness of the clothing. With me it can be finding something that allows across the back rather than the front in shi...

The rebel at the start of this thread has stopped being so rebellious. She's got a smartphone (well has had for a number of years) and has found that text/WhatsApp keeps her in contact with family around the world at next to no cost where pen and ink don't work. The Christmas card to one of the fami...

You had me looking to see what you read. Must be this one . People don't live in the kitchen and cook. Women's emancipation has a lot to answer for - people now feel that both partners in a household have to work to keep up with the neighbours and a lot of people don't see the value in having a full...

Hi there AmalWarrior - you will certainly find a lot of reading to do here.

It's a site joke that a certain supermarket comes up in odd ways. It seems to go back a long way into the mists of time. You didn't do anything wrong.

Grease bands are for preventing bugs climbing the fruit trees.

Three things will happen - they will grow, they will thrive and you will have so many you'll be trying to give them away or they will do what other trials do (fail with joyous abandon).

They will be fine if you have good shelter from wind.

Yep when we lived on the farm when I was young there were cellars used to stock preserved veg - those kilner jars were hand me downs and essential to the way of life as were the long low benches for storing apples in straw. Nowadays we all live in smaller houses without the storage space or cellars ...

It's supposed to rain heavily all day here followed by rain, sleet and snow through to end of play Wednesday. When the weather gets better and warmer it will be a quagmire under foot at this rate. Just as I had got the allotments all ready to plant out as well.