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A mattock is a brillient tool, but remember, if you're not used to one, take it easy for it will kill your back just as bad as a spade, and your wrists and arms will also take a battering. Five to ten minutes a day to start with is plenty.
Rob

Tonight it's 'Gone To Earth' and 'Welcome To The Show' by Barclay James Harvest.
Rob

very interesting series... have been watching it so far, although a few of the things they did/ cooked freek me out, like the tongue in episode 2. I know it looked a bit gruesome but do try it if you get a chance, it’s gorgeous. Hot with mash and thick gravy, cold with homemade pickles or in a sand...

In answer to the original question, I do think Ishers are greener than everyone else, but it would probably be near to impossible to calculate an accurate 'carbon footprint' wow, really? The few hundred active posters on this site are more green than everyone else in the whole wide world?!? That's ...

What usually happens is last years queen and enough workers lay dormant ready to start the nest again, sometimes making a new nest along side the old one.
As red has sugested, it's best to have a word with your local council

It's reached my bit of the east coast in Lincolnshire, but it's not bad.
Managed to get out shooting this morning but it was cold, very cold.
Rob

I think the conversion will give your wallet a beating but will be worth it in the long term. You will need to have installed a solid fuel flu, depending on your present set up this could be a large cost. I recon you'll also have to go for a multi fuel burner with boiler, a 'back boiler' is not very...

Sorry to hijack the thread, but is there any legal obligation of Parish or Local Councils to provide allotments.
Rob

Just to get back to real life, make my own, grow my own, drink my own and live life once again.
Happy New Year to all my new friends on here.
Lets do it, lets do our own.

Rob

Are you sure it's a fox? sounds more like badger work to me.
An electric fence and some bunny wire should help.

Hello Rob Hope you get as much out this site as I do! Won't hold the French ancestry against you ...my DH is a quarter French, but I have forgiven him... :lol: Apparently we came over from Normandy during the 1066 shindig, some of our clan got as far north as Inverness but most settled in the East ...

The obvious answer here is to get rid of the rats, traps are effective but you need to attach the traps to something solid with a bit of string, as a caught rat can often drag a trap away. The other very effective method is an airgun, or get someone in with some good dogs, but whatever you do, get r...

Hello, my name is Rob and I live in Saltfleetby, Lincolnshire. The local name for Saltfleetby is 'Soloby' hence my user name, Soloby Rob. I am a true Lincolnshire Yellow Belly, born in Louth, and my family can be traced back for many generations, on the down side, we originally came from France. Way...