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So far i have made blackberry, raspberry and tayberry jam, pickalilly pickled beets, cherrys in syrup, pickled onions and shalots and my triumph (well i think so) marrow chutny, still so much to do, and ive just been offerd the whole harvest of two apple trees! what the heck am i going to do with al...

Hi Linda,
I found my log in bits! welldone me.
For the rest of you i should explain, I am the Badger and Linda's neighbour.

Eve

yep, was going to mention the air miles, go local and none bleached recycled, as for the hand dryers i have no guilt as the ones we will be using are high powerd and use less power than the normal ones, plus there is no waste to deal with, and nothing for some silly s** to slip trip or fall over or ...

I am opening a community centre in 2 months and we will be using hand dryers and UK made recycled loo paper.

Hope this helps

Eve

I can see what ther train of thought was on this one, i live on a very long street over 700 houses and on recycling day i can count the recycling bins that have been put out on one hand! so in my mind something should be done with these idiot's that think recycling is to much effort for them, HOWEVE...

Diging is out for me these days, so i ues a garden claw, it only dose the top 6in so my nephew will be doing the diging at the end of the year, i am blessed with good soil though so it dosent get compacted and strictly stay on the path, this will be the first year i have done this so we will see if ...

All this makes me feel sooo much better, i thought i was the only one with stupid cats, we have one we call the overlord of the spodmutrons, the rest of the mogs are his minions and aspire to be as stupid as he is, following bread into a hot oven is a good idea as is go to sleep on top of the living...

I agree!!!!!!!!!!! I get sooooooo fed up with the NONE news items when there is so much that is news worthie, and just a note on fule poverty and the big hoo harr about it last year, for as long as i can remenber as soon as my kids have gone to school my heating has to go off and i sit in the cold, ...

One of my girls has tryed to hatch me!! i sat down in the garden and got sat on for 3 hours it was quite nice untill i wanted to get up then all hell broke out, she was not happy, now she looks at my grandson with a view to hatching him we think, she is a little bonkers but sweet.

Eve

Thank you Ann,

Looks like just the thing i'm looking for, another job i can put on the list of stuff I CAN DO,

Thank's again

I am in need of long shafted tools, in particular a fork, i need it to be about 4ft tall in total because i cant bend to use a standard size, do any of you know where i can get one, if they even exist? or do you know of anyone who could make me one?

Thank's in advance

Eve

Ok, so i have now read every web page conected with sweet potato's (or atleast it feels like i have) and have decided to start sliping some of them now, a bit early but it gives us a few atempts to get it right, then pot up on the windowcill, then off out into the green house then into the ground un...

I think my next task is to try to find my tenancy agreement, or contact the council to ask them if I'm allowed to keep them. You said you live in an ex council house, so i am ashulming that you are now a housing associatiobn tenant? your housing trust/ association will have a web site and on it sho...

I am in South Manchester and i am happy to do job exchainge, say you come and do me some digging i will do you some ironing or baby sitting you get the idea.

Eve

The nephew is currently fencing off the vege patch from the chuks, then he will be building the new polly tunnal, he works for Leeks and other food hes a good lad, but will have to go home soon so i think i will start looking for a garden buddy next week.

Eve