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Hi Mike

so nice to be able to log in

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ish is alive

good luck to the current admin team

:wave: hellooo still doing much the same thing - still smallholding - I counted we have 70 lives on the holding at the moment - mostly chickens! - this last 6 months have been difficult as himself was suspected of having a hidden heart attack, but it turns out he didn't after all - but went through ...

I hope she wont mind me mentioning it here - but forum member green Rosie has a new venture: children friendly holidays

it would have been ideal for us when I had a kid ( - he's all grown up now sniffle), so I thought I'd share

we cook them overnight in water in the rayburn at about 120 - so a good 10 hours or so. then I use the meat to make pie and the stock (fat strained off) is reduced and used to make the sauce surrounding the meat.
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for me - I already had a child that was withdrawn and shy - he has a learning disability and coping with other kids took up most of his energy with little left for learning anything. The other kids were lovely - but being on the spectrum - he found it hard. I home educated him from 12- 18 - and we h...

I love hand crank machines - I have three :oops: - one inherited from my gran, and I have a Jones pedal machine my oldest singer is from 1892 http://www.colouritgreen.co.uk/singer.jpg still works fine - I bought it from the charity shop for £10. Imagine it was in use through 2 world wars, probably m...

having recently ventured to the big smoke - well the nearest city I'm back to mail order being the way forward - we spent a fortune on parking, the shops didn't have what I wanted even though I knew they sold it, and there were all these *people* - what can I say, we dont get out much. I shop local ...

the set up we plan on at the end is a wood fired esse, contributing to a thermal store, with solar tubes also adding their bit. and a gas boiler for the times we have flu etc and dont have the energy to fill up the stove with logs. so far we have the thermal store , the economical gas boiler, the ol...

Homemade membrillo is worth the effort of growing quinces, although I have to make do with Percorino rather than Manchego cheese as an accompaniment. Just reading the recpie for membrillo makes me want to grow a quince to try it! I do have a Chaenomeles , but I've been semi-bonsaiing it for years a...

well I'm jealous!

We planted a quince 6 years ago - and the tree has been trying to die ever since!

very nice looking birds and eggs :)

assuming you have thought of the obvious health things like worms etc hens do often stop laying come summer - the peak is Easter - predictably! you can't make a non laying hen lay - other than taking away any problems - such as worms and mites etc. if she is still not much of a layer - well then it ...

alexllever wrote:

red wrote:are yous guys laughing at my sheep!

wow! sheep mama is here! welcome!
hey your sheep is so cute! i love it! how is he/she now?

she is good bit woolier now - thank goodness with this wintery weather!