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The following is a UK site so you might need to 'translate' some of the words, (for example we say 'tack' but in the USA I believe you use 'baste') but several friends like it. http://www.startsewing.co.uk/ MW Great site - thank you for posting it. I had been looking for sites on how to repair clot...

Lillia wrote: Nice to meet you

Thanks Lillia. You too.

Odsox wrote:Hi Michelle, welcome to our forum.
It sounds like you have your hands full with all you have going on.

Thanks Tony!

bill1953 wrote:Hi to you! Nice to meet you too Lillia! x

Thanks Bill. Your cottage looks lovely.

Welcome and nice to meet you. Loved your comprehensive "who we are" nice that you started with a sense of your fun personality re chopping wood " I have a son for that" Made me laugh because I really did have a childhood whereby my brother filled the coal scuttle and cleaned all...

We had a hen we suspected was 'accidentally' breaking eggs. The other girls all joined in. We broke them of the habit by deep littering, using a fake egg smeared in peanut butter and removing the eggs as soon as we heard the tell-tale clucking. But the suspect hen died not long after of egg peritoni...

I'm a trained aromatherapist and highly insensitive to chemical fragrances. I haven't found any incense that doesn't set me off. I'm with Maggie on the home-made Shake'N'Vac. It works well for us - with 2 large dogs and 1 small. I use a combination of citrus oils - lemon and lime are both inexpensiv...

We have an Ecofan. Bought it from America as they were too expensive here. I think we paid £70. I think it does help warm the room up more quickly and more evenly - you aren't just warm sitting directly in front of the woodburner anymore! My daughter is chief fire-lighter in our house. I asked her w...

When I had an office I used to make baked potatoes in a halogen oven every day. They were absolutely wonderful! But I'm not very inventive, so haven't used it for anything else. It is apparently much cheaper than putting a big oven on for just a few potatoes. I hadn't thought of baking bread, will t...

I'm a huge camelid fan but don't have room for them myself. I've done llama treks and they are fabulous. Llamas are big (up to 400lbs!) but generally calm, easy to handle and mostly good around children. Alpacas are nervy and not easy to handle unless you have bred them yourself. Llamas aren't diffi...

Wow! So glad I found your post. I'd love an automatic door opener for my girls. I'm not an early bird and they are! Had a look at your lovely blog - your hen house is gorgeous.

Regards
Michelle

I'm also interested in aquaculture/aquaponics. Had a difficult job keeping indoor fish alive - apart from catfish, so they're obviously resilient enough to be a possibility for us.

How are yours now Chuck?

Regards
Michelle

Hi. Delighted to find this forum - which I came to from an Amazon review. I have a decent-sized garden in Lancashire, about a 1/4 occupied by hens. 2 Light Sussex, 2 Warrens and 2 ex-batts. The ex-batts are adorable but quite fond of pecking nice fat toes. I have some raised beds which I use for gro...