Selfsufficientish.com

Hi Ct, we live on Raasay just off Skye and there has been plenty of good advice given so far. Camp by the sea or on a hill :cheers: never in a sheltered spot by a loch or river :( avoid august if possible the best weather is always in may or june :wink: avon skin so soft IS the best repellant :cheer...

Been pretty wild here for 24 hours now and there's worse to come http://www.xcweather.co.uk/ this is a good easy site to use, downloads quick for those on dial up and gives real time weather reports. My friends have not been so fortunate, a family I know lost the roof off their caravan last night an...

dunno owt about puters but stoneys post made look at my browser (firefox) it only accepts cookies from sites I visit and clears them whenever i close firefox

Wombat wrote:Clear as a bell today and low to mid thirties..........

Nev

That's just how I felt Nev when I was in my low to mid thirties now I'm in my low 50s I feel a little vague

http://i224.photobucket.com/albums/dd170/camillitech/a007Small.jpg I'm sorry guys I couldn't resist. We put Bramble in with Ginger yesterday or should I say we opened her gate to lead her across the croft to his field and she was off like a shot trying to get at him :roll: he wasted no time despite...

Stonehead wrote:Started the day with a gale, hail and bitter cold; finishing the day with a stiff breeze, rain and cold. Definitely an improving day...

same here stoney but no hail we had that yesterday

He'll no be in there very long chaps I'll bet my boots on it, He's far toooo slippery but I hope I'm wrong

Martin wrote:
And chicken and turkey were a luxury 50 years ago, it was a treat indulged in once or twice a year............

Aye and do you remember the legs were brown and the breast was white

and good to see you back matey

It's so refreshing to see so many of you without a TV, I hate the friggin thing, AND would quite happily throw ours in the sea but there would be a riot. Mrs C has just gone for a bath and told me not to switch it off, the dude's in bed she's in another room and Jamie Oliver is talking to no one :ro...

Hello and welcome Mainer from a wee island off Skye, do you not miss the sea

cheers, Paul

Yep, I think there is a big one on the way but as has been said if your not up to your eyes in debt and don't value the quality of your life on the number and size of your possesions you'll be fine :wink: A bit of belt tightening and a few sacrifices here and there is not in the grand scale of thing...

That's dad in my avatar red, aint he handsome

PS thanx stoney

Thought I,d go and have a look to see how the wains were settling in there new home at the south end of Raasay. Bacon and sausage as they are now known were doing just fine and i needn't have worried, they had a nice enclosure and a lovely plastic house made from an old fish cage float. I know you s...

New years eve 1990 (first one in this house) spring in living room since cured by digging 1m trench at gable end

The dude (8 year old boy) is demolishing lemony snicket books faster than my mum can get them off ebay :roll: but when he was wee we used to love the 'duck in a truck' series though his favourite was a book where this mole went round with a dog turd on his head asking all the various animals if they...