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cor thanks!

you've made my day!

We've inherited a huge hawthorne tree and it's laden with berries.

Does anyone know if they can be turned into wine?

A project I want to do with my own kids... I plan to use some junk (an old bicycle wheel, some sort of pole and some yoghurt pots etc) to make a sort of windmill for my allotment. I want the windmill to make noise and move things to scare the birds off my seeds :lol: I reckon it could be an ongoing ...

all of the above advice is spot on but here's an extra tip. I found that 'trenching' was the the most successful way for me. Making compost takes a while so while I was waiting I dug a narrow trench, put in a layer of newspaper then filled with layers of kitchen scraps, covering each layer with a la...

Hi possum! so far, I have only lost one bird, (to a fox) and she was a bantam frizzle. But I understand that the majority of hybrids are not very long lived...being bred to produce eggs every day at the expense of longevity. Sadly, battery hens are usually culled after one year for this reason. Howe...

I have an eglu :lol: Yes they are expensive but having used wooden coops in the past, I'm never going back! Our eglu (bright pink) takes just moments to clean, makes it so easy for people to 'chicken sit' while we're away and looks so funky I just love it. On the omlet site there is a thread for vis...

lovely start to your blog!

I'm like a child....always so amazed and gleeful that I can chat to people on the other side of the world!

congratulations on the new members of your household

can't you put it in recycled plastic pop bottles?
surely that would be safer?

thanks for posting the recipe....I love ginger beer

I don't pretend to know how or why these diseases keep emerging...foot and mouth, bse, bird flu....

but I feel certain that while animals are reared intensively and transported live across whole continents, dead across the whole world.....things can only get worse

I remember Thetford........so picturesque with window boxes and hanging baskets....a pretty village green with a saxon mound.......and a bloody great punch up in the market square every saturday night

I did feel sorry for them, and was willing to help, but i'm not now. If i was anything to do with the insurance assessors, i'd be turning down the claims due to wilful damage od property. . Good God! these poor people have been thru so much! I would imagine that they are shocked and dazed, utterly ...

you know...I think it's lovely that you were moved to tears, thanks for sharing.
I'm gonna go get my kids to see this

Done

Thank you for highlighting this one....I didn't know anything about it but I am deeply concerned about the erosion of the right to peaceful protest in this country of late......I think I might toddle along to this one myself

two thoughts..... one is that eating the placenta supposedly replaces much of the goodness given to the baby during pregnancy and is rumoured to prevent a range of post partum disorders ranging from iron deficiency to hormone induced psychosis (a rare but devastating condition ) Very often in nature...