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Aw bless! I'm late with the thanks - barely been reading the internet and just noticed your wishes today!

Thankyou!

LBF

Our spuds have been weird too. The second batch we planted show very little signs of doing anything at all, and the third are up already!

I think my spuds are dead

Oh this is brilliant!

Thanks!

I'm sorry to hear of your troubles, Nev.

I hope they pass quickly.

Perhaps SSish folks can come up with new jobs for you?

LBF

Baldowrie wrote: I also believe, and some or may not like it, that if you take children out/away with you then you don't leave them alone in some hotel room whilst you go out and enjoy yourself with a meal and a drink or two. You at least take advantage of the baby sitting service, take them with y...

I'm certain you will all know about these pages but have you guys seen...

http://transitiontowns.org/

LBF

The mayor of Stroud wants to replace all the bags in the town with cotton bags.

Yay for ecologically minded political folks!

LBF

A bathtub, grounded and tied to the floor :P

I am not going senile, I have always been like this.

Just because they have a nice label for it when you are older...

I own dogs, work as a nurse, and do computer game coding as a hobby. A bit varied!

The Chili Monster wrote:'cos that would result in less revenue for the government, that's why. Cynical, aren't I?

A vicious accuracy.

Oh yes please!

I found elderberry trees up there today so I shouldn't have to scrabble too much for that at least.


The Cairn o'Mohr wines are lovely - we were given a bottle of the Elderberry one last year and forgot we had it til this week when it went down very nicely after a day in the garden.

Has anyone got any idiot proof wine receipes? We have never done it before and would like to turn some of our stuff into alcohol!

Oh thanks, Robin. I have got a photo of some of it, to show how bad the problem is. http://i169.photobucket.com/albums/u240/littlebluefish_photo/19-05-07_1113.jpg This is just a few of the trees it covers. What we have been doing is cutting it off at the ground, and pulling roots as much as we can, ...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/6673549.stm

Veggies win!

Luckily, I had convinced himself that what we really need is a chocolate tasting club box of chocolates monthly...