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OK this is my real username now.....

Always smells of doggies! (general dog hair smell and unfortunately, dog farts....) And incense.

Often smells of refried beans, my favourite meal is pinto beans mashed up with fajita spice mix, yum!

Love the book 'Dont Shoot the Dog' and there are some "simple" instructions in it for training a chicken to dance! Amazing. I would love to train a chicken to dance, but think I need to concentrate on my doggies first! However, after reading that book I managed to train my cat to 'sit' on ...

Hi I have had many problems with my dogs running off (but we didnt have a fence to keep them in but are building one now as we are near an area with tons of stray dogs so i dont want them forming a pack with the strays), anyway I found walking them twice a day at least, and making sure it was a good...

Green Aura wrote:Hi Emma glad to hear you're doing well. Sounds like fun although mine would be looking after cats rather than dogs

Keep in touch.

Thats what I said until I saw the dogs! But there is a cat on its way to us as well.....

Oh no Fee! Let us know how its goes. Not often on Ish now as I'm very busy in Portugal on the quinta but am keeping an eye on it every now and then!

emma xxx

Thanks for the info! I will pass it along!

Hi, i am in Portugal and our host wants to make a reed bed system to filter out the water from the showers etc but we don't have much time to do research etc so it would be really helpful if anyone could post their experiences or point us in the direction of good websites with free info! Thanks in a...

Internet, marmite, chocolate and books!!

I think there would be absolutely nothing to stop you putting in false info, after all who is going to know?

Thought some of you might be interested in this poet. I saw him at Glastonbury and also at Climate Camp Blackheath and he's very good (mostly about climate change), also writes articles for the New Internationalist and has a pretty interesting blog. His myspace is http://www.myspace.com/dannychivers...

SusieGee wrote:When I saw the subject heading I thought you'd found some more rude veggies!

Susie

I was (not so) secretly hoping for this too!

ARGH that is nuts. Surely we should be using the remaining oil to build a society where we won't have to rely on it anymore? i.e. to make PV panels etc instead of frittering it away on frivolities!!

Has anyone got a link to a news story about this so I can see details?

i think Mrs Flibble did some kind of lavender jam? I may be wrong but I'm sure someone did!

That Mr and Mrs Carrot photo is one of my favourites!! The tomato is a good'un too!