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This thread is just what I needed :icon_smile: Am reassessing my budget due to circ's beyond my control. With teenagers I don't want them to miss out on the "normal" things, but if I can bring the food etc budget in at £50 like Ann then I won't have to make them budget too at least Would there be an...

Twinnings English Breakfast in morning, and a gentle Earl Grey in afternoon. didn't realise I was so addicted until first time I went abroad and couldn't get a cuppa - was crawling the walls by day 2! Like the chai latte idea - will definitely try that - I buy it in powdered form at the moment but i...

What a nightmare you have been through. Landlords always check out tenants, but I've never before heard it to be necessary the other way around. Take care and happy packing x

Well my flower seeds must like emulsion - they're coming through already! Maybe I've hit on an instant fertiliser!

Is it my age or my ish-ness that I no longer even contemplate fashion shopping, but get excited if I find a decent hardware store :iconbiggrin: Me too! We have two old-fashioned hardware stores in Aberystwyth - two ! :iconbiggrin: :iconbiggrin: :iconbiggrin: And from what I recall you have decent h...

That is so brilliant :iconbiggrin: You must congratulate yourself on having not wasted a big chunk of your life. I work as a paralegal and love what I do, but the extra stress the lawyers in my office are under is immense - so I understand you wanting to keep your skills up, but at a comfortable lev...

Is it my age or my ish-ness that I no longer even contemplate fashion shopping, but get excited if I find a decent hardware store :iconbiggrin: My only exception to "normal" shops at all is Selfridges (Birmingham) food hall - strangely enough I can't afford to do that often :( My local Sally Army ch...

I don't know if you'll be able to get this link in NZ, but this gardening programme tonight showed someone with an 8ft balcony and they managed to grow 85kg of produce from it http://www.itv.com/itvplayer/video/?Filter=252325
(you do have to suffer Alan Titmarsh though!)

Oh... and don't forget, you need to earth up any runner beans that you have to 6 inches of the top of the plant.

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Oh Julie - I wish you could have seen my face I had to have a really good think about it

Just off to buy some tartan paint!

Hi Zoe,

Wow - that was instant!

This lot is only emulsion, and still wet - so will just give the next ones I pick up a good wash!

Thanks

Only my second year gardening and still learning so please bear with me! I'm running out of pots to plant my veg on into. Much to my children's dismay, my other new passion is skip-diving, and there seems to be a ready supply of large plastic industrial size paint pots about. Can I use these for my ...

I would agree with trying the local hospice. My uncle never was admitted in the end - managed to stay at home, but used to go one day per week to give my aunt a break, and to get him used to it incase it became necessary. He was not the sort of man who "joined in" anything, but he really enjoyed it ...

Julie - so glad to hear that your daughter walked away from this. In some respects you can worry a little less often as they get older = but the minute cars are involved.............. On the ish front - I'm thankful for the carousel from the inside of a neighbour's cupboard I've just rescued from th...

See- that's why I'm terrified! People like Mrs F go around looking lovely and a brilliant advert for Ish. I, on the other hand, when the last of the clothes run out, will be going around looking like a bag lady!!

Seriously, that bag is superb

Depends on your definition. Billy Bragg has already had a mention (BB is God!!), but I like the nu-folk. Laura Marling and Mumford & Sons got me through the winter! - strangely I don't listen to some much in the summer as I like the peace and listening to the birds in the garden, (Please prove how n...