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- Wed Aug 15, 2012 12:49 pm
- Forum: Welcome New People Say Hello
- Topic: Hello from near Watford (UK)
- Replies: 13
- Views: 3322
Re: Hello from near Watford (UK)
Hello and welcome from a ex-Watfordian.
- Thu Aug 02, 2012 12:58 pm
- Forum: Herbs and Vegetables
- Topic: Herbs for hot summers/cold winters
- Replies: 5
- Views: 2243
Herbs for hot summers/cold winters
Hey folks, I'm starting to think about my herb garden that I hope to build this autumn/winter and plant out in the spring. Does anyone know of any perennial herbs that are tolerant of hot summers and cold winters. I'm talking about temps of 30-35C over summer and maybe a month of snow and temps down...
- Thu Aug 02, 2012 12:33 pm
- Forum: Welcome New People Say Hello
- Topic: Hello from Romania
- Replies: 20
- Views: 6569
Re: Hello from Romania
Hi Demi, My first major period of renovation starts this weekend with the roof and the chimney stacks. I'm going to (I say "I", but I actually mean the guys I've hired) strip off all the old tiles, keep those in good nick, replace all the battens and lay a membrane, then retile it. I'll ha...
- Tue Jul 17, 2012 5:05 am
- Forum: The ish Local - (Chat)
- Topic: What can you see from your window?
- Replies: 60
- Views: 26935
Re: What can you see from your window?
View from my bathroom window here in Bucharest, mid-winter. http://i1248.photobucket.com/albums/hh482/maykal1/view_bathroom.jpg View from bedroom window at my house in the countryside in Transylvania. http://i1248.photobucket.com/albums/hh482/maykal1/view_bedroom_sas.jpg Bit of a difference, no? :ic...
- Mon Jul 16, 2012 7:08 pm
- Forum: How do I??
- Topic: ...use a scythe?
- Replies: 9
- Views: 24484
Re: ...use a scythe?
We must remember in the days before the invention of the binder or reaper,gangs of men in line cut the grain crops and laid it in swaths for the women to bundle and pick up. This was not so long ago. It's still 'now' in Romania. Teams of men cutting crops with scythes is not an uncommon site here a...
- Fri Jul 13, 2012 2:34 am
- Forum: How do I??
- Topic: ...use a scythe?
- Replies: 9
- Views: 24484
Re: ...use a scythe?
Thanks for the comment and thanks especially for the video clip Rachel.
I'll give it a go but it does look like hard work, and as Durgan says, backbreaking, especially as I've already got a bit of a dodgy back to begin with!
I'll give it a go but it does look like hard work, and as Durgan says, backbreaking, especially as I've already got a bit of a dodgy back to begin with!
- Thu Jul 12, 2012 4:27 pm
- Forum: How do I??
- Topic: ...use a scythe?
- Replies: 9
- Views: 24484
...use a scythe?
Hi! I have an area of garden about 900m2 which needs cutting. The land is too rough for a mower at the moment and I'm not sure I want to splash out on a strimmer at this point in time, so I'm thinking of cutting it with a scythe the way all the grass is cut here in the countryside and has been since...
- Tue Jul 10, 2012 11:40 am
- Forum: Welcome New People Say Hello
- Topic: Hello from Romania
- Replies: 20
- Views: 6569
Re: Hello from Romania
Finally got my house in the countryside :cheers: Plenty of space for self-sufficiency projects. It has about 6 redcurrent bushes (just harvested about 2-3kg for jam), 3 plum trees, a pear tree, a small and decrepid apple tree, grape vines (probably about enough grapes for 500-600 litres of wine), ra...
- Fri Mar 16, 2012 4:51 am
- Forum: The ish Local - (Chat)
- Topic: Oh do stop moaning
- Replies: 33
- Views: 12274
Re: Oh do stop moaning
I always thought that referred to an inability to complain to anyone who actually matters ... You know, that thing where people tell the waiter that everything's fine and the food is lovely, and then spend the rest of the evening moaning privately about how awful it was? My grandmother's terrible f...
- Sat Mar 10, 2012 4:44 am
- Forum: The ish Local - (Chat)
- Topic: Oh do stop moaning
- Replies: 33
- Views: 12274
Re: Oh do stop moaning
Some people are just born moaning, it's their personality. Like being happy or sad. Take a moaner, give him a million quid, he'll celebrate, but within a month he'll be moaning about how people treat him differently and how the tax man is screwing him for all his worth. I think my OH takes the biscu...
- Tue Feb 28, 2012 8:01 pm
- Forum: What's in the pot? Recipes and anything about Cooking
- Topic: Is offal better for you?
- Replies: 19
- Views: 5463
Re: Is offal better for you?
My OH loves eating brains but I detest the texture. Kidney, liver, heart - all fine. Made some breaded balls a few months back, which were quite nice. Tried doing the same to the liver from a Black Sea turbot - not quite so nice (although again, the OH loved it - but then she also eats cock's combs,...
- Tue Feb 28, 2012 10:58 am
- Forum: Bring back the Goodlife - and other Television and Radio related things
- Topic: Stupid Music Rant
- Replies: 6
- Views: 22680
Re: Stupid Music Rant
US documentaries have been doing it for years. Many shows made by or for the big documentary channels (NG, Discovery, et all) are recorded with different narration tracks, using an English narrator for the show's UK broadcast and and US one for US broadcast. As a result, what seems like an English d...
- Mon Feb 27, 2012 6:59 am
- Forum: But what can I do?
- Topic: Industrial Society Destroys Mind and Environment
- Replies: 82
- Views: 52184
Re: Industrial Society Destroys Mind and Environment
Also, isn't one in three living creatures a beetle?bill1953 wrote:Mice and rats alone far outstrip the human population.
- Mon Feb 27, 2012 4:27 am
- Forum: But what can I do?
- Topic: Industrial Society Destroys Mind and Environment
- Replies: 82
- Views: 52184
Re: Industrial Society Destroys Mind and Environment
...One example being, if we all drove cars that did at least 50 mpg, think how much longer the oil would last. ...This not only stops your ordinary local peasant from buying local property, but can ruin the local economy. There is no point in having local shops/pubs/schools/surgery/etc, if the plac...
- Sun Feb 26, 2012 7:40 pm
- Forum: The ish Local - (Chat)
- Topic: paint/dec advice please!
- Replies: 5
- Views: 1500
Re: paint/dec advice please!
Obviously it's hard to advise without seeing the wall first but the surveyor is probably right. When you say 'flaking', what exactly do you mean? Are there elongated slits appearing in the paintwork from which the flaking is beginning, or are they more irregular flakes (say, like flaky skin)? You sa...