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Good luck with that, Andy. You must be pinching yourself!

This is the conversation I have in my head on a regular basis. I thought it was just me!

Difficult to contemplate without a glass of home made wine, though, and since it is 8am, perhaps I had better come back tonight!

How about this one from St Hugh:

http://www.rivercottage.net/SeasonalRec ... 3%a9e.aspx

You are lucky!

Given the choice would you want to subject your OH and family to having 3+ people coming into your house day in day out for the sake of making a living? This happens to us every day, minus the camera crew though! (I am a childminder). I love HFW wherever he lives. Jamie has jumped on the bandwagon,...

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Article from the Ecologist online: Scientists at Landau University in Germany have demonstrated that the electromagnetic radiation emitted by mobile phones and base stations can interfere with the bees' navigation systems, making them unable to find their way back to their hives. In an experiment co...

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Are they too little to make their own as part of the activities? If you can get hold of some little brown paper bags with handles (like you get from the Chinese restaurant), they could decorate them? If they are toddlers they are probably too small. Good for slightly older kids though. Jane ps I got...

Hey, Gordon! You a smithy then? (I am good on picking up on these subtleties...!)

Welcome to SS.

Jane

I hope they gave you a credit, Martin? Why were you up so early?

hedgewizard wrote:More solvent and less supple... can I use that?

If you can find a way...?

Lordy, you lot all lead very interesting lives. A bit too interesting in some cases. I hope those of you who had a rotten year last year get a good one in 2008.

Thanks you lot. The vague feeling of impending doom I have been carrying around with me is now not so vague! We both have reasonable incomes, but we have a huuuuuuuge mortgage. DH is a teacher so his job is safe, I am a childminder, so my job is rather dependant on my clients staying employed. We bo...

Sounds suddenly more and more interesting...

If it is still in print, Vegetarian Kitchen, by Sarah Brown is good I think. And Rose Elliot is ever popular, although I find a lot of her recipes uninspiring.

For little ones, all the Charlie and Lola books are lovely (Lauren Child), plus the Shirley Hughes Alfie and Annie Rose books, and her series for toddlers - such fabulous, old fashioned illustrations! Also anything by Jill Murphy (she does the Large family, and for older readers the Worst Witch seri...