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So who did we think should be responsible for children’s diets? Was it the parents, the school, the government or the producers and advertisers of jolly tasty products. Or shall we just hope is goes away?

I wish I knew

It is a shame it come to that, I can't believe it is that bad! I suppose I have got used to normal living here. I do remember how difficult it can be though. On our allotments we were able to keep pigs, three of the committee people had a pig. We went on a pig course at a place called pig paradise t...

It’s interesting about Greece, I don’t pretend to know much about the politics of any country, but something is happening there. We (in Bulgaria) are getting quite a few Greeks and experts resettling from there. Perhaps it is because we are an hour or so from the border, close to home for them perha...

Pretty much the same as the riff raff element. I didn’t leave the UK because I hated it, or because I couldn’t find a job. My children are grown up now so I decided to give this a go. It was a funny thing, I was in my allotment one day with one of my daughters and the chap in the next allotment call...

It was something like that, I have been unable to find it again though.

The stuff which most people worry about is Bisphenol A, which is found in the stiff, usually opaque, water bottles so beloved of campers and hikers. However, the plastic used in those is polycarbonate. Bisphenol A is NOT found in PET and cannot, therefore, leach into anything from it. There is no r...

Does anybody know anything about perpetual onions. A very dear friend of mine will be bringing me some out in April and I really want to keep them going. I understand that one peels them off as required? Any information on that one would be gratefully received.

Well dun demi, you shood keep doin the rite thing.

I brew my own, in terms of keeping the beer, I have been going from bottle to plastic keg for years. I like the idea of the bottles, it feels nice to open a bottle, but the residue can be a bit of a pain, depending on the recipe how lashed I am etc. Last year I tried the pet bottles that Gregorach m...

marshlander wrote:Honestly, what next? Better not use a steam iron either then, that puts pints of water into the air. .

No she won't have it, I told her it was for her own good, but no, she just will not iron outside, we have a power point and everything!

[quote="MKG"]No amount of public education or allowing totally unqualified people a say in things they don't understand is going to change the reality of the situation. Some people have medical conditions which cause obesity, but the massive (see what I did there?) majority of obese people...

oldjerry wrote:Whereas here you need to have been thrashed at the right school,belong to the right club,and have political opinons somewhere to the right of Kublai Khan.

Lol

Yes you can, as I said you apply for your pension in the last country you worked in. What happens in theory is that the country that pays gets a percentage from all the other countries you worked in prior to retiring. So if you go back to the UK just before retirement age and either get a job or si...