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I had McDonalds earlier, now I've got student rooms, Manchester...nice to know the ads think I'm younger than I am!

http://www.selfsufficientish.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=11&t=13615 This has all the Ishers blogs on it. I've gone through these two threads and taken everyone's blogs/flickrs/shops/websites and made stickies. Personally, a real favourite of mine is http://www.pioneerwoman.com She's ace. Read the ...

I've seen places that tell you how to make them.

Try www.Instructables.com there's probably a few tutorials on there :)

I edited your post Berry - the word p0rn. If you type it correctly, it identifies you as a spammer due to the word filters, so i edited it so you're not :) I think the other problem with obesity is that the causes are not studied enough by the medical profession. I have PCOS (Polycystic Ovary Syndro...

personally, I think this is worse than overfeeding a dog. This is a conscious choice to make the dog look stupid. Any dog that I've seen this done to has always looked embarrassed to be in that state. Fat dogs although uncomfortable, usually look happy at least. And sometimes, it's hard to keep a do...

I looked into ostriches (really!) and they needed a dangerous animals licence. With the plans that the Family and I have, we wouldn't be able to get a dangerous animals licence because they'd be close to the public (although fenced off). Rhea birds are, however, not class as dangerous :) Unfortunate...

That's why I was thinking of getting alpacas - for fox protection. As I understand, they will get used to the 'family' dogs, but not tolerate strange dogs. If everything works out, there is a chance of strange dogs coming near them, but not in the same area (the animals will be fenced off). I'll be ...

Thanks for asking around for me! I only read about the copper supplements on a website somewhere, so it might not be absolute. In the dream, the animals all have separate sleeping areas (don't want the goats trampling the chickens). I don't know if they'd all sleep in separate areas in reality, but ...

They have that horrible vegetable oil cream stuff here too. It's really quite vile.

good luck with cream from milk. Keep us informed about how you get on :)

I learnt a lot on this thread! Thanks Trinder for all the info. I've never been a horsey person, but was considering renting some land to people to house their horses. And...I hate to say it, but in the cold winter, my dog will still be wearing her jumper. And possibly her rain coat (she hates the r...

and people wonder why dogs bite them...

Keep posting people, this is something I'm interested in too! Ooh...that reminds me: DEFRA movement licences - how do they work for goats? I'm talking about the UK laws. I see goats going to farmer's shows and local schools and stuff, but when I've been reading about getting them, you need to leave ...

I'm really enjoying the series. I used to go coppicing in a local wood when i was younger. This brings back so many memories of cold days chopping down trees and having stew for lunch! I like the fact that he's explaining why these things are done too. At the time, we understood that coppicing is pa...

I';ve seen adverts on websites for freelancers for 'forum posters' and that is exactly what they ask for - people to sign up to forums, make a few posts and then sell the usernames/passwords back.

They have to sign up for doing somewhere in the region of 3000 posts...

Not much! Still In China.

I moved to Jiangsu last September, and it's really nice :)

Glad to hear you're both doing OK. Good to hear from you