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Chill out let em grow my dogs love em , when they are big enough pull them up.

Heres what i do with my used teabags i sprinkle eucalyptus oil on em and lay a few round the soil to keep cats off and the rest i thrown under my azaleas or camillias with the crushed eggshells

I love reading yours now heres mine, i did feel a bit mean when i started saving everything with a view to "one day i will use it for something" I now save all our hair cuttings when the hairdresser comes and i put them round the garden, one to keep slugs at bay and two for a mulch for fru...

I have a foraging guide book and have learnt alot from this but im not brave enough to try fungi i would like somebody to show me first hand as i dont trust myself with just a book.

can only wish I had a Rayburn or Aga but I don't use my oven very much as its electric fan assisted. I prefer to make things in the pot on the gas hob. And I eat a lot of stuff raw, given that I'm vegan. The breadmaker is great for us, especially as we like to know exactly what is in our bread and w...

Well what can i say? i stumbled across this and ive read through your posts and clicked on the links and now im sat here wondering which planet ive been on ive never heard of moon cups or such like Hmmmmmmm just been diagnosed as at the beginning of my menopause too so maybe too late for me but i ha...

Well i have decided today to save all my junk mail cardboard and paper rubbish and make my own paper bricks for my garden chimeneys i will need a log maker off ebay and im not sure if all paper/card will be suitable but hey i will give it a go.

Very recently my partner has taken to hunting i have a colleague with a farm and he attempts to keep the bunny population down for her, usually ive got 4 or 5 in the freezer, he also shoots pidgeon and pheasant when in season, his latest ventur is to get a fire arms licence and go deer hunting now t...

Hi ex Stapleford girl i was born and bought up in Stapleford, attended the awful Arthur Mee Secondry Girls School, they closed it down the year after i left, nothing to do with me i promise. My parents still live in Stapleford.

Hi I work for social services as a home care manager, i have cared for over 24 years for the same organisation, im all cared out, sounds harsh but i now want to care more about me, instead of being stressed out by the manic, crisis managed, paper bog of local organisation. My O.H. works as a design ...

we too would love to do the self sufficiency thing and have a place to live and some land, we too have very little money to do it. the best option scotland some quite cheap crofts and derelict buildings but of course u have to like the weather, the remoteness, the peace, the quiet,the tranquility th...

Thanks for the welcome , i live in west hallam, near ilkeston. Currently my partner and i have desk jobs and im so very tired of the stress and daily travelling, i dream of a far simpler better life. i attempt to grow some veg and fruit, i have 3 dogs who do not earn their keep, lazy devils, and ive...

Hi all im in Derbyshire , been interested in changing my lifestyle for a few years and interested in reading your posts and learning anything.