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Oooh this is a goody... Sugar Free Date n Banana Cookies 3 Large bananas 1 cup chopped dates 2 Cups Oats 1/3 cup cooking oil (I use sunflower, dont use anything strong like olive) 1 tsp vanilla extract (not compulsory) Preheat oven to 180/Gas 4 In a large bowl squish the bananas through your hands t...

I certainly wouldn't advocate becoming any kind of nut. And "survivalists", at least on this continent, tend to have an excessive emphasis on "defending your stoclkpile", which, to me, just totally misses the point. Still, becoming more "ish" will probably resemble hom...

Oooh, I have just been listening to an audiobook by John Cummuta called Transforming Debt Into Wealth. Wow, highly highly highly recommended. Gives you a strong plan to clear debt (inc mortgage) sooo quickly and then a plan for the future too to prevent ever having to be back in the scary place of o...

Hmm, you really don't want Jeyes fluid on your compost that for sure but equally she can't have all those flies in the kitchen, Environmental Health would have a fit so you need to find a different system - is there room to have the compost bin outside and she just has a little counter top one she c...

Here is my entry... 3 blind mice...

They were dug from the strawberry patch this spring and curled up on a finger of my leather gardening glove.

grannymags wrote:Welcome!

I live in Plymouth but we want to move back to Cornwall.
I'm also a holistic therapist!

You will love this site. So much information to be had and
to share.

Maggie xx

Hello from me too! I live in cornwall, work in Plymouth and am an acupuncturist.Small world huh?!?!

ina wrote:Hiya Hedgecomber - welcome to Ish!

Like your name! Do you? I mean comb hedges, of course...

I have been known to... do you...??

red wrote:I can relate to that... my sheep look nicer than everyone else's too

(sorry to hijack your thread..)

Hijack away! I'm new here so it's nice to chat to some of the locals

And you still like them..??! :scratch: :lol: You wanna get yourself a couple of nice PRETTY muscovies hun... :lol: It is funny, when I see other peoples muscovies at shows I do think theirs are rather unnattractive. Maybe it's because mine all have such nice characters... Dunno. I do know I wouldn't...

[quote="red"just been looking at your pictures on your blog- they do look nice ducks[/quote]

Loving your blog red, can't believe you've got blackberrys out up there... must go and see what my patches are doing.

ack.. we have so much on... maybe hatching eggs later..when we have it set up... thanks for the tip re the house, thats a good point. how old before you turn them into roast? just been looking at your pictures on your blog- they do look nice ducks We take them to around the 10 - 12 week mark. oh th...

oh no!!! I've been planning on getting chickens & have the wood to make a decent sized run off a shed that we have spare, but haven't yet got around to it yet. But now I'm thinking that perhaps ducks would be much more fun! What are they like to keep? How many eggs would a typical female lay pe...

red wrote:ack.. we have so much on... maybe hatching eggs later..when we have it set up... thanks for the tip re the house, thats a good point.

how old before you turn them into roast?

just been looking at your pictures on your blog- they do look nice ducks

We take them to around the 10 - 12 week mark.

they are the best ducks as they are so quiet (had Aylesburys before and they just annoyed me :oops: ) oh god tell me about it :roll: :roll: :roll: cleaning floors of their houses is a daily, messy job oh god tell me about it :roll: :roll: :roll: :lol: :lol: :lol: Seperated at birth were we Milly......

Haha, chuckling that t.e.s.c.o. is censored here Love it