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Hello one and most certainly all, Here's me busy at work and missing out on all the birthday wishes! Thanks Adrian for pointing this out to me! My birthday passed with much ease; the morn was spent sat in a hide watching little grebes diving for fish, the noon spent taking a friends sick cat to the ...

81. With the early mornings and late nights, and in accordance with the life of self sufficiency, the bags under your eyes have now turned into ‘bags for life’.

Alas, due to the nonsensical duty laws here, the stuff has to have an ABV that doesn't exceed 1%

As a fine 'someone' once said, “the only reason people would want to drink something that low in alcohol is if they enjoy going to the toilet a lotâ€Â

And what kind of cottage industry are you working at. I'd love to know! We produce a lot of our own food (although certain aspects of it we have to buy and turn into something good ‘n’ wholesome). By partner is looking into producing vegan food to sell at local health food shops, but w...

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73. The delight in finding out the charity shop has demijohns in. 74. Driving past a fly tip and wondering what useful things you could make from the rubbish. 75. Looking at every species of flora and wondering what you could make with it. 76. Material & monetary assets become insignificant and ...

MY nettle beer was pants as too much yeast, I have the same problem with my latest batch. I was attempting to make a full 20 pints of it, but when adding it into the demijohns I found I only had 15 pints worth… Not to sure what went wrong (probably watching TV at the time of making it seems t...

Hello Paul the Cardinal and welcome to the site!

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Hello to you both. I best start posting on the forum now to remove Margo!

Cheers,
The Cardinal.

January 9th - Ina February 1st - AnnetteR 4th - Nick (Renee) 8th - Lou8 (Lou) 14th- Martin March 2nd - Daisygirl (Julia) April 16th - Timberframer (David) 20th- Manxminx (kerry) 21st - Polly (Mancblue's better half) May 23rd - Millymollymandy (Mandy) 27th - Wombat (Nev) 29th - cat (Catherine) 29th -...

Hello to everyone else who has kindly said hello since I originally did.

Should be a fun on here; I would otherwise be spending my evenings sorting through my stamp collection or hugging my demijohns, so it’s nice to get away from it all.

Cheers,
The Cardinal.

Konbanwa Adekun san, Slightly funny old world is this ‘ere world. Only yesterday, whilst introducing myself (I’m new too) I was about to go off on one of my rants and talk in Japanese. My OH said that being new, the idea of speaking in a foreign tongue was probably not advisable, to whi...

Hello you three.

Cheers,
The Cardinal.

Hello everyone, I, the Cardinal, and my other half have been scheming to oust the consumerist shackles of our capitalist society for many moons now and finally we have begun to establish a small cottage industry for our wants and needs (mostly alcohol on my side of it). Even today, I have been peeli...