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i used water and cotton wool, my 2 are a bit past this stage tho (6 and 9)

i choose 'i work from home' and if people ask further they get the full monty, because i am not 'just' a 'wife' not just a 'mum' not just a 'housewife' i am also a 'procurment agent' a 'chef' a 'childcare expert' an 'accountant' a 'teacher' a 'gardener' an 'engineer' a 'driver' etc etc etc etc I AM ...

not being picky (i hope) but if a vegetarian why not eat veg, rather than meat substitute? we are 90% veggie here but eat fish, the rest is veg and pulses, i don't get why you you would want a flesh substitute?

tomatoes and basil grow well in a pot together, funnily enough they cook well together too!
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Oh this makes me so ANGRY, I went through similar things when i had my first, when it came to my second i flatly refused to go to the clinic at all, just to the GP for jabs etc. Only you know what is right for your baby. The real reason that we're all instructed to have baby weighed weekly, and have...

my mum has a (old) electric F&R machine, she gets her needles from John Lewis, fitting 'might' be the same.

they grow quickly here, sadly the b8888y monkeys get them before they are ready to harvest LOL

we just plant the tops in the ground and they grow, the few we've got to before the monkeys have tasted great, no idea what kind they are tho'.

What nickname did you have as a kid? titch, and my dad called me botticelli What did you want to be when you were "all growed up"? aid worker - did that for 10 years when i 'growed up' What do you do for work now? building an eco-lodge Who introduced you to Selfsufficientish thinking? my p...

Hi Nev

No, it's a black mould on the bark and leaves, the 'fruit' are sort of shrivelled.

titch

hamna shida (no worries), they're bloody cheap to buy too

take a look at www.ankurscientific.com

wood produces the gas to run our generator, hope it helps.

we have 3 Avocado trees, 2 produce wonderful avocado's, 1 has a mould that means the 'fruit' is deformed and inedible. the tree is otherwise healthy, it produces new leaves etc. i am worried about the mould/disease spreading to the others more than getting 'fruit' from the 'sick' one as it's otherwi...

Hmmmm.....Sawa, but - third world is a patronising term, i've used it myself, but, piss poor or not the poorest nations in the world don't need to be patronised. I live in one of the poorest areas of Tanzania, it's missed out on all development monies and has no industry, and since the bottom fell o...

we have safari ants that give a painful bite, white ants that eat all wood even if treated and many other kinds that bite and eat everything. i spray any i find with diluted citronella oil, they die, i'm happy, sorry but dudu's (insects) here are a menace and i get rid of any i see. i developed a tr...

Why? How patronising!