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If they gave out gold medals for sleeping.well I´d have won no probs the last few months! I´ve been having difficulties getting a good night´s sleep for a while, so got some tablets from dr, so for a week or so now, have had decent uninterrupted 8hrs or so each night,..but still feel as tired. well...

When we decided to put raised beds in our front garden I got straight to work (it took me about 18 months! lol.) I dug out all the old fruit bushes, bay tree, collapsed rosemary hedge, cut down the hazel and dug over the whole lot. When it was bare, people said how nice it looked (when it was full ...

When i was a kid we used to 'fire' bindweed buds at one another by squeezing the green base until the white bit shot out...simple pleasures. Cleavers has been used in the past for straining milk and the little beady bits for putting on pins (don't ask why, I dunno). I think I found this info in Rich...

Salt fish. I've read more than once that salt fish only came to the UK with Jamaicans who came to live here in the 1970s but my family (of Irish descent) had it in Liverpool in the late 50s/early 60s and it was lovely for Sunday breakfast with hot bacon fat on top of it...I haven't had it for about ...

Currants - that sounds like a briliant idea, I'm very partial to them.

I have a space at the back of my house about 6 feet by 6 feet. It's nearly as high as the first floor of the house as I'm on a steep hill, but because it's also surrounded by bigger buildings, fences, trees etc it only gets sun in the middle part of the day, if that. RIght now it's growing some bron...

Sly riposte from Catholic parishioners to priests who were too intrusive: 'Hello Father, it's always nice to see your back.' (Sounds so innocent when you say it aloud.) And to a priest who would stand with his bum practically in the fire, blocking it for everyone else: 'That's right, Father, warm th...

Thanks, that's amazingly good news. What an easy crop...and I actually like it (I know not everybody does! )

I grew chard for the first time last summer. It was brilliant, survived all that snow we had in the winter and is now in the process of bolting (I'm pulling the flower heads off to make it last a bit longer, but it's making them faster than I can get rid of them). The bloke on the next allotment say...

Ah! that explains the mystery, Fifi Folle. I just came back from B&Q where there are purple sacks that DO have the Which logo. However - I'm more likely to believe someone who says they've tried it and it's **** than I am to believe a logo. Could be that the purple stuff was good when Which? tes...

Hi Just a wee "heads-up".B&Q are selling a peat-free compost in a purple bag; do NOT buy! It has close to zero capillary-action and rots in the bottom of the pot; it is either so dry it sound hollow when knocked, or, so wet that it stinks of rot. The green coloured bag, however, got a...

Thank you,everybody, I feel truly welcome.

boboff wrote: Or just keep it "just in case" which will involve moving it about 9 times then burning it eventually.

Ah yes, I'm really great at that!

There seem to be quite a lot of us from Somerset on here... I have a very small allotment in Glastonbury and couldn't be anything like self-sufficient from that. I just try to live as frugally as possible, sometimes going a bit mad and splurging out, and having several small jobs rather than one big...

Hi Frugaldom, good to see you here after the Frugal Challenge Thread!