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41 That just when you think life has all gone completely pear shaped and could never possibly get any better because its so awful- a miracle happens and you realise that things ain't so bad after all I can totally agree with that - I just had an awful weekend where I felt so low and cried a lot... ...

I keep cool when I go to bed at night by draping a damp towel over myself for a while. A variation of this - when living in South Korea, I used to dampen my t-shirt before going to bed and that worked well to keep me cool... Now I'm back in the UK, I need some advice on how to get my housemates to ...

Make into Christmas crackers and shout BANG! when you pull them (as in The Good Life - I watched that episode last night and very good it was too)

As a student... I don't have a car or any form of transportation really and so taking supermarket plastic bags is not only bad for the environment but extremely uncomfortable! Walking all the way home the plastic handles dig into your hands and leave horrible red marks. I never even think twice abou...

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Much better was The Alloment series made by ITV West and avaulable on DVD http://www.allotment.info/ which was far more realistic, showing allotmenteering 'warts and all', failures as well as successes... I'd highly recomend it, sorry if its come up before but I'm new here... Looks interesting! Has...

http://www.seat61.com/ This is a useful site for train travel to almost anywhere. Someone mentioned about taking a baby to Spain... http://www.seat61.com/Europe.htm#Children These are his tips for train travel with children! Hope this helps a little. For what it's worth, I have decided never to fly...

Millymollymandy wrote:I like Carol Klein but now realise that a whole programme of her can be a bit OTT.

She scared my boyfriend...! I found the programme vaguely interesting but not informative... Probably won't watch again!

When I was a kid,my family did this several times and always had a positive experience! Since I was one of four kids there wasn't a lot of money and we probably wouldn't have had all the fantastic holidays that we did without house swaps. We went to Holland and Germany and the Czech Republic with ho...

...or something like that! I've been a 'lurker' on this forum for quite a while, but have decided to introduce myself and start posting now and then! What makes me self-sufficient-ish? Well - not much really, yet. But I do want to be and have started doing the little things, like refusing plastic ba...