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The Mike and Lisa Adventures...Off Grid Living, Building, Green Living, Remodeling, Gardening and RVing After almost 5 years of posting stories I decided to put it all in one place. I started a blog this week and am slowly adding stories from the beginning. I am adding the Off Grid stories one by o...

if i was back home, i'd be Christchurch....but i'm not....i'm in London

hi and welcome.
I've been to Galway a long time ago, and loved it.....must really go back at some stage.
Glenamaddy....now thats in a song, and its going to bug me til i remember which one!!.

Hi Peppa Pig, hope your move went well.....i'm moving today!!.
Like the above poster, i love George....gampa ig

:iconbiggrin: That's a string length question, I'm afraid - it all depends on the key the whistle is made to play in (and exactly where the fipple has been placed, believe it or not). They can be anywhere between one foot and two feet long (the longer the whistle, the lower the tone). The lower-ton...

i have to make something to put a/some tin whistles in, for a swap i'm involved in. as its a surprise swap i cant directly or indirectly enquire about lenghts, so i'm asking you good folks. the person i'm sending to is a beginner, so some idea of standard lengths would be useful.....i'm aware they c...

what an interesting looking website.....i've saved it to favs to have a good look at when i have more time....thanks for putting it up

homegrown wrote:Hey Kiwirach, its was Balcairn a little bit north of Rangiora, but the new place is about seven minutes north just before waipara looking out over a vineyard

oh ok, nice area round there, and nice vineyards, with attached resturants.....been to a couple!!!.

Hey guys thanks for all your good thoughts,, we found a house today four bedrooms on 3200 square metres not 8 acres but big enough for now. its beautifully modern on a section with some established fruit trees but apart from that its bare so i can have all the fun of landscaping it as well as build...

ok, i'm green with envy .....a shed and a greenhouse!!.....mine was just a bare patch of earth!!.

well done!

Hi Jay, welcome. its always fun reading about others who are actually doing 'it', rather than me who is still dreaming!. altho, i have a garden and have begun my preps for this year!. my goal with my garden is more about how much i have to grow in order to not have to buy vegetables at all. and yes,...

mines in my signature as well. not updated much at the moment as i'm in a kinda 'no mans land'. however i hope to be in my own place within the next 2 mths so i hope to get back into ish gear a bit more!.

We bottle lots of tomatoes every year both whole toms and purée, and have had no problems at all and they keep for at least 2 years. The acid content of the toms stops any nasties or fermentation apparently. We put hot tomatoes into sterilised jars and then seal the same as jam and as soon as it co...

:oops: heres mine......i now know it would have been fine, and we never did grow together....within a month of making that post i got an allotment :cheers: *Hi everyone, this is my first post other than to say hello!. My friend and i are about to have our 1st go at growing veges this yr in her backy...

im now curious as to what else people have on there book shelves! remember have in a picture thread of book shelves on another forum a while back and that was interesting. ive found you can tell a lot about somebody by whats on there book shelf :mrgreen: :read2: i remember an american homesteading ...