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Doesn't sound good at all. Hope we keep at least a couple of admin for the next couple of days. Looks like Tony has been blown out of cyberspace - hope he's OK.

I remember as a kid on the farm, we roasted chestnuts in the ashes of the coal fire. Didn't skin them or anything, just put a cross cut with a penknife across the top in the hopes that it would stop them exploding. Mostly it did. Me Dad was the expert in this but he's not with us now. Other than tha...

Sounds like accountants who understand the price of everything and the value of nothing.

Thank heavens for the Pennines/Cheviots. We are sheltered from of the worst of it here. Done nothing for the rainfall today mind. That's very generous.

Come on Thomzo - you are going for the soft south west of the UK. Come up here to Northumberland for some bracing weather - will take you for a walk on one of our bracing windswept beaches.

Cassiepod wrote:There's a pleasure and satisfaction from creating or doing for yourself that can't be found in popping to the supermarket or buying something.

Ah we would be run off our feet with posts here if more people thought that way Cassiepod.

Helen - the children will grow up one day. But yes I do remember the days of small children. Think they were easier small than teens mind

Well hello again Helsbells! Nice to see you again. Yes it's a bit quieter nowadays. Possibly we've all found that the complete self sufficient dream is something we can't achieve. However some of us are plodding along doing as much as we can to be self sufficient. Sometimes doing as much as we can i...

Do you think we are all harking back to the old days when we had to do more for ourselves because the consumer society hadn't happened?

Only the young nettles are tasty - the older ones are unpleasant.

What is that word work Weedo? It sounds as if it wants training. Suppose you are self sufficient in work but possibly that's not want you want.

Did you ever read the report on the biosphere experiment that was carried in the 90s, in the US? If memory serves they couldn't provide sufficient food and all came out fairly malnourished. I sort of remember hearing that. One wonders if the people involved had any knowledge of growing and nutritio...

I expect that if you gave up gardening and sitting in a comfy chair in front of the computer you'd cure the back ache Mr Odsox! :lol: Seriously back ache is often using the wrong tools and sitting in the wrong position. I'm not into making my own household chemicals either so Green Aura can lecture ...

No doubt the cost of the dome, planning permission and sourcing materials.

You worked out yet if you'll be able to fly Ryan Air to that wedding yet?

And yet we seem to have readers. Very odd.