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Thank you very much for all the info, will hunt one down, GA am especially going to hunt one of those down

Just thought would share this book, have always been a great fan of the dame herself and found this book in a charity shop, is extremely easy to follow and consise although bear in mind it is old fashioned but have found it to be a great beginners book! I have found it on the net for 60p

I have on the brew at the moment, elderflower wine, marrow wine, apple wine, peapod wine and plum wine!
Think next christmas could be wobbly!

oh they are going to need feeding...wi9th the odd bit for me

I bought an admittedly fairly cheap shredder a little while ago to shred newspaper for bird bedding, annoyingly I have to faff about cutting the pages into less than half to get them to go through the shredder and it jams with irritating regularity!! Does anyone have a shredder that is capable of sh...

Giving them to my 16 week old sprocker puppy who then gallops round the house with them stuck on his nose, wondering why he's bashing into everything..he just keeps coming back for more... think is funnier when you see it

Have succeeded in producing 8 christmas cakes in a weekend!! I normally have them done by the end of October but my poor old rayburn needed a bit of unexpected tlc..so the 7 people to whom I said blithely 'of course, no problem' to will have a lovely cake and no idea of the stress that they caused m...

Thank you all for your kindness, blackberries are fine up to a point...I have made lots of blackberrified things but think I need shares in a sugar plantation they are somewhat tart! Have been debating about goats for a while...

welcome

Hi All, Thought it was about time that I introduced myself, I have been loitering here since May and learnt a lot but never had chance to introduce myself. I live in Dorset and have just inherited 5 acres of brambles which used to be my grandad's smallholding- the phoenix is rising from the ashes bu...