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Im not sure if Im putting this in the right place but anyway.....My partner and I have split up but are still living together for now. He plans to look for somewhere else after xmas. My house is a 4 bed stone cottage with an acre of land and 7 stone stables on a stable yard in various states of repa...

Hiya Im new too....we have 3 blackrocks and 19 ex battery girls, we call the blackrocks 'The Hooligans' they follow us everywhere and if they think we have a treat they fly straight up onto our shoulders to try to get first dibs on it. They lay lovely brown eggs too. Have fun with them x

yeah thats what mine looked like too..is there anything she could have caught it on? Could they have given her a swift nip when they are shut in for the night? I wouldnt worry about it too much, when we got our first hens I would lose sleep worrying about the littlest, totally bullied one.....she wa...

When we got our last lot of ex batts there was some squabbling and one of the girls didnt just have her comb pecked...she was grabbed by it and it bled quite a bit. I just cleaned it up well with warm water with a little salt in it....it soon healed up with a black scab and she has had no further pr...

You can make lemon balm ice lollies....I got the recipe from here and they are lovely http://blog.learningherbs.com/2008/07/l ... -pops.html

I had the ablation last Oct (I had the mesh one) as a last resort before hysterectomy and its the best thing Ive ever done....although painful at the time it was well worth it.....I get a slight bleed still but I have got my life back. Shepherds purse tincture is supposed to be good for heavy bleedi...

Reading this I realise how lucky I am...there are 5 houses here, we all rent from the old guy in the manor house (as run down as ours) who owns the village, everyone grows their own food and shares, no one dresses up as there is no where to go...I have to walk 3 miles to catch a bus. we live in scru...

[quote="Susiwaa"]Charity bags and takeaway leaflets here too. The really annoying thing about the charity bags is they come in almost daily and although for different charities they are all delivered/picked up by the same "white van man"!! We have several charity shops and multip...

Im very grateful (and very excited) for the orchard we have just been given....the trees all have canker and havent been bothered with for years and we have been told if we remove them and re plant new ones we can use the rest of the land aswell. This also means we will have a huge pile of firewood ...

My favourite when I was small (and now) has to be salad cream sandwiches

Have made toffee vodka and love it...also make it with cola cubes, put the vodka and a pound of cola cubes in a bowl in the fridge and stir a couple of times a day til dissolved, it never gets as far as a bottle....just drink it as shots

Warm water with some lemon juice first thing on a morning is also good for your liver...my Grandma swore by it to counteract all the sherry she had at bedtime

Id be careful with dried cat food if you have a male cat, my big black Tom took ill and was crying when he was trying to use the litter tray...I thought he was constipated but as the day got on he got worse and we had to rush him to the vets, male cats have a short urethra and dried food causes crys...

Hey Im Awne and Ive been visiting these boards for a few years now, have the book etc. Ive recently moved into my little corner of paradise....a little cottage in a village of 5 houses and 2 farms with a small plot of land. I got myself 3 black rock chickens in April and became addicted and rescued ...

Hiya Im new here too, Im between Barnard Castle and Staindrop x