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Lovely cakes mmmmm. I especially love the one with the bees, it would make anyone smile.

JuzaMum

It looks great, I can see the different colours in it which is different, wish I could make something like that.

I don't think you should post pictures of your 'thing' on a public forum
Cake looks yummy

JuzaMum

This sounds unlikely - ebay sellers don't display their address. I think after a quick google that businesses do have to display an office address but an individual selling a few bits through anothers website doesn't.

JuzaMum

Thanks - I will do that.

I saw small pieces of loofah for sale in a health food shop recently at £1.80!! so a good crop could make me rich

JuzaMum

I have a few little loofah seedlings growing on my windowsill and am wondering the best place to plant them out. I have single storey extension on my house and was thinking I could pop them in a growbag and let them trail over the roof. What I wanted to know is would they just grow over the roof (it...

Not too late Torisocks - jam making season isn't here yet so I have lots of suggestions to try before it arrives.

Welcome to Ish

JuzaMum

A nuisance of moles?

On another thread On a positive note, one of my dreams is to do something a bit similar. Have a decent bit of farmland, invite folk to come live there and help out, grow their own food/make a living there if they could. But, and it's a huge condition, I would have to win the lottery or something so ...

I was wondering if sweet potatoes grew the same way as the regular sort and was pondering burying a couple and seeing what happens. I shall watch with interest for updates.

JuzaMum

Fairies are definately real - who paints the pink bits on daisy petals if it's not fairies? One of my sons went round loudly declaring that fairies didn't exist then he lost a tooth. He put it under his pillow and in the morning he awoke to find a note there to him saying 'I don't believe in you' si...

2 kids and a whole loads of problems with contraception down the line, i dont want to put my body through anymore stress with hormones and the like and so have decided to do away with conventional birth controle and instead turn to natural family planning as my form of chosen birth controle. natura...

OK maybe not exactly but near enough:)

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-17511011

JuzaMum

Some science is just theoretical - anyone checked how far away the stars are? Actually, yes - you use parallax (which is just geometry) to establish your first baseline, and then you use Cephid variables (which have a well-established relationship between their luminosity and their period, discover...

same goes for mono-culture of anything though. diversity is best, but its more difficult to manage on large scale farms producing food for the mass market. Which will be impossible if the GMO's have their way. GM crops transfer their modified genes to plants of the same or closely related species a...