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Wow! Well done, that is very impressive, bet you can't wait until you have lots of little chicks running about.

Having tried (and failed) this weekend to make a compost bin out of an old pallet, I take my hat off to you for constructing a whole henhouse!

Me too MMM, they love my bathroom, which means lots of dead ones in the bath

Apparently Mole Valley Farmers or Countrywide stores sell it without prescription?

Thanks folks for the advice. In answer to questions - at the moment it is nice wooden 2 bar fencing and I don't think she would pay for it - don't want to push my luck! I hadn't thought of pallets - brilliant idea. Also didn't realise that you could tap into existing electric fence (I think she has ...

Thanks guys, very helpful advice. I don't remember it being windy when we lit the test, and the sweep did a smoke test-thing which was sucessful, so I am thinking it may be one of the other reasons. Will experiment with ventilation - as it is a rented house I don't think our landlady will stretch to...

Hi, Nearly feinted when my lovely landlady offered me the field behind our house yesterday for veg growing. :cheers: :cheers: :cheers: But she did say I would have to put up some fencing to stop her horse from munching on the veggies (as has been known before). The only problem is all of the online ...

I found a nice recipe for 'spicy apple ketchup' in Country Living Magazine (at the doctors' surgery, not mine!)

I will try and find it for you and post it up here. It had green chililes and ginger in it from memory.

Hi, Please could you let me know whether I can plant rhubarb now? I have heard that it is best to plant in spring, but I have been given a chunk and want to plant it in the ground NOW so that I have some stalks in spring. (Oh I know, you aren't supposed to pick first year, but I live dangerously!) T...

Oh noo!!

How horrible for your mum, and for you!

I wish I could help - but I am afraid that other than pulling out a few feathers here and there, my chooks are comparatively buddhist!


I hope someone can come up with an answer.

Bonnie x

We have just moved to (rented) a lovely old house (about 200 yrs old) We had the chimney swept as soon as we got in - the sweep said that the lining of the flue (hoping that's how you spell it!) was old lime and sand and some of it came off when it was being swept - there was no soot apparently. We ...

WOW I LOVE it!!!

Well done!

And what a lovely little puss

Sorry to ask a grisly question...but would you dispatch the rabbit yourself?

Is there a generally accepted way of doing it?

Am trying VERY hard to be squeamish...I can't stand it when people are prepared to eat the meat but get all funny about doing the deed.

Bum indeed Gem, get yourself down this neck of the woods (Wiltshire etc)- I rented in Reading for a while once and found that most landlords are professionals - i.e buy to let and don't get involved with meeting tenents etc...and just impose a straightforward ban accross all of their properties. Age...

Wow! You lucky lucky thing!

Good luck. I am sure you will be fine...I think a polytunnel would be one of my first ports of call, so that you are ready to get a head start in spring.

Mmm, that does sound lovely. Do you think it would work in the slow cooker?

I guess you could just put the pre-soaked chick peas in and let them cook all day.

We are trying not to eat meat 4 days out of 7, so this would be ideal. Thanks!