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by pskipper
Sat Oct 06, 2007 7:21 am
Forum: Wild Foods and Foraging
Topic: Wild food - Our cats got to eat a kamikaze pigeon
Replies: 8
Views: 4446

I was woken up in the middle of the night once by a big bang against the window, when I opened the curtains there was an owl flying away in a wobbly fashion and a beautiful owl mark on the window with detail down to the feathers. Our cats used to love it when birds flew into the patio doors, if they...
by pskipper
Fri Oct 05, 2007 4:11 pm
Forum: The ish Local - (Chat)
Topic: Crash
Replies: 14
Views: 3646

Hopefully the insurance company will do the right thing, if not there are always the regulatory bodies,

http://www.financial-ombudsman.org.uk/

This should be the right one.
by pskipper
Fri Oct 05, 2007 11:09 am
Forum: Home Brew and other Country Skills
Topic: Ginger beer plant :)
Replies: 7
Views: 3207

I'm going to bottle it in ribbed mineral bottles, past homebrew experience has taught me they are good as the ribs start to pop out a good few hours before the bottle explodes!
by pskipper
Thu Oct 04, 2007 3:00 pm
Forum: Allotments, Veg Patches and Container Gardening
Topic: freezers
Replies: 22
Views: 7859

I got it from Currys, just checked and they still do them

NORFROST C2BEW WHITE Chest freezer 003385 £109.95

60litre capacity and B energy rating
by pskipper
Thu Oct 04, 2007 11:19 am
Forum: Allotments, Veg Patches and Container Gardening
Topic: freezers
Replies: 22
Views: 7859

I've a small chest freezer with half the footprint of a conventional fridge, so if you only need a little bit more storage space that could be the way to go. (It was the only one which would fit in through the door of my old flat!)
by pskipper
Thu Oct 04, 2007 7:14 am
Forum: Home Brew and other Country Skills
Topic: Ginger beer plant :)
Replies: 7
Views: 3207

Apparently with a little skill you can get it up to 11% :cheers:
by pskipper
Wed Oct 03, 2007 12:30 pm
Forum: I read the news today, oh boy.
Topic: hows this gonna help
Replies: 6
Views: 3338

They clambered over Stonehenge last year :cry:
by pskipper
Wed Oct 03, 2007 7:32 am
Forum: Home Brew and other Country Skills
Topic: Ginger beer plant :)
Replies: 7
Views: 3207

Ginger beer plant :)

Started a ginger beer plant last night from this recipe,

http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/A634664

remembering explosions from childhood it's living in the sink with the washing up bowl upside down on top of it :lol:
by pskipper
Wed Oct 03, 2007 7:30 am
Forum: Tomorrow's World (Computing and Tech)
Topic: Broken screen on laptop
Replies: 10
Views: 5799

E-bay often has replacement LCD screens from stripped down laptops!
by pskipper
Wed Oct 03, 2007 7:14 am
Forum: The ish Local - (Chat)
Topic: 7 hours in London...
Replies: 11
Views: 2452

The British Museum is open on Sundays and currently has a display of the terracotta army!
by pskipper
Wed Oct 03, 2007 7:00 am
Forum: The ish Local - (Chat)
Topic: Favorite Weather
Replies: 12
Views: 2755

Favorite Weather

Just wondering what everyones favorite weather is, it's the first day this year that I've been tempted to bunk off work because of the weather, its warm with a low mist and a magnificently bosky smell coming from the local woods, if I was a little bit weaker I'd be borrowing my friends dog and vanis...
by pskipper
Mon Oct 01, 2007 7:41 pm
Forum: The ish Local - (Chat)
Topic: What would you do with................................
Replies: 18
Views: 5139

Put it towards double glazing, brrrrr
by pskipper
Mon Oct 01, 2007 12:59 pm
Forum: The ish Local - (Chat)
Topic: Selling out!
Replies: 16
Views: 5104

When you start doing adverts telling us all how green the oil industry is :lol:
by pskipper
Mon Oct 01, 2007 12:46 pm
Forum: Welcome New People Say Hello
Topic: Helloo Ish
Replies: 6
Views: 2529

Welcome Snapdragon,

Nice to see more people from wiltshire :wink:
by pskipper
Sat Sep 22, 2007 8:27 am
Forum: Fruit and Nuts
Topic: Mulberry trees
Replies: 26
Views: 16206

I've never seen mulberries for sale in the shops - anyone else?
Our local garden center does them, not much use for people not in Wiltshire though!