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thankyou all very much, so it sounds like stay chilled and don't worry about it. :) I'm drinking it with no ill effects so have to assume it's ok.

Thanks Tony.

Apart from some vague lines on our title deeds we have no idea where the water supply comes from ie where the pipes run in the field etc. Do you know how we'd go about figuring that out?

Hello, I think this is the best place for this. The house we just moved to has a private water supply which, most of the time, doesn't taste that great. Which is a bit surprising cos the water freely flows out of the hill behind us. When we bought the house the owner had a lot of trouble getting a w...

Hehehe not southwards, westwards, over by Lumphanan now with a spectacular view across to Cairn o Mount :)

How are you doing?

It's been quite a few years, work has got mentally busy, but we just moved a few miles further out of town and bought our own house. I'm starting a new vegetable patch from a nettle infested shady patch.... but we have space and it's all ours now :) I'm planning to reinstate the chicken coop this co...

Hi everyone I've received this through a friend at work. Please consider signing the petition (if you agree with it) to try and get some action on this issue. Breaking news! This morning, an important parliamentary committee said the pesticides that are being blamed for killing our bees should stop ...

Wrong kind of faggots.... I was thinking the edible ones....

Woweeee I've never heard of this at all that would be ace for gettin things started up where it's cooler for germination! thanks for the hint! I can't wait to try it.

Apart from possbily teh languages (thanks Fee :) ) the rest that I didn't have I thought were irrelevant to me and my life and unnecssary and didn't see a need to add them to my accomplishments....

24 1/2 too....

the sun is shining?
I'm alive, healthy and have a job I enjoy doing?
There are so many good and kind people in my life?
'ish alway shas a thred like that reminds how lucky I am?

Wow :) Happy New Year to you all, Nev. I'm just starting to think about getting ready for our New Year... Party and piping when the bells go :) No til 12:01 for me...

And I've just had a recommendation for sore throat from a herbalist of a thyme infusion, either fresh from the garden or about a teaspoon of dried thyme in a cup of boiling water, infuse, cool down to drinking tempaterature then drink and/or gargle with it. It works really well. I've had a sore thro...

oooooh! you're a mind reader! I just came onto ish in search of a pick me up because I'm very busy and stressed at work, and very busy in my social life whcih means I have no time... feeling very low today toowhich might be lack of coffee Thankyou boboff fo giving me a pointer to recentering myself....

Thankyou! Final pics will follow after my sister's big day a week on Saturday. I know have to get my mum and I, the flowers and foliage for the flower arrangements, and both our dresses down to london.... oh and an extra suitacase for my work trip to houston for which I depart the day after the wedd...