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I'd need to be starving to use a snare these days.Why not lie up with a firearm?

They vary in size,dependant upon the variety.There are also some Chinese things,which are a different vegetable,that look identical but are half as big.They are ,apparently, brilliant for diabetics.

Last year,when I had a couple of quid,I bought a pair of indoor LED light boards from Brightlightz.They mean that I can comfortably sow a bit in early Jan,and grow on in the tunnel,(or indoors if you've no outside power).This way your plants will be big old units(keep potting on) before you stick th...

Work?..Miles away?....you've just dodged a bullet...........................(Mind you ,the bloke's still an A---h---).

If you deny potatoes water, they tend to become hard rather than soft,or more correctly,they take ages to soften when you boil them,then go straight to mush. As above,it's all about variety,though,the 'all round ' spuds everybody's so keen on are a poor compromise,grow 1 waxy,1 floury and one salad ...

You can buy little home paper shredders fora tenner or so,they don't use much electricity,and they're brill with newspaper.

You're on one now.See above.Washing powder is so easy,I don't know why every one doesn't do it.None of that God awful smell you get with the bought stuff either.

Having finally(after 40 years) been diagnosed as Bipolar,it's one of the classic consequences of the condition that looking back it's virtually impossible to tell 'what was you' and what was the BP.'But supposing that if certain traits were shared with my Dad,and Grandad, I would suggest: I hate usi...

What? 'When was Harry Enfield funny!'.....I hope there not all as hard as that.

Most of the'alternative' people I knew,these days,like me,mostly hang out over the tops of their trousers.

I had a narrowboat with a Morso dove running a backboiler connected to a rad about 20' down the boat.As it was a thermosyphoning system it was pretty important to get the correct angle on the top pipe to the top of the stove and to have the header tank in the right place,and it has to be 28 ml.coppe...

Yep..we all watch 'Only Connect'....don't listen to it much though...

It'll take a a while,but you need decent thorn hedging.Who ever owns the allotment be they council or private needs to look at the fencing in the meantime.
As for the police,58 local people have been broken into..........

You ready for this?...3 streets away,in a large front garden there's a mature Magnolia Liliiflora.....in flower?

Are you listening Farage, and all you other climate change deniers?

Re the lump of marble,.have a look at the pizza slab you sling in a standard oven.Mine was a present,so I don't know how much or where from,but knowing whom it came from,probably not much! Suspect Lakeland,or similar.