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At 32 I'm guessing I'm amongst the younger end of the spectrum of posters here Naa, I think you'd be suprised. I am spring chicken at 29, although when I blow out my friends on a Friday night to watch Gardeners World most of them would argue that I am a middle aged person stuck in a 29yr olds body!...

ok this is really annoying ! my scales take large button batteries and do you think i can find them?!

so far the only fail of something new was a DVD for the little one. we dont have a TV but he gets the occasional dvd to watch instead. other than that i have honestly only brought food and some soap from lush as ive finally found one that doesn't screw up my skin. ive even - so far this year got rid...

im still not 100% sure what i want but i know i cant get it from how i used to be ! the life changing 'moment' wasn't actually a moment more like a whole bloody year of hell. i lost a baby (miscarriage) got pregnant again quickly, moved house, partner proposed then ran off, emergency c-section follo...

i think PVA glue would be good to stick a label to a bottle - it peels off nice and easy for re-use and sticks better than a glue stick. m&s now only seem to have 'bastard bottles' was scrubbing for ages but gave up and stuck them in the recycle bin! barrs bottles (fizzy drinks) are so easy to p...

i suffered for years with similar problems - which were as bad as i get the urge to go and i HAD to go no holding it in and it meant not much of a life. oddly when i was pregnant it drastically improved ( as did other things which were to do with my hormones) which led me to believe it is associated...

yes what is wrong with a bar of soap! again its another product that has been around for centuries. maybe that is what we should be aiming for? instead of all this hi-tech rubbish we fill our homes with maybe we should be going back to simpler ways of doing things? i read a fantastic article to do w...

i agree with the sterility of produce - a bit of dirt is always good and a doctor even told me that with the little picking his nose and well you know ... is actually GOOD for him as it gives you a 'hit' of bacteria filtered out by your nose... now i dont know weather or not to take his word as gosp...

sometimes i wish there was a simple answer ....

we do have a problem with the current population and with the forecasts on population increases sustainability really is (to me) much much more important than any intellectual/moral ideal with regards to only eating a vegan diet. but thats not to say animal welfare isnt important - it is but we can ...

(Also, all you people who are good at cuddling are just better and nicer people than me. I'm famously un-tactile. Although in a perverse way this seems to make other people more affectionate with me, I think they have a secret scorecard on which I'm some kind of trophy. Paranoid, moi, surely not). ...

As a vegan, I would love it if I could both be vegan and live sustainably. And I try my best at both. However, I understand the implications of sustainability well enough that, when circumstances eventually force us to live truly sustainably, complete veganism may be an unreachable ideal. As an exa...

You don't have to buy plastic shoes. There's hemp, cotton, recycled tyres even! ah yes i have canvas and cork shoes i forgot about those :oops: , but couldnt tyres also be considered in part to be a by product of the oil industry? we wouldnt have so many were it not for cars :dontknow: i know there...

its a word everyone seems to be using these days! i was having a chat with a (very) vegan friend of mine about the meat industry and that ( as far as hes concerned veganism is the way to solve the worlds ills) - for the record im not anti-vegan just confused! now he insists on avoiding all animal pr...

knitting crochet sewing other textile based crafts like felt making, making rag rugs, macrame, cross stitch, tapestry welding (gas, i need someone to show me the other as well... never done it before) general woodwork general DIY basic plumbing general day-to-day repairs remembering things, especial...