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Thank you very much, I will give it a go

This has been a very useful thread, I have long been considering getting alpacas mostly due to their supposed ability to protect poultry and the such from foxes and ther mauraders, I had not realised they were nervy, am i then to understand that llamas are less nervy? I am slightly concerned about t...

Everything in moderation never did harm is my motto, is like that debate over butter v marg, would rather have something natural than not personally

I stopped listening to Radio One the day DLT jumped ship, never was a cool teenager, always listened to 2 and 4, have gradually grown to adore 1940s radio too

Homemade Chicken curry and first time home made macaroons

Hi All, I am two years into my restoration project of my small holding now and in November last year I discovered under a mass patch of brambles that next door's pig farm had been leaking slurry onto a small part of my land, the leak has now been sorted out and it has been stopped but it has left me...

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same as other here i make mine into bird food

Have just been trying to download a pig movement licence aml2, defra says that I have to register with BPEX now and it is all done online. Has anyone been through this yet? When I looked at BPEX at the moment all that is available is the licence to go from farm to slaughter. What I want is farm to f...

Made some very nice pear and walnut chutney yesterday, am now off to make some tomato ketchup

Four jars of quince butter this morning, lovely, and a tray of membrillo (quince jelly) which I've got to leave to cure for a couple of days before I can try it. I picked some fennel and cumin seeds and juiced some apples - half of which is now in the freezer. Oh, and I pruned the buddlea, the leav...

Hi and welcome to Ish

snapdragon wrote:hedgerow sloes in gin

I have no sloes this year

For me definitely no problem

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