What have you learned?

[Annpan]

I hope he didn't find too many diagrams :o/

[oldfella]

No need to Google it, Eddy - it's a form of mead named after the habit of of its manufacturers to bottle only under full moonlight.

Honest.

Ish.



Mike

Have you got the recipe Mike, and do they grow in the wild like buttercups, and are they a related species.
Eddy

[Keaniebean]

You might find it a bit more than Oldfella.

[growingthings]

man just reading those last few posts has R E A L L Y cheered me up!!

[Flo]

I've learned that most of you laugh at the daftest of things. That apart, I've learned that I'm green before I'm ish and that I've learned more skills than I ever use. Ones that I know perfectly well seem to be new to others here and I've never thought that anyone would be interested in them.

[Milims]

I've learned that "ishing" is much better than working long hours, wearing wellies is much more comfy than stilletos and that even if you do turn up to work in a business suit you can't hide the raging hippy inside!

[mrsflibble]

hahaha milims!

[Stonehead]

Too be honest, I haven't learned that much from Ish although there have been times when I've been prompted to remember things I learned long ago from my grandparents. For me, the most valuable things about Ish have been the support network, the new friends, and the occasional visitors it brings to our croft. I also appreciate the nice messages I get from people who've found my half-baked ramblings and rantings, here and on the blog, useful or entertaining or both.

[Jessiebean]

I have learned to be comfortable with the things I do which are outside the norm around here such as making foods from scratch, taking home the Creche food scraps to add to our compost. Eating weeds. Having a messy garden. Insisting on buying most things second hand. Not washing ourselves very much (I swear it is in the Ish bible.... it really is!)using a diva cup, not using disposable wrappings in the lunch boxes- using reuseable containers etc because even if the people of this town think I am odd I know that scattered all over the globe with an emphasis on the Mother Country are a bunch of people who not only undertsand but maybe considered odder than me! Very encouraging!
I have also learned to make courgette relish, that pests and disease don't always have to be wiped out and that I have to grow purple sprouting broccoli (seeds arrived today.. now I have to wait for aaaaaages to plant them!) Actually I am becoming very much geared towards heirloom vegies and will be planting purple podded peas, french sorrel, red ribbed dandelion(ye deliberately planting danedlion- another Ish influence) and some edible Viola mix for attractiveness and to bring beneficial bugs.
I came to Ish as I was searching for a replacement for the money saving forum I had been on ( I had to pay for it and the folk needed to be heavily moderated- they could be as silly as old geese sometimes!)and I thought Ish might be a bit too green and gardeny - I was wrong- I wasn't green and gardeny enough back then:P- I have evolved for the better under the Ish influence!

[bonniethomas06]

This forum for me has taken the fear out of so much. I think I stumbled accross it when I was looking for info on keeping chickens back in about 2006/7. Since then, the things I would never have had the courage to do but have been persuaded by talking to others on here are:

- hatching chicks
- keeping pigs
- getting a polytunnel
- making elderflower cordial/champagne
- making all sorts of wine (not one I can drink yet but I will keep trying!)
- trying all sorts of recipes, my favorite being the smoked mackrel and beetroot/spinach/horseradish salad
- using a log fire to heat my house
- paganism

And a whole load of other little tips, particularly related to veg growing, that make my life easier/make me happier and make me more environmentally conscious. Like the genetic engineering debate, or the whole packaging thing. I wouldn't be who I am without the guidance and help I have got from this site.

So thanks.

[Millymollymandy]

Too be honest, I haven't learned that much from Ish although there have been times when I've been prompted to remember things I learned long ago from my grandparents. For me, the most valuable things about Ish have been the support network, the new friends, and the occasional visitors it brings to our croft. I also appreciate the nice messages I get from people who've found my half-baked ramblings and rantings, here and on the blog, useful or entertaining or both.

Funny you mentioned that cos I was googling Longor shallots this morning and up popped your blog, so I spent an 'entertaining' 5 mins or so reading your entry with photos about ploughing your field by hand to plant your shallots and onions. Entertaining in the good grief! type of way.

[Stonehead]

"How to skin a rabbit" is the search phrase that brings the nutters to my blog. From both sides of the fence. I can only publish about one in ten of the comments as the others are too vitriolic, obscene, threatening, vile, and illiterate for public consumption.

[Millymollymandy]

It makes you wonder why they would they be googling such a phrase in the first place?

[Odsox]

I've learned that wearing wellies is much more comfy than stilletos

Yeah, me too.

[Jessiebean]

Am I the only one out there who gardens in inappropriate clothes?(no not that sort of inaproppriate- not in an "ullo luv, wot're you wearing?" sort of way)I often find myself in pink kitten heels raking up leaves or turning the compost in a beige trench coat (bad idea- wear the black one)... I do try to remember to change into my wellies (which are blue with love hearts and pink buckles) but Iam often just sort of in the zone and forget to put on gloves or change my shoes and then I moan about broken dirty nails and sore knees from pushing the wheelbarrow in high heels....