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Lungs are good. If you don't slaughter pigs ask for "lights" at the butcher or slaughterhouse.. They are usually free because people don't make haggis much these days and they go straight from the slaughterhouse to the pet food/renderer. Hang them by the windpipe out of reach of the chicks...

Hi,
We're at NG23 5DF. You're very welcome to a bed/floorspace/meal anytime. Let me know if we can be of help.

Beek

Don't put string over they can see it and avoid it. Black cotton thread works better. They can't see it but can feel it and it seems to freak them out. Little b@&$£*& had most of my pea plants. Only my children prevent them ending up as pigeon-pie.

Teabags. Dry them on the windosill after first use. Hoard them. They're porous, organic-ish, and biodegradable.

Hi Annpan, 35 * 12 feet is a decent sized greenhouse. This is me green with envy. :sad4: Is this the greenhouse that formed the subject of a different thread? Isn't Freecycle a wonderfull concept! You say "Water is supposed to be a fantastic thermal store... " You betcha! It has a specific...

Hi MKG The point of the thermal store in the greenhouse was to help stabilise the temperaturate fluctuations in such a small greenhouse. My thinking was to make it thermally "soggy", to soak up heat from the warm air when it was too hot, and to release heat too the air when it was too cold...

Elderflower season coming up. It makes the only flower wine that is really worth making :wink: Use plenty of flowers. I reckon a plastic carrier bag full gives enough petals for about a gallon. Don't have anything to do with a recipe that uses the flower stalks - they tend to make the wine bitter. P...

Nice one Brij

A deplapidated old kennel with a rusty chain leading into it and attatched to a stout pole driven into the ground. A few dog turds. One of those dog barking sound effects that are triggered by doorbells. You could really go to town with a fake guard dog.

You know how people used to hunt tigers but sitting up a tree with a tethered goat below..... Well you used to be able to get shotgun cartridges with very light shot. Any comeback - you could alway claim you were ratting and you wouldn't be so far from the truth

Congratulations Go for the bigger one and take it over in bits. You can use old carpet to smother weeds on what you don't use straight away, but plastic DPC weighted down with water-filled milk containers is better. The carpet option is cheaper if you can get it from skips or by lurking at your loca...

I've just got an aluminium 6*8' greenhouse on Freecycle and I can't wait to get it back together and glazed again. Does anyone have any advice/strong opinions/experience of the best way to construct a base that has; 1) a high thermal mass 2) drainage 3) no nooks and cranies where slugs/snails can hi...

Ina,
You may be still lambing in Kincardineshire, Scotland but here in Lincolnshire we finished a fortnight ago. Swarm season is from the end of May. Go for it. Any swarms which you don't take will be destroyed by the pest-control people. Get them and get them into those empty hives.

Beek

Hi everyone
It's nice to get friendly greetings in a forum.

Beek

Hi Ina That shows you how useless it is: 20 years, and you still can't spell! :wink: :mrgreen: A much overated convention, only one spelling for one word. The Bard would never have entertained it and, in this age of political correctnes, I'm sure it it institutionally predudicial to the more dyslexi...

Hi ishers, A first post just to say I'm new here and to introduce myself. I taught for 20 years in our marvelous edukashun system and watched it deteriorate into a sausage factory churning out exam passes. My BH and I educated our own three twiglets, for a year, by backpacking around the globe but w...