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41. To chill out a bit when you've just turned the house upside down and realised you've lost the most important bit of the domestic appliance you've spent all day fixing.

runny poo though.

MEAD My son was coughing his way through the 3rd day of his cold. I gave him 5 ml of mead to coat the throat and reduce the tickly cough he'd developed. He hated it that much that he supressed his coughing from practice, reducing the recurring damage to the throat. Also works on adults. Drink as muc...

Thank for the lovely comments on the name!

As for growing stuff on the wild west coast of scotland Stranboogie grows a wide array of trees and vegetables. Tree-wise, we have palms and monkey-puzzles, veg-wise, racists.

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Hi tigerhair. Diabetes becomes a backround thing for most people after a while. My dad had been type two for a few years and my brother type one for 25. Neither fo them really think of it much as the habits you need to maintain become ingrained. My father in law has recently been diagnosed two and h...

It is much easier to cook for yourself. The only real difference between cooking for my family of 5 and cooking as a chef is the quantities. Take 5 ingredients and with anything more than 3 people someone will hate at least one of them. The only real execption in my house is when I make macaroni che...

Mead for xmas pressies this year for the alcoholic members of the family. That should cover about 90% of my friends and family (the scots, the irish and the pisces) Homemade silver jewellery for the ones with that kind of taste, and as much as we can spare on the kids. As forhouse prices, apparently...

Hi everyone, not very - ish yet but woring on homebrew (mead, scrumpy and wines) and doing a bit of fishing from my kayak. going to try making a samoan style outrigger canoe if I ever get my finger out. got the compost bin on the go. Have been recycling my neighbours shed this week. At the moment it...