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Telesales for a burgler alarm company - cold calling, commission only. Didn't make a penny :( Had one particularly stroppy bloke tell me that he was going to complain to my boss for calling him so I said to him "I'll tell you what you can do with your complaint - STICK IT down on paper, SHOVE ...

Hello Ishers! We didn't garden much last year and life continually got in the way of coming here, but I just wanted to say I'm back and we are planning an epic garden for the year! We're quite excited! We have 3 garden sites and a green house (that is going to be more of a coldframe than a true gree...

My Mom was 5'5" and my Dad 5'9" so I always thought I'd be 5'7". It seemed logical to me when I was a kid. I was quite disappointed to be shorter than both of them. *sigh* I'm actually 5'3" and frankblues is 6'3" so we are curious about what may happen to our daughter (who i...

I always enjoy my signature. And just about anything by Douglas Adams or Robert Heinlein. He attacked everything in life with a mix of extraordinary genius and naive incompetence, and it was often difficult to tell which was which. Douglas Adams There is a theory which states that if ever anybody di...

Oh no! Too bad on the gall bladder, but congrats on your allotment!

I did hypnobirth here in the states. I think one of the big reasons there are so many different kind of breathing techniques is that they are trying to get your brain busy and focus on something besides the contractions and just let your body do what it knows how to do. I LOVED doing hypnobirth for ...

So sorry, it's never an easy decision to make.

Congrats Sleepyowl!

Also: I'm another one on here that is Pagan, but not heavily practicing.

Lovely! We just added a trike to our family as well! Since hubby is a Stay-at-home-daddy, he can go top the park & do errands with our daughter! He really really loves it!

So nice to see everyone! I always like putting names and faces together.

I've done lots of hats and scarves. I did a sweater once, but the arms came out sort of, well, let's say the person I made it for did not have arms down to their toes and leave it at that.

Oh, I guess I assumed week! Maybe I shouldn't be so complimentary! Hee!

Love them all, but especially the PE bag. Was the jumper knitted or crocheted? I am a crochet-er, but can't tell the difference very well because I'm not a fabulous crochet-er or anything!

Glad everyone is okay! And now you know that you are all good in a crisis. It seems you all did exactly what you should!

Until our veggie plot started producing, I managed to feed the two of us on organic, local stuff (plus cleaning prods etc from the market) for £200. Now that the garden is being more productive and we started rearing our own meat, our food budget is a bottom-pinchingly tight £100 - mostly on things...