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Hi, one of out goats has eaten too much concentrate its bit of a bully, its been snowing here for 11 days now and we have kept them in, as in other years, plenty of hay plus concentrate, but the other morning I went in the stable and poor thing was laid on its side crying, I called vet and he treate...

Hi, everyone Our local paper runs an article on countryside matters this week it told us of the possible ban of home grown food in the USA, I found this on the web and wondered what our US friends think? This proposed legislation sounds like it only wants to protect you. Read here: "To establis...

Not heard of it................can't believe it, its a truley good story acted out by a great cast, seen it many times.

How about Box of Delights, we always watch that each Christmas, done long before Harry Potter and has an old Dr who in it!!!!! won't say any more, but do have a look or read.

I agree with OJ and Big AL, Well I did watch a little and as a good lifer of 25yrs plus I found it quite......well idiotic. If we had carried on like those pair we would have been a failure in a very short time, I only hope anyonewho watched it with view to self-sufficiency will not take their “ adv...

Hi. this type of idea is great, but and like all good ideas there may be an alternative, there are many garden clubs, societies, etc. out there and we belong several that do seed swaps and free plants, the club we belong has over 150 members and does buying seeds, bulbs etc., we swap seeds and plant...

BBC2 on Monday 8th November 9pm are to put two people through the good life, it might interest some people, but already reading the article in the Radio Times I foresee facts that aren’t correct, pity the beeb can’t get real good lifers to help with the directions or would that not make (supposedly)...

Would changing the clocks really reduce emissions? Until I can analyse the report then I can't quantify on the supposed effects, also a differential would exists on where in the country or the globe one is. I remember being at work when the UK tried it before, I worked on building sites, we had to h...

Hi people, how bad can it get, wow!!! I was once one of Maggies millions, no work, no savings and no social, that makes you do things, I learned a lot from my good old mum, she had a WW2 attituded, a survivor of that period " waste not want not" she would say, a joint would feed us one day...

Hi, just come across this forum/site, quite a few interesting subjects, like the name Selfsufficientish, cause its true, its very difficult to be totally self sufficient. well I've been 'Selfsufficientish' for thirty years now, we don't buy much at all, the 'Good Life' started us off in our semi wit...

Hi Keith, don't know if you have built your system by now, I built a system earlier this year and so far (We use oil for heating) the heating system has not been on for 112 days out of 114 days, I used vacuum tubes (most efficient) in a pressurised system as increased pressure lets you obtain a high...