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We have been looking into cohousing recently and have friends involved in Lancaster Cohousing. Its starting to take shape. After years of hard work, the community group I know in Lancaster has just started building 41 eco-homes. They’ve still a few houses left: 1 bed, 3 beds and a larger 3-4 bed, in...

hire a man with a JCB, we pay about £25 per hour for our local guy and skip to take it away, last time i hired one was about £150. dont risk doing it by hand, your back is worth an awful lot more!

James

if its looked after, you should never need to get it pumped, been here 6 yrs and previous house 7 yrs and never needed to get it pumped, as long as you look after it. a certain amount of paper is ok, bacteria will digest cellulose as long as not excessive. if you are having to get it pumped out ever...

yeah everyone who has been here hasn't put their house on the market (i mean what are they thinking!) however these people are going to rent out their house so thats ok. now its coming close to a sale we are pretty gutted at the thought of moving due to all the effort we put into the house but with ...

thanks, yes it does, unless the prospective buyers find something wrong with the updated survey or the water test fails or something like that then it should all go through, once the missives are concluded (typically a few weeks after the offer) then that will be a legally binding sale and neither p...

as long as you look after a septic tank and dont use any cleaning chemicals in the house with bleach then you should never have any problems. you can buy additives in the UK from the likes of B&Q, in the old days they just stuck a dead rabbit in the tank, however these additives are just found n...

equal exchange organic fairtrade loose leaf assam tea (from Suma). one of the few orthodox teas ready available in the UK, orthodox means a rolled leaf rather the standard machine process (CTC) tea in the Uk. takes longer to brew but the flavour is excellent.

James

well one thing would be to get better, I have a chronic degenerative spinal condition which makes manual work very hard. that makes its difficult to work the land or drive hence the sale of the house.

James

what about freecycle, have you tried that? Also charity shops are good, my local one here will even pick up bigger items like furniture

James

stones, i dont know your area but round here the farmers always have stone heaps at the side of the fields, i get bricks from the council skips too

James

we have used a chariot one, expensive aluminium made from canada but excellent trailers

James

got some new bricks recently from a council skip, perfect for small projects. such a shame these things are thrown away

James

garlic and onions, both well suited to planting now

James

we are the owners, sorry should of made that clear

James

house now under offer

James