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Gidday

Hey Wombat, long time no talk Eh!

Anyway, that thing aint no Holden ute but I guess you are still holding her.

Gidday Well what I would do is get me some bales of straw, put them where you want your garden, cover them with some form of high nitrogen manure or fertilizer then water it and keep it all moist. It will heat up and you just keep it damp till it cools down enough to plant straight into it. I have g...

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Well all I can say is that that is absolute stupidity. You can do whatever you like to clocks but there will still be the same amount of daylight no matter what.

Gidday

About 30 years ago I made some without knowing anything about what they had in them. I just chopped em up and if I remember more or less done what the Frozen Thunderbolt did. I do remember it came out really bloody nice.

Gidday

Sorry to sound a bit dim, but can someone please explain what single and double cream is. To make butter you just want plain off the top of milk or separated from the milk with no doubling and down here I don't think we can get double cream.

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Owch. Just think of getting them off.

No I don't think even an Aussie would do that.

Gidday Golly gosh. One is notted and another is well hung. "Shut up Jack" Anyway, it does make a mutton better eating if they are finnished on good pasture but it does take several weeks and not just one or two. And Ism1066, you may have been speaking in jest but you are dead right, if an ...

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I wouldn't reckon mason bees would be any good to encourage because they eat spiders and spider are on our side.

Gidday

Yep, MGK is right.

But if you do find a way of doing what you want let's know about it because it will make you millions.

Sorry just caint be done.

Gidday Good onya mate. What I have done is to just try to get back to how things were with our family when I was a boy but with all the mod cons. Yep mate, sure is worth trying, but ya gotta keep a good attiduded about it because things done always go right and where there is livestock there can als...

Gidday Hey Sky, I don't know whereabouts you are but I do know there are losta places that you can pick blackberries. Our biggest trouble is that we have too bloody many of those up top plants down here. The likes of hawthorn is another one mentioned on these pages that is here and we would rather n...

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Hey Nev, have you allowed for those up top being a bit backward. Like their time takes quite a while to catch up to us.

Gidday Hey StoneHead, the Aussies are always trying to milk the Kiwis and when they can't they milk our ideas, like pavlova etc. There is a manufacturing firm in Otorohanga who make milkinmg machines and they claim to be able to make a machine to milk any animal. I do know they developed one to milk...

Gidday The fruit of the sweet briar, the weed that grows especially prolifically in the South Island but the rest of the country in not quite as many numbers. Central Otago was briar free in the 1940's and 50's because of the plague of rabbits but the rabbits bunbers were reduced then the whole area...

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Well it will be beautiful eating then.