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I have one I use for camping, when I go camping up north in the summertime, at a place right beside the beach... It's gets pretty hot by the time 6pm rolls around, but I discovered that it was far better to come in off the beach after an afternoon on the sand (underneath shade), and in the water and...

I do the same as you Stardust but sprinkle with sugar - its like those pastry biscuit things that I cant remember the name of for the life of me! :shock: Palmiers. French pastry - very delish. I used to have them when I was living in Montreal, at a French deli, alongside an allonge , a black espres...

4 Candles wrote:Stunning place, and the work you've done is amazing!

Are you a girl or a boy?

If you're a girl I'm going to have to come over and marry you!

And if you're a boy...

you'll still come over and marry him!

Cheers,
Christopher.

I wash mine every other day or when I remember - can't be arsed fluffing around with shampoo sometimes so it can be several days before I shampoo - it is definately much nicer for not having been shampooed. Incidentially I also have limited my use of underarm deoderant - and guess what - that smelly...

I came up with the same result as you the first time I did sourdough. Then I read a really good site somewhere (can't remember now), that advocated leaving the starter for a good month - just feeding and watering it. The idea was to get a good colony of bacteria etc going before attempting to make b...

Or beetroot and apple sauce pureed and dried into a fruit wrap - to die for. :) sounds yummy - what's the recipe? My friend is growing beetroots for Africa and I get two or three every time he visits. I've made an apple and beetroot pickle, and have made borscht yesterday. Your recipe would help ge...

Kia ora and welcome from Aotearoa

you'll have a lovely time here, there's lots of information around, and nowt is particularly bothered by questions....

Cheers,
Christopher.

Hi all here's some blogs I read... Dave Pollard's excellent blog "How to Save the World". He has great links to thought provoking articles. Hosted by Salon. http://blogs.salon.com/0002007/ Then there's lichenology. Blog by an excellent writer living on Vancouver Island. http://lichenology....

you all put me to shame... here in Aotearoa I woke to a beautiful autumn morning with the autumn leaves on the deciduous trees showing off autumn colours. (we have alot of evergreen trees so it never gets very bare here in winter). Anyway, I've chopped up the tomato plant, planted out picking spinac...

Firstly, I'm from Aotearoa NZ where we grow lots and lots of kiwiFRUIT. We call it kiwifruit here because a kiwi is the bird. When I was growing up we used to get alot of kiwifruit so Mum would make kiwifruit icecream, which was really yummy. I don't know what she did, but it was the freezer method ...

Well I've just put out my last lot of kitchen waste (which included three fish heads that had been used for fish stock) into my compost (I use a Bokashi system). Now when I turn the compost there are HEAPS of maggots! I didn't see them in previous compost lots... are the maggots alright? Do I need t...

This year I noticed that I had a large number of ants in my herb trough, which I put down to the excellent homemade compost added to the commercial mix. I wasn't concerned, live and let live, but I became concerned when my basil plants got mealy bugs. Let no thing come between me and my homemade pes...

We have just had an enormous amount of rain dumped here - more in the north of the country which recieved their 1-in-125 year dumping! But all that water has made some of my tomatoes split their skin :( I guess growing tomatoes for the first time having something like this happen reminds you that gr...

January 6th Mamf (Sam) - 9 months to the day after my Dad's birthday! eeeew! 9th - Ina 12th-kev 16th - Matt February 1st - AnnetteR 4th - Nick (Renee) 8th - Lou8 (Lou) 9th - Mountain Mist (Mike) 11th- Karen Grace 14th- Martin March 2nd - Daisygirl (Julia) 3rd - pskipper (Philip) 18th - Sal 21st - Al...

Well spurred on by you lot, I had my first attempt at drying something over the weekend. It was only a very large plum from my organic box which I sliced and then dried the slices. They were delicious. I made the dryer from an old Quality Street tin (the octagonal ones). I pierced holes in the side...