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I want to get one too - great exercise :) Where did you get yours? I got it from James Bowdens & Sons in Chagford, an amazing shop, it stocks just about everything on the planet (seems to anyhow) and if they don't have it then a quick enquiry normaly ends with "we can get one in by wednesday". I pl...

Well, the bit of field the sheep have not got needs mowing, it would be nice to make some hay, and a field grass cutter costs £600, so the decision is not that hard. so I go thome excitedly with it and put it together, and although my first attempt looks like some frenzied slasher attack there are ...

In the car at the moment are:

Warren Zevon
Johnny Cash
Little Johnny England
&
Bill Jones

so everything from Rock to folk

Silver Birch

Valerian

Xena

We have had these attack our peas. so far the only remedy I have is to look on the leaf, find the bug and squish it. I looked it up when I first noticed it, the real problem is that the eggs are laid singly and are microscopic, so noticing them is not going to happen, so until someone comes up with ...

Muddypause wrote:Well as I've just bought a new water butt, I'm loving this weather.

We got a juice container a couple of weeks ago, we now have 400 gallons of rainwater stored . Pity the plants are dead

Thurston Garden wrote: Like most, we compost all our green waste,

Same here, we have a brown bin and mostly it doesn't get put out. Just occasionally there are some things to go in it, but not very often.

Well, I'm no scientist, but the mobile phone theory just doesn't hold up to argument for me. The problem has only recently been noticed, yet mobile phones and their associated masts have been around for many years, and and what about your regular tv transmitter, let alone the various military instal...

The mind is like a parachute, works best when open.

I've no idea who said it, but I heard it years ago.

Well, I'd always throw in a vote for Marcus Brigstock, makes regular appearances on the now show (Radio 4). Brilliantly funny !

it doesn't happen much these days, but when I was a kid it was normal that while all the shopping was being dealt with at the checkout us kids would scurry off to find boxes to pack them in, not a plastic bag in sight. Now I realise that cardboard packaging needs to be reduced too, but you only have...