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i think its a great idea can't we have a section on our forum for the kids i have 2 sons 9 and 11 who love gardening and care deeply about being greener they offten sit with me and read the posts on the forum once i have checked out whats been written first i would be happy for them to join this one...

I do the same as mmm but i buy the same amount of milk and have the longlife for when the kids decide to drink it all that way i always have milk for my cuppa in the morning

when i was at my lowest point phone cut off lost my job CCJ's and living on my child benefit for about 3 months not able to even pay my rent and with 2 kids and £37 a week to live on i found a wage packet that someone had dropped and i handed it into the police it didn't even cross my mind to kee...

Glad to hear your changing server andy i couldn't get on the site for days but back now so very happy :cheers: :cheers: and cant wait for the big announcement. it's a wonderfull site and i'd be lost without it lol i've been a member for nearly two years :cheers: and its still my home page :mrgreen:

I visted Garden Organic's garden at Ryton last week & they had a similar wildlife tower in their children's garden. I've seen a ladybird house made from a sheet of corrugated cardboard tightly rolled & stuffed into a plastic bottle (with its bottom removed). This is then placed in an area of dense ...

my grandad died a few years ago and at his funeral they played " Hit the road jack " (his choice) my brother sat next to me and lent over to comfort me when he saw my shoulders shaking and tears running down my face ........................ :? untill he realized i was trying not to laugh i think i'd...

Food for Free (Collins GEM) by Richard Mabey
i have this in pocket size and take it every where its great good pics and tells you when and HOW to pick things and it has a section on seaweed you should be able to pick one up second hand i got mine new for £3.99

great pics i'm still waiting for mine and the schools kits to come but when i was at the garden center on friday they had some kits so i got one each for the kids so a bit of healthy competion going on now oh god what have i done lol

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i dont know if this will work nev but i hope it will

I've been looking at these online and wondered if anyone knew if i would be able to make one myself and if so HOW save me spending £20 on one

thanks i found them just me being lazy again :oops: i think this one is a newer one as you dont have to wet them and wait for the logs to dry out also they are log shaped and not bricks it will be me making them my mum and nan are going to save all the rubbish that i can use in it for me and i will ...

found a bit more about it You can recycle: newspaper, paper, junk mail, paper bags, old cards shredded cardboard, toilet rolls, cereal packets. paper and card food wrapping and containers tea bags, olive stones, coffee beans, nut shells coal dust small pieces of wood, sawdust dried leaves, twigs

i've just ordered 2 mushroom growing kits one for me and one for the year 11 life skills class i help out with there was a group of lads that wanted to grow organic veg but no one to supervise them so i volunteered for the job :pale: mine will be grown at home in my porch and the ones at the school ...

i dont have a wood burning stove or even a fire in the house :cry: just one we use outside but my mum has one i was looking on a site that sold ladybird houses ( pest control) and came across a logmaker this is what it said Try the easy to use Log Maker and help reduce the rubbish put in landfill si...

hang them in your garden to scare birds of course you would need a lot you better start drinking