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Knighthood for all of us for putting-up with the honours system

We enjoy broad beans boiled with new potatoes and onions in a tomato and puree sauce. Lovely with a nice chunk of crusty bread.

A good test of bowel transit time.

Modern robber baron capitalism depends on ever-increasing consumption, so anyone adopting a thrifty approach is something of an enemy. Hence the promulgation of the attitude that thrift is somehow bad. If everyone in the West stuck to buying things that they truly needed and avoided unnecessary pur...

As suggested visit a CAB. They should advise on benefits you may be entitled to. Are you in receipt of Working Tax Credits as most self-employed think that are not entitled but they are.

Strawberries generally need replacing after about 3 years when their productivity reduces. Even on new plants it does no harm to eave one or two runners to increase the number of plants. I've also read that it's best not to let runners grow on first year plants but from experience it does not seem t...

Hi welcome, good luck with the smallholding and happy ishing

I was recently approached by a company Blogginbooks.de who publish bloggers work as a book. The process is quite time consuming but they publish your book for free, market it, you get a free copy and may even earn some royalties. It may be worth approaching them if you think you have enough material...

I ordered similar a while back and was disappointed with the results. I would in future grow them on for a while to make sure they have a good root structure before planting out.

Most of the above comments but generally a simpler, less materialistic and a more sustainable lifestyle.

Never understood using only the white part of leeks, your right the tops make a lovely addition to leek and potato soup and improve the colour

Did the very same job today and tipped the lot into the compost. I suppose it could be used as a mulch though.

Yes Zech it's a cordial and you only have to add a little to the water as it's quite a concentrated flavour

Ingredients - 5 litres of full fat cow's milk; a teaspoon of rennet and approximately 10g of salt. Add the rennet to the fresh milk which has been heated gently to 32c (use a thermometer to ensure the correct heat) and leave for about 30 minuted to set. Break up the curds and place the solids into a...

A recipe to using fresh lemons Ingredients: two and a half cups of sugar; the finely grated zest of four lemons; a pinch of salt; three cups of lemon juice from about twelve large lemons and a cup of water. (1) Add the sugar, zest and salt to a cup of water and bring to the boil for about five minut...