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I've left mine in under cardboard - just been digging them up as and when required - ground has been pretty well frozen for weeks but cardboard seems to stop them getting frozen in too

For me, they are 'specially bad when the cat brings them in live to play with in the bedroom - 2 days in a row, as she did last week! They were quite cute tho.....

I forgot - Joan Baez !!!

Eric Bogle ...... Oh, yes. And I can't listen to his other great song - No Man's Land - without tears in my eyes. utterly and absolutely agree - one of my total fav songs ever!!!!!! Other folky stuff I like includes:- Julie Fowlis Dick Gaughan !!! The Men they Couldn't Hang - do a fabulous version ...

Really interesting thread and around something I regularly debate with my neighbour. My cat seems to like a real mix of stuff - she prefers the pouches to dried food and kills something most days - although I'm jealous of oldjerry at the mo re the rats - the cat has recently brought 2 in, 2 days in ...

too many to mention - altho like most peeps, we try and do as much as poss but still have a very western life I drive too much - one of those rural issues and altho i have a diesel car which is pretty efficient I'm actually pleased to say that my motorbike does even better mpg so i try to use that m...

We're just working our way through the process of getting a couple of large wind turbines for the village. It's an opportunity for us to raise some money for our community. The nearest power station to us is Dounreay :shock: -currently being decommissioned thank goodness. excellent - good luck :che...

H not related to the health suff but many communities are now approaching developers and using the opportunity to get their own turbine and income for community trust as a pay back / local benefit thing see groups like http://www.fintrydt.org.uk/ where they get an annual income from a turbine that t...

fab pics!

as another regular anaemic you have my full sympathies - there are several different types of iron tabs out there - you dont have to put up with the standard ferrous sulphate that they initially prescribe - whover it was mentioned Vit C is correct - your body needs vit c in order to process iron. Th...

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You'll be haen a cup o teh an' a peh an' a ingin ing an' a' ?

I too studied in the land o' jute, jam and journalism - but left immediately after.

Good luck with the freedom plan - keep us posted

It's gorgeous, I've always been envious of people with stripy lawns, ours rubbish grass just doesn't do that (how DO you do that?) :scratch: I just opened the pics and am gobsmacked that they black n white a circular lawn - that takes patience and effort - and practice. :thumbright: How amazingly n...

9. use freecycle or similar
10. give a homemade present
11. learn to ride a bike
12. go skinny dipping
13. wear hand me downs

JM - I am so with you on this one. I've just caved in tonight and organised a man to come an cut my grass (lawn would give the impression I care for it, lol, and its got more dockens than grass I think) tomorrow cos I have got more than enough to do (plus I can't get my workboots on owing to a bad s...

Hi NB Not got Geothermal heating myself but know a lot of peeps who do - I'm assuming it is a ground source heat pump. I'm afraid everyone with GSHP that I've spoken to reported massive heating bills this winter - you don't say if the pipework for it is vertical or horizontal but both suffered from ...