Free to enter Competiton for Everyone win books

[Andy Hamilton]

Our latest competition could not be easier all you have to do to be in for a chance of winning one of four copies ofKeeping Poultry and Rabbits on Scraps by Claude Goodchild and Alan Thompson* published by Penguin is to anwser the following questions and email them to comp@selfsufficientish.com .

Anyone can enter this competition as long as I receive the email by Midnight GMT 10th February and that they are members of this forum. Winners will be announced in the following week. To pick the winner I will write the names who answered all the questions correctly on bits of paper stick them on a board and throw darts at them blindfolded. I will try and video this and post it on you tube. Fun for everyone but my landlord and girlfriend.

The answers of each question can be found on the main site, forum or on the blogs.

1. Where was my first stop on the 677 mile bike ride to Aberdeenshire?
2. Where is most of the commercially produced coriander grown?
3. Who owns the chickens in the picture on the article "home produced hens are clucking good"
4. Which chef should you remove the tongue from for the chef within a chef recipe?
5. What was the red berry bush behind candle80's house?

A little about this months book

*First issued in 1941, when the national crisis made it essential for every scrap of kitchen waste and spare time to be used for increasing the nation's food resources, this book enabled the meagre official wartime rations to be supplemented in thousands of homes by a regular supply of eggs and meat, at a minimum of trouble and expense.

It now reappears, in response to many requests, to play its part in the hardly less urgent food-production drive of peacetime. Everything that the small-scale raiser of rabbits or of poultry, whether for egg-production or for table use, needs to know is here: buying, housing, feeding, breeding, diseases, are all fully dealt with by experts, the instructions being given in simple and practical language for the beginner.

Keeping Poultry and Rabbits on Scraps was originally reissued after the war, in 1949. Here it is once again, a facsimilie edition with all the delightful original illustrations and advice to keep your chickens and rabbits happy, whether they be in a city garden or roaming in a farm yard.

[Andy Hamilton]

Running out of time.......

[Andy Hamilton]

Last day, well last day tomorrow.

[Andy Hamilton]

Ok that is the end of the competition

Answers were

1. Where was my first stop on the 677 mile bike ride to Aberdeenshire?
Lower Shaw Farm

2. Where is most of the commercially produced coriander grown?
Morocco, Romania & Egypt

3. Who owns the chickens in the picture on the article "home produced hens are clucking good"
Harriet from Bath

4. Which chef should you remove the tongue from for the chef within a chef recipe?
Jamie Oliver

5. What was the red berry bush behind candle80's house?
Autumn Olive

It was tougher than I thought in the end and we had plenty of wrong answers in fact most people got at least one question wrong. I will sort out who won prizes tomorrow but for now it looks like whoever got everyone right might well have won a book.

[Andy Hamilton]

And the winners are............


George (Georgina from NZ)
JulieSherris
Claire Antony
Diane Cawkwell
and our very own Shirley

I will be emailing you all to get your addresses and you should receive your books as soon as penguin send them out!

[Shirley]

Woohooo Cheers Andy - I've emailed you.

[Clara]

Fabulous! I never win anything, now I've won something I actually wanted

[JulieSherris]

And me! I've just mailed as well.

MuddyWitch & I were chatting on MSN about rabbits - eating, fur tanning, using furs, etc etc.... So how's that for timing!!

Thank you Andy - I hope you didn't get TOO many holes around your place..... did you video it?

Julie

[george]

Excellent! I never win anything either so am very happy.

I would love to keep chickens in the not too distant future so the book will be very useful.

George

[Millymollymandy]

So Clara are you Claire or Diane? I can tell from the real names who Julie Sherris is though! lol Congrats to you all.

[JulieSherris]

I can tell from the real names who Julie Sherris is though! lol Congrats to you all.

Are you trying to say that I'm not imaginative then, MMM?
Actually, with my surname, it's guaranteed that any user name involving it hasn't already been taken!
And if it HAS been taken, it's usually because I'm already signed up on that site.... but forgot...

[BestBreast]

Whey hey I'm pleased as punch

I almost deleted the e-mail thinking it was spam! glad OH was about to help rescue the e-mail. Just managed to find my log in details well at least my chooks and garden is kind of organised even if my e-mails and it skills (or lack of them) lol

Diane

Can't wait for book to arrive

[Shirley]

Mine arrived this morning - now how about that for good service!

Thanks Andy, and thanks to Penguin too. It looks like a very interesting read.

[Clara]

Mine arrived this morning - now how about that for good service!

Thanks Andy, and thanks to Penguin too. It looks like a very interesting read.

Oh wow then there's hope it might arrive before I move to the city for the final leg (!) and at least I have something to read that will make me feel like I'm still connected with my real life!

[BestBreast]

Mine arrived this morning - now how about that for good service!

Thanks Andy, and thanks to Penguin too. It looks like a very interesting read.

Mine too Many thanks Andy and Peguin