Hi!
My user name is my real one, (usually known as JRo) I live in north-west Suffolk, having moved all over the UK, pretty much. We came here nearly four years ago. I used to be a gardener/plant/tree propagator and once had a little herb nursery, but my OH's wanderlust kept on putting a stop to all my money-making plans. Hopefully we will stay in our present house for a bit longer, as the thought of having to rehouse my chickens and rabbits is a bit daunting.
I grow most of our vegetables, apart from potatoes, and use a dehydrator because I could fill our freezers several times over. I love my garden dearly, but this last winter tested my affection for it severely - digging out frozen leeks and parsnips from under a foot of snow is only fun the first time it happens.
I hate waste, and always have done, so recycle/make everything I possibly can. I think I was born mean, it was not because of the environment!
ALSO from Sunny Suffolk
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janerowena
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Milims
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Re: ALSO from Sunny Suffolk
Hi there and wlecome JR! 
Let us be lovely
And let us be kind
Let us be silly and free
It won't make us famous
It won't make us rich
But damn it how happy we'll be!
Edward Monkton
Member of the Ish Weight Loss Club since 10/1/11 Started at 12st 8 and have lost 8lb so far!
And let us be kind
Let us be silly and free
It won't make us famous
It won't make us rich
But damn it how happy we'll be!
Edward Monkton
Member of the Ish Weight Loss Club since 10/1/11 Started at 12st 8 and have lost 8lb so far!
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janerowena
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Re: ALSO from Sunny Suffolk
Thanks milims! I'm admin on another board, so it's rather nice not to feel responsible!
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janerowena
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Re: ALSO from Sunny Suffolk
Thank you, susiegee! 
I'm just having a break from all the hot sun - I'm actually in shorts today! Although I think my legs are brighter than the sun..
I'm just having a break from all the hot sun - I'm actually in shorts today! Although I think my legs are brighter than the sun..
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okra
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Re: ALSO from Sunny Suffolk
Hello, welcome and happy ishing
Grow your own it's much safer - http://www.cyprusgardener.co.uk and http://cyprusgardener.blogspot.com
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welcome.....-
Arbor
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Re: ALSO from Sunny Suffolk
Hello and welcome - you sound like you are full of beans - digging frozen crops is dedication indeed.
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Mr and Mrs luvpie
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Re: ALSO from Sunny Suffolk
hi there we are on the camb/suffolk borders in newmarket :D
the ever growing luvpie household currently contains, 4 boys, 4 chickens, 2 cats, 2 rabbits, 4 fish, an empty tropical fish tank waiting new arrivals, now are we daft to look at our broody hen thinking, if we got some fertilised eggs........
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Re: ALSO from Sunny Suffolk
HI JRo, welcome to Ish
Maggie
Never doubt that you can change history. You already have. Marge Piercy
Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage. Anais Nin
Never doubt that you can change history. You already have. Marge Piercy
Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage. Anais Nin
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battybird
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Re: ALSO from Sunny Suffolk
Hi JRo, a warm welcome to ishers...lovely to see the sun at the moment 
The cockerel makes the noise, the hen produces the goods!! anon
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thesunflowergal
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Re: ALSO from Sunny Suffolk
JRO and welcomeStay at home Mummy to Orin 8, Trixie 6 and Temogen 4 . Also three Chickens Dottie, Poppy and Dr Mumbo. Three cats called Flossie and Pickle and Lexi.
Check out my blog:
http://ramblingsofasunflowergal.blogspot.co.uk/
Check out my blog:
http://ramblingsofasunflowergal.blogspot.co.uk/
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becks77
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Re: ALSO from Sunny Suffolk
Morning, welcome to Ish
"no-one can make you feel inferior without your permission"
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janerowena
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Re: ALSO from Sunny Suffolk
Hello all!
I have only been over to Newmarket once - I live between BSE and Thetford. As for the leek-digging in the snow - it was either that or try to drive to a shop in the snow to buy some, and digging seemed easier at the time!
More sun today - will the dayglo white legs get another airing, I wonder?
I have only been over to Newmarket once - I live between BSE and Thetford. As for the leek-digging in the snow - it was either that or try to drive to a shop in the snow to buy some, and digging seemed easier at the time!
More sun today - will the dayglo white legs get another airing, I wonder?
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welcome 
Red
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I like like minded people... a bit like minded anyway.. well people with bits of their minds that are like the bits of my mind that I like...
my website: colour it green
etsy shop
blog