What brought you here?
- Andy Hamilton
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What brought you here?
Its easy for me to talk about what brought me here, I started the forum - back in October 2004. It doesn't seem like almost 7 years ago. But I wondered how you lot got here? Was it a search for nettle beer or did someone you know tell you about the forum?
What brought you here?
What brought you here?
First we sow the seeds, nature grows the seeds then we eat the seeds. Neil Pye
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The Other Andy Hamilton - Drinks & Foraging
My best selling Homebrew book Booze for Free
and...... Twitter
The Other Andy Hamilton - Drinks & Foraging
Re: What brought you here?
Wanting to 'live the dream' and needing somewhere to discuss ideas about being frugal and smallholding in order to make the dream a reality. havent yet achieved the dream, but closer than I was.
Re: What brought you here?
Googling 'How to pickle beetroot' 

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"Some days you're the dog,
some days you're the lamp-post"
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"Some days you're the dog,
some days you're the lamp-post"
My blog
My Tea Cosy Shop
Some photos
My eBay
- Green Aura
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Re: What brought you here?
Wind turbines - still not got one 

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
Re: What brought you here?
I cannot for the life of me remember. Sometimes, when I'm bored, I stick silly searches (sometimes even meaningful ones) into Google - maybe it was one of those. But it doesn't really matter. Once I'd had a furtle through the site, I was hooked.
Glad you did what you did, Andy.
Mike
Glad you did what you did, Andy.
Mike
The secret of life is to aim below the head (With thanks to MMM)
- chickenchargrill
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Re: What brought you here?
Googling how to get rid of slugs 

- Milims
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Re: What brought you here?
Having done a search of all my posts - 249 pages of them
I find that it was slugs that brought me here too!

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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- margo - newbie
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Re: What brought you here?
Browsing on the net looking for other people who were as nutty as me, funny thing is now everyone who said I was crazy is now getting the same bug! So I will be sending them here...
- greenorelse
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Re: What brought you here?
To learn.
Re: What brought you here?
google search re poly tunnels in Spain!.....
never did find the info I was looking for!.but lots of far more useful stuff !
never did find the info I was looking for!.but lots of far more useful stuff !

- Penny Lane
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Re: What brought you here?
I was browsing the forums for a couple of years before getting the courage to coming out of lurkdom! Originally found the site after reading John Seymour's Complete Guide... and looking for more info online. I was hooked!
"It's breaking the circle.
Going to work, to get money, to translate into things, which you use up, which means you go to work again, etc, etc.
The Norm.
What we should be doing is working at the job of life itself."
- Tom Good, The Good Life.
Going to work, to get money, to translate into things, which you use up, which means you go to work again, etc, etc.
The Norm.
What we should be doing is working at the job of life itself."
- Tom Good, The Good Life.
- red
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Re: What brought you here?
it was a link from a home education forum - to the main website - was some time later that I found the forum - back then (2006) the forum was a sort of (unintentional) secret 

Red
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...
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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
- boboff
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Re: What brought you here?
Interestingly given the time of year and a couple of other new threads, Elderflower Champagne recipe! Comes up high in Google.
http://boboffs.blogspot.co.uk/Millymollymandy wrote:Bloody smilies, always being used. I hate them and they should be banned.
No I won't use a smiley because I've decided to turn into Boboff, as he's turned all nice all of a sudden. Grumble grumble.
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- Barbara Good
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Re: What brought you here?
I was fed up of hearing "why don't you just buy it?" and thought I couldn't be the only crazy one out there. Thanks to you, I now know I'm nowhere near crazy (some of you, however...
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A great source of inspiration.



A great source of inspiration.
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- Tom Good
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Re: What brought you here?
Google search for self sufficiency after watching far too many episodes of The Good Life!!