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I must say spring has been here a while for me in the poly tunnel but i love the warmer days and watching things grow , ok laugh all you like but i had a lovely butternut the other day and saved all the seed threw them in a pot i would say 100 plus seeds , i forgot what i had put in the pot and...

@Woody girl i will be sure to hunt Darren down and also looking forward ot meeting John 'lofy' wiseman if i can find him there , the reason to see him is i want to shake his hand i am a big fan of the services as my who family served and one uncle was in the Commandos but will nbever talk about...

HI guys and girls , the reason for asking is i have used some long life stuff and like some say your better eating the packet more flavour . I do have a high end vaccy sealer and do seal loads of stuff and with oxy absorbers and then double seal and then in to air tight buckets rice and a lot of...

Hi all sorry been missing a few days been trying to catch up on garden work and well time just flies past . Ok as the title says freeze dried long life foods , we stock a huge amount of tinned and other food but i am looking at the 25 yr shelf life stuff , i am wondering if anyone has done many...

Hi all ok i finally got round to cleaning the glass don't ask boiler packed up so had ot get that out and new in and all the tidying up after so this glass got put to one side , well today i sat with a cuppa and got the paste out and a sponge yup a little elbow grease was needed but after 30...

Ok Mods if this is in the wrong place please move to where you think it should go , i have been given some voucher tickets for Kelly kettles i am not connected to them in anyway but i have a kelly and love it so asked if they do discounts and they sent me the codes if anyone wants one i am happy...

Hi mike now you must be reading my mind the wife and i both said this the other day as i have a corn on my thumb and have been doing the age old treatment cider vinegar on a cotton wool ball small one on the plaster and over it and it draws it out , my wife went ot put the plaster on and said...

Ah ok well as she is waiting on carpal tunnel ops on both hands i guess it might be a bad idea for her to try , we just found out that is why she gets so much pain along with raynards in her fingers , i use to just say it was her excuse to not cook lol as i made a lovely steak and kidney pie and...

Ok i am going to show my wife this as she loves all the crafty stuff , she took up loom knitting and with in a few weeks was turning out wool hats and scarfes for the homeless we carry some with us but she then got in to hot water bottle making we love them and after a few funny attempts she got...

wow worked on a farm , not a pig farm then when some idiot opens the door to the piglet area and 20 or 30 piglets fly out of the safe area that is away fro mthe mothers rolling on them piglets sqeezng between legs and squealing as they go lol you spend best part of the day trying to catch them...

LOL well here goes to another story on cuts lol yup be ready to get a bucket . Ok imiage a young me who knows it all yup a carpenter with the look just do what i say , so my nephew and i are doing a flat refurb and the bath was a old cast iron job so me being smart i say get the clubhammer lets...

Well swearing has nothing to do with class , give a rich eton lad a hammer and let him hit is thumb with it as he misses the nail yup i beat the words that come out are the same as the rest of us . A true story for you to ponder over , we as teens use to hang out in London and one night were at...

Ok got the astonish today going to give it a go later but as it is dry out not warm but dry i am going to try and get some done in the polytunnel and under the nets get the leeks in and sow the french beans , it never ends at this time of year mother nature lets us get lazy all winter then wham

Hi Steve not to far from me i think 20 miles max so welcome

Ok now i like the idea of these to use in the BBQ the wife and i sit out under , i built a nice place to sit under but as we are close to the canal we do get the mossies and while i do not care the wife has health issues that seem to attached the little monsters as does my neighbour , the candle...

LOL yes us wombles are a funny little thing to get your head round but then again i am a one for a skip to so i also get called steptoe , lol i will say i have been called other things to lol but nothing i can repeat in mixed company . I have always said if you can reuse it may be not today ot...

Thanks all it never hurtts to ask others advice , i tried all the old fashion ways and well thanks again i just refuse to become a throw away type person , if ican save something then well the womble in me comes out

Ok guys and girls i will be getting some of the PINK STUFF to , when we say pink stuff my mind goes back to the 70's and windowlene lol , yup we had a holiday caravan in the 80's and my sisters daughter was at the crawling stage of life we turned our back for a few seconds she had the windowlene...

Nice job , we have a huge amount of sweet pepper plants and tom plants to share but the gardener will take a fair few , got so much do do but gardener went down with covid so much of the bigger jobs on hold as i need the help these days . Blackberry jam you can not beat that on fresh homemade bread