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 Topic: Pumpkins |
aussietail
Replies: 4
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 Forum: Grow Your Own Posted: Sun Oct 17, 10 9:21 pm Subject: Pumpkins - frost |
| Okay - when we got up this morning the garden was glistening with frost....oops - so I shot up into the allotment and picked my two pumpkins and numerous green outside tomatoes - so tomorrow I'm gonna ... |
| Topic: Pumpkins |
aussietail
Replies: 4
Views: 5817
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Forum: Grow Your Own Posted: Sat Oct 16, 10 7:28 am Subject: Pumpkins |
| Are pumpkins affected by frost ? we are expecting frost over the next few nights and mine are not big enough to harvest |
| Topic: Making a Living From 65 Acres. |
aussietail
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Forum: Small Business Questions, Ideas and Advice Posted: Tue Sep 07, 10 9:30 am Subject: Making a Living From 65 Acres. |
| A local garden centre has done something very similar, but on a much smaller scale - the garden centre had a large field to one side of their place which was doing nothing but producing thistles - so ... |
| Topic: A Challenge for the Cake Making Sorts |
aussietail
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Forum: Recipes, Preserving, Homebrewing Posted: Thu Mar 04, 10 11:14 pm Subject: Cakes for diabetics |
Will scones do?
I found this one on the back of a Scots porridge oats packet. It works fine for me.
I'm Type 2 - diagnosed almost 2 years ago at the age of 65 (female) and I am diet controlled - ha ... |
| Topic: New to Forum MAKING NEWSPAPER BRICKETTES |
aussietail
Replies: 32
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Forum: Energy Efficiency and Construction/Major Projects Posted: Mon Feb 01, 10 9:11 pm Subject: New to Forum MAKING NEWSPAPER BRICKETTES |
It seems to me that the main problem is that you are adding moisture, then having to remove it!
Diverging slightly - has anyone tried using up newspapers by making newspaper knots.
You need a very l ... |
| Topic: The great olive oil fraud |
aussietail
Replies: 23
Views: 4178977
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Forum: Authors Corner Posted: Sat Jan 30, 10 5:44 pm Subject: The great olive oil fraud |
| Sunflower oil..... hmm... looking through notes from course (re-Diabetes).... worst are lard, then butter, then sunflower oil, then olive oil, and rapeseed oil is best - with a couple of others (inc ... |
| Topic: Definition of being broke/strapped for cash! |
aussietail
Replies: 37
Views: 34993
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Forum: Finance and Property Posted: Fri Jan 29, 10 4:01 pm Subject: Definition of being broke/strapped for cash! |
| Since him indoors had to take early retirement a few years ago, we've been existing well below the bread-line, but I feel (there only being the 2 of us + a few dogs) that we have mostly been living 't ... |
| Topic: The great olive oil fraud |
aussietail
Replies: 23
Views: 4178977
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Forum: Authors Corner Posted: Thu Jan 21, 10 10:11 pm Subject: The great olive oil fraud |
| Taking a slightly different slant on the olive oil discussion - do downsizers realize that from a health point of view there are better alternatives? I didn't realize myself until a few months ago wh ... |
| Topic: Health and beauty ideas |
aussietail
Replies: 2
Views: 71895
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Forum: Authors Corner Posted: Thu Jan 21, 10 9:44 pm Subject: Health and beauty ideas |
| In the 1940s my Mam used to make a soap and sugar poultice to draw out spelks. Being inner city kids, we used to get loads in our fingers from the wooden props our mothers used to hold up the washing ... |
| Topic: Soup of the day? |
aussietail
Replies: 38
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Forum: Recipes, Preserving, Homebrewing Posted: Tue Jan 12, 10 10:59 pm Subject: Soup of the day? |
| I love soup, and I'm definitely going to try some of the new ideas I've just been reading - but what I'm really hankering after is dumplings - not a problem usually, but I've not made any since I was ... |
| Topic: What can I make with bacon and spuds? |
aussietail
Replies: 35
Views: 24714
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Forum: Recipes, Preserving, Homebrewing Posted: Sun Jan 10, 10 7:54 pm Subject: What can I make with bacon and spuds? |
| How about that good old Northumbrian dish - panhagglety!! Cut up bacon into half inch pieces and fry - then slice up a couple of onions and fry - then cut up potatoes into slices and fry lightly - it ... |
| Topic: Dog Sports, Anyone? |
aussietail
Replies: 21
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Forum: Livestock and Pets Posted: Tue Dec 08, 09 11:08 pm Subject: Dog Sports, Anyone? |
| Your Chester sounds the perfect candidate for my favourite 'doggy sport' of Working Trials. Give me a dog who enjoys jumping and running around, using its nose, its muscles and most importantly its b ... |
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