hi motherwoman, I use 2 types of grit a rough one and a fine one mixed in with the layers pellets, I think it might be one of them just starting laying, I got some of the chickens from a local zoo and 4 others from a friend of my daughters so I do not know the history of them, we gave away 2 chicken...

hi Richard, thanks for your help, tonight I stripped the carb down completely I did not find anything amiss reassembled it tried to start it and got petrol pumping out of the exhaust, Ive checked all the carburettors I can find on the internet but I can not find one that matches, its probably a chea...

with my rotavator lying sick on our allotment I borrowed one from a friend with the promise from him "if you can get it started" you can use it, its only 2 years old a thing called an eckman, when you take the spark plug out and pull the start cord you get neat petrol shooting out of the p...

yesterday we had an even larger one it was a over 7.5 c.m. long, only problem was the shell it was very thin at the pointed end and cracked badly when handled it was twice the size of our usual eggs

if you could have seen the plot I have taken over you would not worry, I have collected glass by the barrow load, asbestos, old shoes, wellies, lots of rusting bits of cars, steel mesh, durex, bits of bone, in fact at one time I was going to contact the time team to see if they would come and do a d...

is it only me that weighs the eggs my chickens lay, I don't do it every day but occasionally I put one on the kitchen scales, today we have the largest yet weighing in at 78 grams I know this is not big compared with some eggs but to us its our record to date

no way into the chain with out cutting the steel housing which I will probably do in the next few days

my rotavator gave up this afternoon just when I have a full half plot to sort, the engine is fine (briggs and Stratton 4 stroke) its the chain drive that's broke and its inside a fully welded case there is no way in apart from cutting the welds fixing then re welding

what happened to the half that vanished, could it be in the carb

I have had the plot since October last year its only a half plot but its been used for a tip for the last eleven years, the other half to my plot has been untouched by the last two allocated users and has never been used for eleven years, this week the council kindly decided I could have the other h...

2 strokes can suffer with leaking crankcase seals which means no pressure in the crank case, also leaking gaskets on carbs will cause running problems, once its all back together if it still wont start take out the plug put it over a gas flame and get it hot put it back in as quickly as possible if ...

I found a bee today not unusual but I was 4 miles out at sea on my boat fishing

no just sowed and watered

my green house is at home, I sowed most of the seeds around 7 weeks ago then when I went away I transferred them to my daughters greenhouse planted most of them out last week with more sowings this last couple of days, I know its early but I spend a lot of time in spain so have to take chances

this year up to now I have sowed the following, caulies ,cabbage, sprouts ,leeks ,sweet corn, squash ,broad and runner beans, and peas all in a unheated green house most have been planted out this last week