If you want a breath of fresh (old) air, go to a rugby club. My twelve year old started after the English World cup win. Some samples; "Stop that poncing about, thats what soccer player do, this is rugby." To a boy running back up the pitch waving both arms in the air after scoring a try. ...

Nice to get some feedback

Mr Potato Head, any chance you could slightly amend the auto-navigation within the forum? When I log on, I like to check all the sub-fora, but not necessarily read all the threads. So I use the Mark All as Read, at that point I am finished with that sub-fora and would like to go to the General Inde...

Oh, I forgot, it is also quite a floppy grower, and may need support for anything much over 4' high.

Beware, Lonicera can get completely killed by severe cold weather. We once lost the entire hedge on one side, 1980 I think it was, it did regrow from the base, but as it was about 7' high to start with it took some time .

Lets just hope in all the excitement, of hiiting the deck piglet did not go down on the sandheap .

Sand and oil, oh ouch .


Quick someone chuck a bucket of cold water on the piglet .





Someone else fetch some more buckets for Grock!

Chantal, what a picture you conjour up.

Bet the poor dog thought you had scoffed his dinner.

Naughty, naughty, naughty bad Grock!

You must have had a bit too much monosodium glutamate in your fried rice.

You are much too sensible sounding to garden like SR.

After checking out the remains of the tea party, I noticed a few bottles rolling round the shed floor, one said sprout wine. We had an winning entry in our show last year of mint wine. Reggie Perrins son-in-law made nettle wine and Tom Good made pea-pod wine. I've made dandelion, father used to make...

OK then, Tootie Bubblepants here, beard neatly trimmed last week, all 6'1" and 19 Stone of me.



At work last year one of the younger ladies was running a variation on this for porn star names, to see what we ended up as.

Like a bunch of Hatters you lot.





Keep it up, welcome relief!

Viv, I dug the ridger out and photographed it comprehensively. Go to m where you may need to sign up to download the pic's. If you need any measurements let me know. In case you do not know how it fits. Take out the "walking stick" shape pin across the top of the rotor-box and remove the s...

[b]Ingredients[/b]6 cloves garlic 1 or more large onion 1 decent to medium-large sized squash (butternut for choice) 1 large swede 6 large carrots 4 small(8"x1") leeks 12 or more golfball sized tatties four or more large chicken thighs 1 tsp or pinch mixed herbs 2 chicken oxo salt & pe...

My two are now 12 and 9. Boy still interested, wants most of my second plot to grow "stuff", but drifts off when hard work needed. Girl totally dis-interested, bar eating what comes out. One ruse that works quite well (with my boy when younger) is if they are into "Timeteam", I g...