I have no problems with organic shoes, you should use as much of an animal as possible; if there is organic beef there should be organic leather and leather products. I tend to agree with Allan, however that some of the more processed food products seem to contravene the spirit of the label organic.

And if JB and Allan agree on something.....

Reading your original description the acidity of the soil may be the problem, but clearly the leaves are not getting the water which suggests a problem with the roots This could be pH, but could be other things too, eg could you have vine weevils?

The idea of 'chemical free' cleaning products always makes me smile, although I do wonder how I have missed the development of such small and finely controlled vacuums, at least I assume if these products are chemical free they must be vacuums.... And sorry for not getting back to people on points a...

Umm, that's the wrong way round, they need acid soil, not alkali, so if you are in an area with underlying limestone that may well be the problem.

Possibly because they were not completely pollinated, the normal looking bit was, but the shrivelled bit wasn't.

Peter, I read BB as a child, AE Nesbit, Frances Hodgeson Burnett, CSLewis, Rosemary Sutcliffe, Henry Treece, Elisabeth Goudge, Ursula le Guin, Asimov, Heinlen, Phillip K Dick, Dorothy Sayers, I could go on. I read 'The Lord of the Rings' at eight years and had read Frank Herbert's 'Dune' by eleven a...

Figs do grow wild in this country if the seeds can get hot enough to germinate. They still grow along the Don in Sheffield where the water had been heated by the steel industry.

And I had one growing through my patio that I know was not planted.

Oh I do hope that happens, the Librarian, Vimes, Lord Vetanari and Carrot should sort the little idiot out. Also if Pratchett got involved that standard of english used will soar from its current lamentably low reading age. Peter what reading age would you expect a childrens book to have? Carole B,...

Jude, despite being so tough they don't. Sigh, that's what I ought to be doing now...the trouble with having a densly planted garden with no lawn is they don't have many places they can go, and those soon get used.

Well there's always Swann Morton. Who? Have you ever used a scalpel blade? They made it. They make something crazy like 75% of all the scalpels used anywhere in the world. And they are a workers co-operative who all go home early on Fridays and have five weeks a year holiday. They are able to do so ...

Try agricultural suppliers, the nearest to me has every kind of handle I know of. Or a builders merchant perhaps, how diferent is the handle to that of a pick axe?

Well I did warn you

Our dogs go mad for the skins, we can use them as 'training treats', though usually I just put the skins in their supper. They really do have some very odd tastes, but that one beats me

So would that be Hereford? And when was this?

I really want to know, local groups have to sign a licensing agreement, which includes a clause promising not to bring FoE into disrepute, and this would certainly contravene that wouldn't it ?:?