I didn't know sticky willies are edible. Keen to try. But I've not seen any for years. Also didn't know that they're also called cleavers. I'm also eager to try nettle soup and even went to the extent of buying nettle seeds. I suspect they're in our house in Kent, which we are still in the process o...

Easy recipes for natural remedies and beauty fixes by James Wong. I like James Wong and always enjoy his columns in newspapers. Husband was dropping off some stuff in our usual charity shop and spotted this book, based on a BBC series and published a long time ago (2009) and he bought it for me. I d...

I am sick of that Darui guy. He follows me around, quotes my posts and later goes back to edit in spammy links. I've reported this many times but it's never been dealt with properly. Only a half-baked bit of post removal, and I'm left looking like I made a cra@p spammy post. I would be very sorry to...

I just read on The Guardian's website an article about borrowing rather than buying. You know, do you need a whole toolbox full of kit for a one-off DIY job? A "library of things". https://www.theguardian.com/money/article/2024/may/06/how-rental-libraries-of-things-have-become-the-new-way-...

Hi Primrose, The thought had occurred to me but I've already rejected the idea. a) It's new build and not really my kind of place for a permanent home. and b) Husband's work is only a few minutes walk away BUT the 'office' is moving, supposedly next year, which is likely to mean it might happen in 2...

Home? Well it's the right country. :D But I'm a Teuchter (NE) and this is Greater Glasgow (SW). We still have the AirBnB. Our furniture, etc, gets delivered to the house on Friday. The house owner has converted the double garage into rooms, which is exactly what I would have done. And now we have a ...

We've got a very lovely house to rent for a year, while we find somewhere to buy. Wow! It's a nice house.

So we can get a herb garden and whatever else into containers and take it with us when we move on. So happy! I've really missed having a garden however small.

Yippee aye oh aye...

There's a firm called Vouch - they verify your details so your proposed house rental or whatever else can happen. That's fair enough but they're starting to kick the backside out of it. Do we want them to set us up with utility providers? No thank you. Do we want them to set us up with this, that an...

We've done all the paperwork(or nearly all of it anyway. We just have to cough up the deposit and a month's rent in advance. It's an expensive business. We're expecting to get the keys tomorrow and then we'll be staright on the road south with a rented van to take another load up here. We'll sort ou...

Good news. We need to be out of this AirBnB in a couple of weeks but we've got the house we wanted! We can move in as soon as the paperwork and money are sorted! :D Halleluja! That gives us a year of breathing space to find somewhere to buy. :D I dunno, why should we buy? It's not as though we have ...

So, what the heck caused him (I assume it's a bloke) might have caused him to develop that habit?

Hi Primrose, I'm not sure I've ever cooked snails. If I have I've forgotten how - and most of my cookbooks are in the removal company's storage. I had a look on G and found this, which seems sensible. https://www.thesnailhouse.co.uk/2021/11/05/how-to-prepare-snails/ My late stepfather used to enjoy ...

We're in a ground floor flat. I have difficulty with stairs and only the taller most modern flats have lifts. I think the guy upstairs is a cross between a kangaroo and an elephant but it's hard to imagine how either of those could be so heavy footed. It's boof, boof, boof, making this flat shudder....

I think you can eat ordinary ggarden snails if you detoxify them first. Keep in a container and feed them only water and lettuce. Then run out and buy butter and garlic. I have eaten snails (in France) but didn't like them very much because of the thick bit on the bottom. Can't remember if it's call...

On the subject of "lipstick on a pig" the next-door neighbour on the other side says he thought it all looked a bit OTT, and they've been doing it for two years now. Why? If you have that kind of money why not buy a better house in the first place? It really doesn't make sense to me. Anywa...