I think that Christmas has got too commercial and the children these days expect too much. All the electrical stuff is so expensive yet these kids are brainwashed into thinking they need this stuff. I must admit that I am fed up with the length of the adverts between programmes about Christmas on th...

Westi I had a chicken sandwich for lunch today with home made veggie soup and it was delightful. We are going to go and buy a few from this chappie as soon as possible, because, honestly it has been the best chicken we have eaten in a very long time. I must admit I object to paying a huge amount for...

So sorry to hear of your loss. I know it is very difficult to lose a pet. She looks a very beautiful, loyal dog. We are really behind with preparing our beds on the allotment for winter. Everytime we have a few spare hours it is literally hosing down. We haven't even managed to put our back garden t...

OH we have eaten the rest of the chicken for our evening meal tonight and it was fabulous. Not dry at all and it melted in your mouth. I envy you with your facility to purchase local lamb. We do have an extremely good butcher here, and I do buy his sausages which are amazing and all his meat is bril...

OMG Luckily we have never had the urge to eat that sort of food. All I can say is I prefer home cooked food. I know what is going into it.

Just watching Food Unwrapped on Channel 4. The presenter is in America on a beef cattle farm. (85% are kept in corrals like this) They have just explained that they feed their cattle corn, and because the cattle have come from grass pastures to these fattening yards and they are being just fed purel...

We went to a Farmers Market yesterday in Grimsargh, Lancashire and bought some diced salt marsh lamb(which we froze) from one supplier (450g at £4.50) and a free range organic chicken. The chicken we bought from P D Willacy from Poulton le Fylde. Free range and no antibiotics or pumped with water (u...

Well I am glad it eventually arrived. I tried to buy a copy of "I forget which month" back in September and my local newsagent promised to order me a copy from the supplier and it is now the middle of November and it still hasn't arrived. I think I might give up now as I can't remember wha...

Thanks Primrose difficult day but almost got through it.

Today for me and my OH is a holiday because my dad died today in 1991. I don't usually comment on this kind of thing but this afternoon I sat and thought about him alot, I do think about him all the time but today was different. I wasn't with him when he died as the hospital sent us all home and whe...

Hi Monika I have still got a ? next to my name. I also don't know how to do an avatar so it looks like I will have to live with it.

Oh dear OH you are naughty.

Must admit that I find the green a bit garish. I agree with Fred. I know it will take time to get used to it, but "if it ain't broke dont fix it" will be a comment repeated. I am sure there are many people on this Forum who would like it to have carried on the way it was. It seemed to be w...

Why is the topic New Page Layout Locked? I was going to comment.

Well I was panicking this morning as I couldn't get on to the forum and "it said it didn't recognise my email" "I didn't exist " I tried and tried and couldn't manage it. So I gave up and went to work. Now I am home and I am here I do exist Yippee. Well the Forum page is differen...