It's a member of the crow family.

Naughty piglet.

I've had fillings with no anasthetic to avoid injections. Had a stomach endoscopy, camera into stomach, without anasthetic, 'cos they would only offer an injection, all I had was a spray at the back of my throat. When I had a large cyst removed from my side my last words before going under went roug...

Little me, 6'1" and 19 stone odd has to take valium to have injections. Needle phobia does not describe it, I'm brave, I go, they inject, I go faint and very pale, or throw up, they say p*** off we can't work on you in that state, so I've wasted my time. Valium is great, I feel no different, I ...

Kevin, if they do put a photo on the site, we could have it enlarged and use it for scaring the wildlife ofF the allotment. It would be better then any scarecrow. I wouldn't want you lot organizing my funeral, thinking about it, if you did i would miss out on all your homemade food again. Have a gr...

I have some hazy recollection that an acre is supposed to be enough to grow all a family's vegetable needs for a year. Various acts of parliament limited an allotment plot to no larger than a quarter of an acre and I suspect that with organisation one could grow sufficient on that. It would probably...

Pace yourself with the digging, only do small amount per visit, certainly no more than an hour and build up to that during the digging season. Do you walk much? If not try regular walks as that will stretch the leg muscles. Do you have a desk based job? If so then the muscles get used to doing not v...

Quick someone warn Steve, this is typical of the first stage of Grock attacking, isolate the victim so it cannot call for help.

Poor man, he will be chained up on Grocks allotment till he is worn out.

Go to http://www.rhs.org.uk/rhsplantfinder/plantfinder.asp although you will need to know that correct Latin as it comes back with three latin names.

Once you go further it will list suppliers and locations.

The nice things about this forum. It is compact, I tried Allotments 4 All and it is well nigh impossible to use as there are so many sub-forums and threads. GYO forum is similarly over-divided. It is serious about gardening and allied subjects. It allows a narural flow of conversation, as mentioned ...

Chantal, are you sure it was not about Viagra?

Still at least the info pages look useful.

Regards, Peter.

Johnboy, no I did not go there, I have had a quick look now though and well, phew , well you can see why Spudhead had locked out Guest posting eh?

Regards, Peter.

This week I found http://www.nomoreslugs.com/about/species.php , it is a lovely slimey place.

Jeyes do a path cleaner, widely available (DIY warehouses), I've only used it once, so am unsure how long the effect will last, but it's kept it clear for three months at least.

Looks like I did do it right, hitting on Vivvie's friends method by trial and error.

Streps, no offence intended, hopefully all posters are trying to help.

What I was trying to point out, perhaps not as tactfully as I could have done is that I have seen the diddy ones and on a drive, the gas would run out after a few yards.