Well last night I used some more of the paint and washed the brush in Tesco NonBio Liquid Detergent and it is still soft this morning so the email advice was sound. I have replied to tell them so but also pointed out that I cannot find anybody who doesn't think washing up liquid is a detergent or an...

I've posted it by the dog basket but she hasn't got much to learn!

I reckon there are two methods. 1. Old style gloss paint – wash in White Spirit then wash this off with neat washing up liquid followed by hot water and more washing up liquid. 2. More modern formulations – straight to the washing up liquid process without the White Spirit. This week I used some Cro...

I only very rarely get Brambling again no arable nearby but do get masses of Chaffinch. A few years ago I got fed up with peanut red bag feeders blowing off the pergola we hung them from so I made rigid feeders with two sides mesh and two sides wood and screwed them to the posts. Ever since then we ...

That’s been said before but I cannot fund a new political party, my views being too obscure for any of the current ones. I am an atheist republican who wants to disestablish the C of E and abolish the monarchy. I would quit all our overseas territories like the Falklands, Gibraltar, Northern Ireland...

Did you hear that Sunderland cannot hold outdoor markets because they are within a days donkey ride of an existing one?

Could there be a small typo there?

Took me a while to find it again - it is in this thread if anybody is interested.

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Come to think if Alastair Campbell started apologising we would have solved global warming because hell would have frozen over.

Now my magazine has finally arrived and I'm back from Tiscali dialup not working for nearly 24 hours I can see what you are all on about.
Having watched the Money Programme about innovation I should obviously have registered my carrot cage design before I published it!

Either Blair would do for starters.

Thanks Alan - I should have read the beeb more carefully as it says it has not yet gone through peer review for publication. Now I see more detail about who has done it the old scepticism is back.

I try to use as few "cides" as possible. All I have used this year is slug pellets in covered areas and copper on potatoes and tomatoes. Two things annoy me, telling me where I can get my NPK from and claiming that green manuring can put something back that isn't there in the first place. ...

If you like the pale cabbage like Primo I find growing them early in the year under cover they come ready earlier than overwintered spring cabbage.

I'm quite happy with Long Life Skimmed Milk - we only shop once a month so it is convenient.
I breakfast on muesli moistened with fruit juice - home made from either currants or apples at the moment.