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Gutter cleaning

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by JohnN » Tue Jan 08, 2013 10:42 am

This is probably going to break the Olympic record for teaching egg-sucking, but I've discovered a useful dodge for cleaning out gutters with the...

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Tue Jan 08, 2013 4:03 pm
Righto Resolutions??

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by Westi » Wed Dec 26, 2012 9:38 pm
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Xmas is over & New Year is coming - anyone making any resolutions? I try not to but get caught up each year but thinking what I'd like to improve...
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Mon Jan 07, 2013 3:03 pm
You lovely people

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by pongeroon » Sun Jan 06, 2013 11:11 pm

I don't have much time or inclination to look at or post on many forums, but there are a few which I lurk about in from time to time.

This one is...

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Sun Jan 06, 2013 11:13 pm
Evenings don't get any darker

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by alan refail » Sat Dec 08, 2012 5:07 pm

Today's the day I look forward to every December. Sunset 16.01 today and for the next ten days. Then it starts getting a bit lighter. Pity about the...

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Sun Jan 06, 2013 5:44 pm
Hydroponics in small greenhouse

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by MikA » Thu Jun 21, 2012 5:15 pm

This post is a continuation really of the "Hydroponics" thread posted by Ken last year.
I thought you kind people would like to see my...

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Sun Jan 06, 2013 12:55 pm
Very sad news

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by Catherine » Sat Jan 05, 2013 11:03 pm

This week I had a phone call from friend off our allotment to tell us that the chap from the allotment just across the path from us had committed...

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Sun Jan 06, 2013 11:53 am
Cheery start to the year

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by alan refail » Tue Jan 01, 2013 2:17 pm
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I've been a bit of a miserable so-and-so of late, complaining about the constant rain and darkness. But today has been fine with a few welcome...
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Sat Jan 05, 2013 10:32 pm
Wind Farms v Wildlife

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by glallotments » Thu Jan 03, 2013 5:00 pm
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Any thoughts on this

It could even end up being garden related - less bats and birds to feed on the insects that feed on our plants?

If you...
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Sat Jan 05, 2013 12:21 pm
Bad weather prompting more British farmers to favour GM use

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by alan refail » Fri Jan 04, 2013 3:58 pm

A suggestion that circumstances may bring about some changes in the public perception of specific GM research.

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Fri Jan 04, 2013 3:58 pm
Boiled Eggs

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by Arnie » Tue Jan 01, 2013 8:46 pm
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Hi Everyone,

My Hens are laying for Britain, I am getting anything between 6 & 10 a day from 12 hens. I know I shouldn't complain but I have had...
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Fri Jan 04, 2013 3:30 pm
After Christmas.......

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by Diane » Mon Dec 31, 2012 2:08 pm

: t'was the month after Christmas and all through the house
Nothing would fit me, not even a blouse.

The cookies I'd nibbled, the eggnog I'd taste....

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Tue Jan 01, 2013 8:21 pm
Happy 2013 Gardener's!

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by Westi » Mon Dec 31, 2012 8:33 pm

To all forum members & visitors - Have a Wonderful 2013 - May your seedlings not be spindley, may there be no blight or cabbage whites, may the...

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Tue Jan 01, 2013 7:19 pm
Grafted tomatoes

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by MAM12 » Tue Jan 01, 2013 10:48 am

Has anyone any experience of grafted toms? What are your thoughts, yield, are they worth the extra cost?

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Tue Jan 01, 2013 11:24 am
Happy New Year 2013

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by peter » Tue Jan 01, 2013 12:21 am

to everyone on KG forum. :D

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Tue Jan 01, 2013 10:29 am
Auld lang syne

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by alan refail » Sun Dec 30, 2012 1:58 pm

For those of you attending New Year's Eve parties (I shall be warmly tucked up in bed) do insist that all sing the full five verses of Auld Lang Syne...

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Last post by Westi
Mon Dec 31, 2012 8:25 pm
Seafaring granddaughter!

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by JohnN » Wed Dec 26, 2012 4:27 pm

Just to let those of you who've shown interest know that Kiera, our 22 year old granddaughter, has made safe landfall in St Georges, Grenada on...

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Sun Dec 30, 2012 11:36 am
Planning

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by Westi » Sat Dec 29, 2012 8:37 pm

Got the square ruled paper out - thinking of doing themed beds - chinese, med, true bit etc! Opened the proverbial can of worms! Did a good chinese...

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Last post by sally wright
Sun Dec 30, 2012 10:25 am
How many we have lost in 2012

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by alan refail » Thu Dec 27, 2012 2:25 pm

Time to remember how many greats we have lost in the course of the year - as well as some not so greats, and maybe some we never liked or even never...

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Last post by Westi
Thu Dec 27, 2012 7:17 pm
Festive Season

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by Elaine » Sat Dec 22, 2012 8:41 pm
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May I take this opportunity of wishing all of you a very happy Festive Season and all good wishes for 2013?
I might not get on here for a while, so...
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Last post by Westi
Wed Dec 26, 2012 9:18 pm
Who will be switching on their computer on Christmas Day?

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by Primrose » Mon Dec 24, 2012 4:53 pm

Quilty in our house! Although I think the main purpose will be to use Skype for catching up with some distant family members.

But if tv starts to...

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Last post by Diane
Wed Dec 26, 2012 1:30 pm
Is he here yet ? ?

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by Kleftiwallah » Mon Dec 24, 2012 1:49 pm

Should keep the little darlings quite for a few minutes.

Cheers, Tony.

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Mon Dec 24, 2012 11:50 pm
The changing face of Christmas cards

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by Primrose » Mon Dec 24, 2012 4:59 pm

I was looking around our displayed cards while listening to the Kings College carol service this afternoon and noted several things about them.

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Mon Dec 24, 2012 7:35 pm
Wishes for 2013

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by alan refail » Sun Dec 23, 2012 2:17 pm

Let's all get together and wish for better things next year.

I wish for:

a gentle winter
a mild spring
a warm summer
bumper crops
a livelier KG...

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Last post by Primrose
Mon Dec 24, 2012 10:22 am
Happy Christmas to everyone.

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by Diane » Sun Dec 23, 2012 12:01 pm

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Sun Dec 23, 2012 7:40 pm
Mandatory H & S and PC rules for Christmas

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by alan refail » Sat Dec 22, 2012 12:01 pm

All employees planning to dash through the snow in a one horse open
sleigh, going over the fields and laughing all the way are advised that
a Risk...

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Sun Dec 23, 2012 12:09 pm
Waterlogged Ground

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by Arnie » Thu Dec 20, 2012 8:32 pm

Hi Everyone :)

A number of allotments on our site are underwater by at least 3 to 4 inches and have been for a couple of weeks, at the moment I am...

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Last post by robo
Sat Dec 22, 2012 6:38 pm
Losing the will?

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by alan refail » Sun Dec 02, 2012 4:45 pm

I sat down this afternoon to sort out my seed orders for next year - I usually have this sorted before now. Before I started I thought back over the...

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Last post by Primrose
Sat Dec 22, 2012 2:14 pm
Now this is Christmas.

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by Beryl » Sun Dec 16, 2012 2:53 pm

This is special - worth watching.
Beryl.

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Last post by Primrose
Sat Dec 22, 2012 10:08 am
Winter solstice greetings

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by alan refail » Fri Dec 21, 2012 7:01 am

WINTER SOLSTICE

someone burns paper money in the street
it’s the day of the winter solstice
flames light up the trees that line the road
we, the...

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Fri Dec 21, 2012 3:47 pm
Herts Police advice re fords.

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by peter » Thu Dec 20, 2012 8:14 pm

At least five vehicles and slightly more people rescued from two backroad fords near me today, well done Herts Fire & Rescue and Herts Police. :D...

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Thu Dec 20, 2012 8:14 pm
Happy Birthday.

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by oldherbaceous » Tue Dec 18, 2012 5:12 am
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Dear Alan, may i be the first to wish you a very Happy Birthday indeed.
You are a brilliant forum member for both infomation and also humour, which...
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Thu Dec 20, 2012 6:43 am
He's behind you! Oh no he isn't! :)

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by vegpatchmum » Wed Dec 19, 2012 7:48 am

Of to the Panto with the school this morning!!!!

Can't wait!

Bit like a kid on Christmas morning (well a lot like one really :lol: :oops: :roll:...

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Wed Dec 19, 2012 11:32 pm
daily mail today

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by richard p » Tue Dec 18, 2012 8:57 am

big bit on the daily mail website today in respose to our environment secretary's views on gm in our food chain.

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Wed Dec 19, 2012 4:52 pm
Dog owners reminder.

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by peter » Sun Dec 16, 2012 9:39 pm

Having just spent around £150 today at the vets, to get our rescue dog, of three weeks, to vomit up the tube of minstrels and box of Lindor that he'd...

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Last post by Primrose
Mon Dec 17, 2012 3:39 pm
FISH DUMPING AND YOUR MEP

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by Shallot Man » Mon Dec 17, 2012 9:22 am

It's been 2 years since Fish Fight released our viral video about discards and started the campaign to end this crazy waste of fish. With your help...

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Mon Dec 17, 2012 3:11 pm
Rather fidgety.

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by oldherbaceous » Sun Dec 16, 2012 6:29 pm

Does anyone else get rather fidgety in the evenings, at this time of the year. I often feel like this at this time of the year, but this year it's...

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Sun Dec 16, 2012 7:25 pm
Who's backing fracking?

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by alan refail » Thu Dec 13, 2012 4:51 pm

There may be a lot of gas down there, but I must admit my views are coloured by the fact that the big reserves to be exploited first are under the...

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Sat Dec 15, 2012 7:23 am
Yeeee-Haaaa, look what I had delivered.

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by Ricard with an H » Tue Dec 11, 2012 12:35 pm
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The farmer did promise but I don't like to keep asking, he finally dumped two buckets of cow-poo over the fence. I have to figure how to stop my dog...
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Fri Dec 14, 2012 5:40 pm
HOW VERY STRANGE!

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by Johnboy » Tue Dec 11, 2012 8:09 am

On the recent Kew Diploma and Prizes Day Monty Don, chairman of the Soil Association, called for a “broadening of dialogue” between the Anti-GM and...

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Last post by Tony Hague
Thu Dec 13, 2012 10:06 am
12:12:12

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by alan refail » Tue Dec 11, 2012 3:57 pm

Just for the briefest moment in time At .12 of a second after 12.12 tomorrow it will be 12:12:12:12:12:12 . Unless they invent some more months, this...

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Wed Dec 12, 2012 9:45 am
KG Compost Bin

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by Shallot Man » Sun Dec 09, 2012 11:09 am

Reading the January issue of KG, I was intrigued by the double compost bin, very detailed plans and instructions. Couldn't find the cost of the...

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Mon Dec 10, 2012 12:17 pm
It's here again!!

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by Westi » Tue Dec 04, 2012 7:49 pm
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Where has this year gone! Not that it was anything to write home about but here we are again wrapping, stuffing & preparing for the Silly Season!...
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Last post by oldherbaceous
Mon Dec 10, 2012 5:07 am
If you don't make your own Christmas tree.....

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by alan refail » Tue Nov 20, 2012 7:34 am

.....now's the time to start.

Britain's Christmas tree plantations hit by mysterious killer fungus

For twenty years now we've made a...

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Last post by Primrose
Sat Dec 08, 2012 12:21 pm
Happy Birthday.

Last post by Primrose
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by oldherbaceous » Fri Dec 07, 2012 5:09 am

Many happy returns of the day, Kleftiwallah, hope you have a smashing day. :)

I bought myself a Triumph TR25W yesterday, i would have wrapped it up...

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Last post by Primrose
Sat Dec 08, 2012 12:18 pm
Flutterby?

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by JohnN » Fri Dec 07, 2012 3:45 pm

Our grand-daughter has just emailed us from a catarmaran she is helping to crew from the Canaries to Mexico, to say they are crossing the Tropic of...

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Last post by Monika
Fri Dec 07, 2012 5:37 pm
The earth by night

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by alan refail » Thu Dec 06, 2012 2:12 pm

Some exceptional images from the Suomi satellite.

How we humans huddle together in the light. Of course there are so many more in the dark places....

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Thu Dec 06, 2012 6:00 pm
Has he told it to the birds?

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by alan refail » Wed Dec 05, 2012 2:00 pm

If you do a forum search on nicotine you will find Johnboy's advice many times.

The birds of Mexico City seem to have taken his advice to heart and...

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Thu Dec 06, 2012 12:00 pm
Early Winter bits & bobs?

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by peter » Sat Oct 27, 2012 9:27 am
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Overnight snow here in Hertfordshire, one cold pawed dog :(
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Thu Dec 06, 2012 9:41 am
Learn something new

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by Diane » Fri Nov 30, 2012 2:42 pm

Found this site -

I'm learning how to recognise the different trees and also doing a course of Blood Cells of the Body (well, it looked...

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Tue Dec 04, 2012 8:42 pm
Snow balls ...

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by JohnN » Tue Dec 04, 2012 11:40 am

Went down the local shop yesterday and bought a snow shovel. Man in shop said "Do you know something we don't? I said "No, but last year I...

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Tue Dec 04, 2012 12:54 pm

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