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HAPPY BIRTHDAY WESTI.

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by Johnboy » Sun Feb 22, 2009 8:23 am

Hi Westi,
May I wish you the very best on this you fiftyfirst birthday.
How nice it must be to be young! :wink:
JB.

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Mon Feb 23, 2009 1:20 pm
Greater love hath no man than this !

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by Primrose » Sun Feb 22, 2009 7:15 pm

We were meandering round the garden yesterday and I casually said to my husband "You know, if we moved this pond round 90 degrees and...

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Mon Feb 23, 2009 11:45 am
Don't buy clothes!

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by alan refail » Fri Feb 20, 2009 7:00 am
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No, I don't go about naked :shock:

But this is something I'm not guilty of. On the whole my part of Wales is not an area of snappy dressers and I...
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Sun Feb 22, 2009 8:08 pm
EMERGENCY....CAN ANYONE HELP

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by lizzie » Sat Feb 21, 2009 4:20 pm

Ok, I wouldn't normally ask but it's an emergency.

A friends daughter who lives in Atlanta has run away from home. She's 14 years old. She may be...

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Last post by Beryl
Sun Feb 22, 2009 2:49 pm
Sarpo Mira Frost Resistance

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by Colin Miles » Sat Feb 21, 2009 5:53 pm

Today, on one of my occasional visits to the National Botanic Garden of Wales, I talked to the Double-walled gardener who looks after the veg. In the...

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Last post by Johnboy
Sun Feb 22, 2009 12:57 pm
Public Liability Insurance for Allotments

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by Binky » Sat Feb 21, 2009 6:14 pm

We self-manage our allotments and currently buy our public liability insurance from Newspace, through NSALG. We have no complaints but wondered if...

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Sat Feb 21, 2009 6:26 pm
Ok Sweet-tooth, own up.

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by peter » Sat Feb 21, 2009 5:16 pm

Which of you is it who likes their Woolies pic-n-mix that much?

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Last post by Westi
Sat Feb 21, 2009 5:41 pm
A Cancer Charity

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by Mike Vogel » Tue Dec 23, 2008 3:09 pm

To all my KG Forum friends:

As I have just been given the all-clear by my consultant, I feel I can now launch my sponsorship drive. Please access...

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Last post by Mike Vogel
Fri Feb 20, 2009 3:34 pm
Finding my pm messages

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by Mike Vogel » Thu Feb 19, 2009 12:07 pm

I know some of you have helped me find out how to pm another member of this forum. Now can you tell me how to find the mesages others have sent to...

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Fri Feb 20, 2009 3:33 pm
Wot, no Chantal

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by peter » Wed Feb 18, 2009 8:59 pm

New members may not be aware that our Chantal is a Y-list media celebrity, having featured several times in the Telegraph.

However it looks as...

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Fri Feb 20, 2009 11:18 am
Next time you get caught for speeding or parking.......

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by Primrose » Thu Feb 19, 2009 4:52 pm

remember these two words !! :lol:

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Thu Feb 19, 2009 5:13 pm
For frying out loud!!

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by snooky » Fri Feb 06, 2009 6:05 pm
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The title of this thread refers to a story in the local evening paper.
An animal rights group wants an award- winning fish and chip shop to rename...
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Thu Feb 19, 2009 1:43 pm
Digging in manure

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by lizzie » Mon Feb 16, 2009 2:33 am

Hi folks.......well, I was putting a thick layer of manure on the bottom half of my plot as the soil is very heavy and clay like. It hasn't really...

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Last post by Colin_M
Thu Feb 19, 2009 7:09 am
blow the six nations <g>

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by MKPoshfan » Tue Feb 17, 2009 10:28 am

never mind the egg chasing <g> Posh came a bad cropper (groan) at home on saturday so we need 3 points tonight though if Joe Lewis makes...

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Thu Feb 19, 2009 5:46 am
The relative value of things

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by Primrose » Wed Feb 18, 2009 5:01 pm

I was just idly pondering which would give me the best value for money - renewing my KG Magazine for a year or a session with my chiropractor to...

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Wed Feb 18, 2009 10:13 pm
THOMPSON & MORGAN OPEN DAYS

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by GCS » Fri Jan 30, 2009 2:47 pm

For the past few years i have been tempted to go to a thompson & morgan open day, but i live quite far away from ipswich, here in bristol. I...

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Last post by lez
Wed Feb 18, 2009 6:24 pm
Sunshine

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by Chantal » Mon Feb 16, 2009 10:09 pm

I received this a while back and it still makes me giggle, turn up the volume and enjoy

:lol: :lol: :lol:

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Last post by seedling
Tue Feb 17, 2009 1:34 pm
A challenge to all dressmakers.

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by peter » Mon Feb 16, 2009 9:29 pm

As the article won't be available for ever I quote it below.

"Why waste money on haute couture when you could have your very own designer...

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Last post by alan refail
Tue Feb 17, 2009 6:12 am
This weekends Six Nations matches.

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by peter » Sat Feb 14, 2009 12:11 pm
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This weekends fixtures have great potential.
What are your predictions for the quality and results?
Despite being English I'm hoping more for quality...
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Mon Feb 16, 2009 9:00 pm
Watch this space

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by Catherine » Wed Feb 11, 2009 10:53 pm
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I have not posted or been on regularly recently because we have been very busy as my OH is, from the 16th February, starting his own business. He has...
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Last post by Catherine
Mon Feb 16, 2009 7:13 pm
The NHS!!!

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by snooky » Fri Feb 13, 2009 10:55 pm

Do you ever worry about the NHS ? You should!!
>
> These are sentences actually typed by Medical secretaries in NHS Greater
> Glasgow
>...

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Last post by lizzie
Mon Feb 16, 2009 2:18 am
Mole explosion!

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by Colin Miles » Thu Feb 12, 2009 4:37 pm

Before Christmas we were 'marvelling' at the enormous number of molehills on the road-sides, fields and so on. This after a relative absence during...

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Last post by Geoff
Sun Feb 15, 2009 7:55 pm
Another Gem!!

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by snooky » Fri Feb 13, 2009 11:18 pm

Exothermic Hell

A thermodynamics professor had written a take home exam for his graduate students. It had one question: Is Hell exothermic (gives...

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Last post by snooky
Sat Feb 14, 2009 9:32 pm
Rooster Potato update

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by Colin Miles » Thu Sep 18, 2008 5:33 pm

Following on from the excellent performance in the garden, first impressions in the kitchen are: Boiled - bland, entirely forgettable. Roasted -...

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Sat Feb 14, 2009 11:49 am
AUSTRALIAN BUSH FIRES

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by Shallot Man » Tue Feb 10, 2009 3:29 pm

May I make an appeal for the above. Donations can be made via the "RED CROSS " I am of the age and can remember the people of Australia...

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Last post by Primrose
Sat Feb 14, 2009 10:03 am
History of the world...

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by Chantal » Fri Feb 13, 2009 3:26 pm

... according to students. This is (allegedly) a compilation of errors made by students, giving a brief history of the world.

The inhabitants of...

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Last post by Shallot Man
Sat Feb 14, 2009 9:50 am
Lidl Seeds

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by Tigger » Thu Feb 12, 2009 12:44 pm

They're back again! 28p for small packs, 47p for the bigger ones. Usual small but good range, with a few new ones for this year.

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Fri Feb 13, 2009 11:18 am
Seconds away, Round TWO!

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by peter » Thu Feb 12, 2009 9:37 pm

In the red corner the weather, 2 to 1 odds on favourite.
In the blue corner, southeast England, the rank outsider.

It is snowing well, not hard,...

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Fri Feb 13, 2009 9:45 am
Bargain petrol strimmer.

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by peter » Thu Feb 12, 2009 9:48 pm

Take a look at the Wickes website Flymo XLT300 split shaft strimmer dwon from £119.00 to £49.97 and no delivery charge. :shock:

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Last post by peter
Thu Feb 12, 2009 9:48 pm
Will today's youngsters ever grow up?

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by The Mouse » Tue Feb 10, 2009 2:07 pm

Hi, folks.

This is sort of a follow-on from Snooky's thread on the kids of the 50s, 60s and 70s.

Following last night's new snow, my son couldn't...

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Last post by oldherbaceous
Wed Feb 11, 2009 5:16 pm
Do plants give off heat?

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by Primrose » Mon Feb 09, 2009 2:18 pm

I'm wondering because I'm looking at my vegetable patch. The areas which are now bare soil are still covered with snow. However, the snow has...

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Tue Feb 10, 2009 1:46 pm
Good News?

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by Colin Miles » Sun Feb 08, 2009 12:28 pm
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The latest long-term weather forecast says that the rest of February might be even colder - overall -2C below average, with March, April, May and...
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Last post by oldherbaceous
Tue Feb 10, 2009 10:38 am
Aging

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by Geoff » Mon Feb 02, 2009 5:46 pm
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George Carlin's Views on Aging

Do you realize that the only time in our lives when we like to get old is when we're kids? If you're less than 10...
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Last post by Geoff
Mon Feb 09, 2009 9:15 am
Kids inthe 50"s,60"s and 70"s shouldn"t have survived.......

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by snooky » Fri Feb 06, 2009 8:09 pm

We had no childproof lids on medicine bottles or latches on doors or cabinets and it was fine to play with pans.
When we rode our bikes we wore no...

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Last post by oldherbaceous
Mon Feb 09, 2009 6:08 am
Life can be sweet when selfish b---s get what they deserve.

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by peter » Thu Dec 18, 2008 9:56 pm
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Waiting for the bus home from the railway station I rather lost my rag with a moron who decided as the bus arrived to park right in front of me...
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Sun Feb 08, 2009 5:19 pm
Snow

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by FredFromOssett » Mon Feb 02, 2009 8:46 am
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2 to3 inches - sorry, 5 to 8 cm - of snow on the ground; and, yippee, my plot looks as good as anyone else's now!
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Fri Feb 06, 2009 3:32 pm
MY ALLOTMENTS UPDATE

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by STEVE PARTRIDGE » Tue Feb 03, 2009 9:27 am

Hi all, what a dramatic change in the weather!! hope that you are all managing ok in the conditions, it's frustrating for us gardener's but hopefully...

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Fri Feb 06, 2009 2:01 pm
More amazing watermelon art

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by Chantal » Wed Feb 04, 2009 11:27 am

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Wed Feb 04, 2009 11:27 am
Back issue Feb 2008

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by La Chenerie » Tue Jan 27, 2009 12:21 pm
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Does anyone have an unwanted copy of KG Feb 2008 or know were I can get my hands on one? I have tried back issues from Morton's but of course they...
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Mon Feb 02, 2009 12:34 pm
CHEAP SEED

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by Shallot Man » Thu Jan 29, 2009 9:57 am

Memsahib dragged me into a £ shop yesterday. Six foil packed seeds[Beetroot Detroit. Carrot Nantes. Cabbage Omskirk. Broccoli Purple Sprouting Early....

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Last post by hilary
Sun Feb 01, 2009 8:25 pm
Fir Trees

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by have'nt a clue » Sun Feb 01, 2009 11:01 am

Good Morning!This is my first post so Im not sure if this question is in the right forum!Can anyone tell me how high conifers can get to before they...

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Sun Feb 01, 2009 7:32 pm
EARLY SPRING ?

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by Shallot Man » Wed Jan 28, 2009 2:07 pm
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Noticed that BUCKTHORNE is showing signs of coming out in bud.
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Sun Feb 01, 2009 7:30 pm
Travelling and visiting places

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by garden_serf » Fri Jan 30, 2009 9:55 am

Smurfy wrote: hi Garden_Serf. My husband and i do just that. We got married last May and for our honeymoon we had a few days up in Berwick and...

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Sun Feb 01, 2009 7:21 pm
SHIITAKE MUSHROOMS

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by Shallot Man » Sun Feb 01, 2009 10:05 am

Dutifully following the Memsahib round one of our local supermarkets, was looking at the SHIITAKE mushrooms, noticed that they were from CHINA, hows...

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Last post by AnneThomas
Sun Feb 01, 2009 12:50 pm
Amser a fu - Times gone by

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by alan refail » Tue Jan 27, 2009 3:11 pm
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I have unearthed some pictures of our village at the turn of the nineteenth-twentieth century.

Schoolboys digging in what is now the school playing...
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Last post by Monika
Sat Jan 31, 2009 6:58 pm
Heatwave in Oz

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by lizzie » Wed Jan 28, 2009 3:00 pm

My fellow Zootopians over in Oz are in the middle of a heatwave. I've just been talking to one and it's around 2am and the outside temp is...

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Fri Jan 30, 2009 2:54 pm
PANSY LEMON VIOLETS

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by GCS » Fri Jan 30, 2009 2:54 pm

I know this is not a kitchen garden subject, but i was wondering if anyone has some old seed or a un-opened seed packet of Pansy lemon violets from...

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Fri Jan 30, 2009 2:54 pm
Funniest thing i've read in a long time..........

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by lizzie » Tue Jan 27, 2009 7:08 pm
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I read this on another forum and my sides are still aching from the laughing I was doing. I thought I would share it with you. This has to be the...
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Fri Jan 30, 2009 2:49 pm
New member, old gardener.

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by Kleftiwallah » Mon Jan 26, 2009 11:52 am

Good morning all, Kleftiwallah here (a.k.a. Tony). "If I can make it, rather than buy it" that's my motto. (got to go and do the dusting,...

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Thu Jan 29, 2009 7:24 pm
Apple trees for producing cider.

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by Samantha » Mon Jan 19, 2009 6:58 pm

Hi all,

I would like to begin producing my own cider. Which apple trees/name are best suited for growing in West Yorkshire, England?

Just wondered...

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Tue Jan 27, 2009 8:10 pm

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