Groverdog

I had to have a blood transfusion a few years back after a burst eptopic so a big THANKS everyone who gives blood if i didnt have it i would have died. Unfortunately it means that i cant give blood now to repay that debt. I did try but they wont accept me.

For a few years i have been making wild fruit jellies, jams and syrups (mainly rosehip). To give away to friends and for our own use. Anyway a few friends have said that i should be doing farmers markets with them as they are quite good and unusual. The estate has given me the good ahead and im currently in the middle of doing the cooksafe haccp forms so the Environmental Health can come and inspect the kitchen. The jellies i make are mainly for accomliments to game/meat ie hawthorn jelly, rowan, crab apple. But some of them are sweet enough for toast etc. And the rosehip syrup is the

It is a big worry for ordinary working folk. Last winter was bad enough trying to keep house warm with the prices of oil rising but this winter we have to replace oil boiler with old raeburn and heat house soley on solid fuel (very lucky in getting wood) as there is no way we can afford oil just now. And its a case if i use Disco i have to make sure i get everything in one trip to minimse diesel costs. Feeding the small amount of livestock we have is causing a headache with feed prices well up too. People i feel really sorry for are the elderly who already struggle on a cr*p pension.

what mackem said! And excuse the techno phobe but would you be able to get to see it online? I knmow now its not Letterewe but a more Northern estate. Should be a good watch. Pros and cons to both sides i guiess.

Is this about Letterewe estate? The Dutch laird?

Aye hes got a constant iodine stained finger - looks ominous! I find rearing orphans really rewarding especially when the ewes go on to give me lambs. And what could be better than a roast with your own home reared lamb with homemade mint jelly and homegrown veg - my kinda heaven! The cost of everything is so high that i expect to just break even this year if that if any more die but wont stop me doing it all again next year though. Lessons learened this year about stocking density in pens at creep feeders etc and sterilizing teats and wearing gloves!! Been a long back breaking/he

Well its a mix really. All the lambs are getting better and most of the lesions have dropped off and left no scarring and all bleeding from gums whilst feeding has stopped but another lamb lost two days ago. Again no ryme nor reason just dead! Id given them there 2nd heptavac jag the day before so not sure if that did something or not. Apart from the distress to the lambs this is eating into any (if there is any!) profit i might make so i really hope there is further reasearch into this disease and how it gets into the lambs in the first place - again no answers from college. And i hav

Choked. What a letter and we owe so much to that generation. Both my grandfathers and there brothers fought in the war. One grandad was happy to talk about it but the other would never talk about it. Always in there debt.

The packeging of rice and pasta and tin openers. Im ashamed to say i have never been able to wield a tin opener with ease. People who turn there noses up at our little dingle family type place. And hairdressers who think you cant see there faces in the mirror ' have you cut your own hair recently'

The farmhouse i live in definately has a 'spirit' or feeling about it that is very comforting. I always feel watched over and safe when my partner is away.But a pal of mine was uneasy about the feeling she got. (And i hadnt told her i thought there was a spirit about) I did a bit of reasearch and i am the 3rd Charlotte that has lived here (fisrt ones were in the 1800's) charlotte is not a common name up here so i would like to think its the original charlotte looking after me. And i always celebrate Samhain. Mackem thats a great thing your in laws do. Honouring the dead and not being scare

IMHO its def the owners not the dogs. Everyone who takes on a dog should research the type or breed first. Weve had two GSD's. The first was a very calm male who was a little distant and watchful of strangers and the bitch we have now is quite a nervy character. Both had to have totally different ways of handling and understanding. Every Staffy or Bull bloodied dog ive met has been a real character and not at all aggressive. Guarding and them there 'fighting' dogs get a bad press when the numptys get to own them and channel there natural insticts overboard. True story: (apologie

Apparentley used to be where all the criminals fled to back in the 1500's - 1600's. Used to be about 200 residents here theres loads of old ruins, a school, cobblers and it was on a droving route. Apparently theres an old still up the hill but never found it yet. Theres a vulcan wreck on the hill behind house which crashed - 4 lives lost think it was in the seventies. An the farmhouse once had a TB Pavillion next to it before the war - wondered why thye chooks kept digging up old medicine bottles.

Now now Bryan lol. And according to soursces there are those who have contracted orf on there tadgers???? - from not washing there hands then going for a pee! John - ive chucked allsorts at them. Got a Tubby down (which the buggers wont use). Ive ordered that Orf - M and im still using the teramycine and iodine. Also been told about stockholm tar so off to get some of that too. Weird disease this orf. I lost that small lamb yesterday just found him dead, not bloated or anything so i guess the orf had killed him cos he was a runty thing anything. And now ive another coughing after a b

Same for me as Midnight walker just hope its at the time of the rut so i can hear the stags roar as i go. then cremated and chucked back on the hill. Dont think your miserable at all Scar better to have loved ones know what you want aint it. And as for the wake well i dont want noone either mourning or celebrating that ive gone (more like celebrating me thinks! lol) Loads think i am either an eccentric or foul mouthed gobby cow whilst im still on this mortal coil feck knows what theyd say when i slip off it! And if i had a gravestone which i wouldnt cos id been burned it would re

Finally had a chance this afternoon to pick up an old book i bought called 'Poison - history,constitutions uses and abuses' (old book from the 30's) Went straight to the alchol section and thought id share this gem with you all "A horse which had been introduced to the pleasures of wine, once broke into a cellar and drank as much as it was able to swallow: It was found in a drunken condition lying admist broken bottles. The cow is also very easily affected, whereas the Hedgehog seems to hold its liquor well" Nearly spat me coffee over the page laughing. (yeah i know easily amused!)