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by tosca100
10 Sep 2012, 17:38
Forum: Keeping Chickens and other Poultry
Topic: New chicken keeper
Replies: 20
Views: 889

Re: New chicken keeper

Hello from another newbie. I remember the feeling of worry when we first got our chickens back in April. They soon settle and you will find it hard to remember when you didn't have any. They are very funny, real characters, and we have happily given over our (once) well stocked garden to them to wre...
by tosca100
10 Sep 2012, 15:34
Forum: Books, TV and the Media
Topic: Terry Nutkins
Replies: 5
Views: 1165

Re: Terry Nutkins

Met him once when I worked in a zoo canteen, cooked him and his crew their lunch. Seemed really nice. Sad news.

R.I.P. Terry.
by tosca100
10 Sep 2012, 15:28
Forum: Keeping Chickens and other Poultry
Topic: OMG- the dreaded red mite
Replies: 4
Views: 203

Re: OMG- the dreaded red mite

Also pretty fed up with the little blighters! OH got the paint stripper out the other day, then scrubbed and powdered, did the birds. I went to get the eggs today and came in crawing with them (Probably not as many as it felt like, but I saw four on my arm!!) So off I went with a concoction of hot w...
by tosca100
10 Sep 2012, 12:57
Forum: Books, TV and the Media
Topic: is this a soap
Replies: 17
Views: 4108

Re: is this a soap

I'm gutted! I have always prided myself on not watching soaps! I have to keep telling myself that some of the story lines are "just fiction" to make it interesting. I hope that is right because if hospitals were really run in that way by people like that we are all in trouble. Can't seem t...
by tosca100
09 Sep 2012, 20:04
Forum: Food and Drink
Topic: Getting the juice out of mushrooms
Replies: 7
Views: 1703

Re: Getting the juice out of mushrooms

If you use salt, try a sprinkle before you put them in the oven, should draw some of the liquid out. :-D