I'll be interested how your Aubergines come out...I grew some this year and they had all the taste of an aubergine with black skin (because of the variety I used that we have here called black beauty)...they were the shape of a capsicum??! ...No idea why (if anyone has any ideas I'd love to know) .....

Exciting...goats milk cheese ...YUM!!

Getting better at milking them now, I can get the milk in the bucket and not in my eye

Excellent lol!

Nadia Lim (who's an NZ chef) Baked beans 1-2 tablespoons olive oil 1 onion diced 2 cloves garlic crushed ½ teaspoon ground cumin 2 teaspoons smoked paprika ½ teaspoon dried herbs 400 g can chopped tomatoes 3 tablespoons tomato chutney or tomato sauce 400 g can cannellini or butter beans rinsed and d...

George Calombaris (one of the original Masterchef judges) baked beans are really nice. 1kg dried cannellini beans (or something else like Lima or great northern) 2 carrots, peeled and finely diced 4 sticks of celery, finely diced 2 brown onions, finely diced 4 cloves garlic, minced 3/4 cup tomato ke...

Spreckly wrote: ↑10 Jan 2024, 22:17 Thank you all. Yes, I have contacted both Sheltie Rescue, Sheltie friends, and also Rescue centres.

My check up was clear!

snap ...which is why I work nights and shop on my way home so I have to deal with less people

Ask about school glue...I wonder if that will ring any bells with them because pretty much that's what gets used in schools.

You could water masonry paint or if you can get PVA glue cheap that watered down will do it as well.
Have you got a spray gun? Because that would make things much easier...2-3 coats of paint watered down enough to go through the gun...otherwise they're a pain to paint.

Spreckly wrote: ↑12 Dec 2023, 10:24 I have a Liquid Amber tree in the front garden

.... one of my husband's favourite trees

I've been very lucky so far....my next door neighbour built a huge tunnel house for his citrus trees (which are very young) and so has a lot of room )like( We've had some harsh frost even up to 4 weeks ago (officially in summer) and I though I'd lost my potatoes as a result (thankfully they've ralli...

I'm like you Trev I have a pretty eclectic taste in music...I don't have a particular genre I listen to if I like a song I like a song.... but as an idea of what I like: The Foo Fighters (I think because they have some very different music as a group), Queens of the Stone Age for something a bit roc...

Oh I'm so sorry to hear about Angel ....

Mo wrote: ↑12 Nov 2023, 14:39 Thanks Manda.
Did you use ebay or facebook?

I use facebook or we have TradeMe here which is a bit like ebay but local to new zealand.

I have sold things - especially as our children grew out of their clothes. I tend to look at what things are going for that are a similar item. You start to get a feel for what others are selling them for and the quality that is being sold so that if you have something that's in really good conditio...

Oh no ....mind you our friend and neighbour had 7 hives ...now all gone over winter. Bee keeping can be so rewarding and suckey at the time