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Thanks to Richard's instructions which I found after I posted here

We have been in our new house just 7 months and are still discovering things we didn't know we had - yesterday it was a blackcurrant bush, laden with fruit all ripe and ready for picking. We got 1/2 kilo of big sweet blackcurrants from it - so pleased! That's our first proper crop from our new garde...

So June is it jam making for you?
They look lovely!

Our hen Bluebell has laid her second ever egg sometime this morning. When I went to collect the eggs at lunchtime, it was a broken up mess in the nestbox. The shell was in fragments, all the little pieces still stuck to the membrane, which was ripped in half. The white looked as if it had just soake...

Yes I was initiated in to early morning poo picking quite soon after they arrived
Ah well, as long as they are happy and laying us some nice eggs ...

Ooh funny

I am longing to lose weight, I am really a bit tubby at the moment. To be fair I had a baby 8 months ago and as I am breastfeeding have done nothing about losing weight. But hopefully the bf will finish at Christmas. So this year a fat, tubby, enjoy myself kind of Christmas, next year I can sort my ...

I love the whole concept of making chutney, but I have never liked the flavour sadly.
But I do love beetroot so may well give this a whirl.
It can always go for family Christmas presents if I don't like it!!

Mike - rye and barley do have gluten in them - but it may be that the wheat gluten is the one that affects you, as the glutens in grains are all slightly different. It's a bonus you have been able to isolate the exact culprit! That should expand your menu options a bit - I am thinking nice warming w...

That sounds like the basis of my whole gardening philosophy Kitla ...

We had loads of frogs in our old house which was in the middle of a housing estate and a quarter of a mile away from the nearest water source (barring drains and puddles I suppose). The frogs lived quite happily in a damp poorly drained sheltered area behind our shed. They don't need as much water a...

Yikes!
I hope that wasn't two wives at the same time

Richard - do you mean you just let your hens roam over your compost heap??
I hadn't thought of that!

Thanks to everyone for all the advice. There's such a lot to give them! But they won't get much out of our kitchen except peelings - any leftover food always gets put in to a new dish of some sort. I should have a bulk order of mealworms arriving today or tomorrow, and that will be an evening treat ...

Ben Fogle is a bit dishy it must be said, but I really wouldn't like to be his wife.
Can you imagine, every other week, "I'm off on another dangerous expedition, dear, don't know when or if I'll be back".
Must be worse than being married to a fireman I should think.
Ellie x