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 Topic: seville oranges |
Vic
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 Forum: Recipes, Preserving, Homebrewing Posted: Mon Jan 25, 10 1:24 pm Subject: seville oranges |
| Yay! My partner tracked some down in Wellington! No idea how much he paid for them, but he certainly bought a lot - 10 jars made and lots of oranges in the freezer for later on in the year. Phew... |
| Topic: seville oranges |
Vic
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Forum: Recipes, Preserving, Homebrewing Posted: Fri Jan 22, 10 1:51 pm Subject: seville oranges |
Can't find any round here. Our greengrocer, which usually has loads, keeps putting up a sign saying 'none today'. So I steeled myself to go to a large Tesco's (Shaftesbury) and none there, either!
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| Topic: Rootstock suppliers |
Vic
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Forum: Grow Your Own Posted: Thu Oct 08, 09 12:09 pm Subject: Rootstock suppliers |
If you are looking for large quanties (100s not 10s) John Worle is possibly your man
http://www.johnworle.co.uk/
Also an extremely helpful, friendly and useful source of information on anything ... |
| Topic: Not really a business but... (book printing) |
Vic
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Forum: Small Business Questions, Ideas and Advice Posted: Thu Jul 02, 09 12:35 pm Subject: Not really a business but... (book printing) |
I second Antony Rowe for printing
http://www.antonyrowe.co.uk/
but I recently had prices from these people
http://www.goodnewspress.co.uk/home.html
and their digital print prices were goo ... |
| Topic: Not really a business but... (book printing) |
Vic
Replies: 11
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Forum: Small Business Questions, Ideas and Advice Posted: Wed Jul 01, 09 2:15 pm Subject: Not really a business but... (book printing) |
| That quantity, you'd be looking to print digitally so it won't be that cheap. This may sound weird but on a shortrun like that, it has to be digital and that is pricey. If you were printing 5000 you c ... |
| Topic: Anyone tried grant funding for farm diversification |
Vic
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Forum: Small Business Questions, Ideas and Advice Posted: Tue May 19, 09 12:07 pm Subject: Anyone tried grant funding for farm diversification |
We are on the verge of hearing if we've been successful in getting a grant via these people
http://www.chalkandcheese.org/index.php?page=local-action-for-rural-communities
Might be worth finding ... |
| Topic: Advice on taking an exhibition stand at a trade fair... |
Vic
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Forum: Small Business Questions, Ideas and Advice Posted: Thu Jan 22, 09 1:46 pm Subject: Advice on taking an exhibition stand at a trade fair... |
| Your best customer or best prospect will appear five minutes before closing time on the very last day, just as you are frantic to pack up and go home. This has happened on every stand I have ever wor ... |
| Topic: Woodburner. |
Vic
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Forum: Energy Efficiency and Construction/Major Projects Posted: Tue Jan 13, 09 1:23 pm Subject: Woodburner. |
| If there is a local place where you can go and look at the various different ones, it is well worth a trip. especially on a cold day. |
| Topic: Woodburner. |
Vic
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Forum: Energy Efficiency and Construction/Major Projects Posted: Tue Jan 13, 09 1:16 pm Subject: Woodburner. |
http://www.clearviewstoves.com/vision500.htm
We have this one and it is my new Best Friend.
Cost a rather eye-watering �1000 or thereabouts, excluding installation. Remember to factor in the co ... |
| Topic: Interest rates cut by 1.5% |
Vic
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Forum: Finance and Property Posted: Thu Nov 06, 08 2:03 pm Subject: Interest rates cut by 1.5% |
Am I the only one who finds this attitude sickening?
OK you have some savings, great. Most of us have mortgages and kids to bring up. It is OUR taxes that bail you lot out when the banks go bump, ... |
| Topic: How to deal with brambles and bindweed ... |
Vic
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Forum: Grow Your Own Posted: Tue Jun 03, 08 8:48 am Subject: How to deal with brambles and bindweed ... |
| I would cut everything down, and grub out the biggest chunks of roots that you could. Then I would let them re-sprout once or twice, ripping out anything you can find each time. Then I would cover w ... |
| Topic: River cottage spring |
Vic
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Forum: Reviews and What's On Posted: Thu May 29, 08 9:13 am Subject: River cottage spring |
Me too! Particulary the veggie apprentice butcher...
The whole setting up an urban smallholding thing is just great. |
| Topic: Ceiling Clothes Airer |
Vic
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Forum: Energy Efficiency and Construction/Major Projects Posted: Tue May 27, 08 4:16 pm Subject: Ceiling Clothes Airer |
Thank you all!! Lazy Betty - what a great name!
Very taken by GNU website - I have now spent most of the afternoon singing 'I'm a gnu, spelt G-N-U, the gnicest work of gnature in the zoo'...
Sha ... |
| Topic: Ceiling Clothes Airer |
Vic
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Forum: Energy Efficiency and Construction/Major Projects Posted: Tue May 27, 08 11:10 am Subject: Ceiling Clothes Airer |
| We're definitely going to get a woodburner (yay) and I suddenly thought, to use all the heat as efficiently as possible, we should be thinking about getting one of those classic ceiling clothes airers ... |
| Topic: are you tightening your belt |
Vic
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Forum: Finance and Property Posted: Wed May 21, 08 3:30 pm Subject: are you tightening your belt |
| I'm being a bit contrary here - I've just got a new job which means I've got financial security (instead of wondering if I'll get paid at the end of the month, every month), and we've just finished sa ... |
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