My Dad is on a waiting list for cataract surgery, he has them in both eyes, one a lot worse than the other. We gather that they will only operate on one eye then leave a period of time before doing...
As above. Not a huge problem as he is house trained and has been for ages, but I feel that its only because we take him out, he never "asks" He goes out first thing, and does loads of wees...
Was browsing the property pages and spotted a gorgeous period property, what caught my eye was that it has a cheese room. Never heard of that, but I love cheese, imagine having a whole room just for...
http://www.afrol.com/articles/37361 Going in a few weeks,hopefully will be ok, was not too worried about protests in Egypt etc regarding holiday as Morocco is a democracy, but this is a bit worrying...
Good job I'm not too fussy about hair colour ( I've been everything from blonde to almost black over the years) or I would be quietly sobbing into my glass of red right now. The packet said medium...
My 10 month old JRT is completely obsessed with tennis balls, if we let him he would keep fetching and mouthing it until he dropped! Even if we hide it when he's not looking, he knows where it is and...
I did Nigel Slater's green thai curry tonight. It called for bottled green peppercorns, but none of the supermarkets had them, so I just missed them out. The curry was delicious anyway but I was...
Way past my bedtime, but trying to get cheap flight to Marrakech at end of march. Cheapest I've found (apart from Gatwick, never again!) is easyjet from Manchester £220 for two people, return,...
Went to German market with daughter, then came home and put the tree up, a real one that I bought against my better judgement, as the kitten and puppy will probably destroy it! Looks lovely though:-)
I have a mouse, or more likely several mice getting into my chicken coop. Obviously I don't want to use any chemicals and I wouldn't want to risk injury to one of the hens should they stand on, or...
Beautiful sunny day here today, no snow but the hoar frost has been increasing since yesterday and is now about an inch long. The air looked like it was full of glitter and I realised it was freezing,...
My 8 month old JRT has "helped" me on 3-4 occasions now when I've been seeing to the hens. While I've been topping their feed up he's sneaked into the hen house, gently picked up an egg out...
Anyone on here from the Leicester area? Planning on visiting the space centre on sunday, heard Leicester has had a lot of snow, any idea what the roads are like at the mo?
A couple of times in the last week when I've been walking the dog down the local field at dusk a huge flock of seagulls has passed overhead,maybe making their way to the local reservoir. I'm talking...
I've been using small treats to train my 6 month old pup, with good results on the whole. However he can sometimes get a bit excited and "grabby", trying to get the treat in the middle of an...
In the Times weekend supplement theres an article about self sufficiency including hen keeping. It says "recent guidelines from Defra state that plate scrapings should no longer be given to...