Lucy on January 28th, 2008

I’ve been running a chat forum for a few months now. It’s basically a place where like-minded souls can chat about many subjects including green living, foodie subjects and recipes, rural issues and politics, smallholding, sustainable living and allotmenteering, arts, crafts and traditional trade skills, health & wellbeing, or just partake in a bit of [...]

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Lucy on October 23rd, 2007

For those of you that view my blog using Internet Explorer - well good grief, only tonight have I realised what a garbled jumbled mess you’ve been seeing. Got Mr Programming Guru (Rich) on the case! Really, my advice is that this blog is best viewed in Firefox, where it looks decidedly more ordered and [...]

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Lucy on August 19th, 2007

As far as I know, part of the Smallest Smallholding is sited on the remains of an old orchard, most of which has vanished in the intervening years. We have a very old, knarly Victoria plum tree, two damsons and crab apple. The crab apple, when uncovered after years of struggling to grow under 6ft [...]

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