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I drive a Mini and it gets 36.5 mpg in the city.

...and I just realised I've been a member here for 4 years! H'm!

and to keep this post on topic (i.e. cars) I can truthfully say it's been a wild ...

I drive a Mini and it gets 36.5 mpg in the city.

...and I just realised I've been a member here for 4 years! H'm!

I drive a Mini and it gets 36.5 mpg in the city.

Hilarious, Jenab!

Here's a good site with information about greywater. I recently bought the book "Create an Oasis with Greywater" and the greywater plumber's manual.

http://www.oasisdesign.net/

I've already p ...

Finally bought a utility pump. Now i can recycle all the wash water from washing clothes easily. Works really good.

Frank - how do you use it to transfer the water? I recycle my dish-washing wate ...

Whoops! they're already talking about that next door in the Hurricane/Typhoon thread!

I was looking around the news to try to explain the upswing in price and the only thing I could come up with is Tropical Storm Bertha. That's still on the other side of the Pond so if it follows the u ...

Hubby and I finished building the fourth raised bed (8ft by 12ft) this evening. The interior of it is covered in black plastic which should take care of the bermuda grass there (hate that stuff!). We ...

Saw this on the BBC Website just now - hope it works out and doesn't die in the planning stages:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7467203.stm

Five new high-speed main lines crossing the width and b ...

It looks as if they've all gone... will they return?

Laurasia

Hubby and I started work (in the heat!) on the fourth raised bed. Work five minutes, rest for ten; work four minutes, rest for fifteen. Well, not quite - but you get the picture! Trying to force yours ...

I've got (small amounts of):

Tomatoes,
Peppers,
Watermelons,
Sweet Potatoes,
Collards,
Mustard Greens,
Blueberry bushes,
Blackberry bushes,
Strawberries,
Raspberries,
Grapevines,
Pears, ...

I took an old umbrella, removed the cover and hang it, upside down by the handle, from my clothesline. I peg socks on it to dry - 3 or 4 per spoke. It works, and if it starts to rain I just yank the w ...

I take my enjoyment where I can; I'm enjoying lots of the fruits of modern civilization, believe me. But I'm also preparing as best I can, and am starting to hear the siren song of a different style o ...