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    Here are the ones appearing in the month of May. woodruff - dried and used as pot-purri, or leaves crushed and added to a cold summer drink horseradish - roots for making fresh horseradish sauce ground ivy - dried leaves make a reasonable tea hogweed (cow parsnip) - leaves cooked up like a veg fennel - whole plant is edible, seeds and cooked leaves/young stems are great with fish or liver pignuts - root tastes like hazlenut if fresh, or boiled in a stews milk thistle - with spines trimmed, the flowerhead can be cooked like a globe artichoke Burdock - young shoots are great when peeled
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    Yep, Food for Free is a great one to start, really simple writing style. I'd always recommend a collins photographic Guide alongside it though, as F4F has no photos! Pru Coates, Steve Brill and Ray Mears have done a few good ones too.
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    Yep, Food for Free is a great one to start, really simple writing style. I'd always recommend a collins Guide alongside it though, as F4F has no photos! Pru Coates, Steve Brill and Ray Mears have done a few good ones too.
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    A demo celebrating the life of Bin Laden? Is the world going f*****g mad? The Muslim extremists aren't the only problem. As far as i'm concerned, its more the fault of the liberals, lefties and wobblers in this country that give them the freedom to do it. There are too many of these limp wristed lefties around: Idiots who turn a blind eye to everything; who pat naughty kids on the back because they're misunderstood; who complain about human rights of those who relinquished them through their own despicable actions; who want to reduce crime yet want to reduce police powers at the same ti
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    Cheers mate i'll be on the lookout Off down Brixham way next weekend so i'll look around there It likes loose soil and so often grows on wasteground, roadsides; seahores, dunes, ditches/streams (sometimes). Whole plant is edible including the root and its best in the early summer. Its best to just take a couple of leaves from each plant though as although its locally common, it isn't common all over the country. Goes well with fish, particularly if used with gooseberries..... Great with offal too, as well as Greek style yoghurt dips with chicken or cucumber. I'll be pu
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    that sounds like the best way to me, ideal for involving the kids
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    There are 3 types of gorse. Common Gorse usually flowers in Spring. Western Gorse and Dwarf Gorse usually flower in the summer. However i've seen it at most times of the year as well.... which is curious..... perhaps the different species grow together in the same places, they are difficult to identify. Also our climate is changing here so i'd not be surprised if flowering time is changing in certain parts of the country. Its good though, it means there are more flowers to make wine. They look quite pretty too, on an afternoon in the sun. atb
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    Stable or unstable..?... Lol an unstable stablegirl... now that'd be something
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    I think i'd rather not ask why girls like horses. Straddling and riding a well-muscled strapping beast.... Makes a man feel somewhat inadequate.... But i've met a few stable girls in my time .... tally ho
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    i think it's just an old old english word for a working dog with no specific breeding, ie a mongrel. I think the yanks still use the word whereas we forgot about it years ago. it used to be an insult to call someone a cur. Yes, i know that. But in the states i think they use it to refer to fairly specific dogs, of mixed breeding, rather than any old mongrel. And i THINK that they will roughly breed true to type, whereas most proper 'mongrels' will throw a lot of litter variation. Just to add to your collection a 'cur dog' is also hunting terminology for any non-hound.
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    My g-grandad served in 1st batt SWB on Western Front for all WW1. He died just before i was born but my dad said he never, ever spoke about that war, no matter how many times they pestered him as kids. We researched his service and it made me feel sick. One battle he was involved in (Loos 1915) his division supported a Scottish division, that suffered 8000 casualties out of 10,000 men . Imagine being there, knowing you are next to attack, having seen the first wave get annhilated. Only god knows what those boys had to live through. I can't see today's hooded yobs and jobless wastrels going o
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    Because discipline, decency and an appreciation for 'right and wrong', is missing from their home life. Too common nowadays. This is the result.
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    i think it's just an old old english word for a working dog with no specific breeding, ie a mongrel. I think the yanks still use the word whereas we forgot about it years ago. it used to be an insult to call someone a cur.
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    ok humour me.....whats the point of this breeding? ??? the point is this: He bred two working dogs to create some more working dogs. Simple. Working dogs don't have to black. Whether or not anyone understand it, is irrelevant really. It clearly works for him, or he'd not have done it. I don't know how aeroplanes, mobile phones, or even my computer works.... but i am happy to accept that they do and that i i don't understand how....... Good luck with the sale mate
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    as long as he had his weil's disease jab as a pup then salt water is fine just as above reads
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    no problem. i'm a bit of a geek, this is what i do.........
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    he looks like he's been on the glue
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    Its just a simple house mouse. The grey/white colour is not normal but just a natural variation. Variation, be it in colouring or physical mutation is perfectly natural though uncommon in adults as ones that look different don't usually reach maturity because they stand out to predators. However, excessive variation in appearance become quite common in populations with a surplus of food. Its more common in house mice than other mouse species, as they are in closest proximity to humans, with potential food sources and warm, safe hidey-holes. Basically, it means that life is so easy for
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    Its just a simple house mouse. The grey/white colour is not normal but just a natural variation. Variation, be it in colouring or physical mutation is perfectly natural though uncommon in adults as ones that look different don't usually reach maturity because they stand out to predators. However, excessive variation in appearance become quite common in populations with a surplus of food. Its more common in house mice than other mouse species, as they are in closest proximity to humans, with potential food sources and warm, safe hidey-holes. Basically, it means that life is so easy for
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    I had a handlebar moustache last month for a few weeks. Then i shaved it off and went clean for a a fortnight. My missus said it was like kissing a teenager so now i've a muff beard (that's a technical term... )and big burns. I like to keep folk thinking about my intentions, whwther good or evil...................
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    it was an anti that did it. you should dig some pit traps nearby to catch them in you could use bait in the trap to catch a critter, then use the trap containing the critter as bait for the anti. Genius!
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    I shouldn't worry if his granny was Lassie and she was served by scooby doo, k9 and the littlest hobo in a dog orgy! :sick: It's how he performs in the field that matters suerly! it would matter if it started shouting "yikes" while you were out lamping!
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    The guy who was allegedly not part of the riot?. Just walking by? I knew a chap who was at the front of that protest. He saw Ian Tomlinson get moved on by the Police SEVEN SEPERATE TIMES that day for obstruction and public nuisance, every time the police moved. On the seventh time, a policeman finally got pissed off and gave him a whack. Not at all nice but hardly surprising. Please don't get me wrong, i hate to speak ill of the dead and it must be awful for his family knowing that he died of internal bleeding after a policeman hit him; his family deserve our sympathy. But don't
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    try a water trap. or you can leave out the water and feed them to the ferrets (obviously after you kill them humanely...ahem)
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    you're opening up a can of worms now......... If it means that much to you study thie site online.... http://tolweb.org/tree/phylogeny.html play about with the seacrh box and the plant/treenames. yes, i am a geek
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