No that was the floor standing fire extinguisher I was after sweetie

Each to their own I guess. That kind of life sounds like a nightmare to me I'm afraid, but then I always was weird. I can kill plants just by looking at them and I'm allergic to chickens.

Well you are a witch after all

So this isn't you then

My DH (and DS) are permaculture self sufficiency freaks - me, personally, I like to get my lettuces without slugs and my apples preferably without buggy type things in the middle. For all that they witter on about organic meat, I really cant taste the difference and unlike them I will not kill stuff just to eat it. So I agree with the OP - gardening is not my scene either but I do admit to being a closet knitter - more because I cant do just one thing at a time and I do like to see myself achieving something (I stitch too for the relaxation) while I do other things like watch movies etc.

Permaculture is pretty big where I live too... I have gone "all green" since moving here.. hardly ever use a supermarket and grow as much food as I can.. I have my own plot in a communial garden and although they're exceptionally nice people over there, I was a bit suprised how snobby some can be over life style..

I was listening to one speaker telling us how to plant up our backyards for food and she started slagging off those who want a nice green lawn or block paving with the 4x4 on the drive.. total green snob I thought.. nothing wrong with having a patch of grass for the kids to kick a football about on, is there?! Or have a decent motor... ?

I draw the line at making my own clothes.. or my kids clothes.. infact I own several items that are chucked at the bottom of the laundry basket because I am way too lazy to sew even the buttons back on.. the last time i knitted a little cardi for a new neice was back in 1992... she is now 17 and I am not even halfway through..

Em x

If I started getting chickens and growing veggies my friends back in the UK(and daughter for that matter) would think I had really cracked up - I wouldn't see them for dust - no thank you very much, I like to move with the times - don't want to go backwards (in my opinion)!

You lot are soooo 80's!!!!

I defy any "greeny" to grow so much as a single spud in my garden... I'm pretty close to the sea and my soil has all the organic properties of wire wool.

keep the jumper for the future grandies.

We have a shop called "Needleworx" and yep, its choc-a-block and the markets have knitted quilts to prove it.

Ps. ssshhhhh. also they little dolls for putting a toilet roll under the skirt.

Get yourself some old bald tyres from KMart about 4 of them, some compost soil and I'll show ya how!

Em x

At this rate I am going to get an entry in the guiness book of records.. the longest time anyone took to knit something...

Em x

I have tried to grow veggies.

But the hot weather comes and makes anything green drop over dead and bugs come in plague form here, then if anything survives that lot, some bloody possum will eat the rest.

As for candles and scrapbooking, I am with polly, get me outta here

Thanks.. but I prefer my garden to look like a garden and not an old tyre yard.