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I see that this book was published first in 1885 and is bought frequently with 'Eat-a-bug Cookbook' and 'Creepy Crawly Cuisine'. Perhaps I am missing a trick. Perhaps I have been blessed with a nourishing food source previously overlooked. Interesting book review: " I was a little disappointed in the content of this book. I was expecting some new and fresh food ideas, but the author spends most of his time promoting insect eating as a solution to rural hunger."
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Thanks, Pesty. Difficult to tell whether I have the common pill woodlouse or pill millipede. They do look similar. And both roll into a ball (although mine have attitude and don't do that - they front you out or run off when you try to catch them - which seems odd for such a usually laid-back creature). They do seem to breed quite freely, too: lots of small ones running about. I dread to think where it will all end. I have been told that, being in the same family as prawns and shrimps, they may
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Is it me or are there an abnormal number of woodlice this year? If I turn the back light on at night, there are hoards of them scuttling back and forth across the paving slabs and climbing the house walls. If I put anything down on the slabs for five minutes, a colony moves in underneath. I'm even finding them indoors and some are huge. I don't normally mind woodlice but this is getting a bit too much. Could it be the very wet weather we've had? Conversely, I haven't seen that many
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Perhaps we need cat leash laws in the UK. This seems to be a growing trend in Australia and the US. Not sure about the EU. Here is a quick article about such laws (and the comment is interesting - that cat owners should be licensed, like dog owners, and get a discount for having the pet neutered/spayed). http://birding.about.com/b/2010/06/19/leash-cats-to-protect-birds.htm There's also a fair few US sites that talk about the benefits to the cat (let alone its neighbours) of the animal remaining
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Further to my recent post above, I've found a petition on the 10 Downing Street website ref introducing cat legislation in the UK. It runs until 22 November 2012. http://epetitions.direct.gov.uk/petitions/23307 Perhaps some members may wish to sign. Interestingly, a few people I know who have cats agree with this idea.
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Perhaps we need cat leash laws in the UK. This seems to be a growing trend in the US. Not sure about the EU. Here is a quick article about such laws (and the comment is interesting - that cat owners should be licenced, like dog owners, and get a discount for having the pet neutered/spayed). http://birding.about.com/b/2010/06/19/leash-cats-to-protect-birds.htm There's also a fair few US sites that talk about the benefits to the cat (let alone its neighbours) of the animal remaining indoors. http
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I didn't want to hear that but I think you're probably right :-(( Thanks for the reply.
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This is a mystery which I'm struggling to solve and would be grateful for any suggestions. Tiny reddish-brown dots appeared on a net curtain (only at the bottom, and like polka dots). I also found a few on the blind, the walls, the window ledge and the radiator. On close inspection of the grapefruit tree in front of the area in question, I found about 20 of these dots on (mainly) the underside of the leaves, as well as a few on the pot (mainly on the inside above the soil line). The dots are
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There are two solitary flowers in the garden that look like orchids but I'm not sure. One is growing out of the wall and is pink. The other is in the ground and is white with pink tinges (see photos in link below). http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=221295&id=669990648&l=226e03bc78 I'd also like to know if the one in the ground could be transplanted when the site is dug over and whether the seeds from the dried out pods could be planted (these brown pods can be seen in one of the
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Hi SS, thanks for this and no disappointment here. I don't care what they're called. They're all beautiful to me. Strangely enough, I was leafing through the RHS herb book to identify another mystery plant (it's an old garden with lots of oddities - I think this one many be Carum although it doesn't flower) and thought that my 'not-an-orchid' looked a bit like a snapdragon. I might let go of the one in the ground, then, but pleased that the one in the wall will survive
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