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 Topic: tanning your own skins.....how? |
Cobnut
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 Forum: Livestock and Pets Posted: Thu Sep 01, 11 5:24 pm Subject: tanning your own skins.....how? |
I get kits from snowdonia taxidermy...
Me too. I used their kit to do a fallow deer skin and it was a clean enough process. I've not got round to softening it so it's like cardboard, but it's not gon ... |
| Topic: Interesting alternative to cremation...'liquefaction' |
Cobnut
Replies: 32
Views: 32226
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Forum: Conservation and Environment Posted: Thu Sep 01, 11 5:21 pm Subject: Interesting alternative to cremation...'liquefaction' |
| I’d like to be dumped in a field and eaten by wildlife. Perhaps I should contact the Red Kite feeding station and see if they’d like me. Failing that I’d like to go to a body farm where I can be used ... |
| Topic: Pet owners renting homes |
Cobnut
Replies: 3
Views: 6437
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Forum: Finance and Property Posted: Tue Aug 02, 11 12:38 pm Subject: Pet owners renting homes |
| I just found out about this and thought I’d share. I haven’t had a proper read through it so not sure how helpful it would be to people trying to find a pet-friendly landlord, but hopefully it will be ... |
| Topic: Need info on horse breed |
Cobnut
Replies: 54
Views: 64741
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Forum: Livestock and Pets Posted: Wed May 11, 11 6:13 pm Subject: Need info on horse breed |
He's a Fell pony called "Lunesdale Mountain Mist"
http://www.fellponysociety.org/photo_gallery.01.htm |
| Topic: Google images not loading |
Cobnut
Replies: 3
Views: 5526
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Forum: IT Matters Posted: Sun May 08, 11 10:38 am Subject: Google images not loading |
It’s odd isn’t it, I’m on the latest version of FF  |
| Topic: Google images not loading |
Cobnut
Replies: 3
Views: 5526
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Forum: IT Matters Posted: Sun May 08, 11 8:58 am Subject: Google images not loading |
| Does anyone have any idea why, when I search Google images, only a few pictures show? For example I search “pig” and although I can scroll to “page 11” only pages 1 and 2 actually show pictures. The r ... |
| Topic: Next 2 nights - DANGER OF FROST |
Cobnut
Replies: 23
Views: 22763
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Forum: Grow Your Own Posted: Wed May 04, 11 11:37 am Subject: Next 2 nights - DANGER OF FROST |
In my enthusiasm to get my seedlings out yesterday I omitted to check about frost risk...oooops!   The courgettes, tomatoes, cauliflower and calabrese aren’t looking that chuffed  . Oh ... |
| Topic: Single or Double Treadle? |
Cobnut
Replies: 4
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Forum: Make Your Own/DIY Posted: Sat Apr 30, 11 11:52 am Subject: Single or Double Treadle? |
| I have a double treadle “Joy” and love it. The only single treadles I used were my instructors but I decided on the double as I thought I’d feel more balanced using it. Whether that’s the case or not ... |
| Topic: Libyan crisis, rising oil price, and over-due realism |
Cobnut
Replies: 116
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Forum: Energy Efficiency and Construction/Major Projects Posted: Thu Apr 21, 11 12:18 pm Subject: Libyan crisis, rising oil price, and over-due realism |
John Busby wrote a very interesting article in 2002 called “After Oil”, about how we adapt if we are prepared for the inevitable and what happens if we’re not...
http://www.after-oil.co.uk/ |
| Topic: Latex rubber in liquid form. |
Cobnut
Replies: 32
Views: 47226
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Forum: Make Your Own/DIY Posted: Tue Apr 19, 11 5:21 pm Subject: Latex rubber in liquid form. |
should that not be talc?
The voice of experience? Whatever floats your boat I say 
*Snigger* Put petroleum jelly on hairy bits
Just so you know, the petroleum jelly does not work. :sho ... |
| Topic: Latex rubber in liquid form. |
Cobnut
Replies: 32
Views: 47226
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Forum: Make Your Own/DIY Posted: Tue Apr 19, 11 2:48 pm Subject: Re: Latex rubber in liquid form. |
...I'm thinking of covering a few things to make moulds, for chocolate/other cookery experiments. I'm sure there must be do's and don'ts...
*Snigger* Put petroleum jelly on hairy bits and take you ... |
| Topic: knitting with different colours/making designs |
Cobnut
Replies: 11
Views: 10978
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Forum: Make Your Own/DIY Posted: Thu Apr 07, 11 8:54 am Subject: knitting with different colours/making designs |
| You can draw a design on knitters' graph paper - use this rather than normal graph paper though as a knitted stitch is rectangular not square. If you use normal GP the design will not come out as expe ... |
| Topic: Hello from a long time lurker... |
Cobnut
Replies: 29
Views: 30802
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Forum: Welcome Posted: Tue Apr 05, 11 4:28 pm Subject: Hello from a long time lurker... |
Hello from the Welsh Marches  |
| Topic: The Vegetarian Myth |
Cobnut
Replies: 33
Views: 89427
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Forum: Reviews and What's On Posted: Mon Apr 04, 11 4:54 pm Subject: The Vegetarian Myth |
Isn't Simon Farlie the bloke who does the scything...
Yup. I bought my scythe from him  |
| Topic: Lambing Live |
Cobnut
Replies: 62
Views: 48462
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Forum: Reviews and What's On Posted: Mon Apr 04, 11 4:17 pm Subject: Lambing Live |
Yay! I love sheep and I like Kate Humble; a good combination  |
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