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You can freeze chocolate? How come I never knew? It's too late now though since Arsozah says you can also microwave it. I'll just have to continue buying it in small quantities.

Instead of calling it a "fail", call it a "learning experience", which, of course, it was.

On our smallholding we kept a few sheep. One day when I was out feeding them, the ram butted our large dog and knocked him over. Not content with that, he also decided to butt me. (I suspect I wasn't walking up the hill to the sheep feeding troughs quickly enough for him.) He obviously wasn't too se...

Should the bomb drop, do I want to survive? No, I don't think I do.

Son no. 1 caught it a couple of weeks ago having avoided it when son no. 2 and his girlfriend caught it at the height of the pandemic when they all lived in the same house. He was complaining because he'd taken a week's holiday to work on his new house and couldn't as he felt dizzy just walking down...

Mr A accused me of being a "doomsday prepper" the other day just because I bought 4 jars of cranberry sauce. They were cheap as it's now the season of eggs, bunnies and hot cross buns and not Christmas. They have a long shelf life but won't last that long because I love the stuff. Do you t...

I will add: Food for Free by Richard Mabey. Quite an old book but still useful today.

Signed up now and also persuaded my elderly mum that it was a good idea for her too.

That's useful to know and, like others on here, we are eligible, Mr A being a pensioner as will I be later this year. We don't need help at the moment but it's always good to be aware of these support services.

When we moved here, one of my "must haves" was public transport. Despite having held a driving license for a lot of years, I am a nervous driver and avoid it as much as possible. As we get older, the time may come when we can no longer drive due to our various infirmities. Problems arise w...