where eagles fear to perch

musings on simple living, gardening, personal finance plus my projects and experiments...

16 March 2014

In-sourcing as a way of life...

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In my formative years, firstly as an apprentice and then a junior engineer in a large engineering company in the late 1970s and early 80s...
04 March 2014

The cost of minority trying to move to mainstream.....

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When Countryfile was considered a 'minority' programme and tucked well away out of sight on BBC2 on Sunday evenings, it was actuall...
20 February 2014

The Great 2014 Kew Gardens 50p Rush.....

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Must be a very slow news day today.... A couple of the mainstream media sites are running a story about a limited-edition fifty-pence pie...
17 February 2014

A good big'un beats a good little'un ... Growing Big Vegetables in 2014

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We've decided this year to try to grow larger varieties of a few vegetables :- Onions - Kelsae Leeks - Exhibition Pot Leeks Tomatoe...
10 February 2014

Living on £10k pa in the UK ?

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I spotted this posting on the Firestarter's blog, one of the many fine FI blogs I visit occasionally.... http://thefirestarter.co.uk/...
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04 February 2014

Long live the North-South divide.....

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I stumbled across a TV show tonight, which was called '... Location, Location, Location ...'. I watched almost disbelievingly as ...
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22 January 2014

Weed Control for our New Hedgerow....

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Our new hedgerow has been in the ground for almost exactly one year now, but it seems that one particular area has grown noticeably better ...
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Yes, I know it's a Kestrel and not an Eagle, which are pretty thin on the ground in northern England. However, this is a photo I took myself of a kestrel hovering over the fields next to our house. Note that I'm not a financial adviser, and so you should regard anything I post about personal finance as being worth exactly what you paid for it, i.e. nothing !
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