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If you want to grow your own oak tree from an acorn, it's quite simple. Collect some acorns and then put them in some water. Discard the ones that float. Caterpillars have eaten them. Plant the others 1 to 2 inches down in the autumn and leave them out...

making cider. It is a long slow process. The rule of thumb is that you only think about drinking it when apple blossom the following year begins to show. Naturally occurring sugars in apples will only ever get you a cider with about 4 to 5% alcohol. And...

making cider. It is a long slow process. The rule of thumb is that you only think about drinking it when apple blossom the following year begins to show. Naturally occurring sugars in apples will only ever get you a cider with about 4 to 5% alcohol. And...

Just now the hill from my house on the shore is a Celtic Cross Beside the cross is a bench to read the Sunday newspaper Such a lovely Sunday Morning

The world of creativity seems to me like a lottery. There are so many unrecognised artists in every field who are extremely talented but never achieve recognition. The few who do often fit the fashion of the time and also are lucky. Take for example Damien...

The bagel was actually invented in Krakow, Poland, as a competitor to the Bublik, a lean bread of wheat flour designed for Lent. In the 16th and first half of the 17th centuries, the bajgiel, as it was known, became a staple of the Polish national diet,...

. It is a lovely morning on the peninsula in Scotland to walk along the shore road. . . , . Perhaps it would be a grand day to speed over to Dunoon . ,

Hedges are brilliant Twelve hundred metres of hedge cleared away! That is sad. Nothing better than a good old fashioned mixed hedgerow for stock containment, protection from the weather, soil retention, foraging prospects for the passing human being,...

Glasgow's DENNISTOUN IS ONE OF THE WORLD’S COOLEST NEIGHBOURHOODS The Time Out magazine have revealed the top 40 coolest neighbourhoods around the world and Dennistoun is at number eight in the countdown. The list focuses on “places that balance great...

Technology may change quickly; physiology is much slower, and we still emit sounds with our mouths, receiving them with our ears, just like we did in 1880. At some point we will lose microphones and loudspeakers, receiving and sending through brain activity...

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