Nice work if you can get it ...

The simple answer is "no" Marigold. I bet these same people wouldn't buy a beggar a cup of tea or donate to a food bank. I gave up reading the article before I threw up! I love my four cats, even when there are live short- tailed voles running around my bedroom; I take note of their food preferences...

Wow, that's gorgeous Marigold! My mother-in-law started a mohair cardigan before she died and as it's stocking stitch I can manage the knitting, but the pattern!!!!!!!!!! It's a harvest mouse with poppies and ears of corn. The instructions are adamant that each colour must be knotted in every time i...

I'm hopeless and very slow. During knitting lessons at school I spent all my time untangling the knots in other girls wool! Anyone remember that horrible pink/blue school wool?? Have a German friend who one day is going to tech me to knit the continental way, which is the same sort of action as croc...

My dad was a better knitter than my mum! Not sure where/when he learnt to knit; possibly when he was recovering from mumps. He knitted a complete outfit for my sister who was 5 (I was 2) - leggings, jumper, thick cardigan, bonnet and mittens with squirrels on the back.

Glad it's still going strong Chris!

I've never owned a dog but that is such brilliant advice Hen-Gen.

I once visited a farm where there was a "chicken dog" - a collie that had been trained to round up the young cockerels being bred for the table to stop them straying too far ...

There was the memorable night along the lane when someone opened a gate and let Kevin's cows out, whilst trying to get them in some semblance of order a car full of young lads pulled up and offered to help, they were very manly until one cow walked towards one of them and sniffed his face, whereupo...

Running a business from home and needing to get to the Post Office before 4pm, I flatly refused to go out at "school run" time, whether on foot or in a vehicle. You took your life in your hands walking down the road which had no pavement for the first 200 yards but trying to get out of our driveway ...

Uh-huh, just like Hunky!

Matthew Bourne commented about the male swans in his production of Swan Lake " Are my male swans only attractive to gay men?" as I was trying to stop drooling!!!!!