Welcome to Nicholae and DolciFiori
Jen - You are seriously nuts! Careful you don't do a Skwigg!
Michele - I've done that thing with losing a post before - you have my total sympathy. Nowadays if I'm doing a long post I try and remember to copy it first. Sometimes I have problems with posting from the quick reply page - it seems to go very slow - but the advanced reply page is usually okay.
Pat, thats really interesting - I knew about them being members of the brassica family (because of the crop rotation thing) but I didn't know about them being 'coles' - seems to me that most of the veg I like best are 'coles' - I'll have to remember that. We'll have to start up a food gardening thread - from what I remember last spring there were a few of us here growing veg - some in tubs, some in the ground.
Peacock - DH says I need to get a flat cap and whippet to really fit in.
Pigeons.... urghhhh! I would never be able to keep pigeons - as a kid I never particularly liked birds but I wasn't scared of them, then I watched that Hitchcock film 'The Birds' .... since then they REALLY give me the screaming habdabs especially if they flap their wings near me. Ewwwwww! Even the thought is making me shiver. I could possibly keep chickens because they don't fly - but I'm not sure that a few eggs are worth the hassle of having to tend them every day.
Its not snowy up here - just drizzle and patchy thick mist. While I was out with the dogs I bumped in to a couple of hunky Mountain Rescue units (in their pretty red outfits) who are out searching for a man who went out to walk his dog on the Moor early yesterday evening about the time this mist started to drop and the dog came back but the owner didn't. I wonder if they've thought about searching the local pubs???? Just an irrelevant thought... I wonder why its 'Mountain' Rescue that come to the Moor to find people - its about as opposite to a mountain as you can get!
Anyway... gotta go hold Ellie's paw ... she's not feeling very well.
Hello Pat!
but I ran it ok, and there were HILLS 
Not used to hills, but it was fun. Came back red-faced and sweating and felt so good! DH came too but decided to collapse in bed straight after and he looks rather pale this morning!!! 
Ah well, you live and learn!
That is if it stops 
SNOWING!!!!! 
for Ellie
but she's been 