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Community => Coffee Lounge => Topic started by: Fluffywelshsheep on October 21, 2008, 09:35:24 pm

Title: Does anyone have any book recommendations?
Post by: Fluffywelshsheep on October 21, 2008, 09:35:24 pm: Okay just had an idea while hubby and s-dd is watching the football. I am wondering can we start a list of book people would recommend?

I am going to recommend
The New Complete Book of Self-Sufficiency: The Classic Guide for Realists and Dreamers (Hardcover) by John Seymour
ISBN 10 0751364428.
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Post by: Fluffywelshsheep on October 21, 2008, 09:53:49 pm: two more i uses alot
The cookery year reader digest ISBN-10: 0276000471

And also a new one i just got it funny plus lots of recipes Maw Broon's Cookbook: The Broon's Cookbook - for Every Day and Special Days ISBN-10: 1902407458
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Post by: kaz on October 22, 2008, 07:27:47 pm: Practical Sheep Keeping by Kim Cardell ISBN no:1-86126-163-2. Invaluable for the novice shepherd and the old hand.
Anything by John Seymour as he is just about the best author with regards to smallholding.
Kaz
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Post by: Rosemary on October 22, 2008, 08:10:42 pm: Marley and Me - can't remember the author. It's about the author's dog, Marley, the worst dog in the world. Dan's reading it and has been reading me excerpts - it's had me crying with laughter
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Post by: garden cottage on October 22, 2008, 09:55:56 pm: Call of the wild---my escape to alaska. guy grieve
driving over lemons--chris stewart
off the rails ,moscow to beijing on recumbent bikes, chris hatherly,tim cope
mike tomkies--moobli(very sad) . Alone in the wilderness superb book.
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Post by: greenfingers on October 23, 2008, 10:54:38 am: I throughly enjoyed reading Clarissa Dickson Wright, Spilling the Beans, I could not put this down and read it in 2 days, if anyone wants it I could lend them my copy.
My other bible is Carol Klein's, Grow your Own Veg, it's easy to understand for a novice like me. I have just been given Alys Fowlers, The Thrifty Gardener for my birthday, this will be my winter reading.
My other favourite book is 'As Time Goes By', as the title suggests, it's a continuation of 'Casablanca' the film, if anyone is a soft romantic and wants to know what happened when Ingrid Bergman flies off at the end of the film then read this, it's by Michael Walsh. ISBN 0-316-64804-3
Elaine
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Post by: hebber on October 27, 2008, 06:03:35 pm: "vegetable and fruit gardening" by the royal horticultural society - it's not flash but it has just about all the information you need. I found the teach yourself keeping poultry really useful as well.
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Post by: Blinkers on October 27, 2008, 07:59:21 pm: Anything, absolutely anything by Robert Goddard............perfect for winter evenings. ;)
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Post by: Rosemary on October 27, 2008, 08:41:31 pm: I love Robert Goddard's books. And the Rebus novels.
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Post by: wolfie on November 07, 2008, 08:12:55 pm: Scenes from a Smallholding by Chas Griffin was the first book i've read cover to cover virtually at one sitting in years. Funny and informative... we contacted him via his blog and eventually had lunch with him and his wife a few months ago!! Looking forward to reading the next two from him.
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Post by: doganjo on November 07, 2008, 09:06:59 pm: I'm reading his second one - More scenes from a Smallholding. Haven't read the first, wish I had as there are a lot of references to it in this one. Happy to pass it one when I've finished, if anyone wants it
Annie
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Post by: Rosemary on November 07, 2008, 10:32:35 pm: Any or all of the James Herriot books. I've read them a hundred times - well, several dozen at least.