[Womble]

Welcome Ina!

Nobody slagged me off when my 'smallholding' consisted of a cold frame and two hens, so they're not going to have a problem with you being a small scale spider farmer either! So, don't feel a fraud, just do what you can with what you've got, and stay happy  .

Cheers,

Womble.

[Lesley Silvester]

Don't like the thought of a spider farmer.   

[Mammyshaz]

No, me neither!!
Rather be up against a lion than a spider any day.

[Ina]

Don't like the thought of a spider farmer.   

Ergh - I don't actually actively farm them. They just seem to be there all the time... 

Thanks for all your warm words.  Yes, I think the council might even allow me a few hens in the garden; I just never thought I'd be here in this place for as long as I now have been - not worth setting anything up for a few months. And now I have a new neighbour, who probably wouldn't mind, either, but she has a dog who, in her own words, isn't very friendly. I don't think chickens would take very kindly to being jumped and barked at on a regular basis. The garden isn't all that big, either, so nowhere else to move. Problems, problems... An allotment would be nice, but there aren't any around here.

But I have got some parsley into a seed tray this morning, so I am feeling very virtuous! 

[Lesley Silvester]

Parsley's a start.