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Stinging Nettle Seeds For Sale!

Published on 2 May 2011 by Knobby in Random Stuff

With The Bottle Inn at Marshwood closed it looks like there will be no World Stinging Nettle Eating Championship this year. Hunting around on Amazon I was surprised to find someone selling “Stinging Nettle: 200 Seeds (Fresh & Untreated)“! Around here stinging nettles are considered to be weeds and grow abundantly without cultivation.

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Rampisham transmitter site to close by Christmas

BBC World Service transmitter site at Rampisham will close with the loss of 19 jobs according to BECTU trade union web site. The site is run by Babcock Engineering. © Image Copyright Nigel Mykura. This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.0 Generic Licence
X Factor – Does Johnny Robinson look like Wilfred Brambell?

Watching X Factor (yes I know) last night I couldn’t help thinking contestant Johnny Robinson bears a resemblance to the late actor Wilfred Brambell, star of the classic BBC comedy Steptoe and Son. Take a look below and see what you think.
Historypin

Just come across Historypin which looks like an interesting new website. It allows the upload of old photos of places which can be “pinned” to their correct location on a map of the UK. Working with Google Street View you can match it to a current snapshot of that location to see how things have

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