Grow Your Own Magazine

Anyone seen/ done any this year??

I think this could well be one!!

BBC iPlayer - Penguins

A couple of weeks ago I had to organise photos of every member of staff for our newsletter. Needless to say there were quite a few who were uncomfortable with this.

This morning I sent round an email saying that due to unforeseen technical problems I was going to need to do them again, and becasue of the tight deadline I am now under, I will organise them first thing this afternoon.

At the very bottom (quite a way down) of the email I also wrote:

"If you’ve scrolled down this far well done, you’re obviously harder to fool than I thought!

If you haven’t, gotcha!"

Needless to say, very few people scrolled down and I received a number of calls/emails in return.

Everyone saw the funny side though.

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A simple dude trying to grow veg.

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Lorraine Kelly had a woman on her programme this morning who lost 9st in 6 weeks on 'So-Tox'... Didn't say it was an April Fools' Joke, but, erm.. yeah lol

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3 chooks (getting some more soon), 2 goats, 1 pony, 1 dog, 2 geese, 18 wild ducks, 3 veg plots, 2 kids and the OH

Am i mad?

My DH said there was snow (4 inches) outside this morning while I was still in bed, I had left some plantlets out of the greenhouse . A huge relief, thought I lost them.

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Food for Free

You should have told them they would have to do a group photo instead as time was so tight

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Shortie

"There are only two lasting bequests we can hope to give our children; one of these is roots, the other wings" - Hodding Carter

Just been doing some outreach work in our local labour exchange (in olden speak! lol) and they were putting false names of clients in each other's boxes to see if anyone would call one - one guy fell for it like a right muppet and called for Mr C Lyon!

mwahahahaha

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Live for something or die for nothing

Thats what my hubby did...........eh love he said.....its been snowing last night.....i led their panicking, wondering whether I had clsed the greenhouse door.... then hes shouting April Fool, got him back by saying he would have a lovely cooked brekkie awaiting for him upon his return from taking kids to school.........

I got this email through for April Fools Day for Eco Housing.

Eco Housing - 1st April 2008

Click on the I-Brot house link below to see this great Eco house......
UK Estate agents with homes, houses & property for sale on rightmove.co.uk

Building a green revolution
Today's obsession with global warming and carbon footprints has seen a sharp rise in interest for greener homes, with homebuyers now more likely to choose eco-friendly design over character features and graded listings. Reacting to this demand more and more new home developers are incorporating energy-saving features, such as solar panels and plumbing for re-cycled water, as standard in their latest properties.

In Germany, Grimm Brothers, an advanced building materials specialist, have created a revolutionary new 'green' brick, 'Ingwer-Brot' or I-Brot for short, which is set to take the construction industry by storm. I-Brot bricks are porous, cheap to produce and lighter than conventional clay bricks with a unique structure that helps trap warm air in the winter and cooler air in the summer.

Currently being trialled by property developer, Hansel Construction and their sister company Gretel Glazing, the first I-Brot built house made its UK debut this morning and could play a significant part helping the government reach its carbon emissions reduction targets by 2012. Hansel's senior builder says "I-Brot is great to work with and tastes great with a nice cuppa too".

There are, however, a couple of drawbacks with the new material, which Grimm Brothers admit they are still working to improve; including a tendency to attract birds and it losing up to 2% of its mass in tiny crumbs during transportation. A spokesperson for the company laughed: "Ve can alvays tell vere der Ingwer Brot house ist by following der trail."

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went down a friends today and she told me that both her and her mum fell for that one her mum is staying for 3 weeks from faulkland isles she lives by hundreds of them but still rang and told her hubby about them (thats when they found out.)

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I'd rather regret the things i've done than regret not doing them at all.

Just been had on another one - I can't believe I fell for it!

According to the email I received, there's been a new species of animal discovered in Papua New Guinea called a Loof Lirpa (get a mirror if you don't work it out) - it's a combination of a mouse and a kangaroo blah blah blah

I'd already forwarded it to a couple of my co-greenie chums before I cottoned on!

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Live for something or die for nothing

ROFL THATS A GOOD UN lol...........

We've done a few lame pranks today:
Made OH a cup of gravy instead of coffee
Hid the remote controls
Told the kids it was snowing outside (well, it was last weekend)

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~ What do I think of Western civilisation? I think it would be a very good idea ~ Gandhi

LMSO @ the penguins, BRILL!

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Why keep a dog when you can bark yourself !

The BMW advert for the new car with anti-canine extras is the funniest one I've seen this year.

There were apologies this morning on the radio station I listen to saying that people had taken one of the items yesterday to be an april fool - when it WASN'T! A feral eagle or owl or something who had been cpatured as it had been swooping down and attacking tourists in a scenic area. So they are not all as far fetched as they sound.

Radio 4, early on Apriil 1st (was it the Today programme?), ran a follow up to the great RSPB garden bird watching thing.

Apparently, because so many finches were found, especially Siskins which come from Scandinavia, cages were going to be issued to everyone who had participated in the survey so they could capture the Siskins which were then going to be 'repatriated' via Terminal 5 at Heathrow..... The programme went into great details on how the cages worked (apparently they looked like bird cages with spring actioned sides). To make it even more realistic they did acknowledge that Terminal 5 might be a problem. (Terminal for the finches I would think!)

Oh I do hope it was a joke.

Read the Telegraph cover to cover but there were so many odd stories we were unsure which was the deliberate one!

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Nell

OH was totally taken in with the pint not being available in pubs soon and converting to litres ( virgin breakfast show) and as he was telling me I was agreeing that there would be uproar and people would take a stand like the stall holders with the pounds of veg. and then he went that if that wasn't bad enough they would serve the beer in a plastic glass, (the end of the British pint),at this point I looked at him and said 'you do know what day it is,don't you?!!! the look was classic!!!