This title presents the perfect introduction to the rewarding hobby of poultry keeping. It reveals how as well as being useful chickens are interesting & colourful characters that make good pets & can enliven any garden. It fuses contemporary lifestyle design imaginative & appealing images & lively authoritative text to ensure the widest possible interest. It is a comprehensive guide to chicken breeds including hybrids & rescue birds. It offers everything you need to know about housing feeding & welfare as well as a useful recipe section full of great ideas for using up all those extra fresh eggs. ...

Although the global figure of more than 28 billion chickens at any one time might suggest that we are all thoroughly steeped in 'chicken wisdom' this is not the case. This no-nonsense jargon-free guide leads readers through the practicalities of keeping chickens in your garden or on an allotment. It details the selection of suitable breeds for egg or meat production or both as well as explaining how they can be kept in humane & as far as possible natural ways. What to do when things go wrong & how to remedy them is just one of the practical & essential pieces of information in this authoritative book. ...

Practical how-to advice for keeping chickens For me raising chickens for eggs & meat has been one of the most enjoyable aspects of our family farm. I am a great admirer of "chicken whisperer" Pammy Riggs & with her two co-authors she has produced an admirably thorough guide to enjoying the pleasures & avoiding the pitfalls of keeping chickens. Get the book & take the feathery plunge!"
- Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall Keeping Chickens For Dummies provides you with an introduction to all aspects of keeping chickens from constructing a hutch to the correct feeding regime. It offers expert advicestraight from the River Cottage ' Chicken Whisperer' so whether you're looking to raise chickens for eggs meat or justthe entertainment value & fun
- Keeping Chickens For Dummies is the perfect place to start. Keeping Chickens For Dummies: Shows you how to keep chickens indifferent conditions Offers guidance on choosing & purchasing chickens Gives great step-by-step advice on constructing the right housing Provides expert advice onhow to feed & care foryour chickens"

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This is a comprehensive & attractive lifestyle guide to keeping ducks & geese
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For the last twenty years Dr Hawa Abdi & her daughters have run a refugee camp on their family farm not far from Mogadishu which has grown to shelter 90 000 displaced Somalis: men women & children in urgent need of medical attention. As Islamist militia groups have been battling for control of the country creating one of the most dire human rights crises in the world Dr. Abdi's camp is a beacon of hope for the Somalis most of whom have no proper access to health care. She was recently held hostage by a militant groups who threatened her life & told her that because she's a woman she has no right to run the camp. She refused to leave. This is not just the story of a woman doctor in a war torn Islamic country risking her life daily to minister to thousands of desperate people it's also an inspiring story of a divorced woman & her two daughters bound together on a mission to rehabilitate a country. ...

Despite his reputation for intricate & impressive restaurant cooking Gary Rhodes believes that the best way to cook something is often the most simple. In his latest book he strips out complicated techniques & fiddly instructions in search of the very easiest way to get maximum flavour out of familiar ingredients from chicken to squid & beetroot to rhubarb. In over 200 simple recipes he demonstrates the fundamentals of cooking & explains how to get stunning results by doing as little as possible. But this is not just a brilliant cookbook for beginners & an essential bible for busy people it is also a tribute to simplicity & flavour & an invaluable book of simply delicious ideas for cooks of every level. ...

At 3am I was startled awake by the opening of the stairgate. Leaping out of bed I found Mum clothes on over her pyjamas grumbling she was fed up of being moved from pillar to post & was going home. When her mum was diagnosed with Alzheimers disease Marianne Talbot decided she couldnt put her into a care home. Instead for five years she looked after her mum in her own home. For nearly three of those years she chronicled for the readers of Saga Magazine Online" the fears & frustrations the love & the laughter & the tears & the traumas of caring. Now in this heart warming book you too can meet Marianne Mum & the appalling Fatcat. You will also find plenty of practical tips for caring for someone with dementia & on staying sane whilst doing so a resources & useful contacts section & Mariannes reflections on caring from a distance & on when caring comes to an end. Written for anyone anywhere who has anything to do with dementia or with caring; in reading it you will know you are not alone." ...

Justin Langer is not just the greatest Australian first class run scorer in cricketing history-he overtook Don Bradman in 2009-but someone who writes & talks about the game with great insight experience & wit. In this eagerly anticipated account Langer looks back on the mateship locker-room antics & on-field triumphs which made up his Australian Test career & his Somerset captaincy. Peer behind the scenes to relive the night the Australians soaked the English changing rooms at Lords in beer the midnight frolic around the SCG in their underpants & baggy green caps & the Caribbean dinner which cost the Australian Cricket Board GBP10 000. What was it like to face the barrage of the West Indies & Pakistan attacks at their peak who was the best bowler Langer ever faced & how did an Adelaide pool table help Shane Warne hone his flipper? Langer also expands on his infamous 2009 Ashes dossier as he shares his thoughts on the current crop of English cricketers & his years in the UK. He writes with great humour & candour of his cricketing friends foes & heroes & his career highs & lows encompassing everything from Test centuries & Ashes tussles to a rather unfairly matched eating competition with Mike Gatting. ...

When one of their number is kidnapped Elspeth & the Misfits are forced to use their extraordinary mind powers to help the rebels in their struggle to overthrow the oppressive Council. But Elspeth has another problem to solve
- she is still on her quest to destroy the Beforetime weaponmachines. To find a clue hidden deep in the past Elspeth must travel the Dreamtrails but her journeys are fraught with danger as she battles a terrifying winged beast intent on destroying her. Gradually Elspeth realises that her quest will take her back to Obernewytn & it is here in its past as well as its future that the answers lie.
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In this title Simon Sheridan traces the history of the British sex film from its beginnings in coy nudist camp films such as Some Like It Cool" (directed by Michael Winner in 1960) through the boom years of the Confessions films to its demise in the early 1980s. This expanded new edition

Includes:: an updated filmography & previously unpublished interview material & stills."

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