With the textile industry able to make cloth more quickly & cheaply than ever before why make your own? The answer is simple: nothing could be more different & unique than h&-made textiles. Weaving your own textiles for use in clothing or furnishings is a rewarding & satisfying activity
- with the added benefit of knowing that the whole process can be done just as well by hand using almost no energy but your own! This book looks at where different fibres come from how to grow & harvest your own vegetable fibres & how to prepare them for spinning. The principles of spindle & spinning wheel spinning are covered along with home dyeing using natural dyestuffs & hand weaving with or without a loom. Finally there are a number of simple projects such as a rug shoulder bag bed cover & jumper & mitts to put your newly learnt skills to the test.
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Identical twin brothers Andy & Dave Hamilton live in the centre of Bristol. Attracted to the pub & music scene of the bustling city they still yearn for elements of the good life. So ever since they were students they have used their initiative & imagination to think up ways to live in a frugal & self-sufficientish way while still enjoying life to the full. ? Having set up their website www.selfsufficientish.com in 2004 they discovered that their approach & ethos touched a nerve with thousands of people in the UK. Andy & Dave Britains green twins advocate?a fun & positive approach to environmentalism & understand that the thought of adjusting every aspect of our lives is overwhelming & possibly offputting. Hence self-sufficientish. If you don't have the space or time to be totally self-reliant but crave creative ideas for recycling growing organic vegetables & establishing an environmentally friendly home office this is the book for you. Youll find small suggestions to get you started (not overfilling your kettle choosing alternative kitchen-cleaning products & making plant pots out of newspapers) & bigger ones for when your confidence grows (advice on keeping chickens making office equipment out of worn-out trousers & tackling an allotment for the first time) as well as recipes herbal remedies eco-friendly travel solutions & much much more. ...

Every morning a very large & very snappy crocodile shouts this selfish message: Stay away from my river! Its MY river! If you come in my river Ill eat you all! The animals in the forest dont know what to do. They are frightened of the crocodile. Even the fish tadpoles frogs crabs & crayfish stay out of the water. Until one day the creatures are woken by a loud groaning sound which turns out to be the selfish crocodile in a lot of pain & the smallest of them all a little mouse finds a way to solve their snappy dilemma! Astoundingly bright bold illustrations bring to life all the wonderful creatures of the forest in a rainbow of colours. The Author: Faustin Charles is a renowned poet & story-teller. His collection of Afro-Caribbean rhymes was published to great success by Puffin. This is his first picture book text. Bloomsbury Childrens Books" are also publishing his first poetry collection in October 1998 establishing Faustin as a Bloomsbury author across the board. Faustin spends much time in schools & libraries story-telling & is also Library Buyer for Enfield. He lives in North London. The Illustrator: Mike Terry is most well-known for his wonderful cover illustrations for Dick King-Smith including " The Hodgeheg" & " The Sheep-Pig" (the basis for the successful film " Babe"). This is his first picture book. Mike lives in Hythe Kent." ...

Every morning a very large & very snappy crocodile shouts this selfish message: ' Stay away from my river! It's MY river! If you come in my river I'll eat you all!' The animals in the forest don't know what to do. They are frightened of the crocodile. Even the fish tadpoles frogs crabs & crayfish stay out of the water. Until one day the creatures are woken by a loud groaning sound which turns out to be the selfish crocodile in a lot of pain & the smallest of them all a little mouse finds a way to solve their snappy dilemma! Astoundingly bright bold illustrations bring to life all the wonderful creatures of the forest in a rainbow of colours. ...

Every morning a very large & very snappy crocodile shouts this selfish message: Stay away from my river! Its MY river! If you come in my river Ill eat you all! The animals in the forest dont know what to do. They are frightened of the crocodile. Even the fish tadpoles frogs crabs & crayfish stay out of the water. Until one day the creatures are woken by a loud groaning sound which turns out to be the selfish crocodile in a lot of pain & the smallest of them all a little mouse finds a way to solve their snappy dilemma! Astoundingly bright bold illustrations bring to life all the wonderful creatures of the forest in a rainbow of colours. The Author: Faustin Charles is a renowned poet & story-teller. His collection of Afro-Caribbean rhymes was published to great success by Puffin. This is his first picture book text. Bloomsbury Childrens Books" are also publishing his first poetry collection in October 1998 establishing Faustin as a Bloomsbury author across the board. Faustin spends much time in schools & libraries story-telling & is also Library Buyer for Enfield. He lives in North London. The Illustrator: Mike Terry is most well-known for his wonderful cover illustrations for Dick King-Smith including " The Hodgeheg" & " The Sheep-Pig" (the basis for the successful film " Babe"). This is his first picture book. Mike lives in Hythe Kent." ...

The million copy international bestseller critically acclaimed & translated into over 25 languages. This 30th anniversary edition

Includes:: a new introduction from the author as well as the original prefaces & foreword & extracts from early reviews. As relevant & influential today as when it was first published The Selfish Gene has become a classic exposition of evolutionary thought. Professor Dawkins articulates a gene's eye view of evolution
- a view giving centre stage to these persistent units of information & in which organisms can be seen as vehicles for their replication. This imaginative powerful & stylistically brilliant work not only brought the insights of Neo-Darwinism to a wide audience but galvanized the biology community generating much debate & stimulating whole new areas of research.


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This is a million copy international bestseller critically acclaimed & translated into over 25 languages. This 30th anniversary edition

Includes:: a new introduction from the author as well as the original prefaces & foreword & extracts from early reviews. As relevant & influential today as when it was first published The Selfish Gene" has become a classic exposition of evolutionary thought. Professor Dawkins articulates a genes eye view of evolution
- a view giving centre stage to these persistent units of information & in which organisms can be seen as vehicles for their replication. This imaginative powerful & stylistically brilliant work not only brought the insights of Neo-Darwinism to a wide audience but galvanized the biology community generating much debate & stimulating whole new areas of research."


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The classic Oscar Wilde story of the selfish giant who wont let anyone into his garden
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Living afloat on inland canals rivers & waterways is a popular choice throughout the UK & Europe & its popularity is growing. Attracted for financial environmental or lifestyle reasons there are now so many people wanting to sell up & live on the water that there are waiting lists for permanent berths. Bill & Laurel Cooper are the experts on living afloat. Practising what they preach they have lived aboard a variety of boats throughout Europe for over 30 years. Covering UK European & American inland waterways they offer practical first-hand expert advice on:
- Suitable boats
- Likely costs
- Rules & regulations
- Insurance considerations
- Pros & cons of the liveaboard lifestyle
- Dealing with health & other problems
- Provisioning & much much more With anecdotes from their own experiences to illustrate their points as well as maps sketches & photographs the Coopers can help anyone dreaming of selling up & cruising the inland waterways to make that dream become a reality.






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Sellafield Stories is the largest Oral History Project conducted in the UK. It was started by Jenni Lister of Cumbria Record Office & Local Studies Library & was funded by the BNFL. Through the personal life stories of 30 people who lived worked & built the complex Sellafield Stories" tells the true story of the Sellafields Nuclear Plant that has been at the heart of the Nations story for the last 60 years. First set up in the aftermath of World War II to develop Britains nuclear weapons it was not until 1957 that it was given over to nuclear power kick starting a revolution in post war energy. Since then it has been the site of protests controversy & debate. Today it is still the countrys biggest single industrial site employing 13 500 people." ...