(Part 3) Top products from r/CasualUK

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There are some great gardening youtubers out there. My two faves are Huw's Nursery and Charles Dowding. Huw just put out an awesome book called Veg In One Bed. It's pretty much a step-by-step guide to planting and harvesting stuff in a single garden bed year-round.

pet hedgehogs are an interesting phenomenon ... and there is a real risk that you will turn out like my American friends ... when I was invited to visit the Rocky Mountain Hedgehog Show - and witness the International Hedgehog Olympic Games ... all true ... have a read of https://www.amazon.co.uk/Prickly-Affair-Charm-Hedgehog/dp/0141988185/ref=pd_sbs_14_1?_encoding=UTF8&pd_rd_i=0141988185&pd_rd_r=b27b6009-c8ac-11e8-bc44-47b86a543ebb&pd_rd_w=btGl8&pd_rd_wg=cDIyw&pf_rd_i=desktop-dp-sims&pf_rd_m=A3P5ROKL5A1OLE&pf_rd_p=85d62760-2a0e-407d-aa36-f3c03afc01c3&pf_rd_r=VNP0NR4YC331VQ206QTN&pf_rd_s=desktop-dp-sims&pf_rd_t=40701&psc=1&refRID=VNP0NR4YC331VQ206QTN to find the strange strange truth !! And yes, only African Pygmy Hedgehogs ... not ours. Never ours.

Definitely do it! I suggest you look into mindfulness based cognitive therapy (MBCT), it certainly helps ground me when when things are out of control and I'm feeling frazzled. I've just started reading A Mindfulness Guide for the Frazzled by Ruby Wax. It's a 6 week therapy course in MBCT that you can walk yourself through, apparently using mindfulness can help prevent depressive relapses in 60% of people.

May I also recommend Whitstable Mum In Custard Shortage and other fantastic tidbits from Britain's tip-top local newspapers.

Mate of mine bought this book a while back. Gave us a good old chuckle looking through it, this was in it

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Wisdom-Nigel-Farage-Blank-book/dp/0091960096

The reviews are amazing

I highly recommend this book: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Overcoming-Anxiety-Self-Help-Behavioral-Techniques/dp/0465012655

I'm re-reading Alistair Horne's Price of Glory and bloody loving it. Horne was a military historian who had a thing for the French and wrote in the way that only boozy, right-wing ex-public schoolboys at the twilight of Empire could. This particular book is about Verdun and it's just gripping - written in that real 'blood-and-stomach-pills' style that's now faded out of fashion. In fact, I really recommend all of his works - especially as they're all completely torn by his clear love for the French vs. his very real need to crow at them. Think Alan Clark but with actual, proficient scholarship and an absence of outright lies.

Tyrannosaurus Drip is my absolute favourite to read in silly voices!

Have a look in the monthly and daily deals sections of the Kindle store, there's some good stuff in there usually, and even if it's crap you've only wasted 99p mostly.

General recommendations:

The power - Naomi Alderman

Ashes of London - Andrew Taylor

Good Omens - Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman (pretty much any of their solo books are good too).

Quite ugly one morning Chris Brookmyre

[IQ] (https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1474607187/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_jp9NBb44YRWFN) Joe Ide

Republic of Pirates Colin Woodward

Operation Mincemeat - Ben McIntyre , Agent Zigzag and Double Cross are also fascinating and interlinked.

Try

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Viz-40th-Anniversary-Profanisaurus-Piss/dp/1781066779/

or

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Oxford-Dictionary-Modern-Slang-Reference/dp/0199232059/

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Hungover: The Morning After and One Man's Quest for the Cure Paperback – November 20, 2018

I had a day off when my husband didnt and i painted the en suite, are there any household jobs you could do? or you could kon mari your life

The spider network

This book suggest it isn't just sex toys that get lost

I used to have one Mr Bean book but I can't even remember what it was. A diary book or something maybe?

Anyway looks like you can buy one for fuck all on [Amazon] (https://www.amazon.co.uk/Mr-Beans-Scrapbook-about-America/dp/0067575099/) if you need

i started putting aside money into funds to my kids the day they were both born and still put a %age in there to try to give them a bit of a leg up as mine did for them... they are the future after all :)

>and the world seems to be getting worse

is it though? have you read factfullness or how to lie with statistics you can get mired down in doom and gloom by listening to the mainstream media whose job it is to outdo each other in bullshit. Or you can listen the our supposed 'elected reprasentatives' whos only job it seems is to out lie each other to ensure they get to be in #10 next and fuck everyone who they are supposed to represent.

no accountability for either of them anymore...

fact of the matter is, i will live longer, in better health, in a safer world, with better prospects that the previous generation and my children will be better off than i am... thier world will be different to mine but its not going to be the complete clusterfuck the press or the politicians say it will.

ooof... apologies, don't know where that came from :/