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It's the time and effort ( and the money) spent for very little real value that could be better spent repairing something people will actually use. I wonder if these programmes are designed to give people ideas above their station as used to be said. Like making people in two/three bed semis in the...

I saw a report about the men in shed things on the news some time ago although it was unfortunately because one ( somewhere in birmingham i think) was losing their premises and looked likely to close down. My friend who is a big fan of the repair shop came round yesterday , mainly because he wanted ...

I'm almost surprised this programme hasn't been mentioned on here before or if it has i can't find a thread. For those who haven't seen it it's a BBC programme where people bring objects that are broken or have seen better days to a group of expert restorers in a barn and leave with a nicely repair ...

My wife got me my first phone probably ten years ago as she said it would be useful for emergencies and so on. One day i came to use it and it wouldn't make or receive calls . My wife took it to the shop and they told her that the number had been discontinued because it hadn't been used for 18 month...

Er i did have a bit of toast on christmas day for breakfast although i did try to be a bit posher by having a bit of pate on it. Perhaps the fruit was slightly over ripe although it seemed ok. I'm loath to dump it although i suppose if we haven't eaten it by now it we could . Easy enough to make som...

Christmas day and not being a fan of cranberry sauce i went to the pantry to get out a jar of rowan berry jelly. That part of the story goes well and i have some if dinner. Getting to it i moved a few other jars on the shelf , all homemade jams and jellies and in the process discovered that some jar...

I understand where you are coming from or at least i hope i do. I suppose it doesn't help that the definition of a weed is so open to interpretation , one mans weed is another flower so to speak . I've had a very obvious example of that . I do maintainence and one customer asked me to remove the blu...

Well that's good to hear , i'll see what next year brings. Funny you should say that you've been trying to get rid of it , i have mumbled a few moans pulling it out of the garden . I have pretty much most of my herbs in the front garden , the horehound included but it managed to make it's way around...

Been trying to get my sister in law to drink the lemon balm tea as she's always moaning about being stressed at work but no with no luck . Says she'll stick to prosecco . One plant that i used for sore throats was white horehound . Tasted disgusting but seemed to be very benifical when gargled . I h...

Not a huge fan of herbal teas if i'm honest although i occasionally will make a lemon balm brew . I think it is mainly because the flavour is either pretty bland or downright unpleasent and i'm thinking there of the jasmin flower tea i tried some time ago. Saying all that the best i've tried so far ...

Yes they definitely put plastic in some teabags. I didn't know either until fairly recently and as I always compost teabags it dawned on me that I kept seeing the skeletonised mesh parts in my soil. That's what made me realise as well . Whether it makes any real problems in the soil i couldn't say ...

Oh i agree it doesn't seem a wonderful idea to me either although it does make an interesting read. Unfortunately i don't move in the right circles so i don't know anyone who might have the wherewithall to afford a place . The cheapest place is £10,000 per person per year so presumbably those paying...

I saw this come up on another forum i use . I'm all for what might be called self contained self sufficient communities but i'm afraid i have my cynical head on about this one . Apologies for the link being from the daily fail. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7596351/Brexit-Party-politician...

We have a lot of stuff , although whether it's hoarding or not is a bit of a grey area as far as I'm concerned. My father worked at a council tip and pretty much every day brought something home. Often it was scrap metal but there was a lot of other things too , bikes , mowers and vacuums we had in ...

For my degree I designed this: https://thealveus.blogspot.com/2012/08/so-what-am-i-alveus-is-rain-water.html Designed to collect water where there isn’t a suitable downpipe. I even made a prototype out of an old piece of land drain and an umbrella. Sadly it blew over in the rain. I like the design ...