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by miskipiski
Mon Sep 01, 2008 7:51 am
Forum: Allotments, Veg Patches and Container Gardening
Topic: restoring sad looking wooden furniture...
Replies: 14
Views: 4502

Re: restoring sad looking wooden furniture...

thanks for all the tips! I didn't think of oil and wire wool, so i'll experiment and see what works...

*off to hunt for a dust sheet*
by miskipiski
Fri Aug 29, 2008 1:34 pm
Forum: Allotments, Veg Patches and Container Gardening
Topic: restoring sad looking wooden furniture...
Replies: 14
Views: 4502

restoring sad looking wooden furniture...

Hi Guys, I've just been gifted an unwanted desk from the offices I work. (I think they are turning their backs on a beauty, but its a lovely desk for me!) It's a 1950s/60s desk and its looking quite sad now, with LOTS of too-hot-mug rings and general wear and tear. The surface varnish has come off i...
by miskipiski
Fri Dec 15, 2006 2:17 pm
Forum: The ish Local - (Chat)
Topic: Carry-a-bag
Replies: 14
Views: 6427

On the Bath Road in Brislington? Some plastics are recyclable (can be melted and resued) but many cannot actually be melted into liquid (something to do with the atoms). I agree with you - it's ridiculous. What I see very little of in any govenment or company policy is what I was brought up on - the...
by miskipiski
Fri Dec 15, 2006 10:55 am
Forum: The ish Local - (Chat)
Topic: Carry-a-bag
Replies: 14
Views: 6427

[quote="pskipper"] Unless you wear a traditional french onion sellers outfit :lol: quote] This could be an idea for a new campaign! Not only will we resuse carrier bags and annoy shop staff by doign so - we can terrify them by fancy dress! I'm sure if I shopped looking like this the shop s...
by miskipiski
Fri Dec 15, 2006 10:45 am
Forum: The ish Local - (Chat)
Topic: Carry-a-bag
Replies: 14
Views: 6427

Boots wrote: I can now co-ordinate them colourwise with all my clothes! :mrgreen:
I love it!

Unfortunately nothing really looks that good with T***o colours!
by miskipiski
Thu Dec 14, 2006 1:43 pm
Forum: The ish Local - (Chat)
Topic: Carry-a-bag
Replies: 14
Views: 6427

Hi!

Thanks for the greeting. I am a bit worried about that photo tho - I look nothing like that!
by miskipiski
Thu Dec 14, 2006 8:46 am
Forum: The ish Local - (Chat)
Topic: Carry-a-bag
Replies: 14
Views: 6427

Carry-a-bag

I just had to get on and post this after reading about your Carry-a-Bag campaign. Of course I've been doing this for years much to the amazement of shop staff (you should see thier faces as I load up my bike with vegetables...) but recently a LIDL shop was opened up in my part of Bristol, to compete...