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try a normal wash load of washing powder, don't know why but we use the white's one. put all the sides bars and anything else like oven dishes in the bath cover with hot water and powder leave overnight, one of our old oven instructions said the best way was to turn the oven on full power (max was 2...

I was totally gobsmacked when I saw that, unbelivable that if is good enough for looting then surely can't it be recycled to the people without insurance? The other thing that got me was that the looters were given a fixed penalty notice :shock: what message does that give out...........don't pay yo...

Global warming wasn't even on the horizon when the good life was made.
So you have to look at it from a different angle,
It wasn't a case of save the planet, it was escape the rat race.

Also getting nicked for drink driving was almost unheard of.

I'm helping my daughter-in-law to get her new garden into shape and with all the digging the cats are having field day using the newly turned soil into a toilet argh! It stinks especially when you have to work on digging the next bit, even after it's been removed. We had some onions that had gone ov...

Hi, I used a reallt large pot as a seed bed for lettuce as they got bigger I pricked out the biggest and potted these up seperatly into individual pots and into the soil, The funny thing is the ones still cramed in the seedbed are fighting for the space and really growing fast and making plenty of l...

We had a wood burning rayburn in the last house and like Helen we keep ours going all year drying out the damp floor! Fors: warm and cosy, fantastic at cooking and the warming oven stick towles in there before you pick the kids up from school on a wet cold winters day, wrap them around their heads w...

We have just signed, we are an ex Herts family. good luck in your fight

Hi Mew, I think that you have planted purple or white sprouting broccoli and that, the side shoots, is what you pick and cook the more you pick the more that grows, it seems very late for psb, they tend to crop feb--april! I'm just about to plant next years crop and they are 6-9 inches tall. I think...

Just to let you know that the allotments at eastleigh in Hampshire are in the high court today. the council want to take them over and give the to developers to build on! That's the story on BBC "south today" local news, that's with a (I belive) a 600 people waiting list for a plot :shock:...

Is it? That there is only so much sandstone in Britain! Is that where sand come from?
The beach on our coast is made up with a lot of ground down shells mixed in!

If they are using sand from the sea is that why on new buildings you see white marks over the brickwork? the salt escaping perhaps

Thanks for the welcomes just back for a bite to eat and tea! loads of tea. great weather for the plants but really muggy and great when it rains just murder after with the humidity. John got it right with the tin they just love the protection they get from it and the heat. just leave an old bit, les...

Hiya, and thanks for letting us browse your site over the last few days and letting us join! We were very much into SSish-ifiness through the eighties lost it through the nineties due to work, redundancy etc and started to find it again in the naughties. lack of space hasn't helped but our daughter ...