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I’d like the weather to be drier than last year from March through to May, but without having a drought. It was so wet last year that most of our plantings rotted, whether put in as seeds or seedlings. The plants that did survive largely succumbed to mould and mildew. It meant we had to buy a consid...

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I have a hand-cranked iron mincer with a couple of changeable discs to alter the coarseness of the mince. It’s very effective, but it does take quite a bit of work to crank. Mincing the first 2-3kg of meat is straight forward but once past 10kg it turns into an endurance exercise. This is us in acti...

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Stonehead wrote:
Flo wrote:It is quiet. Either everyone is too busy being self sufficient, everyone has said all that they can say, or the idea has gone out of fashion.
It’s probably out of fashion. I’m never in fashion so if I’m being self sufficient then no one else is!

Stonehead

Flo wrote:It is quiet. Either everyone is too busy being self sufficient, everyone has said all that they can say, or the idea has gone out of fashion.

It’s probably out of fashion. I’m also never in fashion so if I’m being self sufficient then no one else is!

Stonehead

Flo wrote:Wow Stonehead! Season's greetings. Long time no see.

I drop in most weeks and post occasionally, but it’s fairly quiet here.

Stonehead

When we lived in London we had a washing machine that scaled heavily. I used to buy a 5l bottle of pickling vinegar (the distilled white vinegar with 6%§ acidity) and pour that into the machine, then turned the tub manually every few hours and left it for at least 24 hours before doing a wash cycle ...

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G’day! Yes, I’m an Aussie but I’m also in Scotland—Aberdeenshire or the Land of the Furrybooters. If you want Scotland specific gardening info, I’ve been indexing 10 years worth of Scottish gardening and crofting antics on my blog. The partial index is in the How-To section . (There are more posts, ...

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I’ve looked at other people’s blogs but never thought to see if mine was listed. Actually, I thought I had put mine on the list. Never mind, I’ve been losing my marbles for years.

http://stoneheadcroft.com/

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We've just had our central heating and insulation upgraded, but the majority of the house has ended up colder than it was before. We had a 1980s oil boiler, under-spec radiatiors, no wall insulation and patchy roof insulation. With the heating on, we could get the temperature up to 15ºC throughout t...

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What treasure Stonehead. How did it come into your hands? An elderly lady gave it to me. Her mother was a seamstress prior to WW2 and earned the price of it by doing a huge amount of piecework. She then started her own dressmaking business. Eventually, the Singer was passed to the daughter who used...

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Mine's a treadle 15K70 (Central Bobbin) for industrial use. It still has the original instruction manual, a needle threader with instruction manual, a pressed steel box with a vast array of attachments (the box is velvet lined, has clips for each attachment and has Singer stamped into it), an ivory ...

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We use about 1,500 litres of heating kerosene a year. The heating runs for two hours in the morning, two in the evening. House temperature is usually around 13-14C in winter, although the kitchen drops to 8-9C overnight. The bathroom pipes freeze in the coldest weather. The main house is stone, but ...

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One of the stranger things I’ve seen recently was a group of teenage girls waiting for hockey training to start, all with their mobiles phones out, chatting and texting like mad, most of it with the other members of the group. Instead of talking directly to each other, they were talking into their p...

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400m away from his house? Are there no limits in the UK? I understood that the general adivce was to put them a minimum of 2km away. Is that only a guideline and not a law? As to the other... it must be infuriating. Sadly all councils seem to be the same wherever you go. Always ready to bow down an...

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