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Yet again I've put seeds in fibre pots and before they've germinated, the pots have started to go mouldy. How can I stop it from happening?
I gave the windows a good clean and finished off with a bleach wipe before putting the pots on.

Has anyone been able to propagate aloe vera from a leaf cutting?

Well, I've gone with Spear and Jackson - fingers crossed it will hold up!

What brands of spades are durable?

Does anyone know if the same brands of washing powders we can buy here work better (i.e. may have a better "recipe") in other countries?

Get it from Sainsbury's - a fair bit cheaper than Boots, as I discovered only a bit later that day.

I don't recall now, but it seems that even "these days" there's still a trend for buying pink items, not necessarily just clothes, for girls and blue ones for boys. Although, in some countries, there isn't the feminity associated with pink and men can like it without it being questionable....

I was intrigued, to say the least, about that, but it seems to well known in France http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle ... g.shopping

P. S. This isn't a new dilemma. Saki wrote a short story entitled Quail Seed - I'm not familiar with this website, but I've found the story free to read on it - http://www.eastoftheweb.com/cgi-bin/version_printable.pl?story_id=QuaiSeed.shtml There's another shopping one called the Sex That Doesn't ...

Tights make good garden ties and they tend to blend in well and are soft against the stems. I know someone who has used them to strain bits of "skin" out of household paint. They might be a better option for the downpipe use that someone mentioned earlier.

Have you tried the wanted sections of freegle/freecycle type websites and Gumtree?

Messrs Wait and Rose sell a face cloth that just like those microfibre cleaning cloths, only white. You wet it, wring it out and use it on the face and it exfoliates. Has any one use one for a length of time to be able to offer an opinion? Messrs Marks and Spencer sold an exfoliating cloth that was ...

That was an interesting article.

When did pink for girls and blue for boys come about?

Has anyone mentioned egg custard and mayonnaise yet?