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Do hope all went well and you can relax now also apologies for being so late (not been here long) - and if I'm repeating (sic) what might already have been said but I had all the same symptoms, and in an attempt to identify the cause (from a list of possibles) I started by cutting out dairy produce ...

thefriarandme wrote:................................
Now, how do I recycle this soapbox?

1 add some wheels and you have a handy truck to carry stuff

2 firewood

3 part of a chicken coop

4 loan it out to the local council as a 'conference facility'

err - No


religion seems to be very complicated - I have enough trouble remembereing to put me jumper on the right way round

sorry guys but this is all wierd to me - my boys had terry nappies which I washed and re-used (I have a couple still in the rag bag)

I'm wondering why the nappy can't be folded to allow better movement for baby - have nappy pins been outlawed?

Good start ! - nice to know the 'big boys' are listening - hopefully some other will follow suit

ah Heck Annpan you're doing a community service and tidying the area for walkers and cyclists

defence = protection

for your CV then surely you could list it as a temporary post - working for the agency and stating the work you did without stating the nature of the business.

slight derail :oops: not warmcel but There's a wool fleece based product called thermafleece (utilizing otherwise unwanted upland sheep's wool) - it comes in batts so should be easier to fit than a loose fill product, I'm looking into it to use between rafters, adding insulation and making it possib...

I was going to suggest your local abbatoir - but then there's treatment of the skin to make it useable and I think that could be a convoluted chemical process ho hum

As far as I know wild carrots are smaller than cultivated types Wild Carrots Info

Martin wrote:petrifying.................
.......not the chemicals (we knew about them) - the people...............

ROFL that's just what my best-beloved said when it was on

maybe it's a pH thing? My Rosemary has to be cut back regularly to stop her assaulting the postman as she invades the path ( note to self - really must try to make something of the thinnings- wool dye? oil-of?) we're on alkaline soil here (chalk) quite thin topsoil with good drainage. Rosemary lives...

thanks for all the replies

it would be lovely to use fleece from a 'local sheep'
and I'll give that yahoo a look in and keep you posted

anyone made their own carding combs before? if so how? ive got some fleece from when dad trimmed some of our sheep. have washed but all my books (im a biblio freek lol) say it needs to be carded before spinning. I can make a drop spindle or try fix mums wheel but need to find a way to card. or is i...

By the way, it sounds great what you have done already, glad you are enjoying it. It must be really time consuming. What colours do you have? hi Annpan - thanks for the encouraging words :mrgreen: time consuming? - well i guess so but while I've been reading stuff on here I've been spinning It was ...