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I've been a bit of a prat and dropped the reverse threaded bolt from my Ryobi petrol strimmer line holder and, despite a Met Police style fingertip search of the grass, have failed to find it!!! I've tried searching the web and scoured all our local DIY style stores but all to no avail. Any suggesti...

We had an access problem and couldn't set traps in the required area so, with a great deal of scepticism, we bought a sonic rat/mouse repeller. We have it positioned under the area of the ceiling where the night time scratching was most prevalent and it has appeared to work!! A little more pricey th...

Yep! You're right, pure gook of the gobbledy kind!!

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Hi, Is there anyone else like me? I find it difficult enough trying to get the animal husbandry and the gardening right! I find it much more difficult to wrestle with this pc and all its intricacies! So how does one go about uploading a picture into one of these 'ere forum thingies please? Have trie...

Thanks for all the possible solutions, in the end it was down to an accidental discovery of leaving the bottles submerged in the steriliser liquid for quite a few days. I did this because as always I was distracted elsewhere! When I got down to it, most of the stuck on stuff just fell off with a wip...

I'm making some home brew and have managed to buy a good few old brasserie style bottles (the ones with the ceramic flip tops). They must have been sat in someones barn for a good few years as the rubber washers have all perished and welded themselves to the bottles and the tops! Have been sat scrap...

I have an abundance of Jerusalem Artichokes, pumpkins and marrows, can these be fed to sheep?

My very kind neighbour has given me two types of peach stones and I would love to grow them espalier fashion. If possible I would like some useful tips on planting the stones, any actions one would take other than bunging them straight in the soil?

Breadmaking machines. just got one secondhand and all the recipes seem to recommend the use of powdered milk in the mix. Can anyone shed any light as to why and, also, if it's really necessary? Have made bread the manual way and have never used dried milk.