101 Uses for old Wellingtons

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Post: # 29203Post Shirley »

http://www.hollowtop.com/sandals.htm

This link is for sandals made from tyres... but you could adapt the pattern to make from wellies!!
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Post: # 29208Post bazil »

thanx......i do have some good ideas randomly.......now if i had only patented that chocolate teapot......id be rich i tells ye ...rich

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Post: # 29238Post ina »

:lol: :lol:
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Post: # 29294Post Shirley »

Ina's wellies -

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Post: # 29305Post Chickpea »

A guy on our allotments gave me some spuds today. he had a bucket with holes in the bottom and he filled thw bucket full of spuds then hosed them off. The water and mud ran out of the holes and he was left with nice clean spuds (which he gave me - what a nice man!). You could use holey wellies for washing your spuds.

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Post: # 29663Post ina »

Those wellies look better on the photo than in reality!

That tattie washing facility sounds a good idea, too.
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Post: # 29664Post Shirley »

I should have photographed your 'dead welly' garden lol

I thought that they looked good as they were!
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Post: # 29665Post ina »

Oh dear, dead wellie garden... Sounds awful, but you are right. Time to do something about them! One pair will soon be reduced to slip ons for the garden. I think sandals might be a bit of a problem, what with steel toecaps... :mrgreen:
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Post: # 29667Post Shirley »

safety sandals LOL :mrgreen:
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Post: # 29702Post bazil »

aha...neeps




do these mean turnips....cos i call swedes turnips....i dont know wot thoses silly little things are..

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Post: # 29713Post ina »

Bazil - how long have you lived in Scotland? Never eaten tatties and neeps :shock: ?

Yes, they are swedes - or Swedish turnips, to give them their full name.
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Post: # 29752Post bazil »

i always called swedes turnuips my dad said something about them being left out all winter to get sweet

i love neeps an tatties ...specially with haggis....it one of those combination things that really work bit of neep bit of tattie bit of haggis all on the one fork...then placed carefully in the mouth...it well good

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Post: # 29753Post Shirley »

Right... that's it.... I'm HUNGRY!!! I fancy haggis neeps and tatties but haven't got ANY of those three in the house.

Pasta Pah!
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Post: # 29828Post bazil »

hmmmm........neep an tatty stuffed pasta(with hagis stuffed also???)

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Post: # 29847Post Martin »

from last year's Glasto!
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http://solarwind.org.uk - a small company in Sussex sourcing, supplying, and fitting alternative energy products.
Amateurs encouraged - very keen prices and friendly helpful service!

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