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Snapdragon Iam curious as to where you bought a Babe wheel? I am waiting for a drop spindle and some wool to arrive,I may want to progress to wheel in the future if I get the hang of spindle spinning. It would be great to see pictures of your homemde spindles.i decided to buy my first but may want t...

The people who fitted ours ran the pipe outside and after it froze up and stopped working ,we lagged the pipe and it seems to ok now.

Love it,I make these too also hats .Next plan is to try simple mittens.

Pity these lovely stoves are no longer made,I would love one.They are a good size for use on boats allthough too big for a back cabin[traditional 8ft cabin at the back of old canal boats]

Brick paths are very ish and you can collect bricks over a period of time and build as materials allow.Im not above coming home with a few stray bricks and last boat trip saw me land back with half a paving slab.Ive a good collection of bricks and block pavers stashed for summer use and will ad to t...

As a society we need to get real and stop getting in a frenzy over purely natural things.I chose to be child free but would prefer to be where a contented baby is quietly feeding as nature intended rather than cope with an unhappy screamer.

I too have an ordinary sort of bike made out of 2,one from next door supplied a nice ladies frame and one Trev the Train found in a skip supplied all the works.I too am a Sturmey Archer fan,never got used to derailliers

Ive got this book,came from the wonderfull Black Country Living Museum.Bout time I tried some of the recipes as we do a lot of cooking on the coal range on the boat.

better weather

Chillies,we can buy some nice ones at the Yum Yum oriental food shop in the middle of Worcester.This is a wonderfull shop full of goodies. Yes I have saved seeds from some of them but wont know till next year if they grow or not.Will report back. Nickys nursery sells chilli seeds including the incen...

Un wanted christmas pressies can be made to dissapear very easily,local charity shops or raffle prizes for local charities.
43 anything at all other than a bar of chocolate [not too big]

I usually try to keep my jeans patched because I was bitten by a nasty insect through a gaping hole in the leg of my jeans
I favour wearing them until total rag stage as I have a great talent for getting muddy and slimy and wet

I cut some into strips to make into a rag rug

I have some white seeded ones White Lady and I have left some pods on one plant to mature so I can save seed.I grew way too many this year so will only grow about 7 plants next year.Will have loads of seeds to swap.

A thing that looks like Odsox pottywatsits grew on what I expected to be a Big Max pumpkin from a lidl packet of seeds.How am I supposed to cook and eat these things.The pumpkins are just for Halloween but I expect to eat the flesh somehow.They are one of my experiments in the never grown it before ...