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I hope I don't reopen a can of worms... for the last 2 years I've had "ethical" holidays - I use quotes because I'm not sure how ethical they actually were - however, my intentions were good. I went to Kenya and Guyana with a charity to help build homes - the charity (Habitat For Humaity) ...

Have you thought about the train? After Eurostar to Paris there are a few that go from there to cities in Spain.

I wonder if Makro sell these?

Has anyone said "toilet cleaner" yet? Because I only flush once or twice a day, and with rainwater, and the area is hardwater, there was a nasty dark mark in the bowl and around the "tide mark". However hard I scrubbed it the stain wouldn't budge. Yesterday I poured half a litre ...

I only just managed to keep my pressie until Christmas morning - if you count just past midnight on Christmas eve!

Thank you Sish Santa for my beautiful daisy necklace!

28 : Give gifts that help (force) others to look after the environment i.e. wind up radio, solar battery recharger, compost heap , etc. :shock: [slight tangent]well if people can take them when they move (they do!) why not :mrgreen: [/slight tangent] 33. use the Christmas cards you receive as decor...

Great idea Andy... so good in fact that there is a group doing it already...
http://www.liftshare.org/

Santa visited yesterday......

another aspect of Fair Trade beyond fair pay is the one of health and safety at work - we tend to take it for granted that we won't be exposed at work in the UK to bare electrical flexes, unsafe practises (such as pouring molten metal into molds which are between bare feet), poor lighting, long hour...

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I'm so glad that I spotted the fuzz in the oil before wrapping the bottles up - they are pretend cut glass so I had to peer in.

Thanks for all your comments.....
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Funkiepixie - I never knew that scary garlic fact - oo er. I thought garlic was generally a friendly food.
The chilli wasn't dried out either, so anotehr time I'll try both dried garlic & dried chilli too.
Thanks!

Hmm - thanks Shiney for the idea but I don't think so - it looks too fluffy for that.

Waitrose grows on me more & more. Inside the store that I use there is a bin for used carrier bags and today I got talking to one of the managers about it - apparently it gets taken to a place where they are recycled into carrier bags or things like park benches (or even the container for plasti...

Back in the summer at the village fete I found 2 interesting bottles that I thought I'd fill will olive oil, a chilli, garlic & rosemary - and give them at Christmas to friends who like that sort of thing. Sadly when I looked at them today something (white & furry) is growing around the rose...

I wonder.... shall I send Santa's pressie to my "victim" now and torment them with something waiting to be unwrapped.... or shall I rely on my apalling memory to get it posted in time for Christmas