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gross toilet ! How to get rid of limescale
Our toilet has developed what looks like limescale in the bottom of it that I can't shift. The only way I can slightly remove it is by scraping it with a knife!!! But i'm worried about leaving scrape marks on the porcelain. Does anyone know of any homemade concoctions that will !!!! the darn stuff? I've tried the really…
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Fruit loaf recipe
Following on from my succesful carrot cake that I made last week, I've now had a request from my partner for a fruit cake. Has anyone got a recipe for a fruit loaf? I want to make quite a rich fruit cake (not one that needs to be spread with butter) and I want to make it in a loaf tin. Any suggestions, much appreciated. :)
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caterpillers on my cabbages ? any ideas?
caterpillers on my cabages ?? please help.. :mad: Today i've got loads of tiny caterpillers and white fly things on my cabbages munching away RIGHT NOW !!!!! They weren't there yesterday and when i have come home from work today there are hundreds what can i do apart from kicking their heads in one by one ? any advice…
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Oops! I've fallen off the OS wagon.....
The last couple of months have been really tough for me and I've fallen off the OS wagon big time. I haven't made a packed lunch in ages, I've been buying convenience food from the supermarket, randomly buying things to cheer myself up and not planning my supermarket purchases. I could go on but I think you get the…
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Oh Dear - help much appreciated!
my boyfriend has a lovely silk tie, which has sentimental value as it was bought by his parents as a gift to celebrate getting his first graduate job. Yesterday he grabbed a bunch of things from the linen basket, not realising the tie was hidden amongst them, and it has come out of the washer ruined. The foam that makes it…
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Stain removal
Hope someone out there can help me. Daughter has got fake tan stains all over a lovely white cotton top (not spilled on it but rubbed off her skin). Washed as normal before I noticed stains and then soaked in biological washing powder but still as bad. Any advice greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance.
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Gooseberry Fool
Good morning everyone, I can't believe I'm first on line today (not counting the late night stop ups :) ) I made four tumblers of gooseberry fool yesterday, had a litlle bit of cream left so poured a small amount on top as I served so that I had to eat the fool through the cream. Oh wow. Yum yum. ALL gone What I don't know…
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Pistachio shells
Hi everyone After giving up smoking a couple of months ago I took to eating Pistachio nuts like they are going out of fashion!!! Just a thought but has anyone any thoughts on uses for the shells - its seems a real waste to just chuck them. Thanks nels xx
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Can you make HM Buttermilk?
Hiya to all you peeps! I wanna do some baking tonight but need one vital ingedient: Buttermilk. Anybody know if it is possible to make HM Buttermilk? As i live in central London i dont really fancied trotting around in every little tesco metro's and sainsbury's local to find one. Forgot to oder it online at tesco.
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Scum around sink
I have ceramic sinks and no matter how hard or often I clean them I always seem to get a thick greasy white scum around them. Does anyone know of a good way to get rid of it?
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AOL keeps reconnecting
Hi all I am making enquiries on behalf of my friend who is, like me, on AOL broadband. He has the same modem as me, BT Voyager 105 and has intermittent problems with having the modem keeping to re-connect quite often. I do have the occassional problem as such but assume that's par for the course these days. He came round…
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July Grocery Challenge
Good morning all. :) I just realised that nobody has written about their July grocery challenge yet even though some people will have started theirs already due to the strange way that some pay days work out. Anyway, it's given me the chance to get a word in first (a rare event these days :) ) and add that I'll track back,…
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WWII Rations
Just been looking around as I would find it very interesting to see if any of us could actually make World War 2 rations stretch out, with all the temptation of there actually being food in the shops to buy if you see what I mean. Apparently this is what the list was Butter: 50g (2oz) Bacon and ham: 100g (4oz) Margarine:…
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help with stain removal
how does one get sheep doo da from a pair of cotton/nylon trousers? not mine i hasten to ask.they've been washed twice in the washer but the stain is still there.
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What to do with a glut of strawberries?
My strawberry bed has gone berserk this year...only in my second week of picking and I'm getting sick of them already and there is a crop of wild strawberries ripening fast too! Got sooo many I just don't know what to do with them all. 2 x bucketsful today! Even my neighbours are greeting them with a resigned 'oh…
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Mini compost heap for the single household
I want to start composting stuff but I only produce a small amount of kitchen waste and I don't need a lot of compost, just enough for pot plants really. I've searched through the archives and one poster suggested just using a plastic bag, but this sounds a bit dodgy to me. Does anybody know of a product or method to just…
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Home made wine
Is it easy and cheap to make? Remember a friend of my mum`s a jamacian lady making pea pod wine and potato skin wine. Any ideas?
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Doily patterns
What? They ask? A bloke wanting doily patterns? Nah, not me - I've got thousands of them! :) I intend having friends visit when my kitchen is all done and have pretty much decided on a HM (organic box scheme) fruit fool for desert and thought I'd have some nice paper doilies to sit them on. AHA! I thought - I'll google for…
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What can I do with Mint?
I've got lots of mint in the garden and I make mint sauce by chopping it up finely with granulated sugar and then putting some vinegar and a drop of hot water with it to serve with lamb. I just make enough to use and I was wondering how to make it to keep throughout the year and if there were any other wonderful things we…
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Curry sauce recipe.
A recipe was posted recently for a basic curry sauce,it listed all the ingredients and said it took a bit of time to prepare but was worth it. For the life of me i cant find it now. Anyone help.
