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Cooking Inspiration Needed!
Hi I desperately need a little inspiration to get me through the next week before my new cooker arrives-we have been without one for 3 months and it should be here next week. I have a slow cooker, microwave, steamer and a mini oven and I mean mini-you can get 6 fish fingers in it lol Please give me some basic recipes with…
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Carpet Moths
anyone have ideas on how to get rid of them TIA
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OS Tuesday 10th July 2012
Hi, this is the Daily Thread for 10th July. This is an “over the garden fence” type thread where we chat about everything Old Style and maybe a little bit more. It’s a great, inspiring and motivating thread we start each day to discuss what Old Style things we’re going to do today or what we’ve achieved already. Everyone’s…
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Fancy Dress...
I am attending a fancy dress event in about a month. I have no idea what to go as!! Does anyone have any ideas? I am really not very creative so making something that requires more than very basic sewing etc will be difficult, although I am willing to give it a go (now might be the time to learn!) I had thought of a movie…
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Fridge Freezer/Freezer Problems :(
Hi everyone I hope you can help me. I have two problems at the moment. The first one is that the frost free freezer in our garage has had the warning light on and has been a bit flaky for a couple of days. There's quite a bit of food in there, mostly faggots, frozen veg and quorn mince (no chicken or other things that…
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OS Monday 9th July Daily
Hi, this is the Daily Thread for 9th July. This is an “over the garden fence” type thread where we chat about everything Old Style and maybe a little bit more. It’s a great, inspiring and motivating thread we start each day to discuss what Old Style things we’re going to do today or what we’ve achieved already. Everyone’s…
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Weekly Flylady Thread 9th July 2012
Welcome to the weekly Flylady thread. If you need help organising your week or getting motivated when it comes to housework then come and join us. There are 3 levels per day with Level 1 being very basic, level 2 in the middle, up to 3 which is more advanced and time consuming. Feel free to mix and match to suit your own…
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How do you keep up your Old Style motivation?
At the start it would be exciting - all the new things to learn and do - but after a while would it get to feel routine and chore-like? How do you keep up the motivation to keep being old style? It saves money and is quite satisfying to feel self sufficient even in a little way but it is more hard work! I am watching Tales…
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OS Daily Sunday 8th July
Hi, this is the Daily Thread for 8th July. This is an “over the garden fence” type thread where we chat about everything Old Style and maybe a little bit more. It’s a great, inspiring and motivating thread we start each day to discuss what Old Style things we’re going to do today or what we’ve achieved already. Everyone’s…
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Cleaning the outpipe of a dishwasher
Would it be feasible to use a dose of caustic soda (as per mix instructions) inside a dishwasher to clean it AND more importantly clean out the waste pipe? It is plumbed in, in such a way that I can't just unhook the pipe and have a poke about to clean it. I know I can use vinegar and soda crystals but I thought the…
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Growing your own epsom salts
I have just seen a couple of articles on the net about growing your own crystals. Has anyone ever done this and what methods did you use?
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Breadmaker Recipe help
Hello all We are now the proud owners of a breadmaker. It's a Logik bought from Currys for £34.99 and it's pretty darn good! :T We made our first loaf last night and even though I had to stop it after it had mixed and kneaded because I didn't put the pan in properly (at one stage I thought it was going to bounce out the…
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Catering for 21st birthday
Hi Can any of you lovely people help me please? My daughter has organised her own 21st birthday party and I would very much like to do the food. The guests will be mostly around her age and it needs to soak up some booze before they go clubbing!!! I want to keep it simple but really just don't know where to begin. There…
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OS Daily Saturday 7th July 2012
Hi, this is the Daily Thread for 7th July. This is an “over the garden fence” type thread where we chat about everything Old Style and maybe a little bit more. It’s a great, inspiring and motivating thread we start each day to discuss what Old Style things we’re going to do today or what we’ve achieved already. Everyone’s…
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make do and mend for tougher times
As the previous thread hit 10 000 posts and growing we've decided to start a new one. Welcome to 'make do and mend as things get an awful lot tougher' a name suggested by preparedathome :) Pink-winged... do your stuff :D
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Need help catering for a party
It is my DD's third birthday in a couple of weeks. Previous years we've just had cake and drinks, but this year for various reasons the party is being held over lunchtime, which means I need to cater. We are having it at home (please let it be dry!) and I'd rather do food prep the day before and just maybe heat a few…
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Friday 6th July OS Daily
Hi, this is the Daily Thread for 6th July. This is an “over the garden fence” type thread where we chat about everything Old Style and maybe a little bit more. It’s a great, inspiring and motivating thread we start each day to discuss what Old Style things we’re going to do today or what we’ve achieved already. Everyone’s…
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Mealplans WB 8 July
Hello all, Brokety broke broke here so eager to get meal planning :) Last weeks plan went ok, but not perfect as I had one eve out with colleagues and then last night had a BBQ for 4th July so had to make a big dish to share. OH is leaving for a work trip on Sunday so will be cooking just for me and roommie for a bit This…
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Keeping linen looking like new
I have bought a lovely 100% linen top to wear through this summer. I have worn it many times and now really have to wash it. It has some sort of finish in it which keeps it from crumpling too badly, and makes it look just a bit shiny - nice. I could have it cleaned which I think would keep that finish but that's far too…
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O/S Daily Thread Thursday 5th July
Hi, this is the Daily Thread for 3rd July. This is an “over the garden fence” type thread where we chat about everything Old Style and maybe a little bit more. It’s a great, inspiring and motivating thread we start each day to discuss what Old Style things we’re going to do today or what we’ve achieved already. Everyone’s…
