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cooker hood filter cleaning?
Hi folks... Anyone got a tip to cleaning my cooker hood filters please? You know the removable metal/plastic grill type bits that cover up the actualy filter sheet? They are embarrasingly manky.:o
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Go Groopie Offer
Hi everyone, I couldn't find a relevant board to post this on so I decided to post on here as you all seem so friendly :) Please move if I have posted in the wrong place. I have seen an offer on Go Groopie for a pearl set for £15 (rrp £182). This offer seems too good to be true. Has anyone bought anything from go groopie…
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Old style daily thread Thursday 16th January
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 welcome, please do come in, put your feet…
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Wellies salvage please!
Dh left his muddy wellies outside, and they were promptly forgotten for 18 months :o now they're moldy looking inside, quite badly. Can they be saved, and if so, how?
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Sinking Bread
I've been given an old bread maker and I've been trying out loads of different loaves and recipes. All of my white bread turns out great but I prefer wholemeal. Every time I make a wholemeal loaf it sinks, what could I be doing wrong? It starts off fine, it rises and looks like it's baking properly, then about 45 mins…
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End of Tenancy Cleaning
Hi all, I will be moving soon, and staring to think about getting the place sorted. In the agreement it says that we need to have the place professionally cleaned. Any one know if we HAVE to do this, or can we just do a really, really good clean ourselves? It's laminate flooring throughout, and then 1 area rug. The rug…
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Old style thread 15th January
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 welcome, please do come in, put your feet…
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Oxtail soup in the slow cooker?
Has anyone got a recipe for this? OH loves the tinned variety but I would like to have a go at making it. I had a look in the recipe collection but unless I missed it I couldn't see a recipe there. Thank you.
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am needing organising with my shopping
I am throwing away far too much food that has gone past its best. the main reason being that once it has been bought and all put away I forget I have it until its green or some other awful colour. i spend a lot of my time confined to my bed where I order my shopping online, so easy to keep a track of but my son also gets a…
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Need help with pasta sauce please
Don't know if anyone remembers but last year M***sons used to sell a fresh White Wine Sauce (found in the chiller next to the Neopolitan pasta sauce) but they no longer stock it :cry: So I was just wondering if anyone has a recipe I could use for my chicken pasta as it was a firm favourite with my lot! I basically just…
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How often to use a dehumidifier?
After a roof leak over Christmas I have finally given in to my desires and bought a dehumidifier. We have ocassional mould problems in one small corner of a bedroom wall and get quite a lot of condensation in some rooms despite airing rooms every day and having double glazing and wall insulation. We are not sealed up tight…
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Stretching a jar of sauce
Sometimes I like to stretch a jar of sauce for two different meals, I will use a couple of spoons of tomato pasta sauce to go on top of HM pizza and then the next day use the rest of the jar on pasta. With curry sauce a couple of spoons can be mixed with veg for a pasty filling, and the next day the rest of the jar goes…
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Old style daily thread Tuesday 14th January
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 welcome, please do come in, put your feet…
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OS Singlies - We Do It Our Way!
Hi, Everyone Here is the bright new shiny and hopeful OS Singlies thread :beer:. EVERYONE, partnered or single is very welcome on this thread...let's face it, most of us have been single/partnered/single etc etc and we all have lots of good old OS experience to bring to the thread. For those who don't know, this new thread…
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Family Food budgets
Hello! I have been following this page along with the debt-free wannabe page for a good while and learnt lots of helpful things. I am looking for a bit of advice in tweaking our budgets. I have a good job and work three days, my husband previously worked fulltime and was made redundant in October. He is looking for work…
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Freezing filo pastry
I would like to make a couple of recipes today using filo pastry but can't seem to find out whether I can freeze the items before or after I cook them and how best to defrost them so I thought I'd ask the wise people on here! I want to make a veggie version of Jamie's lamb pastillas that he did on his money saving…
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Old Style Monday 13th Jan.
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 welcome, please do come in, put your feet…
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Mould vs. Cold - stopping black mould in an old property
I live in a poorly-ventilated old tenement which has a huge mould problem on the inside of the external walls. I have to de-mould the walls from the floor to about a metre up every 6 months using HG mould spray. I rent so I can't do anything about the structure of the building. Does anyone have any tips on reducing the…
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Quick question.
I have just bought a coat off ebay.i was very pleased when it arrived the only thing was that there was a smell of perfume on it.despite it saying dry clean only I put it in the washing machine and it washed really well.the coat has a detachable fur coller though which I thought shouldn't go in the machine.this still…
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Weekly Flylady Thread 13th January 2014
Welcome to the flylady thread no invitation needed just jump in and start posting If you need help getting your house in order, dealing with your clutter and getting the cleaning done then you're in the right place. Plan for this week is to concentrate on one bedroom starting with decluttering and tidying and moving on to…
