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O/S Daily Friday 12 February 2016
O/S Daily Friday 12 February 2016 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,…
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Getting through the washing...
:o This is what my life has become...getting advice on washing haha! We are a very busy household and I'm struggling to keep on top of things, not just the washing itself...in fact that's the easy bit, but the drying/putting away/organising/actually getting though it. Do you have several wash baskets? Do you have 'laundry…
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Please help - newbie - advice on hospital parking fine
Hi everybody I am new to the forum so please go easy on me! I am a health care worker. I was asked to drop off a sample (for me) to the hospital because I have a chronic health condition and was asked to by the specialists. I parked in the staff drop off because I am staff and was dropping something off. When I got to the…
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Diabetes and high blood pressure diet help please
I'm NOT asking for medical advice, but can anyone point me in the right direction to a reliable site, or sites, that can recommend foods to eat that will help with both Type 2 diabetes and high blood pressure? I have been googling for a while but can't find anything specific. So far I have been using the low carb diet to…
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O/S Daily Thursday 11 February 2016
O/S Daily Thursday 11 February 2016 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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Selling Gold with Stones Inset
Hi, My mum has recently found her engagement ring. Where is the best place to take a ring with diamonds and other stones in it please? Many thanks Darren
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Cleaning Ceramic Hob
Hi all, Looking for a bit of advice - I have a ceramic hob, less than 2 years old and one of the light grey rings on top has a black mark on it that looks like it's a stain or that it's rubbed away. I don't know if it could have rubbed away? I've tried HobBrite even with a HobBrite scraper and none of that is working.…
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O/S Daily Wednesday 10 February 2016
O/S Daily Wednesday 10 February 2016 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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Removing tacky glue from a plastic bottle
Hi all, I'm hoping someone can help me I have lots of little plastic bottles they are the type of toiletries bottles you get complementary in hotel bathrooms I've tried to remove the labels but they leave tacky glue residue on the plastic. Can anyone recommend a way of getting this off without scratching the plastic? I'd…
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What's it worth to you....?
I have the opportunity to fulfil a lifelong ambition (experience) next year. My material needs around the home are largely met - my purchases are wants rather than needs - and enjoy experiences much more than material things. Why am I thinking twice? Well, for this week away, it will cost £8,000 at least. My frame of…
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Middle aged grumps
Just catching up on today's episode of "You and Yours" in the background. It seems that the new danger zone for misery is middle age - above 40! Although I fit that age bracket, I don't consider myself to be middle aged but I have been through a v miserable spell. My free time during last few weeks are been spent…
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Kitchen Decoration
I am thinking of decorating my kitchen later in the year as it is (apparently - according to an estate agent and members of my family) dated. I am not inclined to go down the route of ripping the entire kitchen out and starting again as I know this can cost thousands, so what I was planning on doing was painting the walls…
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O/S Daily Tuesday 9 February 2016
O/S Daily Tuesday 9 February 2016 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,…
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O/S Daily Monday 8 February 2016
O/S Daily Monday 8 February 2016 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,…
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Weekly Flylady Thread 8th February 2016
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. Thank you Natty for last weeks thread and peaceful days for Bossy Every room comes back around next week so please don’t stress about catching up These lists are only…
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Help organising myself
Tomorrow will be the start of my second week at my new job. I'm out the house from 7am till between 5/6 (this is occasionally different but by only half an hour ish), my partner is out of the house 11am - 8pm. We have a 9 month old daughter aswell. We aren't very good at organising ourselves, when I'm in a routine I'm fine…
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Removing mould spots from a sports bag
Hi, I have an old cycling backpack that I have obviously not dried properly and kept it in the garage. I has now got small mould spots which I cant seem to remove, a picture of the mould is here: https:// goo.gl/qED4L3 (If you copy the url into your browser just need to remove the spaces after the //) Any advice would be…
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Meal Plan WB 07/02/16
Hello everyone, newbie and hope I've done this right! Couldn't remember if you started it on a Sunday or Monday so I just used Sunday as a start because that's what I do here :D Sunday- Roast chicken, Yorkshire puds, mashed potato, veg and gravy Mon- Cold chicken, bacon wrapped new potatoes, veg Tue- Spaghetti Bol and…
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Meal inspiration please!
Its meal planning/food shopping day for the week ahead. I already have the food listed below - what would you make with this lot? Cupboard Passata Chopped tomatoes Panko breadcrumbs Risotto rice Lasagne sheets Tin condensed mushroom soup ½ pack red lentils Several jars chutney Fridge Large tomato Fennel bulb Spring onions…
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O/S Daily Sunday 7 February 2016
O/S Daily Sunday 7 February 2016 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,…
