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O/S Daily Tuesday 31 August 2021
O/S Daily Tuesday 31 August 2021 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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Old Style Daily Monday 30 August 2021
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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Weekly Flylady Thread 30th August 2021
Welcome to the weekly Flylady Thread. What is FLYLADY? Well, it's our version of the US flylady idea - but we work on the principle that housework is not fun, it's boring, can be time-consuming, is often thankless but, unfortunately, necessary. It's here on Old Style to provide the support we all need and to make the whole…
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OS Daily Sunday 29th August
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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Old Style Daily Saturday 28 August 2021
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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Can I make chutney with these ingredients?
I have about 500g of runner beans, 500g tomatoes, some red onions and lots of spices. I was hoping to make some chutney but on searching recipes I am confused about what vinegar to use, some say cider vineger so I had bought a 350ml bottle, and I have some white wine vinegar, and also clear distilled malt. I don't have…
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O/S Daily Friday 27 August 2021
O/S Daily Friday 27 August 2021 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 Thursday 26 August 2021
O/S Daily Thursday 26 August 2021 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 Wednesday 25 August 2021
O/S Daily Wednesday 25 August 2021 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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Smelly clothes
I am having an issue with smelly clothes, I either dry them on the washing line or over the airer but they smell musty and I think it could be my washer. I put my empty washer on a hot wash once a month but is there anything else I could do?
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Ironing without an iron?
MSE Ant likes ironing, he tells me. The other day he was chatting about this hobby with some of our colleagues and together they came up with several ways of 'ironing' clothes without a traditional iron. The list goes like this: * Hang clothes in a steamy bathroom after/during a shower * Use hair straighteners * On a hot…
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O/S Daily Tuesday 24 August 2021
O/S Daily Tuesday 24 August 2021 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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Cleaning 10ft above ground pool.
Im packing to move and I am packing up the kids 10ft pool. We drained it down a week (ish) ago and I want to store it for the winter till and it survive !!! What's best for cleaning it? Obs its got to dry properly etc but will dizzy and bleach do ? Its a beautiful shade of green slime atm :D Its been washed out before with…
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September 2021 Grocery Challenge
Hi everyone, Welcome to the ninth Grocery Challenge of 2021! If your new month starts early feel free to join this thread, or if you're still working on your August Budget then keep on posting in the August Challenge. As always this challenge is to reduce your own grocery budget to levels that you will be pleased with, not…
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O/S Daily Monday 23 August 2021
O/S Daily Monday 23 August 2021 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 23rd August 2021
What is FLYLADY? Well,
it's our version of the US flylady idea - but we work on the principle that
housework is not fun, it's boring, can be time-consuming, is often thankless
but, unfortunately, necessary. It's here on Old Style to provide the support we
all need and to make the whole task easier and quicker. We also…
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Soda bread
I think that I may have finally got the hang of soda bread. The trick seems to be to bake it longer and hotter than it could possibly need. Then leave it in the oven for another 5-10 minutes. :)
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Old Style Daily Sunday 22 August 2021
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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Re-purposing wooden ready meal trays
I have a few, in various sizes, of the Charlie Bigham wooden trays that hold their ready mealse.g.. The following is off the website.What do you do with Charlie Bigham wooden trays?Can you recycle our packaging? Our cardboard sleeves and plastic film are both recyclable. Our wooden trays are suitable for the garden waste…
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Old Style Daily Saturday 21 August 2021
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…