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Possession

JKJ wrote: »

Sorry to be a pest but how do I upload my own pictures to pinterest?

If it's a website, you copy the URL of the site and in your account on Pinterest you click Add +, and follow instructions. To add your own photo, click 'Upload a Pin'.

GreyQueen

D&DD wrote: »

WCS good to see you

Pops I was going to suggest maybe a pet for company but just saw your post and also thinking about it, it'd cost you for kennels/petsitters if you have to go into hospital etc what a shame

Still running round here like a headless chicken

GQ hope you managed to get a good day in at the lottie our weathers been pleasant if a little nippy here today

well, the kitchen beckons hope all are well and everyone has a great day XXX

:) Got rained off soon after arriving, sadly, but did a few bits inside the shed and fetched some of the potatoes down for safe-keeping.

I have a trick which I stole years ago from a gardening magazine in the GP's waiting room which is pleasingly-devious and which I will share in case it does someone else a turn.

Do you have an apex-roofed shed? And do you have long sticklike things to store in it which are always falling over and getting in your way? Help is at hand. For a standard 6 x 8 apex wooden shed, get yourself 4 very large cuphooks (pence from hardware store) and 2 bicycle inner tubes (ask at the bike shop if you haven't got any laying around).

Screw one cuphook into each roof timber about a foot down from the top of the roof. Hang the inner tube from them, doubled up to form a sling. Slot pea sticks/ bean canes/ whatever into the slings and keep them above your head and out of your way. Simples.

RosiePuddingPaws wrote: »

You used to be able to buy a packet of something that would make nets white again. I don't remember now what it is called (haven't had nets for a while). It came in a small box, say 3" x 4" (from T£sco or wherever) with two sachets in it. You then simply soak your nets with a sachet (from hazy memory!). Might be worth a quick look through the cleaning section of the supermarket.

Incidentally Mar, having previously put a hex on your gas bottle, if you have a car watch out! You may find your near side back tyre with a puncture in the very near future - although I hope not!

RPP

There is/ or was a product to lighten nets called GloWhite. I think it was made by the Dylon dye people.

Mar, nets will often look greyed if they've picked up dust. They do it so slowly and gradually you don't notice. I'd just chuck them thru the washer on 40 to see if that shifts it before getting into any products or treatments.

I chuck my nets thru a few times a year. They don't really look dirty until you put them back again and suddenly they're all bright white and glowing. I hate the blasted things but with the layout of this flat, they're pretty necessary as people have legit business to be just the other side of my windows and it would be like living in a goldfish bowl.

I've just had a revelation tonight; barring a few errors I am actually touch-typing whoo whoo!:D It's great and I'm hoping I can keep it up.

Byatt

greenbee wrote: »

Byatt - how about asking your landlord for the instructions for your wood burner? Or at least finding out make and model so you can look them up!

Thanks Greenbee, a good idea, will do.

2tonsils

I have just discovered Pinterest. I was looking for ideas for mixing and matching the clothes I already have (in the interest of saving money and keeping me out of the shops). I looked up clothes capsules on there and got loads of ideas for mixing and matching autumn /winter outfits with clothes I already have. That led me to pins on decluttering the wardrobe and favourite combinations for work/events etc.

Its really good for ideas. It even spurred me on to packing away my summer clothes and bringing my winter ones out of storage. It saved me a lot of money as once I had sorted them I realised I needed to buy very little in the way of clothes to get me through the winter months. Any left over clothes and footwear are going to be donated to the villagers who need them more than I do.

I now have a colour co ordinated wardrobe and cupboard drawers with clothes in them that can be made into umpteen outfits for any event that might crop up, so well pleased. No clothes will go unworn from my wardrobe this year!

Blimey, we have now had a full two hours with no rain or thunder...is it going to last the night I asked myself. The same forecast for tomorrow but with hot Southerly winds up to force seven..so not only will it be blowing torrential rain at us...it will be full of red dust from North Africa!!!

We went to visit a friend today and he had fitted a gorgeous built in black metal fireplace with glass doors, much more energy efficient...and it was half the price we had been quoted before for one...so off to ask about one for our house tomorrow. We have a big open stone fire and it wastes so much heat up the chimney. It would make the downstairs much warmer as we will be using the fire instead of the heating oil which is currently 1.54 a litre..

kidcat

Have joined pinterest and am now logged in but I dont get it - how do I get to see the actual recipe rather than just the picture?

Byatt well done, am so jealous I really would love a woodburner. OH has agreed that if I can save up and make the changes needed to the dining room (including new TV for wall) then I can go ahead and get one, I figure its going to take some saving though.

Possession

kidcat wrote: »

Have joined pinterest and am now logged in but I dont get it - how do I get to see the actual recipe rather than just the picture?

Byatt well done, am so jealous I really would love a woodburner. OH has agreed that if I can save up and make the changes needed to the dining room (including new TV for wall) then I can go ahead and get one, I figure its going to take some saving though.

At the bottom of the pic there is a little grey box with a website address - click on this.

kidcat

Possession wrote: »

At the bottom of the pic there is a little grey box with a website address - click on this.

Thank you, am picking up loads of Christmas ideas, now if I can just get organised

D&DD

GQ that tip'll come in very handy for the greenhouse thanks I have those eye things to go in the apex and its a high roofed one so can use the space to store my pepper canes which have a life of their own!

Byatt

Isn't the food amazing on Pinterest!!

kidcat

Byatt wrote: »

Isn't the food amazing on Pinterest!!

I think I found a new obsession. Although it has come at a good time as we are starting a new parent support group for parents of ASD kids, we have been offered a stall at DD6 Christmas market which would really help us to raise funds, I have been desperately trying to come up with things I can sell and have now found loads.