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  • Popperwell
    Popperwell Posts: 5,088 Forumite
    edited 26 August 2012 at 11:12PM
    Like the Avatar Dippypud...

    These reworkings of the Keep Calm posters are great!

    I will be watching...I hope...found the following:

    http://1940sexperiment.wordpress.com/100-wartime-recipes/
    "A government afraid of its citizens is a Democracy. Citizens afraid of government is tyranny!" ~Thomas Jefferson

    "Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in a while, or the light won't come in" ~ Alan Alda
  • grandma247
    grandma247 Posts: 2,412 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 1,000 Posts Combo Breaker
    If you type knitting with clothes line or rope you get some interesting stuff.
    This is one I found and another I have also seen another in the past but can't remember where just now.
  • valk_scot
    valk_scot Posts: 5,290 Forumite
    1,000 Posts Combo Breaker
    You can knit with strips of old t-shirts (cut them in a spiral) or plastic bags, though don't use the biodegradable kind! I also saw a bathmat in a very posh magazine (fancy that...) which had been knitted out of strips of towels on big pins. It cost £250.:eek:
    Val.
  • Caterina
    Caterina Posts: 5,919 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 1,000 Posts Combo Breaker I've been Money Tipped!
    Thank you DippyPud, he is a bit of eye candy no?
    Finally I'm an OAP and can travel free (in London at least!).
  • Dippypud
    Dippypud Posts: 1,927 Forumite
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    Caterina wrote: »
    Thank you DippyPud, he is a bit of eye candy no?


    Not my type...but you and Mar can fight over him...:p
    C.R.A.P.R.O.L.L.Z # 40 spanner supervisor.
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    Only after the last tree has been cut down. Only after the last fish has been caught. Only after the last river has been poisoned. Only then will you realize that money cannot be eaten.
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  • katieclampet
    katieclampet Posts: 832 Forumite
    500 Posts
    vanoonoo wrote: »
    too funny!


    katie: I have so often needed so many of the things in that little kit and to have it so compact it fits in my purse makes me so happy! scissors, various screw drivers, knife, pen, pin, light, magnifier, ruler. ok I might not be able to fight off the zed heads with it but I can sure as hell mend a pair of glasses when needed! and in the dark if necessary!

    I am going shopping later on today, and will lok for one, thanks

    katie
  • katieclampet
    katieclampet Posts: 832 Forumite
    500 Posts
    Will now look for paracord, to add to my list! Did someone say it comes in purple?:)

    katie
  • Angel_Jenny
    Angel_Jenny Posts: 3,026 Forumite
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    Jojo_the_Tightfisted wrote: »
    I'd want you on my team - I'd use you as [STRIKE]bait [/STRIKE]a diversionary tactic whilst I got away.

    :whistle:

    Boo! :p

    That might be my only practical use!
    https://instagram.com/homekeeping_heart/
  • Helen2k8
    Helen2k8 Posts: 361 Forumite
    (Slightly off topic, I think I've resurrected a very old username, it doesn't have the signature I used to have and I have certainly logged on since 2008!! Possibly a first account that I completely forgot about then re-signed up??)

    A few pages further up, I saw a list of useful skills. I'm proud to be mainly incompetent in a lot of them :D but I like trying them just for the sake of knowing how to do it. Make sense?
    I'd need someone else to do any mechanical/electrical gubbins though :o
    Like the Avatar Dippypud...

    These reworkings of the Keep Calm posters are great!

    I will be watching...I hope...found the following:

    1940sexperiment

    I had to read that web address twice... :eek::rotfl:
  • Caterina
    Caterina Posts: 5,919 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 1,000 Posts Combo Breaker I've been Money Tipped!
    Helen2k8 I am glad I am not the only one, didn't like to mention it in case people thought I had a dirty mind, you know, after PHWOARing at Peter from the Victorian Farm!

    I admit, I clicked the link though, in curiosity, and found something unexpected LOL but equally, if not more, even, interesting than what I thought!
    Finally I'm an OAP and can travel free (in London at least!).
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