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Charis

EagerLearner wrote: »

I also got borax from Tesco - no real idea of what to do with it now I have it...

all sorts of cleaning tasks, an ingredient of some home made laundry powders and even supposed to get rid of ants indoors.

http://www.dri-pak.co.uk/borax.html
http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.html?t=207306

I would dearly love to get some of those wire racks that you can put in a kitchen cupboard, to allow more storage? ie: 2 levels instead of one - any ideas? I don't know what to call them to enable me to search online...

this one is cheap and stackable
http://www.aplaceforeverything.co.uk/shop/index.php?page=478&offset=&ret=41&searched=wine+rack

HTH

2cats1kid

Hi Ceridwen, welcome back and glad you had a good time. Will check out your blog in due course in case you have added stuff about your course.

My foraging yesterday (place I'd not been before) yielded very little until I found a bush with lots of sloes on! I'd found blackthorn already, but very little fruit (some with none at all) so I was pretty happy to see some sloes at last.

EagerLearner

Charis wrote: »

all sorts of cleaning tasks, an ingredient of some home made laundry powders and even supposed to get rid of ants indoors.

http://www.dri-pak.co.uk/borax.html
http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.html?t=207306



this one is cheap and stackable
http://www.aplaceforeverything.co.uk/shop/index.php?page=478&offset=&ret=41&searched=wine+rack

HTH

Hi C thanks for the info on Borax - what I meant was a wire rack for tins, cups, plates etc....

Ellidee

EagerLearner Ikea do something that might be what you are looking for. It's called VARIERA, you could check online. HTH

EagerLearner

Thanks just found the IKEA stuff - shame they don't deliver, we have no car... I think I will have to get something from Argos... www.aplaceforeverything.co.uk have bits but then there's a delivery charge...

2cats1kid

Do you mean this sort of thing?
http://www.lakeland.co.uk/step-it-up/F/C/organising/C/organising-organise-your-kitchen/product/4806

Ellidee

EagerLearner wrote: »

Thanks just found the IKEA stuff - shame they don't deliver, we have no car... I think I will have to get something from Argos... www.aplaceforeverything.co.uk have bits but then there's a delivery charge...

Sorry EL I had a quick look at Ikea online and the the shelf thingy that I have got isn't there now. I bought two some time ago and one still in the packet. If you would like it pm your address`and it's yours. Don't want anything for it.

EDIT The shelf looks a bit like the wine glass holder they still sell but the top has wire mesh in a metal surround. Measures 31 cm wide, 5cm deep and 6cm high (approx).

Greenshieldstamp_2

Hello everyone, back again.

Mary43
Glad to know you are getting on well, and that your mum is keeping a bit better. Hope your visit goes well in a fortnight.


Ceridwen
Very interested to hear more about your course. What sort of things did you find to eat? Did you get to stay in a Yurt?

Ellidee and Eager Learner
I have had a look at the storage sites too as it is something I am trying to sort out at my house. Isn't it amazing just how many different types you can get to store absolutely everything. Frightening too just how much you can spend if you don't think about it first?I think I am going to down Mary43's route and make some storage boxes. I need to have some bigger than shoe boxes but not too enormous, so not sure yet what types of cardboard box would be best.

Anyone heard from Shaz-Mum-Of2 lately? Hope your trapped nerve is getting better Shaz.

I wonder also how Aril is getting on?

Best wishes
Greenshield

mary43

Hello all

Well, our oldest lad currently nursing a bit of hangover due to 18th birthday binge yesterday..................lol :beer: Not a lot of sympathy from me I'm afraid.....not for pain thats self inflicted..................lol Nor from his girlfriend who's staying for the weekend. (Ooops........another mouth to feed...........hopefullt spag.bol will stretch to 5 !!)

Yesterday was a real pain, what with it being lads birthday and him in and out like a yo yo, deteriating with each return visit..........tried to order something from a craft site, punched in wrong number somewhere along the line, lost whole order so started again this morning.........thankfully everything ok.
Door hangers I'm doing for christmas pressies coming on ok.........and apart from the grey cloud now looming all seems well in the household - oops ! young lad has just gone off out........think he's been getting in the way of older lad and girlfriend and been turfed out....................lol He's not yet learned about 'privacy' methinks..............:rolleyes:

EagleLearner - oh how shameful I am - my 'underthe sink' and other areas in that quarter are in desparate need of a sort out..........can't bring myself to do it at the minute though. Building site room is still resembling building site..........oh where do I start with it............I've even got the paint for the newly plastered wall, dropped numerous hints to OH who always seems to find he has to go and pick some beans or do some kind of 'outside' chore............so, methings maybe I'll bribe our lad here, as he's out of work, to make a start.............thats all it needs really. Like many things once its started its easier to get motivate to carry on (thats the theory anyway)

Have a good day all............and if you're out and about this bank holiday watch the 'hot spots' on the roads. We're going nowhere..........no point in adding our pollution to that already there and wheres the fun is having to queue up for everything. No........not my idea of pleasure.

ceridwen

Greenshieldstamp wrote: »

Ceridwen
Very interested to hear more about your course. What sort of things did you find to eat? Did you get to stay in a Yurt?



Anyone heard from Shaz-Mum-Of2 lately? Hope your trapped nerve is getting better Shaz.

I wonder also how Aril is getting on?

Best wishes
Greenshield

Hi Greenshield

Check out the latest post on "me blog" re the course. Nope - not a yurt - sorry to disappoint you on that one - 'twas a b & b (was actually a bit envious in a way of the two sisters who were sharing my course with me - staying in their van and camping down on a beach or in the hills! - though musta been a bit cramped;) ). Eating-wise - what do I recall? Er...the infamous nettles of course....there was a sort of kiev type recipe using jack in the hedge (a garlic-tasting leaf), mushrooms, onion rolled up in a couscous ball (with bit of beaten egg holding it together) that Marcus did for us I remember that 'twas rather nice. Some tomato salad with one meal with wild rocket I think 'twas on it. Cant really recall rest now - as we were still firing questions at Marcus whilst doing the cooking and eating of lunch. Ummm...tried out a few pickled things he'd made - pickled ash "wings" (?) - for instance and pickled samphire.

Yep....good point...I'm wondering where Aril and Shaz are...maybe off enjoying themselves somewheres?