I'll make my own carrot and parsnip toys just give me a couple of bags of each and a felt tip pen.

So would I Gwenoakes, but still not got the hang of how to post them and I didn't think on and take a picture beforehand. As for the final (ish) result well it could be better and I'll see what it looks like after polishing.

Just checked the circle and I think that it will need another couple of tea bag treatments, so should be ok by Monday.

Yes Albertajune many times and it works a treat. Put the tea bags on the area wet (I just fish them out of my tea pot after use of course) and leave them on the area for as long as needed. Then gently polish.

I've just refreshed the top of a "skip dived" brown wood chest of drawers by placing a couple of used damp tea bags over a white circle when the wood dry's I'll polish up the top with a mixture of olive oil and lemon juice.

Returning from tidying up the allotment and sitting at the PC with a brew while a cake cooks in the oven and bread dough is (hopefully) rising in the airing cupboard.
What's your contented time?

I've not had to buy light bulbs for years kept getting freebies. Meanwhile I've never had any problem with washing my knitted blankets just put them in the machine on a woollen wash. When my hand knitted jumpers get a bit worn out looking I put them in the washing machine on a hot wash which felts t...

So besides keeping on with the knitted squares for an all wool king sized blanket using wool left over from all the jumpers I've knitted over the years. Its time to bring the plant pots and bread tin off the balcony and get out the tea lights to warm up the living room and save on using the economy ...

Thanks to TB I've now got all my photos off my mobile and on my PC but still cannot transfer them on to here.

We have loads of grape vines at our Bulgarian house both green and black but unfortunately the weather there was very wet during the summer so we found that most of the harvest had rotted on the vine before it ripened however a few survived only to be eaten by the family.

Well Freeranger they have taken the hint and are ripening beautifully.

Thanks Karen, five jars of apple and blackberry jam cooling in the kitchen now to process the rest of the apples into pie fillings to be frozen for future use.

Thanks Mo, I've never had much luck storing apples even in an unheated flat 16floors up, looks like I'll be making blackberry and apple jam ....again but it gets eaten. May just eat the pears. Thanks again

More apples and pears now I need to work out what to do with them to preserve them for the lean months of winter. I 've made loads of jam this year but fancy trying something else, any ideas?

I met an ex work colleague for lunch today and we talked about todays "values" she reckons that it goes back to the Thatcher years when she (Maggie) said something along the lines of "there's no such thing as community" or something like that. Then we had the "greed is good&...