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by Mo
17 Dec 2023, 11:43
Forum: Food and Drink
Topic: Electric egg cooker
Replies: 3
Views: 7233

Re: Electric egg cooker

A few years ago my friend wanted to look round a kitchen shop and among the amazing gadgets there was something shaped like half an egg (rounded top, flat bottom). The top was clear, the base was red when you put it into a pan of cold water with the egg/s, as the eggs cooked the base changed changed...
by Mo
05 Dec 2023, 10:46
Forum: Just for Pets
Topic: My little dog Angel
Replies: 22
Views: 29934

Re: My little dog Angel

It is particularly hard when you are alone. I know how quiet the house can be. {hug}
by Mo
05 Dec 2023, 10:42
Forum: Environmental, Green & Ethical Issues
Topic: Octopus farms
Replies: 0
Views: 9230

Octopus farms

Like other factory farms this needs to stop. Octopus farm

Those of us who have kept hen have seen first hand that animals quite different from us are still intelligent and capable of feelings. CWF are asking people to send an email to protest.
by Mo
25 Nov 2023, 21:48
Forum: Garden Wildlife
Topic: Moles: A solution or coincidence?
Replies: 4
Views: 9266

Re: Moles: A solution or coincidence?

Never tried that. Never planted garlic as Jim hated it, and i wasn't keen.
They bring up stones which don't do the lawn mower blades any good.
by Mo
25 Nov 2023, 14:29
Forum: Frugality and Self-Reliance
Topic: Manure bricks for heat
Replies: 5
Views: 10889

Re: Manure bricks for heat

I know people have posted in the past about using newspaper bricks. I can imagine few people buy newspapers these days and the freebie local ones are no longer delivered any more so getting quantities like in the past could be more difficult. True, and magazines and junk mail are shiny paper that d...
by Mo
23 Nov 2023, 14:33
Forum: Frugality and Self-Reliance
Topic: Manure bricks for heat
Replies: 5
Views: 10889

Re: Manure bricks for heat

I know people have posted in the past about using newspaper bricks. Think drying them was the problem.
haven't you got enough to do!
by Mo
17 Nov 2023, 10:01
Forum: Frugality and Self-Reliance
Topic: Selling second hand items
Replies: 8
Views: 20778

Re: Selling second hand items

Sounds complicated.
by Mo
15 Nov 2023, 12:44
Forum: Frugality and Self-Reliance
Topic: Selling second hand items
Replies: 8
Views: 20778

Re: Selling second hand items

I'll have a look.
Have you used it yet?
by Mo
12 Nov 2023, 14:39
Forum: Frugality and Self-Reliance
Topic: Selling second hand items
Replies: 8
Views: 20778

Re: Selling second hand items

Thanks Manda.
Did you use ebay or facebook?
by Mo
11 Nov 2023, 14:39
Forum: Frugality and Self-Reliance
Topic: Selling second hand items
Replies: 8
Views: 20778

Selling second hand items

Do any of you do it? I have a load of outgrown childrens toys and pre-Christmas seems a good time to sell. Thought I would try of Facebook local. Is it worth the hassle of using ebay and having to post things? What is a fair price to ask. I know I could take them to a charity shop or offer them on F...
by Mo
07 Nov 2023, 09:07
Forum: Food and Drink
Topic: Halloween & Bonfire Night
Replies: 6
Views: 9526

Re: Halloween & Bonfire Night

Not much 'health and safety' back then. Though some of the bangers sold in boxes now are quite powerful. Unfortunately I grabbed the wrong bag out of the freezer and about 5 Brussel sprouts dropped in before I realised they weren't the peas ... too late to put them back in the bag, I ended up havin...
by Mo
05 Nov 2023, 10:16
Forum: Food and Drink
Topic: Halloween & Bonfire Night
Replies: 6
Views: 9526

Re: Halloween & Bonfire Night

some of the older children used to put lots of bangers in the Guy Fawkes that was put in the fire. Not much 'health and safety' back then. Though some of the bangers sold in boxes now are quite powerful. But I remember jumping jacks being thrown around. As a 'blitz baby' I've never liked bangers.
by Mo
05 Nov 2023, 10:11
Forum: Handicrafts and other Hobbies
Topic: The Bumbling Keeper of Bees
Replies: 29
Views: 46174

Re: The Bumbling Keeper of Bees

Hope some of them make it.
by Mo
01 Nov 2023, 12:53
Forum: Food and Drink
Topic: Halloween & Bonfire Night
Replies: 6
Views: 9526

Re: Halloween & Bonfire Night

I wasn't something that we had food traditions about growing up in London.
But when we were first married my Yorkshire born husband liked to buy treacle toffee in tin trays. I still use some of them, a good size for making flapjack.
by Mo
31 Oct 2023, 09:42
Forum: Handicrafts and other Hobbies
Topic: The Bumbling Keeper of Bees
Replies: 29
Views: 46174

Re: The Bumbling Keeper of Bees

I found it difficult to keep on top of the checking for queen cells, either the wrong weather or either my friend or I was doing something else. I found I couldn't juggle smoker, hive tool and frames by myself.
So when my friend moved away she took the hives.