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by Mo
23 Nov 2023, 14:33
Forum: Frugality and Self-Reliance
Topic: Manure bricks for heat
Replies: 5
Views: 12307

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: 23439

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: 23439

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: 23439

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: 23439

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: 11043

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: 11043

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: 49091

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: 11043

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: 49091

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.
by Mo
30 Oct 2023, 16:18
Forum: Grow your Own Diaries
Topic: How does your garden grow?
Replies: 336
Views: 5568689

Re: How does your garden grow?

I actually have honeysuckle growing in my hedge!! You sound surprised. It surely isn't flowering still. Though my hypericum is. Part of its 'take over the world' strategy. It spreads sideways but you wouldn't want to cut it while it's in flower. Such a cheerful golden flower that I put up with it g...
by Mo
08 Oct 2023, 10:39
Forum: Grow your Own Diaries
Topic: How does your garden grow?
Replies: 336
Views: 5568689

Re: How does your garden grow?

I picked my Cox tree this week, all 2 of them. And found that the birds had got them first. The one I've eaten (after cutting off the hole) was good and ripe though. The Kidds are beginning to fall, probably just the maggotty ones, the ones I picked were willing but not eager to part from the twig. ...
by Mo
06 Oct 2023, 13:30
Forum: Grow your Own Diaries
Topic: How does your garden grow?
Replies: 336
Views: 5568689

Re: How does your garden grow?

but this year we're really trying to get more organised and methodical and try and plan more ...not sure how that will go but I've got a Calendar to try and keep on track and plans and lists and.... and... Best of luck with that. i always come across the instruction "in land that was well dug the p...
by Mo
19 Sep 2023, 13:08
Forum: Grow your Own Diaries
Topic: How does your garden grow?
Replies: 336
Views: 5568689

Re: How does your garden grow?

I think it was cold when things should have been pollinated. My pears are not good. A few proper ones, some of the conference are skinny (they are partially self fertile, which I think means if they aren't pollinated the fruit grows without seed, banana shape rather than fat pear shaped. My Laxton E...
by Mo
16 Sep 2023, 11:10
Forum: Grow your Own Diaries
Topic: How does your garden grow?
Replies: 336
Views: 5568689

Re: How does your garden grow?

I think my runners are coming to an end now. Plenty of apples to pick