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My gosh! Last night was so windy! My fence is blown down, my black bin missing and presumed dead. Top of my compost bin also gone. The bike up and over cover ripped from its moorings and in a bad way. Woke at 5am to a complete cacophony of noise. Sounded like there was a gang of hoodlums on the...

Ordered today so will let you know how well it works . Better do for that money!!!!!!!

Just made a couple or three for my kit a few days ago, (see my other thread on handmade things.) They are very easy to do and last ages, plus are fully compostable too when they finaly wear out. I've just added a loofah washing up scrubby to my kitchen kit. You could grow your own loofah and be...

Well the snow didn't last long and was pretty minor. Pretty while it lasted, but now we are on flood warning for both my local rivers that converge and join together to become the exe only two miles from my home. Time to put the snow gear away, and get out the wetsuit, and inflatable canoe to...

Just a few things to think about. Security incident at Glasgow Airport a few days ago. Airport evacuated No information since about what it was about. A couple of days after the first British and American long range weapons fired into Russia by Ukraine, ie today. Gatwick Airport evacuated and...

Google the wool room or baavat. I have a pillow from each. Woolroom has a sale on right now, so cheaper. Baavat has pillows you can unzip and wash the cover(buy an extra one at the same time) and add extra or take out some of the stuffing to tailor the pillow to your needs. (Extra stuffing...

It's crazy isn't it? You can't legislate away knife crime, any more than you can accidents caused by speeding or being on your phone while driving. There will always be idiots who ignore the law, and feel entitled to do so. Knife crime is becoming a scary epidemic though, so what is the...

My new (and second) wool pillow arrived today. Now my bed is cosier than ever. A can of miles hot chocolate, expensive, but one needs a decent cup of hot chocolate to complete the true cosy experience.

Some beeswax wraps from a scrap of quilting fat quarter, and the rest of the melted beeswax left over from candle making.

Well, this morning, I woke to a dusting of snow for the first time in several years, and its still snowing. Supposed to snow untill 3pm. My bird feeders are totaly empty. They were refilled with suet pellets, seed , sunflower hearts, peanuts and those dried worm things, yesterday morning. It's...

I know, irrespective of burnability, it was just too attractive to let it get destroyed.

A bit of scrap wood that was destined for a friend's firewood pile. I rescued it, as I could see the beauty of the colours. A few weeks of hand sanding at odd moments and borrow of a friends special drill attachment, and here is the result. A rustic table centre piece.

I do have a small hot tent and stove. Am awaiting a half inner, and for slightly warmer spring weather. I've camped up mountains in Wales in the winter when younger, thought very little of it at the time, but I think I'm getting too soft, and creaky to put myself through that in very cold...

Nah, my wool quilt and electric kettle are too tempting to give up even for one night. :) I do get out and have the odd brew up during the day tho. I realy don't do well when it's cold and dark. I'm a summer time sort of lass.

Yep, my pals laughed at me for going into the big town and filling my sholly shopping trolly, a 60 litre kit bag and a 45 litre rucksack with all sorts of supplies, from crossword books, knitting wool and seeds to disinfectant instant mash, tins of veg and meat, meds and masks. I locked myself...

Just stocked up with extra batteries, and indigestion mixture, made some wax candles in case of power outage, and now hunting out the hot water bottles. Snow on the tops, and bitterly cold today . The walk home almost snagged me a pheasant, but it got away. ! :) I'll take a towel out with me...

I know,but I wanted longer burning time. I'd rather have made tapers but I'm recycling wicks as it is, and they were all short lengths, so made the biggest candles that I could from the small selection of moulds I do have. I'm on the hunt for longer wicks and a taper mould.

This mornings efforts. Not perfect, and I hate the moulds shape, but you have to use what you have.

As was illustrated by the lockdown and loo roll fiasco! Keeping an eye on things, I think food will be our next BIG problem. British farmers are talking about withholding fresh veg ,meat, milk and eggs from supermarkets from now untill Xmas. I have a small veg plot, and regularly dehydrate...

I seem to remember Russia, while amassing troops on the Ukrainian border, and swearing blind, they had absolutely no intention of trying to invade Ukraine, and it was just a normal military practice exersize. The Olympics were on in China at the time. I predicted they were waiting for them to...