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I don't want to buy anything more! I'm emotionally attached to some stuff, memories of trips I'm no longer capable of repeating for instance. I'm going to have to get tuff with myself. I won't use much of it again if I'm honest, but.... you never know! That 35 litre pack may just be the right...

I feel your pain tengu, as you know, I once had a reasonably tidy house, (it's never been perfect, but hey, I don't like perfectly tidy rooms that you are afraid to put a cup down on a table if you can't find a placemat!) Since lockdown, my home has become a bit of a junkyard with so many...

I don't have a TV, so no idea what this thread is about. It sounds like a fantasy world. ...I prefer fai and legend as my fantasy world. Its more realistic. :)

does this help any?

obviously some kind of boletus, the yellow instantly bruises a bluey green. Can anyone identify for me please, and is it edible? I fear its not. Found in short grass, under Oak hazel and beech.

Tengu, your opening statement says it all. My life in England is over. Sell, start again. While it's a scary process, you are opening new doors and need to close the old ones behind you. I understand that you are reluctant and think that keeping the house gives you a safe retreat if things...

From what I can remember, you have not lived there permanently for some time. The costs of new heating alone will be thousands, what else needs doing? If its been empty with no heating for some time, there will be damp and probably all sorts of other things that will cost to put right. Do you...

Get it sold girl! Finish that declutter off properly, and use the cash to set yourself up properly where you want to be. Makes more sense than hanging on to something that your not using. Renting out is a lot of hassle if you are so far away that you can't keep a good eye on it. Sell, and use...

Just finished Landlines by Raynor Winn, I've read the Salt Path, and Wild Silence, so now have read the triology of her books so far. Just about to start the Dead Sea Scrolls Deception, by M Baigent, and R Leigh. Looks a dry read, but hopefully interesting enough. We will see.

I got a basic cheap vacuum sealer from lidels. Works fine, can also be used to make boil in the bag stuff (su vide?) I think it was about £25 a couple of years ago, pre covid. The bags came on a roll which you cut to size, seal the bottom, fill and then seal properly. I've watched a video...

I love charity shop hunting and rarely buy new, unless it's the only option. All this is recycled or second hand containers and seed grown plants. It's amazing what you can do with other people's " rubbish". Note the two paving slabs left for me to go towards a path in the back garden, second...

I love old folklore and have recently been reading about the old weather predictions. What do you reckon this winter will be like, what signs do you see to support your theory,and what folklore predictions do you reckon have legs, ...or not?

Saw a gorgeous blue dragonfly on my stumble into the town today by the pond. Watched it for ages, but it was gone when I came back. First one I've seen this year. There is a bench by the pond, and I often sit for a while on the way home, watching the squirrels, birds, and pondlife.

Those eyes!

Ooh, that's reminded me of shashunka. Fry the onion, add tomatoes and paprika, cook down and then make a couple of Wells in the mixture, add eggs into the wells, and pop on a lid if you can to help set the top of the egg. Serve with crusty bread, or on sourdough toast. Yum. Used to make this...

Non of my garden tomatoes ripened, and some had started to go manky, so I picked anything viable, and made 5 jars of green tomato chutney(why is it the recipes say it will make six 1lb jars, but I end up with 5?) Anyway, guess what? I didn't burn anything this year!!!!!!(so far) The pan didn't...

The man who penned the hokey cokey song has just died. They had a heck of a job getting him in the coffin. They put the left leg in...... I don't need to furnish the rest do I.

Thanks, I don't know how to search with an image, could only find much larger citronella candle lantern when I searched Google. Guess what.....I've just dropped it and smashed the glass shade!!! Gutted! May try and make a new shade from a small glass bottle. I'm too teed off to think about it...

A sweet little candle lantern. I can use it with tea lights, but am wondering if it once also had a little oil lantern insert. It's made by Coleman. Anyone seen one of these before? Any info on it? Got it in the charity shop, as it stands, tho i did put the tealight in myself.