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Well half a block runs my Mamod for an hour :D

Pleased to hear you got off so lightly. Can't say the same for up here. Still thousands without power, lot of folks looking at real issues with roofs, lots of fences, etc., destroyed. Trains still not running as the tracks and overhead lines need cleared and repaired. Shops mostly open, but not...

Meanwhile up here, and in Northern Ireland, the trains, buses and ferries were all cancelled. Schools were closed right across the country, hospitals cancelled all appointments, over 100,000 homes are without power, and we have substantial damage to property and woodlands. Eh Oh Win or Ah Oh...

Neighbour at end of next block has just lost the back edge of his roof. The tiles just came fleeing off and have crashed down into the gravel in his back garden :frown: :sigh:

It honestly looks as though that was all m packed into his mix. The resin in the pine scales and the oils in the peels ought to be enough to bind the mix with a little pressure (his moulds). I do use pine resins but I hadn't thought to grind up pinecones to use as a base. If you light one of...

Just watched this, and thought that looks very do-able. I know I've made incense for over forty years now, but seeing other folks do it, hear about their mixes, can be interesting :D M

Next door neighbours gas meter box has just ended up in my front garden :rolleyes: Wind's not done with us here yet.

It wet and windy here in South Lanarkshire. The canopy over the back door/kitchen windows has just lost it's clear covers. The brackets are still soundly attached to the wall, but the sheets have gone. Planters all over the place, and the trees are, thankfully not in leaf, blowing around wildly...

NHS Scotland is easy to contact. There'll be a number on the letter. You might just explain that you won't be back up until later on in Spring, and could they please move your appointment forward.

It's very strange here just now. It's a flat calm out there, a bit wet, but it's warm, yet the phones did the siren thing and we're under a Red warning for tomorrow from 10 to 5. Our house is half surrounded by trees.....we'll hope nothing comes crashing down. Stay safe folks :) M

That is such a clear record of how determined practice really does develop our skills :D Lovely work :D M

I have them, and I seem to win something every month. It's a perpetual lottery ticket that you can get your money back, in full. Max is £50,000 and then they just put any winnings into another bank account that you have to give them details for. Is it worth it ? I think so. I have maxed out...

Wool is fine sodden wet. It's sheep hair, and nowadays the sheep are out on the hill 24/7/52. We live in a wet climate..... The weight of wet wool can stretch garments though, so lay it flat, even if that means on scrubbed paving stones, lay it flat to drain. (I used to use the bath, but we...

I just soak my wool in a huge garden trug with a squirt of shampoo.....wool is hair, shampoo is meant to be gentle on hair. Let it soak, sapple it gently, rinse it carefully and lay it out flat to drain off then hang to dry. Re-lanolinise as required for outer wear.

Years ago made a very beautiful iron age woollen gown. Wonderful fabric, woven and coloured to suit the available technology and local dyes. Every stitch was sewn by hand, every gore and edge finished by hand sewing. It was much admired. I was a size 16, and at the end of the season I washed...

Best butcher I know takes apart an entire deer carcase with a wee knife no longer than his forefinger, and a axe for the spine/ribs. It's a razor sharp wee knife though. He says a big knife is for slicing gammon.

I do most of my cooking prep with very small knives. Drives my Italian near-as daughter in law to confusion. We were forbidden from having big knives, (post Jacobite uprising) so we got used to it. Biggest knife I use is the one to slice up a loaf.

I like the Victorinox ones too. Their tattie peeler is excellent :)

If he'd cut back his hedges he'd have had more room and more light. Room for another couple of planters or use the hedge height for climbers or fruit canes. He did very well with what he had though, and it seems that he and his wife really enjoyed the whole growing/eating part of the process :)...

I had (well, I still have) a psion :) and I had....can't mind the name of it now, the wee phone sized tablet thing that you used a kind of shorthand to write on. That was pretty nifty at the time.