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All you need is a jar, a bit of cloth and a rubber band....and some seeds of something edible. Buy Wholefoods online do them by the kg....that is a "lot" of seeds, you need a pudding spoonful at a time really...

I've done it and it worked fine. I used a very low temperature short wash with minimum spin. I shook the coat into shape, put it on a well shaped hanger and hung it outside to air dry. I did brush it while it dried, but it didn't need pressed. I think if it did I'd try the one meant for...

Brussel sprouts seeds for sprouting are expensive in comparison to many others though. Most of the cabbage/crucifer ones are fairly cheap however. I've sprouted seeds and beans for almost all of my married life. It was a good way to get fresh tasty interesting green stuff into children and...

I am very pleased. I contacted JB101, swapped bank details/ address, and he had the parcel in the post in no time. It arrived this afternoon, very carefully packed, in good condition, as advertised, etc., Five stars for everything, and happy to recommend. :D I hope everybody's sales/ buys...

What kind of foods do you like though ? Rat packs are hard to beat for convenience, variety, and long lasting stuff, just in case in the car. Having said that though, I'd rather pack a decent box with stuff I know I'll eat. I can happily visit Home Bargains and stock up on their sealed bags of...

@Broch @johnnytheboy Thank you :) that looks ideal. I know much better performace without anything in the way, but if it were sited on an indoor windowsill would it still charge effectively?

If it's washed hot before the garment is made.....and that depends on the quality of what is used as 'barathea'....much nowadays is fine stuff for evening wear. Boiled wool isn't boiled, it's just washed at around 60˚C. Lice were a problem for soldiers in the past, my g.g. Uncles fought in the...

@slowworm That's the divide. If folks don't know how their neighbours 'are' then things easily go uncomfortably amiss. You didn't do anything wrong; they were wrong footed and that set the tone :sigh: I'm sorry you don't have that 'joined up thinking' with them. It's anything but perfect...

It works for more than food too though; M next door's combi boiler died a fortnight ago....and it was a cold snap, so we passed over our space heater, and MD, next again, told them to come and shower in her house until the plumber got the parts and fixed the boiler. It was only a couple of days...

But I don't live in a rural idyll....I live slap bang in the middle of the central belt of Scotland, and what were distinct villages are now joined up conurbations :sigh: It's quiet and peaceful though, and at heart the population is mostly 'local', we all kind of grew up in this area, we know...

I think it needs a community effort really. Very few of us have acerage enough to grow it all. I'm lucky, I'm friends with the local poacher....he and my wee bother used to roam and hunt together....but he forages too, and he grows, and so do I, and so do a fair number of others around us. So...

I usually use realseeds https://realseeds.co.uk/brusselsprouts.html but, Sowseeds are very good.....and they push the micronutrients https://www.sowseeds.co.uk/products/brussels-sprout-evesham-special-seeds

You try being a wee Scottish housewife :rolleyes2: I just keep quiet, my neighbours think I'm weird enough doing the Archaeology.

My garden is alight again :) there's enough UV light now to charge the solar lights :cool: It occurs to me though, that having a charger that would recharge not just mobile phones, but batteries for led lights and laptops, might be no bad thing to have. Any recommendations for something...

Today looks like being another lovely day :) Spring Equinox just bye and it's such a pleasure to have light at both ends of the day again. I spent yesterday sorting out a stone circle of pavers, and when I lifted some of the older ones, I found the roots of Pignuts :) So, I'm going to pot them...

It's a two way thing; scammers are scammers, but buying and selling on the forum is just that. We make huge efforts to ban spammers, to stop them before they start, but the real issues are folks sending money and not getting goods. So we ask do it safely. Similarly the seller ought to build...

How about the other way ? The buyer forwards cash as F&F and receives no goods.....and has no recourse unless he takes it to the small claims court. So, we simply ask; do it right. Do it in such a way that the buyer has recourse if no goods are received.....and with modern tracking and...

But is exactly the point we're trying to make; Paypal with goods and services ensures that the person paying gets their goods or their money back. The seller, the person doing the posting should add those costs into the total, but it's up to them to insure from their end that if the parcel isn't...

Lot of dry over wintered stuff. The new growth hasn't really gotten going well yet, but the dry stuff is tinderbox dry. We're actually the same here even though we've had a lot of rain. Even the rushes and reeds around my pond are dry and brittle. The understory outside my fence beneath the...

We have one already this year.....North East of Scotland. https://news.stv.tv/north/wildfire-warning-issued-with-north-and-north-east-scotland-at-very-high-risk