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My kids say I've not to do it. I'd like to know, but they're right; it's their DNA too, so I'll hang fire.

We won another £300 on the PB's :) I have an American silver dollar, well Himself has....an Aunt brought it for him when he was a child; she married and American and moved there.

Mod Hat on.......this was supposedly a thread about financal matters....and you have firmly taken into politics. I quite understand the correlation, but the reality is that we don't discuss three things....politics, religion, racism. Please pull back and think about this audience.

It's the usual name for the little sewing tools......and my sets are contained in etuis :D

It's strange the things that are 'of value'. I collect, but mostly because I use, vintage sewing notions. One mixed bundle a year ago had two thimbles of the range I prefer to use (Dorcas 7)....these are steel cored but silver plated, very pretty, but really good thimbles if in good useable...

The mountain rescue groups and the lifeboats, those too I give to. Not on any formal basis, but if presented with an appeal or spot the rattling can on a counter, I donate. I think a lot of people are like that in their giving. It's not always formalised and it's often seasonal....the Poppy...

Lanarkshire Cancer Care Trust.....they pick up cancer patients at their front door, take them straight to the hospital for treatment and bring them back home again. It is an enormous kindness. Incredibly relieving of the stress of travel and parking while feeling so very unwell. Every blessing...

Yeah. I know that one. We call it the blue legs season, which is rapidly overtaken by the 'tops off' one. In Scotland we call that, "Sun's oot, taps aff", as the denizens boldly try to absorb as much rare UV as possible by exposing as much as possible. Right enough that could be anywhere from...

It's the light. I know where I am in the year by the light, and by the weather....sort of, well, it's Scotland, it's fairly common to have every kind of weather in one day, repeatedly :rolleyes2: True that for most of the UK though.

Isn't it funny the things that the oh-so (not) helpful, word suggestion/spellcatcher does and doesn't pick up ? I think the advantage of shows is that you see what you're buying, and you take it away with you then and there. It's a good way to see the range available from many makers, and...

£12.50 a ticket's okay too.

Y'know ? folks used what they had. My Granny's kitchen had a flag stone floor, even in the heat of Summer it was cold in there. Her presses were cupboards built into the sandstone wall of her cottage. Friends who live in a Victorian villa have a pantry with slate shelves and a marble bunker...

We call it a press.....I'm told that comes from the French presse, a storage cupboard or cabinet. Pantry is a food cupboard. A larder is a cold cupboard for storing fresh food, working on such, like meat. A buttery is where wine and ale were decanted, stored, etc.,

It's just swapping one kind of effort for another, and one that's not so good, to be honest. I know it seems a good idea, but it's hard to find a drill that will hold a spindle thick enough to burr off enough hot fibres to make a 'coal'. Honestly ? the bow drill's easiest, the pump drill is...

What about quick growing, but easily removed trees and shrubs as they get bigger......silver birch, elder, buddleia (though once that's there, it's there :) pretty though and the wildlife loves it....the birch is useful and grows really quickly, it's a pioneer species, but the elder will give...

The good thing about a pantry is that when there's a decent special offer on something that you actually use regularly, you can stock up and store safely and conveniently. Olive oil's going cheap around here just now; the Berio stuff, so I've stashed a load last week. The other one on offer...

Do you mean edible seeds ? Like quinoa, millet, sorghum, flax, mustard ? or herbs like melissa, mints, tansy, etc., ? those last three are perennials though....

Size. Stone that size is too heavy for spinning. Might do as a loom weight though :)

Hah! well so much for that. It's overcast rain and hail :rolleyes2: Welcome to British weather !

I've just been out to look, and our Geans are starting to flower too :)