Hello you clever AB gang, especially Buildersmate the oracle. I am planning to paint kitchen which has the good old classic anaglypta paper. It has been painted with a kitchen paint and now I want to...
I have a wonderful fig tree and would like to take cuttings to give to friends. Any clever gardeners know how to go about this and when is a good time of year? TIA.
I was given a lovely azalea and as the (red) flowers died, I removed them. With virtually no flowers left, the leaves have gone nasty and dry, and are falling off. Any ideas on rescue, please? Thank...
Celebrating a certain birthday and hoping about 40 guests will come. Mixed ages and all like a good laugh. Any ideas for tasty nosh I can serve? Hot and cold and including veggie. Looking for stuff I...
AB help needed! Has anyone any ideas for present for 30year olds getting married and then going to Far East (work) for 2 years. They don't want pressies but I'd appreciate ideas for "a little...
There is a question on Home and Garden re manholes today. Among the helpful replies is a disgusting one from no. knowledge. Please look at it and ban him.
Extra thick today What is 20across: unit of angle equal to one-hundredth of a right angle? G---E. Have looked up maths terms and only found "grad" which doesn't fit. Many thanks.
1. Loo won't flush! Tried previous tricks with cistern (like lifting ballcock thing) but no success. Ideas please. 2. Have gas boiler with central heating. Oldish but was serviced in summer and ok....
Over last few years I have been "persuaded" to take out insurance on several individual bits e.g. gas supply pipe, electrical probs, underground water supply etc. The cost isn't huge i.e. approx ?5...
Installed a useless gadget which crashed down into bathroom washbasin. Fine but lengthy crack across it now. Can it be repairedand if so, how? Or should we cut our losses and replace? (boo-hoo). There...
I put this question on "home n garden" by mistake - doh! I've got some "glace lemon caps" but don't know how to use them. They look like crystallized fruits but other than being yellow don't really...
I put this question on "home n garden" by mistake - doh! I've got some "glace lemon caps" but don't know how to use them. They look like crystallized fruits but...
I have been given some glace lemon caps and don't know how to use them. They are yellow but don't look like dried lemon or anything similar. They have the appearance of crystallized fruit and having...
Has anyone got any hints re: removing candle wax from a carpet, please? I've tried the standard warm iron over brown paper or kitchen roll, with very little result. Thank u in advance.