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Drying Out Unwanted Paint.

According to my local council, if you dry out paint and the tins, they can be disposed of in with the usual household rubbish. I made a couple of troughs out of foil and poured the paint in them. The...

porkchop

Fuse Box

I have an old style fuse box which houses the ceramic fuses with the little round glass window which shows the one which is blown. If we were to change the box to the new type of fuse box can you give...

Georgiesmum

Fussy Eaters.

Do you know or live with a fussy eater? What do they normally eat/wont eat?...

Berniecuddles2

Prostitute!

An young man and his date were parked on a back road some distance from town. After sex the girl said, "I really should have mentioned this earlier, but I'am actually a prostitute, and I charge £100...

sp1814

Was The Conservative Party Right To Withdraw The Whip From Anne Marie Morris

She claimed that the Brexit 'No deal is a n***** in a woodpile’ http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/anne-marie-morris-racist_uk_5963b0cae4b03f144e2c7c78 Not even sure what this phrase means,...

Mags22

Potatoes

First time grower,and have them in trugs, the stems and leaves are showing no signs of dying off ,does that mean the potatoes still aren't ready?

jakep

Wow, Anyone Near Notts?

https://www.rspb.org.uk/community/ourwork/b/biodiversity/archive/2017/06/26/how-to-see-bee-eaters-in-nottinghamshire.aspx...

melv16

Cricket Double Entendres

I see in the recent test match against South Africa, some of the England batsmen were caught behind the stumps by de Kock... Sounds painful ;-)

fatema

How To Use This Word In A Sentence?

Hello Everyone!!!How can i use ooze or ooze out in a sentence?...

thelewisgang

Boiler Pressure Help Please

I have a Glow Worm 24cxi combi boiler which is 11 years old. It was losing pressure about a year or so ago so called in a GasSave engineer & he replaced the diverter valve. It has been ok since but...

fruitsalad

Scarecrow Ideas

My OH has to make a scarecrow for a competition, nothing to intricate, any ideas for him to have a go at please guys.

LittleSquidge

Spicy Plum Jam Name? Puns Please!

I've found a large bush of wild cherry plums (legally!), so tomorrow I'm making a large stash of spicy plum jam. Think of it as The Harvester's "Spiked Maple Glaze" sauce - something to dip chips...

crapmemory

Newel Posts

I have painted my bannisters white and they look lovely apart from the newel posts. I have to keep retouching them as the paint wears away (from being touched). Any way I can prevent this happening?...

Caran

Leg Cramps

What can I take to alleviate this. I'm not sleeping well with the heat, tossing and turning, sleeping for about half an hour at a time. Also getting horrendous leg cramps most of the night. I have to...

Smowball

Courgettes!

I've got a couple to use up tonight so what can I do to serve them as a side dish that has some flavour?? They're so watery!

AKMild

Painting Mistake

I'll be the first to admit that I'm not a great DIY-er, and true to form I have come a cropper on a very small painting job. It's a shower-room ceiling that I removed the existing flaking paintwork...

dave068

Vision Express???

Has any-one had problems with Vision Express, as in waiting an unreasonably long time for new glasses to appear?

melv16

We're Jammin'

After an excellent soft fruit harvest Ont allotment, I'm facing tsunami of jam and jelly. The house smells like a jam factory :-)

mikey4444

Winter Fuel Payment !

I had a letter from the DWP yesterday, inviting me to apply for the WFP, for the 2017-2018 winter ! I am not 65 until June next year, but I must call this 0345 number, to make a claim. Apparently I...

Islay

Whats For Dinner Tonight

Now that Smowball has us all drooling (well most of us sorry Tilly) What is for your dinner tonight? I am having 1 fishfinger, desert spoon of mashed potato and a teaspoon of cheese sauce. Go on make...

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