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- Sat Dec 12, 2020 10:34 pm
- Forum: Food, Nutrition and Agriculture
- Topic: What do you value most?
- Replies: 35
- Views: 2428
Re: What do you value most?
Coffee!! Thankfully we have loads of tea and our daughter would vote for Cola. Hubby would vote for chocolate or crisps.
- Sat Sep 12, 2020 4:34 pm
- Forum: Medical and Healthcare
- Topic: do you have any strange health remedies?
- Replies: 19
- Views: 12907
Re: do you have any strange health remedies?
My Nana used to give me Milk of Magnesia if I had a poorly tummy as a child.
- Sat Sep 12, 2020 4:14 pm
- Forum: Medical and Healthcare
- Topic: Insect bites
- Replies: 19
- Views: 3457
Re: Insect bites
I get bitten to pieces too! Antihistamines beforehand, cover up as much as possible. Citronella oil and tea tree oil around the house and in a spray. Magnesium sulphate paste on swelling bites to draw out the goo.
- Sat Sep 12, 2020 4:05 pm
- Forum: Medical and Healthcare
- Topic: Antihistamine alternatives
- Replies: 16
- Views: 4290
Re: Antihistamine alternatives
Local honeycomb and propolis can be helpful, too. For your eyes, chamomile tea and witch hazel washes or compresses. Eat lots of garlic before the onset of hay fever season to inhibit inflammation.
- Sat Jul 11, 2020 8:35 pm
- Forum: How are you preparing
- Topic: Something that slipped my mind - washing clothes
- Replies: 22
- Views: 4818
Re: Something that slipped my mind - washing clothes
I’ll have to get some of that! If I run out of laundry powder I use shower gel that I get cheaply from car boot sales/pinched from hotels in the dim and distant past.
- Wed Apr 22, 2020 8:00 am
- Forum: Homes and Retreats
- Topic: First failure (dammit)
- Replies: 9
- Views: 2412
Re: First failure (dammit)
Andy, were you able to repair/replace your fridge-freezer?
- Wed Apr 22, 2020 7:54 am
- Forum: Homes and Retreats
- Topic: Emergency home lighting
- Replies: 17
- Views: 8152
Re: Emergency home lighting
Those look great, Deeps! I’ll add one to my fine collection of wind-up thingies, solar powered fairy/garden lights and candles.
- Thu Oct 31, 2019 10:52 pm
- Forum: Food, Nutrition and Agriculture
- Topic: Fried Potatoes Pouch meal From Home Bargain
- Replies: 10
- Views: 5370
Re: Fried Potatoes Pouch meal From Home Bargain
We’ve got a Home Bargains near us. I’ll grab some, thanks!
- Fri Oct 18, 2019 9:24 pm
- Forum: Books and Educational Materials
- Topic: Plants With a Purpose.
- Replies: 14
- Views: 12001
Re: Plants With a Purpose.
Thanks, Brambles!
- Wed Oct 09, 2019 10:38 pm
- Forum: Food, Nutrition and Agriculture
- Topic: The most unusual thing used as food
- Replies: 25
- Views: 8518
Re: The most unusual thing used as food
It’s tricky identifying sometimes. Remember some features like spots or gills change as a fungus matures, or might get knocked off or eaten by slugs or animals which will affect the ID. The toxins in the most poisonous fungi cannot be destroyed by cooking and destroy your liver in about 3 days. Ther...