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    Not so much now, but I used to. If I wanted something and it could be made out of wood then I would have a go. Done some right cockups in the past but done some what I think is nice work also, all from reclaimed timber. This was made from 10x4" pitch pine beam offcuts, that had been thrown to be burnt by a reclamation yard. TC
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    I have had some good finds out of skips. When I was doing the boot sales it was part of the week having a look around the skips. Best skip ever though was only 100 yards from the house. An old lady that lived alone had died her family just ordered a skip and started throwing stuff in it. I must have made around £500 out of that skip. A crystal dressing table set, tortoiseshell hairbrush, comb and slides. An early Victorian wash stand set and two days later the wash stand. How the jug and bowl survived beats me they were just put in a black bag and thrown in the skip. They must have been wo
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    Ross, you wind the twine on to the needle through a gap at the pointy end of the needle, then when you are knitting with them you take twine off the needle as needed by pulling the twine back through the gap at the pointy end. They look like this when filled with twine. TC
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    I had some time on my hands today so decided to show how I turn a scrap piece of Oak into a needle with my new methods. The scrap pieces of wood that I use. From that to this. Trimmed ready to work on. In to the channel cutting jig. The basic blank with the grove cut and marked out ready to gut the outside of the jaws. Outside cut and rough sanded to shape and the inside of the jaws marked out. Inside of the jaws cut out and ready for stropping back to the line. I was having issues with the sides of the needles bre
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    Unfecking believable. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2300267/Pigeon-racing-kills-90-cent-birds-banned.html RSPCA are looking into it. TC
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    Easy, a good photoshopper give it a lift. Maybe Paulus? TC
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    What a cracking piece of family and social history. Thank you for putting them up for us. TC
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    2 kilo fresh chicken in Aldi £4.39 carrots 40p cabbage 49p Cauli 89p Leeks 89p Peas 90p broccoli 49p Yorkshires 49p Enough to feed 7 for £8.94 simples, and some left over for fry-up. I have not added potatoes as I do not pay for them Even if I were to add the cost of the spuds it would be another £1.60 on top. so seven fed for less than £12 and all you can eat in that. TC
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    Apart from the family connection, there is a good bit of social history in those photos. I would imagine that they went hop picking as a sort of busmans holiday where they got paid for their labours and yet had time out in the countryside as well. Hops are used to make beer. Great photos. TC
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    I'll happily buy the short-dated meat and fish at the supermarket that's being knocked out cheap - got big bag of herrings the other night, 65p and turned out to be 6 fish. Big Turkey leg 30p - that went to the dog's, via the mincer. Pork shoulder joints £3 and a couple of rainbow trout for 80p........ Man after my own heart. My corner shop is Aldi's it also happens to be the nearest. When they mark down it is with 2 days to go on the date and they mark 30% off, No chickens marked down today though had to pay full price. TC
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    How do you add a mesh two meshes from the end? I add mine on to the end. Is that your personal prefrence or is there a reason you do it? If I am increasing on a purse net I increase on the second mesh and third last mesh of a row. The reason for that is it gives you full meshes at the end of a row where the draw cord will run. I belive the draw cord run better through full meshes as opposed to half meshes which you get if you increase on the end and beginning of a row. TC
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    I shop every day and just buy what we are having for the evening meal. Tonight we are having chicken breast with Chinese soy gravy. I will buy a whole chicken and portion it, the two breast portions will be used tonight, the thighs and legs I will strip the meat off dogs have the bones and the meat will be for a stir fry on the weekend. Nothing gets wasted in this house. Edited to add: If the bread has a bit of mould on it pick it off, same with the cheese. TC
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    well aware of how to keep poison, dry and air tight usually in ostermilk tins, but oldhamlad says mixy is a viral disease and then gamekeepers farmers have old stock of mixy poison stored away to release. Hence my question Y.I.S Leeview I think there are more theories about Mixie than jack the ripper. In the uk the strains of mixie have been getting more virulent since the 1970's I am not sure now about the amount of different strains but in 1985 I think there were 128 different strains but that number varies from year to year. In Australia they actually study mixie and each strain h
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    FFS is this shit still going on? About time people started acting their age not shoe size. TC
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    To see a ringing flight where the Merlin is trying to get the ascendency over the lark then they both drop like stones is a sight I will always remember. But getting back to the topic at hand. Most people ferret into March or even April when the first of the rabbits are breeding, it has it's knock on effect. The problem is you can only kill a rabbit once and if that is a doe with young then you are killing your own sport. Is it not funny how the people who kill does with young or pregnant cannot work out why the rabbit numbers are declining on their permission. TC
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    That sounds like a challenge to me. Now if I were that confident in the way I trained my dogs, I might be well tempted to take up such a challenge. Of course being that I am not really confident in how I condition my dogs I would as a matter of course decline. But that is just me! TC
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    So some sad little anti is sitting in his living room laughing his bollocks off at you getting irate and you say thats fine???? Lost me. TC I doubt he an anti tc, just a funny youngster that likes a bit banter and see how far he can push folks lol For a youngster, he knows what buttons to push and with who, thats for sure. TC
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    Another truism "Don't feed the trolls". TC
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    So some sad little anti is sitting in his living room laughing his bollocks off at you getting irate and you say thats fine???? Lost me. TC
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    FFS why are you all biting? He's winding you all up and your falling for it! TC
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    It's where tb25 gets his next conquest from Is that where he met that girl that was advertising her services all over the net? TC
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    She will always know the length of yours, but you will never know the depth of hers. TC
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    One slip is all it takes to get right in the sh!t. TC
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    Always marry an ugly woman, then if anyone is stupid enough to take her off you, who cares? TC
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    I'll start off. Never ever marry a woman with big hands, as she will always make you look small. TC
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