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Jan '07 part 12: FORE she's a jolly good fellow!

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NotAsThunkAsDreoplePink · 24/06/2007 07:43

In your honour, IYKWIM

Good luck today DH, hope the weather's better than it is here!

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Are your children’s vaccines up to date?
eandh · 04/07/2007 20:08

Lemon juice is great and it's been popular as a stain remover for centuries. I Lemon juice to remove rust and stains from plastic, either neat or diluted, and give curry/stubborn stains on carpet come out with diluted lemon juice. For common carpet spillages such as beer simply dab the stain with soda water.

Get water marks off wooden surfaces by rubbing half a brazil nut onto the offending area, first ensuring the surface is completely dry. Alternatively, try applying mayonnaise on a soft cloth or toothpaste on a damp cloth to the water mark.

Grubby fingerprints on your walls rub the mark with slightly moist, stale white bread

To shine chrome taps in your bathroom or kitchen rub them with flour, rinse the flour off and buff them with a soft cloth. Stainless steel sink doesn't appear dull in comparison, rub the surface gently with baking powder or buff with a scrunched-up ball of newspaper or kitchen roll

Wash laminate/tiled floor with warm water and white vinegar although I put in few drops of something nice smeeling (lemon juice or concentrated oils)

Windows warm water and vinegar and scrunch up balls of newspaper to buff them up

Solution of water and vinegar to spruce up wooden furniture. Wash the furniture with the solution, leave overnight to dry, apply quality furniture polish and buff the surfaces.

limescale use white vinegar, for use on those tough, hard-to-shift stains; its disinfectant properties make it an amazing all-round cleaner. Blitz bath stains with a 1:5 solution of white vinegar and water. Unclog showerheads by first dismantling them and then soaking them for 20 minutes in vinegar.

Remove hard water marks by pouring a can of fizzy cola down the toilet bowl leave it for an hour, then flush.

Iknow you'll think its a waste but glass of white wine - but use a glass shower doors, to rid them of stains and limescale.

There are loads more cant think of anymore at the mo.

Rgee I puree the chicken up with veg at the mo but in a few weeks/month (see how sh gets on) I'll shred it and put in lumps

eandh · 04/07/2007 20:10

rgee sofas went to their new home last night my dad kindly delivered them in his van an lady gave him a fiver for his trouble!! (I wouldnt have had enough room we would have been sitting on doubled up sofas!)

MrsGolfPro · 04/07/2007 20:13

Hi Girls. We have a new recruit!!!! Jamie is gonna join us (her LO was born on 4th Feb but shhhhhhhhhhh we'll let her join).

Found her lurking on one of the other topics cos she needs some much needed TLC

eandh · 04/07/2007 20:14

wooo hooo jamie where are you????

jamie18 · 04/07/2007 20:16

hi im jamie (hello everyone)

JodieG1 · 04/07/2007 20:19

Hi Jamie welcome

theUrbanDryad · 04/07/2007 20:23

hi Jamie...nice to hear from you. have you got a boy or girl? name? weight at birth? horrendous labour or quite quick?

jamie18 · 04/07/2007 20:26

i have a littel gir called (Brooke) she wighed 6pound 9 and the birth was horrible. i had to be induced. i had pre-clampsia and blood clots in my legs.

jamie18 · 04/07/2007 20:33

im very sorry but im have to go as my littel girl isnt to well she had jabs to day and is very irritable and wont settel. i will def be on again now that i know ur all out there :0 xx
take care

theUrbanDryad · 04/07/2007 20:34

OMG - sounds a bit like me. i was induced at 38 weeks cause my contractions didn't start. they had me up to the maximum dose of Syntocinon till they started! was horrible! you need to get some piccies up on your profile! (i'm so nosey!)

Wilkie · 04/07/2007 20:40

Sod this - I'm Wilkie and always will be

eandh · 04/07/2007 20:40

laughalot nearly called Lauren Brooke!!

eandh · 04/07/2007 20:41

aaaawwwww wilkie is back hurrah hurra hurrah hurrah

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eandh · 04/07/2007 20:48

hows decorating going PCF??

Wilkie · 04/07/2007 20:49

PMSL at your tips - are you Kim or Aggie?

Will try some though! x

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theUrbanDryad · 04/07/2007 20:54

Wilkie's back!! [gri n][g rin]

RGee · 04/07/2007 20:57

Yeahhhh Wilkie!!

Hiya Jamie

Cheers for the top tips EaH - think I'll stick with my magic E-cloth cleaning system!

jamie18 · 04/07/2007 20:58

hi its jamie i have just settled brooke. how is everyone

MrsCarrot · 04/07/2007 21:02

Wilks, how are you doing, long time no see

You will always be W to me!!

Jamie - hello nice to see you, apparently I am the new lentil weaver of the thread but I think I have been all along, well a bit, I think UD is as bad?

Just stuffed thai takeaway

Rgee- your posts are very 'efficient', you must be in working mum mode!!

MrsCarrot · 04/07/2007 21:03

and rgee, how do you find the e-cloth, I've been looking at those in the grocers?

RGee · 04/07/2007 21:06

Oh MrsCarrot - is it that obvious! Think I prob still do have my works hat on
My e-cloth is great for all my stainless steel kitchen gadgets. Brings my taps up a treat without resorting to lots of freebie flash

RGee · 04/07/2007 21:07

Where is Nemo btw? It was her who won the flash wasn't it? I'm obviously still bitter about it....

eandh · 04/07/2007 21:09

Hi jamie we are fine here although I am heading off for a bath and bed since both ellie and hattie were awake at 5am as dh was not quiet when he went to work, hope brooke has good night after her jabs