A pack of j-cloths or those microfibre doobreys for cleaning the backs of stuff and things from the back of cupboards that haven't moved in a while (unless that's just me ) so you don't keep getting a face full of dust and old spider bits as you put things into the boxes.
Bin bags
Packing paper/bubble wrap/whatever for the breakables.
Tea bags/instant coffee and biscuits
A few smallish stackable plastic crates are usually handy. Most things can go in cardboard boxes but heavy things like dinner plates are usually better in something with sturdier handles and with a bit more rigidity
Bottle of wine and some convenience food option for when it's done
Gardening on the edge of Exmoor, in Devon
“It's still magic even if you know how it's done.”
Good advice above Dove. I would simply add - more crates, more cardboard boxes, more plastic bubble wrap than you think you could possibly need. Try and do one cupboard, one room at a time and not get distracted. When you assemble cardboard boxes, close the bottom slit with the sticky tape but then add two cross strips across the width. Much stronger.
Cool again here but sunny spells here and there. No rain which is frustrating given all the moisture flying overhead. Sewing for me then.
Belgium's national day tomorrow. Possum wants a Belgian feast. I've suggested moules frites, gratin aux chicons, waterzooi - all tongue in cheek knowing her preferences - but she wants steak frites! Boring.
Hope your foot clears up Hosta and you stay warm Pat.
Love blueberries too but much prefer bilberries. Loathe gooseberries as they leave a nasty feel in my mouth but OH loves them so I bought him a purple one which would at least be decorative. The taste and feel difference is amazing. Wonderful crumbles, cobbler and jam. I brought one plant with me and have bought another. Just need to get the fruit cage built now and find tons of manure to beef up the soil which is fertile but bone dry at the mo.
Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
"The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
Ahh ......Obelixx.....memories flooding back ...when my friend and I as long haired teenagers busked across Europe in the 60s.....we were given steak frites with a big blob of mayo on our first day in Belgium at a pub where someone appreciated our singing .....the beer wasn't bad either
Joyce - they do have Leonidas shops here but the prices are incredible. 2 or 3 times the norm for Belgium which is probably just as well as they are my favourites and a guilty pleasure.
Dacha - frites mayonnaise are wonderful. Just not too keen on the steak part unless it's a very well brought up Aberdeen or Limousin. Belgian beer is regularly voted the best in the world but lost on me unless I'm cooking with it. Don't like beer. OH has a cupboard full of glasses for his favourite Belgian beers but has now switched to local French artisanal beers. He knows he can't start another glass collection except on the basis of one in, one out. We are supposed to have downsized! The Belgians love a sing song over beers.
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Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
"The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
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A pack of j-cloths or those microfibre doobreys for cleaning the backs of stuff and things from the back of cupboards that haven't moved in a while (unless that's just me
) so you don't keep getting a face full of dust and old spider bits as you put things into the boxes.
Bin bags
Packing paper/bubble wrap/whatever for the breakables.
Tea bags/instant coffee and biscuits
A few smallish stackable plastic crates are usually handy. Most things can go in cardboard boxes but heavy things like dinner plates are usually better in something with sturdier handles and with a bit more rigidity
Bottle of wine and some convenience food option for when it's done
“It's still magic even if you know how it's done.”
Gin.
When you don't even know who's in the team
S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border
Gin!!!!........mover's ruin
Good morning everyone.
Good advice above Dove. I would simply add - more crates, more cardboard boxes, more plastic bubble wrap than you think you could possibly need. Try and do one cupboard, one room at a time and not get distracted. When you assemble cardboard boxes, close the bottom slit with the sticky tape but then add two cross strips across the width. Much stronger.
Cool again here but sunny spells here and there. No rain which is frustrating given all the moisture flying overhead. Sewing for me then.
Belgium's national day tomorrow. Possum wants a Belgian feast. I've suggested moules frites, gratin aux chicons, waterzooi - all tongue in cheek knowing her preferences - but she wants steak frites! Boring.
Hope your foot clears up Hosta and you stay warm Pat.
Love blueberries too but much prefer bilberries. Loathe gooseberries as they leave a nasty feel in my mouth but OH loves them so I bought him a purple one which would at least be decorative. The taste and feel difference is amazing. Wonderful crumbles, cobbler and jam. I brought one plant with me and have bought another. Just need to get the fruit cage built now and find tons of manure to beef up the soil which is fertile but bone dry at the mo.
Any Leonidas chocolate Obelixx?
Ahh ......Obelixx.....memories flooding back ...when my friend and I as long haired teenagers busked across Europe in the 60s.....we were given steak frites with a big blob of mayo on our first day in Belgium at a pub where someone appreciated our singing .....the beer wasn't bad either
Joyce - they do have Leonidas shops here but the prices are incredible. 2 or 3 times the norm for Belgium which is probably just as well as they are my favourites and a guilty pleasure.
Dacha - frites mayonnaise are wonderful. Just not too keen on the steak part unless it's a very well brought up Aberdeen or Limousin. Belgian beer is regularly voted the best in the world but lost on me unless I'm cooking with it. Don't like beer. OH has a cupboard full of glasses for his favourite Belgian beers but has now switched to local French artisanal beers. He knows he can't start another glass collection except on the basis of one in, one out. We are supposed to have downsized! The Belgians love a sing song over beers.
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punkdoc. Methinks you've hit the nail on the head. Sounds exactly what I've got.
http://www.nhs.uk/conditions/mortonsneuroma/Pages/Introduction.aspx
Seems there's no real treatment apart from stop running and wearing heels.
Hosta ... you spend a lot of time wearing wellies don't you? Not a lot of arch support in wellies.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Definitely the high heels,? haven't I told him several times? ??. When you get to a certain age, you have to go flatter. ?