Oh I forgot - labels on jam jars. Hot water and a pan scourer to get the paper off, swarfega to remove the glue residue.
If you have no Swarfega use crunchy peanut butter ... antique dealer's tip that works on 99% of label glue without damaging the surface of ceramics.
Don't you just love that thought process? " Hmmm, I wonder if crunchy peanut butter will remove this label"
I remember on Antiques Roadshow hearing that , in an attempt to copy Japanese Lacquer, they used an ingredient obtained from the gall bladder of a sturgeon. " hmm, I wonder if part of the gall bladder of a deep sea fish might help?" Just gotta love the ingenuity .
I went to a famous daily flea market in Brussels with a friend, years ago. The little street off the square was full of junk and antique shops inone of which she found a gilded metal wine rack on wheels which were stuck fast. The seller advised coca cola - not pepsi - for freeing up the rusty bits. It worked.
Many years before I had spilt some on a desk at the office and it stripped the varnish. It has never darkened my doors since. Maybe worth trying on lables?
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)."
Oh I forgot - labels on jam jars. Hot water and a pan scourer to get the paper off, swarfega to remove the glue residue.
If you have no Swarfega use crunchy peanut butter ... antique dealer's tip that works on 99% of label glue without damaging the surface of ceramics.
Don't you just love that thought process? " Hmmm, I wonder if crunchy peanut butter will remove this label"
I remember on Antiques Roadshow hearing that , in an attempt to copy Japanese Lacquer, they used an ingredient obtained from the gall bladder of a sturgeon. " hmm, I wonder if part of the gall bladder of a deep sea fish might help?" Just gotta love the ingenuity .
If that geo-thermal project can generate enough energy for a good sized part of Redruth - the community who will live with the drill - then it is definitely worth doing. It is the same process as fracking, but the pressures used and the geology it's applied to are very different. Shale is shallow and fragile, granite is deep and much harder to break up. The risks are still there, but far lower.
Of course, it’s just that that particular area is already very fragile.
Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor.
I've used up all my luck for today I think. I was parked in the supermarket carpark earlier eating my lunch when a large Mercedes 4x4 pulled through the space beside me to park in front. He was far too close and my whole car shook as he hit it. I got out expecting to see the bumper hanging off but as my wheel had been turned out slightly he had bounced off the tyre which must have stopped him touching the bodywork. No damage at all. That's the 3rd Mercedes now that's run into one of my cars without causing damage. Well no damage to my car, we still laugh about the lady who ran into my parked Landrover in her nice shiny Merc. I did lose some of my best rust but she came off quite a bit worse.
If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
KT53, yup, by the way I cant make out what c*ts, stands for!!! My 7 year old grandson can read the Times and Observer, and his subject is math, he isnt actually that good at reading! Wild edges, my Hubby was hit on 13th August 2016, in a car park, by a mini bus taxi, the car park was empty, apart from my hubby, pretty big, the guy reversed into him, was just about to bugger off, hadnt seen hubby in there (waiting for me) seat reclined, reading the paper, exchange of details, he wouldnt stay while hubby took photos of HIS car, I said hes not insured, why else would you do a runner, back and forth back and forth, etc, got a letter the other day, I WAS correct, he wasnt insured, they have finnaly caught up with him, NCS and excess restored, beat that!
@wild edges - re removing labels with aerosol leaf shine - I used to work in a garden centre, where I was responsible for putting out laminated cards giving information about the plants, bulbs etc. There would often be a self-adhesive price label on the card, and at the end of the season they'd all need cleaning. The manager told me the leaf shine trick, but didn't want it spread around for fear of customers removing all the price labels before they got to the tills... I imagine she found out by accident, but who knows?
Hmmm. I quite like crunchy peanut butter. I wonder what it does to my insides??
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I remember on Antiques Roadshow hearing that , in an attempt to copy Japanese Lacquer, they used an ingredient obtained from the gall bladder of a sturgeon.
" hmm, I wonder if part of the gall bladder of a deep sea fish might help?"
Just gotta love the ingenuity .
Many years before I had spilt some on a desk at the office and it stripped the varnish. It has never darkened my doors since. Maybe worth trying on lables?
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Hmmm. I quite like crunchy peanut butter. I wonder what it does to my insides??