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  • ErgatesErgates Posts: 2,953
    Eek, how dreadful, Songbird-1! Hope you can claim on your insurance, as Lyn suggests?
  • Lizzie27Lizzie27 Posts: 12,494
    I also need some stain removal advice please. I stupidly left our navy blue parasol propped up by the side of my sentry shed for a couple of weeks with a bin bag over to keep it dry.  I've just got it out and found big round snail slime marks all over it. Tried scrubbing them with a nailbrush/hot water/washing up liquid but they haven't disappeared. Anything else I could try?
    North East Somerset - Clay soil over limestone
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    White spirit?
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • Lizzie27Lizzie27 Posts: 12,494
    Thanks @B3, not sure if I've got any but will have a look.  You've reminded me that I have got (somewhere!) some Stain devils which might do the trick.
    North East Somerset - Clay soil over limestone
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    edited July 2022
    Just googled. Most recommend enzymatic cleaner. Washing powder / liquid has enzymes, I suppose some of the stain devil's do too 
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    As it’s (presumably) a biological slime I’d try a gentle scrub with a nail brush and some biological detergent. 

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • LynLyn Posts: 23,190
    Ergates said:
    Eek, how dreadful, Songbird-1! Hope you can claim on your insurance, as Lyn suggests?
    Oops!  Carpet for a bed set,  not a bad swap. 😀
    Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 

  • LiriodendronLiriodendron Posts: 8,328
    My curmudgeon has turned into a reason to be cheerful. 

    After half an hour on the phone this morning, on hold to the DWP, I spoke to a human being - quite a feat these days.  Not just a human, but a friendly, funny, sympathetic human who understood my dismay that my state pension hadn't been paid since the middle of April.  (It turned out it had been "suspended", but no reason was given, so she "un-suspended" it.)

    I'm going to be getting a nice wodge of back payments.   :)
    Since 2019 I've lived in east Clare, in the west of Ireland.
  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,090
    You should have had an email or letter about getting a signature from a local official to say you're still alive @Liriodendron.  We did.
    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)."
    Plato
  • LiriodendronLiriodendron Posts: 8,328
    No such letter here, @Obelixx.  But after answering all her security questions to her satisfaction she seemed convinced I was alive...  
    How's the knee going?
    Since 2019 I've lived in east Clare, in the west of Ireland.
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