Been clearing out a cupboard, and came across a jar of two-inch nails, left in the shed by the previous owners of this house, twenty-one years ago. I recall telling my wife at the time that "these will come in useful sometime".
Well, I have thrown them out, so no doubt will find an urgent need for a large amount of slightly rusty nails, in about a weeks time!!
Been clearing out a cupboard, and came across a jar of two-inch nails, left in the shed by the previous owners of this house, twenty-one years ago. I recall telling my wife at the time that "these will come in useful sometime".
Well, I have thrown them out, so no doubt will find an urgent need for a large amount of slightly rusty nails, in about a weeks time!!
When our neighbour's husband died she asked me if I would sort out his sheds and garage, to see if there was anything actually worth keeping. He was also of the 'it might come in useful sometime' generation and I'm not criticising that. I actually did find a lot of good quality tools, and lots of screw top jars marked up with the type and size of the screws / nails in them. Somewhat less useful was the content of a drawer marked 'gloves'. Most of them seemed to have been used when mixing concrete and left with wet concrete on them! I also discovered two micrometers with the name of his eldest son on them. A couple of years later the wife died and their son came across from Canada for the funeral. We got talking and I mentioned the micrometers. It turned out they had been his prizes for being apprentice of the year twice. He had assumed his Dad had thrown them out as they had a pretty rocky relationship when he was young, although things were much better in later years. I also asked the son if he realised just how proud of him his Dad was, the son having become very successful after emigrating. His reply was sad. "I wish Dad had told me" was all he said.
Just been reading how much imported honey is adulterated with sugar syrup. OH has just been off to check the jar in the kitchen, carefully chosen by me as it was from a supposedly reputable company and labelled as English and not blended, so seems ok. But how is it possible that so much fraudulent product can sneak it’s way to the country? The importers should be bearing the responsibility for proving that the goods aren’t counterfeit, rather than trading standards having to chase this up.
Honey is still marked with things like 'Blend of honey from EU and non-EU countries" which is unhelpful now that we've been forced out of the EU.
I never get the man drawer thing. Who wastes a perfectly good drawer on man stuff? You need to think big when it comes to this sort of thing and spread it out around the house until your OH cracks and agrees to a shed/mancave/garage upgrade. My dad has an entire barn crammed full of useful stuff that he intends to leave for us kids to inherit. We're not allowed to touch it until he dies though. I stole an old lamp and a metal watering can from in there while he was on holiday. They hadn't been touched in over 40 years and were buried at the back but he knew they were gone. The lamp is restored and working with an LED flame-effect light now so he's not having it back. We tried to get planning permission to convert his barn into a retirement annexe for them just to force him to give it the old 'Swedish Death Clean' but I think he bribed the Planning Officer to turn it down.
If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
If you're annoyed by the syrup in honey then take a look at the levels of lead and cadmium that have gone unregulated in dark chocolate. We tend to think our food is well regulated but these things keep cropping up and it will only get worse now we don't have EU backup.
If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
Never thought to check honey for being authentic but I do try and buy local and/or organic with a particular plant base. Not keen on chestnut but love acacia, alpine flowers etc.
We haven't tried proper chocolate shops yet but none of the SMs we use has an Easter egg by a named and trusted producer and we do like to get a proper, filled, chocolate egg for Possum. Even the usual range of our favourite mini Milka eggs is limited to plain milk chocolate instead of all the usual variations such as praline, hazelnut, almond, croquant, biscuit and the rest.
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I recall telling my wife at the time that "these will come in useful sometime".
Well, I have thrown them out, so no doubt will find an urgent need for a large amount of slightly rusty nails, in about a weeks time!!
We haven't tried proper chocolate shops yet but none of the SMs we use has an Easter egg by a named and trusted producer and we do like to get a proper, filled, chocolate egg for Possum. Even the usual range of our favourite mini Milka eggs is limited to plain milk chocolate instead of all the usual variations such as praline, hazelnut, almond, croquant, biscuit and the rest.
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