My mother was very fond of a kaolin poultice for a chesty cough. I can still picture her heating up the tin in a pot of boiling water. No wonder we winced when she approached with it on the cloth as children.... Happy days
Clearing up here so I may get some outdoorsy stuff done anyway.
Panda - my ex partner always said hut and I say shed but I find myself saying hut quite often now!
It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
Yes i will be around today (In and out for coffee)
Great news about the worms arriving today.
You have a can-o-worm system with a tank for drainage at the bottom (leave the tap open at all times unless it gets to dry). You start at the next level up and work upwards from there. Hope you have aged bedding material ready to put the worms in when they arrive. Looking forward to any questions you have.
Enjoy
Edd.
Edd. I was going to skim the top off the compost bin (been in there well over a week and looks a delightfully nasty soup) to act as a starting base for them. Does that sound about right? I know they come with some form of bedding too to act as a starting point. I must have spent hours on You Tube watching videos but I know I've still so much to learn!
Cool, dark & damp here. GH open half way here Clari, sure yours will be okay.
Suppose I'd best do my ironing
Hopefully. At least the plants have had chance to harden off slightly so I am not too concerned. The weather report isn't looking promising for this weekend - I'm blaming OL she was worrying about hot summers and empty water butts!
I've a second batch of tomato seeds to plant this weekend but aside from the wormery I can't see much less getting done in the garden.
Pdoc, I went to Venice for the day from what was Yugoslavia, nice place but I could only afford an icecream. If you want to do all the lovely things suggested how about selling some meconopsis. I however would not be purchasing as I have two new ones and a bit of leaf in a pot. Have a brill time.
Poultice we rubbed Vick on our chests.
Question, this will test you, my late MIL used to apply some potion to her feet when she got cracks between her toes, OH no idea what it was but I recall it sounding something like. 'Ivy dock a dill dock' what the heck was that ?
Perhaps soup wasn't the best of words! The vegetable scraps have started to break down and go soft rather than their perky little selves. I'll be sure to add some cardboard in if it looks too damp.
I'm not sure I'd be too impressed at being thrown in a box and bounced around in the back of a van!
Just checked the tracking device. They HAVEN'T left it by the gate as requested (I left a secure box to put them in). Looks like I'll have to hope they left a "collect from here" note as I'm worried if they don't redeliver tomorrow morning (unlikely being a Saturday) the poor devils will NOT be happy waiting until Monday!!
Opodildoc pronounced oppo dill dock is an old name for Soap liniment BP. Mixed 50/50 with glycerin and then used to soak feet.
Hope that helps Kef. Please don't ask me for Borax and Honey for sore throats, although I used to make a brill five haporths.(Can't get the ingredients these days... no red poppy syrup.)
What a coincidence Punkdoc .... This year I will be 50, will celebrate my 20th wedding anniversary, and was taken to Venice for my 40th/10th wedding anniversary. You're not Mr Chicky in some sort of elaborate disguise are you?
To find out if you are, I need to know whether your first thought for a special birthday/anniversary celebration was to take your wife to Madrid to see a Real/Barcelona game ?? Luckily he ran the idea past my Mum first, who put him right
Very generously, I agreed to go with him to Madrid for el Classico the following year - turned out to be a true classic - with Beckham, Zidane, Figo, Messi and Ronaldino all on the pitch at the same time ......some, before they were famous
opodeldoc was a synonym for soap liniment BP and it was popular among the older generation for rubbing on chapped hands when mixed with an equal part of glycerin (or glycerol, as we must now call it).
opodeldoc’s pharmacopoeial formula calls for powdered soap 60g, camphor 45g, oil of rosemary 10ml, alcohol 700ml and enough water to make it up to one litre.
You've next to no chance or buying camphor or camphorated spirit but some private chemists will still stock soap liniment and bottles of glycerin/glycerol
I remember vick Kef, and mum used to make some concoction for flu I think it was,....with my head over a bowl of steaming hot stuff, with a towel over my head.
Just got back from SM and a little acer jumped into my trolley, it was only £3! It is quite small. Will take a pic later.
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splinters i think its sodium bicarb that draws them out over a few days, might be wrong I've never tried it myself something i read the other week.
My mother was very fond of a kaolin poultice for a chesty cough. I can still picture her heating up the tin in a pot of boiling water. No wonder we winced when she approached with it on the cloth as children....
Happy days 
Clearing up here so I may get some outdoorsy stuff done anyway.
Panda - my ex partner always said hut and I say shed but I find myself saying hut quite often now!
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
Edd. I was going to skim the top off the compost bin (been in there well over a week and looks a delightfully nasty soup) to act as a starting base for them. Does that sound about right? I know they come with some form of bedding too to act as a starting point. I must have spent hours on You Tube watching videos but I know I've still so much to learn!
Hopefully. At least the plants have had chance to harden off slightly so I am not too concerned. The weather report isn't looking promising for this weekend - I'm blaming OL she was worrying about hot summers and empty water butts!
I've a second batch of tomato seeds to plant this weekend but aside from the wormery I can't see much less getting done in the garden.
Pdoc, I went to Venice for the day from what was Yugoslavia, nice place but I could only afford an icecream. If you want to do all the lovely things suggested how about selling some meconopsis.
I however would not be purchasing as I have two new ones and a bit of leaf in a pot. Have a brill time.
Poultice
we rubbed Vick on our chests.
Question, this will test you, my late MIL used to apply some potion to her feet when she got cracks between her toes, OH no idea what it was but I recall it sounding something like. 'Ivy dock a dill dock' what the heck was that ?
Perhaps soup wasn't the best of words! The vegetable scraps have started to break down and go soft rather than their perky little selves. I'll be sure to add some cardboard in if it looks too damp.
I'm not sure I'd be too impressed at being thrown in a box and bounced around in the back of a van!
Just checked the tracking device. They HAVEN'T left it by the gate as requested (I left a secure box to put them in). Looks like I'll have to hope they left a "collect from here" note as I'm worried if they don't redeliver tomorrow morning (unlikely being a Saturday) the poor devils will NOT be happy waiting until Monday!!
This will show that I'm not really 27.
Opodildoc pronounced oppo dill dock is an old name for Soap liniment BP. Mixed 50/50 with glycerin and then used to soak feet.
Hope that helps Kef. Please don't ask me for Borax and Honey for sore throats, although I used to make a brill five haporths.(Can't get the ingredients these days... no red poppy syrup
.)
What a coincidence Punkdoc .... This year I will be 50, will celebrate my 20th wedding anniversary, and was taken to Venice for my 40th/10th wedding anniversary
. You're not Mr Chicky in some sort of elaborate disguise are you?
To find out if you are, I need to know whether your first thought for a special birthday/anniversary celebration was to take your wife to Madrid to see a Real/Barcelona game ?? Luckily he ran the idea past my Mum first, who put him right
Very generously, I agreed to go with him to Madrid for el Classico the following year - turned out to be a true classic - with Beckham, Zidane, Figo, Messi and Ronaldino all on the pitch at the same time ......some, before they were famous
If you want the formula....
opodeldoc was a synonym for soap liniment BP and it was popular among the older generation for rubbing on chapped hands when mixed with an equal part of glycerin (or glycerol, as we must now call it).
opodeldoc’s pharmacopoeial formula calls for powdered soap 60g, camphor 45g, oil of rosemary 10ml, alcohol 700ml and enough water to make it up to one litre.
You've next to no chance or buying camphor or camphorated spirit but some private chemists will still stock soap liniment and bottles of glycerin/glycerol
I remember vick Kef, and mum used to make some concoction for flu I think it was,....with my head over a bowl of steaming hot stuff, with a towel over my head.
Just got back from SM and a little acer jumped into my trolley, it was only £3! It is quite small. Will take a pic later.