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BPA free bottles/ eco bottles

2013-05-22T17:31:55Z

Hello

I want to buy some BPA free plastic bottles for us to use when outside. I dont like the stainless stell/aluminum ones. can you recommend any eco plastic bottles which are good quality too? Any help, ideas welcome.
Thank you.

Where to buy baskets?

2013-05-19T17:04:10Z

I really want to buy some nice baskets but can’t find any well priced ones anywhere. I keep looking in our charity shops but it seems no one here uses a basket or if they do they never relinquish them!

I like these kind:
http://www.africanmarketbaskets.com/products/

But any nice ones really, ones that look lovely as part of your homes decoration ....anyone know of a good place to buy?
Thank you x

Microwave cooking?

2013-05-05T16:49:36Z

We are moving to a new home (rented) tomorrow and today when I went to visit again I realised that there isn’t an oven, just a microwave with oven function.
I am so annoyed that we didn’t notice this before!
I have never had a microwave and don’t really like the idea of them, and seeing as all I do in my spare time is bake I am a little frustrated and panicking!
Have any of you baked anything using a microwave oven? Any tips?
Or any ideas on how to persuade landlord to get an oven for us
xoxo

Making anothers house your home

2013-05-04T22:01:29Z

We live in my MIL’s house, most of the time I’m content and grateful for the lack of rent/mortgage and the sense of community/ family living but sometimes I get frustrated that I don’t have my own house…..does this sound silly? I really like the house and my MIL and I share a similar aesthetic so there’s no real problems there, it’s just sometimes I think that I would like to look around and see ‘me’ reflected in my home, not ‘me and everyone else’! Also the space issue, which is ok now the children are little but will def be a problem in a couple of years! Does that even make sense?! Anyway, the point of this thread is this: does it matter if where you live is not your own home? Is owning so important? And how would you make it more your own? Thanks in advance everyone xx

Spiel und Holz Grimms toys

2012-07-10T22:24:09Z

We have a few Grimm toys and would love to get some more as DD2’s first birthday approaches. Has anyone found a good supplier either online or somewhere in the UK? We’re finding it really hard to find anything like the full range, and they do such gorgeous things…

Cleaning Carpets

2013-04-26T11:58:58Z

Border Collie eats lots of grass and weeds

Goes for a run

Gets excited

Runs indoors

Pukes dark green grass-filled gunge all over BEIGE carpet

Rented house!

Large dark stain patch left despite careful wiping

Help!

Ant invasion!

2013-04-14T22:19:29Z

We have an ant invasion in our kitchen. I cleared out all the floor-standing cupboards, scrubbed them clean and wiped them out with a strong peppermint solution (had heard this discouraged ants). No change. They are still parading around everywhere. I have ensured all things like flour and so on are in properly sealed containers, and try not to leave any crumbs or similar titbits that appeal to ants anywhere (though my partner needs further encouragement on this one), but does anybody have any effective natural solutions? I really don’t want ant powder in our kitchen…

Bedbugs?

2013-04-11T22:53:24Z

A close friend of our co-op (she and her children sleep over regularly!) has a serious bed bug infestation. Does anyone have an experience/knowledge to pass on especially if you know anything about prevention!

Aaaaargh! It would be awful if e got them…we have 71 rooms we would have to treat!

Ecoballs…i want to love them but…

2013-04-04T12:46:02Z

I’m getting really tired of having to re-wash the childrens clothes because stains haven’t come out. I’ve tried using the Ecozone stain remover in combination with their laundry whitener and i’ve also tried soaking the clothes in white vinegar for half an hour beforehand but nothing seems to work.

Has anyone else had a similar experience and did you find anything that helped?
Am i being too fussy expecting all the marks to come off the clothes? Should i just accept that Ecoballs simply aren’t going to give the same sort of performance as conventional detergents?

Starting to drive me crazy

Is anyone else….

2013-04-02T20:35:02Z

a little bit obsessed with hanging washing out on the line?! lol

I’m loving having all this new baby stuff to wash just so I can hang it out on the line… I’ll even go around the house on a good drying day and find stuff to wash just so I can hang it out. I washed all the nappies yesterday and they were all out on the line today along with the new towels.

Hubby is going to build a sort of lean to/car port thing at the side of the house over the summer, and I can have a washing line under there as well so I can hang the nappies out even if it’s raining. And I’m so excited at that prospect.

I think I perhaps need professional help!