My bathroom basin has one of those plugs that rests on a bar which is risen and lowered by a plunger at the back of the taps. When not in use I keep the plug on the shelf below the window as the cats pat the plug out, and I am worried about this damaging the basin. I am more worried about the plug being patted under something and never seen again for months (I found it on the hall floor one evening before I stopped keeping it in the basin).
Last week I dropped the soap down the plug hole and, when the water softened it, it must have squidged and it was making the water back up.
My mother told me to pour a kettle full of boiling water down the plug hole to melt the soap and flush it away. It worked a treat.
I am asking my mother to start writing down all the tips she has, adding any family stories that can be associated with them.
Saturday, August 15, 2015
Sunday, August 9, 2015
Sparrows the bosses of the drinking bowl!
I have a casserole dish which I fill with water and put in the garden in the summer for the foxes and the cats. This year I've seen birds using it too.
This morning I looked out of the bedroom window to see a sparrow drinking while a female blackbird waited her turn (though there would have been room for both to drink). When the blackbird was drinking another sparrow flew down for a drink and the blackbird gave up her turn for him.
Eventually she got a proper turn and after a drink she also had a bath.
On my cycle ride home yesterday after blackberrying I saw a lesser spotted woodpecker in the cleared shrubby area that they've put a path through alongside Orient Way (the Ruckholt Relief Road that was).
A fellow kayaker has had all the corn off his corn on the cobs on his allotment eaten - he thinks parakeets.
This morning I looked out of the bedroom window to see a sparrow drinking while a female blackbird waited her turn (though there would have been room for both to drink). When the blackbird was drinking another sparrow flew down for a drink and the blackbird gave up her turn for him.
Eventually she got a proper turn and after a drink she also had a bath.
On my cycle ride home yesterday after blackberrying I saw a lesser spotted woodpecker in the cleared shrubby area that they've put a path through alongside Orient Way (the Ruckholt Relief Road that was).
A fellow kayaker has had all the corn off his corn on the cobs on his allotment eaten - he thinks parakeets.
Saturday, August 1, 2015
Successful gathering/scrounging
I have been picking a few blackberries from my neighbour's overgrown garden to eat with my breakfast cereal for nearly a week. Today on my bike ride I went up between Leyton Marshes and the riding stable to pick a soya desert tub full of blackberries. Saw several other people also picking. I made blackberry crumble - yum!
There was also some horse droppings, so I passed them, picked the blackberries and came back to scoop up the horse droppings for my compost heap.
I then turned and cycled off towards the cattle creep at the end of Coppermill Lane, passing some Prudential riders coming the other way*. Then under the cattle creep, around to the Navigation and back home.
On the way back from shopping got several bits of offcuts from a skip - when sawn up there will be about 2 hours burning.
*My friend in Plumstead is having problems as they have shut the river bridges to traffic because of the Prudential cycling event. She has had to hurriedly get her bike fixed so she can cycle all the way from Plumstead to Clapton for kayaking tomorrow (she now works for the club and is in charge so needs to be there). This is not going to encourage support for cyclists from motorists!
There was also some horse droppings, so I passed them, picked the blackberries and came back to scoop up the horse droppings for my compost heap.
I then turned and cycled off towards the cattle creep at the end of Coppermill Lane, passing some Prudential riders coming the other way*. Then under the cattle creep, around to the Navigation and back home.
On the way back from shopping got several bits of offcuts from a skip - when sawn up there will be about 2 hours burning.
*My friend in Plumstead is having problems as they have shut the river bridges to traffic because of the Prudential cycling event. She has had to hurriedly get her bike fixed so she can cycle all the way from Plumstead to Clapton for kayaking tomorrow (she now works for the club and is in charge so needs to be there). This is not going to encourage support for cyclists from motorists!
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