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Community => Coffee Lounge => Topic started by: Sandy on September 05, 2011, 12:30:50 am
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I went out shopping and kept seeing different colourd buckets and just had to buy one, not sure why but I like it, not many years ago I would have passed them by but how things change, plastic box;s, buckets and we realy realy realy would love a nice BIG yellow wheel barrow!! Wellies are also interesting as is garden tools. What things are other small holders attracted to now that they never gave a second glance to?
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Fields and stock (okay so not really in the shopping catagory) but I've started doing the slow drive-by anything that looks interesting.
I now wait for my Fearing cataloge to arrive and love looking through it and any other animal product related stuff. Some woman like shoes and bags, not me ::) ;D
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What things are other small holders attracted to now that they never gave a second glance to?
Er, Sheep!?! ;D
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On the few times I went in the car with my ex father in law ( a farmer), he too would be commenting on the fields, crops and stock as we drove along and when it came to his funeral I thought about the drive to the crematorium and wondered if his spirt was enjoying the ride, my OH looks at push bikes and dogs, I sometimes have to tell him as people may wonder why he's staring at them, well thier bike or dog!!!!!
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Ooooh - gloves - definitely.
My perfect glove would be waterproof but breathable and sturdy enough to stand up to pulling thistles and nettles out without being too thick to make them unwieldy.
At the moment - depending on the job - I wear cotton liners inside marigolds for weeding with a pair of rigger gloves over the top for thistle pulling. I love my hedge-laying mits for heavier work such as moving wood but a mouse has eaten through one finger. Welding mits are just as good....
I could go on
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Don't know why this topics in recipes??? ??? but i lovetaking the farmers weekly to bed and trawling the classified ads for enormous kit that i could never possibly use or have on our smallholding!! sad or what. Can't resist a bargain whether its useful or not!! fave shops Wilkos & Aldi for some choice useless/useful gadgets!! ::)
Mandy :pig: ;D
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I went out shopping and kept seeing different colourd buckets and just had to buy one, not sure why but I like it, not many years ago I would have passed them by but how things change, plastic box;s, buckets and we realy realy realy would love a nice BIG yellow wheel barrow!! Wellies are also interesting as is garden tools. What things are other small holders attracted to now that they never gave a second glance to?
I do have a lovely BIG yellow wheelbarrow - it's perfect for a square bale and if you position it correctly you can't feel the weight. I love it so much I got another one in green for the veg garden (ha - it never stays there). We also have the small-amount-of-concrete-mixing-up barrows from a builders merchant, now distorted and holey, the mucking-out-the henhouse barrows, the OH-carrying-his-woodworking-and-other-tools-in barrows, the sheep-sh##e barrows. You can never have too many barrows, but I would draw the line at a pink one :o
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caravans!! used to hate them, make fun of them at any oppurtunity, we have upgraded our first one to a newer one!!
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SuzieQ, have you tried exfoliating gloves? I find they are fairly nettle proof...well small nettles and roots. They are breathable, fairly durable, cheap (poundland), mendable, also they seem to aid "grabability", wet or dry and you can wash your hands then take them off (they dry fairly quickly too).
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exfoliating gloves
They sound ineresting, I picked loads of nettles and you have to be careful as your fingers can tingle for ages and ages, after, of course, you can do your body with the gloves!!!! Good value!
WHops, I did not realize I put it on recipes, I am so tiered after several late nights, being woken by mr plod and several very early mornings, i need a good 8 hours sleep otherwise my brain mal funcitons!!!
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I like buckets too!! Always seem to be buying them, for water, feed, etc. round the farm. On Saturday, we were at Clitheroe auction, and there was a large black tub .....oooh, ideal for the ponies water. Five in the field get through lots of water. Yes, I bid, and came home with this enormous tub, now in the field full of water.
I also, especially at this time of year, start looking round for warm jumpers, trousers and gloves, ready for winter. Always looking in outdoor shops for their latest warm clothing!!
Recipe books too - must have hundreds. Scan shelves in charity shops, car boots etc. and its amazing how many books I have not got among my collection.
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I like buckets too!! Always seem to be buying them, for water, feed, etc. round the farm. On Saturday, we were at Clitheroe auction, and there was a large black tub .....oooh, ideal for the ponies water. Five in the field get through lots of water. Yes, I bid, and came home with this enormous tub, now in the field full of water.
Any cattle or larg(ish) scale sheep farmer on 'disadvantaged ground' probably has a humungous leaning tower of these things in a shed. Or several. (Several towers in several sheds, probably!)
I use :
- one for calf feed (they have lids, so they make ratproof feed stores)
- one upturned for a milking stool
- one upturned for a mounting block
- one as a lamb hospital in the 'pet pen' - keeps the sickly lamb near to the infra red and stops other sturdier babies climbing over Sicky
- several for water buckets in fields and stables
- several as water butts under downpipes
- several as sand stores (ready for winter)
- BIL takes a few every now and again for garden veg & herbs
And we still have a couple of leaning towers dotted about....
So, Roxy - I could sell these could I? We have wondered. Would you mind telling me what you paid?
Actually, I think I will ask our local wildlife rescue if they'd like some - but we'll still have more than plenty.
BTW, especially for Sandy and fleecewife, we have black ones and blue ones and green ones. No yellow ones, I'm afraid and I've never seen a pink one... ;) :D
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SuzieQ, have you tried exfoliating gloves? I find they are fairly nettle proof...well small nettles and roots. They are breathable, fairly durable, cheap (poundland), mendable, also they seem to aid "grabability", wet or dry and you can wash your hands then take them off (they dry fairly quickly too).
Oooh - I'll have to give those a try. :love: :) :)
I noticed as I was walking around the shop this afternoon that I also have an eye out for comfortable warm, dry footwear that's easy to shrug on and off in the porch....... and slippers. I'm always looking for the perfect slipper - easy to shrug on and off but doesn't fall off when going up the stairs making me have to scrinch my toes up......
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Don't know why this topics in recipes???
I have asked Dan to move it to Coffee Lounge if that's OK Sandy......
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As for yellow buckets- we had a few but I have banned them. Because insects are attracted to yellow, loads of bumble bees, hoverflies etc fall in and drown. Mice do sometimes too, but into any colour. I don't wear yellow either as wasps and bees think I'm a big flower ;D ;D I love bees in their place ie collecting pollen and sipping nectar but I have the remnants of a phobia about bees when it comes to them sitting on me :bee: :bee: :bee:
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Everytime I go to the farm co-op I find myself walking around the tool section as per usual, then the screw and fastening section, then the battery section, fencing section, - then onto the paint section where for some reason I can always think of alot of things I could paint. I generally buy a tin with the anticipation of actually coating something with it eventually - then I leave. I then - Put the paint in the landrover, find it all weeks later under a seat or when I finally have a passenger in the back, then put it in a shed with all the other paints I have bought.
Nothing excites me more than when a new colour of oxide/farm paint comes into store.
I am just waiting for the day they start the range
- Vauxhall '1990s flame red' - in MATT
- Morris marina - Orange with rusty bits
- Ford cortina - shinny s**t brown
Baz
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My weakness is rubbish skips - All kinds of goodies in them - I just can't pass one by without a peek ::) ;D
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Oh GOD!!!!.... and old oil lamps. I now have about 15 ::) ::) :D
I keep picking them up at our local antiques shop.
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bazzais, know the feeling, mab, I love getting anything free, I have a house full of pre used stuff and as we are a B&B people often ask me if I have travelled!!! very funny but some one did!!!!! I love solar lights too I must add and lots of other rubbish thats naff, this is a big house so good to collect things.....If I could I would go to antique shops, second hand shops and rubbish tips daily, love the feeling of free or cheap stuff!
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On second thoughts, being rich would be a handicap, I would not get so much enjoyment about getting cheap or free things, money is nice in the right amounts for you, not to much but enough to have fun and pay the bills :)
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Mines wellies and boots along with good working coats. Before i started shooting and inyo horses i had cheap and nasty wellies, now i couldnt do without my neopreme lined wellies!!!!
Boots i need a good sturdy pair to work in my hoggs, my little lowland boots for light walking in summer ect then i have my big and i mean big shooting boot which come to the top of my shins which i use in deep snow weve had the last two winters to go to school. The looks on peoples faces.... Priceless excpecially after being used to feed pigs and muck out in :D
coats well i have summer work coat, winter workcoat summer good/shooting coat and shooting winter coat all my boots ect and coats all shooting brands becuase i find they last longer !
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Oh GOD!!!!.... and old oil lamps. I now have about 15 ::) ::) :D
I keep picking them up at our local antiques shop.
Ooh ....same here - oil lamps, and also the old miners lamps - have a strange obsession with those. Maybe I was a miner in a former life?!!
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Wellies? Me too!!
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Ahhh - wellies.
I'm off to start a wellie thread :D :D
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I Neeed some wellies, come on please show me wellies, I want red, pink and purple ones, neuprene and comfy...wheres the WELLISZ?
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[ I'm afraid and I've never seen a pink one... ;) :D
Most of the horsey merchants sell pink ones you can get matching grooming boxes, brushes etc all in a lovely cerise!!! ::)
Mandy :pig:
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Some years ago when we lived in a very horsey village on a horse route, people would pass buy daily and me and hubby loved an elderly gentlemans outfit as he rode past, he had stunning purple jodhpurs and ridding boots, they aer much more common now but then were unusual and I loved them, he always stopped to speak to us!!
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Boxes. ;D
I'm obsessed with boxes. Always have been. From tiny pretty or funky ones to put jewellery in to ones to file away paperwork in ................................ now I run veg box & meat box schemes and I love nothing better than finding just the right box for the job - especially thrilling when it's been acquired from a wellknown supermarket - i have been known to come out with a trolley full of cardboard boxes & nothing else.
Though I can quite easily emphasise with everyone else obsessions to - nothin' like just the right thing for the job is there?
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Hay and straw!! I'm obsessed, what with prices going up sky high and us not getting any cut off our own land this year. Everytime we go past a lorry with loads of hay bales on I swoon. On the way to Wales my eldest actually told me off because she's sick of hearing about how lovely it would be to have that much hay in our barn for winter. That and VERY green welsh grass - I developed a thing about that on holiday, ours is sort of brown at the moment (drought)
oh and Wellies, and anything made by Joules (my 4 daughters share that affliction too...)
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My weakness is rubbish skips - All kinds of goodies in them - I just can't pass one by without a peek ::) ;D
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Me too, I've picked up no end of good stuff.
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When I lived in North Devon there were a lot of recycling centres with shops where you could buy reclaimed items and materials. I spent a lot of time there and bought a lot of things though didn't have to spend much money as everything was very cheap.
Now I'm up North and there's nothing like that so I have to call into charity shops for that kind of bargain - but any individual charity shop only has a very limited selection of that kind of thing. And a lot of my bargains were things that were no longer suited to their original purpose but could be adapted to something else - and since they only cost pennies, you never minded taking them to bits to get at the element you wanted to reuse.
I did used to wonder whether the reclamation shops affected the charity shops - but in those parts the charity shops seemed to have a lot of slightly better quality stuff which they could sell for a little bit more, so it seemed as though it worked for all parties.
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Reclamation shops sound ideal, I often see stuff at the tip but no longer ask if I can take them as they sometimes get a bit???, however, I used to.
I often took old draws for the hens to nest in, then, when they were too dirty, i dropped my old draws off back at the tip!!!
We also picked up a huge roll of fabric for furnishing and cut bits off to make dog bedding!
Even had some nice garden tools and some furniture.
I always think if your a bit handy you can get stuff to use and make some thing out of them...I used things around the garage to create a pen for the chickens when we first moved and I love "mackeling things up"
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Buckets - I would like red ones for down the field, easier to see in grass, but you can't seem to get the builders type in red. can't have too any buckets, but OH frowns at me when I look at them, says we've got some, why do I want another.
(tip - I put red electricians tape on the handles of tools etc so I can see them easily, spent ages one year looking for the pitchfork when haymaking, it had fallen down onto the hay and I couldn't see it, now has red tape on th handle- easy to see at a distance).
plastic boxes (about40ltr?) I would have a major colourful collection of these but again OH frowns at me when I look at them, tho he has managed to snaffle a few for his tools.
Mesh-any sort - collected sometimes from transfer station where someone put it in metal recycling, all sizes come in useful.
Tubs - managed to get a lot of old plastic dustbins when Council went on to wheelie bins, stores water, feed, upside down over plants, problem weeds. but any size tub is welcome.
Pink wellies - never ;D ;D ;D
ROXY- Clitheroe would be our 'local' auction, forgot there was anything on, was it fur'n'feather? sometimes get there Wednesday evenings (fur'n'nfeather) when there are also penfulls of things people would 'collect'. ::).
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I'm soo sorry i am going to let you all down now because i'm obsessed with shoes and bags, luv em, got so many hubby has threatened to set fire to them; i'm such a girl.
Failing that i am addicted to rabbit hutches and poultry houses , just can't walk by without having a look in them and poking about especially at farm sales. Got loads of guinea pigs so like to give them nice houses
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Leghorn has a Turkey house you would love, I do understand the shoe and bag thing, been there myself, now more like scarfs, floaty ones not wooly although I like them too!! I think I have noticed, some times I have bought the same theng twice buy accident and forgetting I already had one like it, this applies to long cardies, I have always loved them, especialy with pockets...on that note, I also love aprons but thats due to my job in this B&B, I walk around with alsorts in my pockets then put the lot in the wash!!!!
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I really have a fondness for tub trugs, especially purple or pink ones ;D My cows all had a nice brightly coloured one for their feed last winter until some :censored: stole them! They had to do with crystalyx buckets after that! ::)
I find the 80kg crystalyx tubs are sooo handy for fostering lambs on at lambing time or as water troughs, I try and buy them now instead of the smaller ones.
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I find the 80kg crystalyx tubs are sooo handy for fostering lambs on at lambing time or as water troughs, I try and buy them now instead of the smaller ones.
When I listed the ways in which these tubs get used here, I forgot to mention collie cooler :
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I get buckets and bucket handles from the local farm ... buckets are for every job and the dogs drinking bowl and the handles I bend into monkeys 's' to hang baskets or even as climbing frames for the cucumber/tomatoes/vine
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Now I have a pink and a lime green bucket!! ::)
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I find the 80kg crystalyx tubs are sooo handy for fostering lambs on at lambing time or as water troughs, I try and buy them now instead of the smaller ones.
When I listed the ways in which these tubs get used here, I forgot to mention collie cooler :
My collie does that too the smallest bucket will do or the muddiest puddle she can find, failing that the water trough!