My little greenhouse

It doesn't cost much for a small plastic greenhouse which is great to start seeds off in the early Spring 

A small plastic greenhouse is really useful to start of seedlings and also to overwinter non tender plants. 

For about £15 you can buy one like t his, which has extra strong webbed plastic.
I shall start planting my vegetable and flower seeds in the next days as we are now seeing slightly warmer weather.  Growing indoors on window sills is not as successful as the light is not strong enough and you will get etiolated, long leggy weak seedlings. 

It's amazing what things you could throw away can be useful

I have always been a magpie, or thrifty...... or perhaps just mean?

I was brought up to respect things, as we were not that rich and therefore anything we bought I always took care of.

This philosophy has continued into my later life and now some might say that I am a "hoarder".  Maybe so, but why throw things away when supposedly their usefulness has come to an end... you can maybe find an alternative use before it is time to finally bin it.

When I bought my house, which was brand new, the builders for some reason only known to them decided to install a "granite like" sink in a pale colour which is a nightmare to keep clean.

Using cloths and cleaning materials to get into the nooks and crannies around the tap etc. has always been fiddly and we also have the hardest water in Britain, and limescale, but I have found a solution.

A couple of years ago I went to New York and bought a battery operated toothbrush which I made use of during my stay.  When I came home I used it until such time as the brush was really not hygienic enough for my teeth and I was going to bin it.

However, I soaked the brush in bleach and hot water and decided it would be just the thing to clean around the tap and the sink.  It is much less hard work and is being put to good use until such time as the battery runs out....