Category Archives: What do you think?

Omlet

Wed, 22 November, 2006 – 12:56 AM MST

No it’s not a form of storage for your ipod. It’s actually a chicken home called the Eglu (or a rabbit home or whatever small animal you can think of really). Being an ingenuitive kiwi, I couldn’t help but think it would be easier to build my own A frame. Amway Susan’s been thinking about [...]

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50 Ways To Kill A Slug

Sun, 27 August, 2006 – 5:21 PM MDT

It took Susan a few weeks and garden full of seaweed and copper tape but finally she declared war on the slugs. The last straw was when she woke up one morning to find her new pansy’s were the slugs latest victims. Since then she has been out each night with a torch decapitating [...]

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Seaweed to flight Slugs

Tue, 8 August, 2006 – 4:35 PM MDT

Last week we had a friend called Mike come and stay with us. He’s a friend of a friend of a friend form Oamaru, New Zealand. We all got on well and being a bit bored and stuck in Andover he was pretty happy to just do whatever we wanted to do.
Susan has been [...]

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UK - the bureaucracy of India with the infrastructure of Chad

Tue, 16 May, 2006 – 8:40 AM MDT

I’m battling UK government bureaucracy to get the paper part of my Drivers licence reissued at the moment. For a start the UK is the only place I’m aware of that has a photo drivers licence card but still insists of using the paper licence as it’s official documentation. You might ask what’s the point [...]

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Sock Clips - What’s the point?

Sun, 19 March, 2006 – 12:44 PM MST

Okay my wife gets these ideas. They usually happen went we go into these stores where they sell all sorts of “time saving” stuff.
While in Newcastle in one such store called Lakeland she saw these sock clips.

You attach them to your socks before putting them into the wash and then you can just [...]

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What’s the point?

Tue, 7 February, 2006 – 9:40 AM MST

I need to ask,
What is the point in having a large plastic container that sits inside your kitchen sink?

I had never seen one until we moved to England but here it’s totally the norm.
Is it to save water?
Does it save the sink from getting scratched or is it like many English traditions is it just [...]

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