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KateS

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  1. Selling two of these IKEA bathroom cabinets, alone or together they create a fantastic wall of mirrors with very useful storage space.

    Were £200 each new from IKEA, there is a little paint on some of the sides (not noticeable once installed) from some lazy painting so am selling for £40 each.

    Only selling because we’ve had to move our boiler upstairs into the bathroom, so these cupboards won’t fit in the space anymore, sad to see them go!

    Collection from Lyndhurst Grove.

    Each cupboard measures 80cm wide x 96cm tall x 14cm deep

    https://www.ikea.com/gb/en/p/godmorgon-mirror-cabinet-with-2-doors-mirror-glass-10304355/

     

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  2. Handmade by my own fair hands, but I haven’t found a place for it in my current home. It’s a lovely blue ditsy floral with a contrast red trim. Perfect for a table lamp. 


    Measures 31cm wide at the bottom, 16cm wide at the top, 23cm tall.

    Lined with white satin, which helps reflect the light. There are a few small marks on the inside but they aren’t visible from the outside.

    Collection from Lyndhurst Grove.

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  3. I did an ancestry one recently, it was rather fun! Can’t compare to 23&me though as haven’t done it. I’m American and as the Americans are very into family history, my family tree back to the 1600s had pretty much already been mapped out for me by other members. I think it uses AI to suggest potential/probable ancestors as you work your way back through time, based on what other people have already added. It was also interesting seeing my genetic breakdown, despite both parents being American I am apparently 80% English. Have fun!

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  4. Big pot of chilli con carne, bulked up with kidney beans and veg.

    Serve with rice and cheese, and leftovers are great in wraps.


    Tray bake of sausages or chicken thighs, chopped potatoes, onions and tomatoes. Bake it all in the same tray drizzled with some olive oil.


    Breakfast for dinner is always fun, eggs, beans, toast, bacon etc.


    Fish fingers and homemade potato wedges.


    If all else fails, pop some frozen pizzas in the oven.

  5. Madhur Jaffrey's cookbook Eastern Vegetarian Cooking is really good, I have an old copy that I use for a lot of inspiration when I'm like, what the heck should I do with this brocolli/cabbage/bag of carrots???


    I think you can get fresh turmeric from Village Grocer on Bellenden Rd (the one that used to be called Payless).

  6. I may be being over the top, but I am a cat lover and know my neighbourhood cats well, and this fellow seemed lost.


    This cat was spotted just now around the upper section of Chadwick Rd, photographed through the fence of the Print Village units.


    I haven?t seen him around here before (pretty sure it?s a him), and he seemed to want to be friendly but also quite nervous, making me feel he may have wandered too far from home and be lost.


    Lovely markings around eyes, and a thick bottle brush striped tail.

  7. The idea is that you sell stuff outside your house, but lots of people in the same area do it as well, making it a fun day for locals to wander about buying each others stuff.


    One person's trash is another's treasure!


    It looks like there used to be a good infrastructure set up (search for Jumble Trail on FB), but that seems to have stopped now.


    Why not just give to a charity shop I hear you ask?

    We've been having a clear out, and I feel like a lot of the stuff isn't quite charity shop material, but would still be useful for someone! Like a partially used artist's set of paints.


    You could always give all your proceeds to charity.


    People are often away over bank holiday weekends, and summer holidays, so I was thinking Saturday 29th June would be a good time?


    I'd love to know if anyone else fancies this!

  8. Chadwick Rd, about 22:40 05/06, had a very friendly man knock on my door saying he was a new neighbour of mine, so nice to meet me etc.


    He was about to dive into his story about how he had parked his car somewhere and needed some money to get it out of the garage, but I stopped him short because I recognised him as having come to door with the same story around Christmas 2016. I really remembered the incident in 2016 and told him so, he had given a different house number that time, and it was a large number and I didn't think my street numbers went up that high. At first he said but how could that be me, I'm your new neighbour, but then sheepishly walked off.


    Tried to phone 101 non-emergency police, but after 30mins of ringing I gave up and went to bed.


    Then get all philosophical about how trust and help between neighbours is so important, and was angry that this guy was degrading that trust.

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