Tea? (Part 2)

[Speicher]

Yes, I assumed they were at St Nicks. Do they get them recycled or use them in arty projects? Anda at the Pump House has made some very nice flowers using bottle tops. The plasticky (pouring) bits from Tetrapak cartons are used as petals.

I have a lot of tall coffee jar lids, that are currently used on the patio. When the plants in pots are not tall enough for the decorative tubs they are in, I use those tops to make the little pots up to the right height. I have also been saving the black plastic food trays. I might use them for planting seedlings in. As the trays are flexible and have slanting sides, it might be easier to get tiny seedlings out without disturbing them too much. I now need to work out an easy and safe way to pierce some drainage holes in the trays.

 

[Arch]

get a lump of plasticine, or blutack, a good sized piece, and a sharp pointy thing. A cross head screwdriver perhaps, or a skewer, depending how big you want the holes.

Place the lump of blutak on a surface (not a good one!), hold the tray lightly above it, and push the pointy thing too. You might have to twist it.

That's how they used to make holes in cardboard on Blue Peter, using a pencil.

 

[Arch]

Oh and if you pierce through from bottom to top, the rough pushed up edge will be under the soil, not on the bottom making the tray wobbly.

 

[potsy]

Ice pick like Sharon Stone in Basic Instinct

Can you tell I'm not a gardener?

Fish fingers done, Magnum-a-like ice lolly for afters

 

[Night Train]

Place on pillar drill and drill through?

 

[Arch]

Place on pillar drill and drill through?

I may be wrong, but I was trying to suggest a method using items Speicher might have about the house....

 

[Speicher]

I may be wrong, but I was trying to suggest a method using items Speicher might have about the house....

I think I can find several pointy type things, not so sure about finding a pillar drill, or even what one is. It is not the finding that is difficult, the garage/recycling depot is fairly tidy as regards tools, etc. Good point about "drilling" from bottom to top!

I also need to fix the black slotty thing that is on the "roof" of my mini-propagator. I thought I had kept the small slidey thingy that fell out, but cannot find it.

 

[Night Train]

I may be wrong, but I was trying to suggest a method using items Speicher might have about the house....

Why would someone not have a domestic pillar drill?

 

[Arch]

I also need to fix the black slotty thing that is on the "roof" of my mini-propagator. I thought I had kept the small slidey thingy that fell out, but cannot find it.

I'm glad to see that despite your lack of a pillar drill, you have a firm grasp of technical terminology!

(A pillar drill is a drill mounted vertically above a base with a hole in it, on which you can place an object and then lower the drill through it to make the hole)

 

[Arch]

Why would someone not have a domestic pillar drill?

Because, not everyone is like you, darling.

 

[potsy]

(A pillar drill is a drill mounted vertically above a base with a hole in it, on which you can place an object and then lower the drill through it to make the hole)

I might be a DIY numpty, but even I know what a pillar drill is
It was part of my very first job when I was 18 to drill holes into the safety signs we made, with one

I also got to use a big saw and a guilloutine

 

[Arch]

I might be a DIY numpty, but even I know what a pillar drill is
It was part of my very first job when I was 18 to drill holes into the safety signs we made, with one

I also got to use a big saw and a guilloutine

Wow, you're older than I thought if your first job was during the French Revolution! What did the signs say "Let them eat cake?"

 

[Night Train]

Because, not everyone is like you, darling.

But I even hear of people having a mill in their kitchen. I don't even have one of them yet.
Granted I would would use a mill for shaping metal whereas I think some other people use a mill for shaping coffee beans. I don't get that one personally, shaped metal is much more useful.

 

[Night Train]

Wow, you're older than I thought if your first job was during the French Revolution! What did the signs say "Let them eat cake?"

This is Potsy, the signs would have said 'Let me eat cake!'.

 

[Arch]