Tips and wrinkles

My mother and grandmothers were as I’ve said before interesting, capable, kind and loving people, who could make just about anything out of anything, something I’m proud of and hopefully they would be happy with the way I’ve turned out as I try to do the same. I like to keep well within the safety margins though and wouldn’t mess with anything electrical. However, when it comes to repairs and quick hacks I’m there.

I’m always reading, articles, books, ebooks, any magazines I find, I love to find a new way to do something or if I think I didn’t like the way it’s being done, I change it and do it my way, I hope I never stop learning. There’s always another way to make or bake or fix or prepare something and I love a challenge.

It was a revelation to me as a child to learn that you can pop a peeled potato into soup that you have over salted or clean your brassware with HP sauce, that in a bind, you can stick down a loose hearth tile with a quick squeeze of toothpaste or use toothpaste to take the scratches out of a favourite toy’s eyes, by polishing them with it. That fabric conditioner can be used to straighten out a teenaged dolls hair and it won’t look like a bird’s nest anymore, so many tips, so little time. I think one of my most used and all-time favourites is in baking, when you are short of an egg and need that in your cake, it’s called fake egg and I just use two tablespoons of water, two tablespoons of flour and half a teaspoon of baking powder, it only works in baking though.

I try to hand on handy hints to our children, they are always interested and try them out, especially in this present economic climate, we all need to save a penny here and there.

Whether it be recipes or DIY, I try to help out, sometimes a little tip and wrinkle can save you hours of struggling. If you have any hints that you’d like to hand on, let me know.

I’m always interested in something new.

This afternoon I will baking again and will probably be short an egg or two. So out will come the fake egg trick again, nobody notices when they eat the cake, so all is good.

It doesn’t seem to matter what flavour cake you make either, it works just fine.

After that, it’s laundry and then cook the supper. Life doesn’t have to be fabulous to be good, I’m happy doing what I do, where I am.

As always be nice to one another. And pass those tips and wrinkles round.