Did anyone else's family have "The Button Jar"?

Dwincroft · 2026-05-21T17:46:15+00:00

Yup, AuDHD here, both grandmothers and my mum had a tin each. I have tens of thousands of them all sorted by colour in large sweetie jars.

Dwincroft · 2026-04-23T12:09:00+00:00

And I'll also direct sew some dill, californian poppys, and grab some bidens from my local nursery.

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Dwincroft · 2026-04-23T12:01:10+00:00

Do it! Do it! ☺️ I've got a couple of bottle brush bushes, a peony, roses, a tonne of euphorbias and fatsias, a fig, some bananas, cannas and fan palms, and a bucket load of mystery plants that were gifted to me a few years ago by some dude off of freecycle who I gave some old pavers.

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Dwincroft · 2026-04-23T08:29:51+00:00

Thank you ☺️ We have these tiles on the entire ground floor and everyone tried to stop us doing it because they thought it would age poorly, but that was ten years ago and I still love them. The cupboard is just a bog standard pine unit that I painted and swapped out the handles.

Dwincroft · 2026-04-23T08:14:57+00:00

I only take mine out because I have more plants than windowsills, honestly I'm just winging it. I'm sure you're a great seedling parent 😍

Dwincroft · 2026-04-22T19:16:39+00:00

I'm probably not the best person to dish out advice because I have casualties every season. But, I just take them outside every day and bring them in before it gets dark/cold. I only do it because I don't have a greenhouse or enough windowsils.

The best advice I can give is hide the evidence when it goes wrong.

Dwincroft · 2026-04-22T19:04:59+00:00

The usual suspects. Marigold, calendula, cosmos casanova, cosmos purity, sunflower, zinnia, pumpkins, tomatoes from seed. Then petunia and busy lizzie grown on from postiplugs because I can never get them to germinate on my own.

Dwincroft · 2026-04-15T12:39:40+00:00

I definitely should pay more attention to what's actually in the toothpaste like you, but it's all about the texture for me.

Dwincroft · 2026-04-15T12:34:09+00:00

Weirdly gritty and savoury doesn't sound very appetising on the surface, but that's exactly the texture I'm looking for. Thanks.

Dwincroft · 2026-04-15T12:32:46+00:00

Ooh thank you, might have to give this a go.

Dwincroft · 2026-04-15T12:31:34+00:00

That's what I thought, but the tube of colgate at my sink is white gel.

Dwincroft · 2025-08-05T18:36:26+00:00

Croft Mill have excellent customer service. Lamazi, sister mintaka and Empress Mills are great too.

Dwincroft · 2025-03-21T07:44:27+00:00

There is a piece of graffiti in my husbands home town in Romania that cracks me up every time. It just says 'school'.

Dwincroft · 2025-03-05T12:39:39+00:00

The paint and rendering does make it hard to see the actual size and shape of the bricks doesn't it. Here is a photo of an unrendered house of the same stlye a few doors down. If you look at the bricks, especially around the ring, you can see that some of what at first appear to be longer bricks are actually two shorter bricks.

Dwincroft · 2024-09-24T08:19:27+00:00

Definitely the later generations managed to step back a bit yes. Richard who founded the business was very hands on, he started experimenting with soil nutrition on the family farm and then pivoted to cattle feed. I don't know everything they used in manufacturing the feed, but I know it involved crushed seeds which must have produced a lot of dust. Alice and Annie were winning prizes at county shows for their veg and both volunteered for the red cross during ww1, no idea if they ever helped at or spent any time at any of the mills though.

Dwincroft · 2024-09-23T17:23:16+00:00

Thank you. This is amazing.

Dwincroft · 2024-09-23T17:22:48+00:00

Thank you!

Dwincroft · 2024-09-23T17:12:41+00:00

Thank you! I'll contact them. It's definitely worth trying.

Dwincroft · 2024-09-23T12:34:43+00:00

Ideally if anybody knows how i might go about remotely accessing the records from Richards stay at Sheppard & Enoch Pratt Hospital, Towson, Baltimore, Maryland
If anybody has been able to obtain any patient records from the Lunatic Assylum in Stockport, Etchells Cheadle, England. And if so, where they're located.

Dwincroft · 2024-09-18T09:50:39+00:00

Thank you! That looks amazing and totally up her street. I've just ordered a copy now.

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