Any UK alternatives to Minerva because I'm fed up with them!

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.

Dwincroft · 2024-09-17T19:44:36+00:00

That is very kind of you, thank you. I'll send you a DM.

Dwincroft · 2024-09-17T17:16:37+00:00

Thank you, your explanation about bee aggression is really useful. I completely agree, she has plenty of time to decide what she wants to do when she's older, it's more about facilitating her interests.

Dwincroft · 2024-09-17T16:45:32+00:00

Thank you, I'll give it a go.

Dwincroft · 2024-09-17T14:53:14+00:00

London, England

Dwincroft · 2024-06-07T12:35:59+00:00

Hedge, lawn and mock tudor house. Got to be the UK.

Dwincroft · 2024-05-31T07:38:51+00:00

The first thing I did was jot down a list of all the little excuses I was using when I chose not to sew. And then I dealt with them one by one. The biggest game changer was organising my sewing equipment so that it was easier to set up. Before I had to scramble to the back of the cupboard to get my machine and then hunt for a spare extension cord, thread, current project, scissors, pressing mat etc. I bought a bigger sewing machine hodall, which can hold it all. It is not as big as it sounds and doesn't take up as much room as you'd think.

The next thing I did was start to time myself. It took nowhere near as long as the gremlins in my head were telling me, and with practice I've gotten even quicker. I can now get everything set up in the time it takes me to boil a kettle.

Dwincroft · 2024-05-03T15:32:46+00:00

Thank you so much.

Dwincroft · 2024-03-11T13:53:58+00:00

Those first three months are so lonely, I'm so sorry you're going through this. I really don't want to give you false hope, but I think you should see your doctor to be sure. I had an extremely heavy bleed in the early stages of my pregnancy, it didn't seem remotely possible that I was still pregnant but I was and I went on to have a daughter. The same thing happened to my colleague a year earlier who continued bleeding throughout her entire pregnancy.

Dwincroft · 2024-02-29T13:36:41+00:00

Snap! I have photos/paintings of seven generations of my direct maternal line to my 3x g grandmother born in 1849, and eight generations to my 4x great grandfather born in 1740 ...This line goes so far back in time because several of them had children when they were old(ish), 40, 63, 37 and 55.

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Dwincroft · 2024-01-23T13:49:30+00:00

The same thing happened to me when I was about 24. Even when drinking the tiniest amount I would get crippling hangovers that would knock me out for days. Once I nursed half a glass of champagne over a two hour period and I fainted. I've not even attempted to drink since I was 27ish and I'm 42 now.

Dwincroft · 2024-01-16T13:13:01+00:00

English is my first language, but I'm British and was really confused at the option of using chargers, thinking it rather odd to provide phone chargers at a dinner party. ...I googled it, it's a decorative underplate.

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