Top tip for you

[Seahorse]

You know that compost that you get all compressed and dehydrated, then you pour a bucket of water on it to make it ready to go? Turns out it's best not to do this indoors in a planter with drainage holes in it Who'd have thought!?!?

[kirsty b]

Haha thats exactly the sort of thing I'd do. I consider myself warned.

[shirlthegirl43]

Oh dear, hope it wasn't on the carpet!!!

[moggssue]

Oh dear .... I shall heed the warning!! No real damage done I hope?

[Seahorse]

No, fortunately it was onto my kitchen floor, which is quarry tiles, so a couple of towels and the mop sorted it out!

[smallblueplanet]

There's a hole in my bucket dear Seahorse! How did you miss the holes duck?

[Seahorse]

Well, if you want to know the REALLY embarrassing bit...

















I'd just made the holes with a screwdriver in an otherwise solid planter

[smallblueplanet]

Well, if you want to know the REALLY embarrassing bit...





I just made the holes with a screwdriver in an otherwise solid planter

Ah ha! truth will out!!!!!!!!!!

With a screwdriver - blimey I've got this image of a 'crazed' Seahorse stabbing the pot in a frenzy?????

[Seahorse]

Haha!!! It's not that mad looking though (she says hurriedly, in order to convince herself).

[Polly Fouracre]

It's the sort of thing anyone could do!

[Two_Sheds]

I made my first roast chicken last weekend. I left it on its foil tray, but wanted the juices to drip into a tin below, for gravy. I stabbed holes in the foil tray, so juices could duly drip down into gravy tray.

then I lifted the perforated tray out, and dripped chicken fat all over the floor, the units, myself ...

[Seahorse]

I made my first roast chicken last weekend. I left it on its foil tray, but wanted the juices to drip into a tin below, for gravy. I stabbed holes in the foil tray, so juices could duly drip down into gravy tray.

then I lifted the perforated tray out, and dripped chicken fat all over the floor, the units, myself ...

See... these things happen to the best of us!

[Hazel at the Hill]

Actually, now you mention it, I'm the one who disconnected the kitchen sink trap to unbung it and rinsed it under the tap whilst cleverly putting a bucket underneath the plughole to catch the waste water....

....then picked up the bucket from under the sink and emptied it...

...into the sink....

[Two_Sheds]

Hazel ... hazel. I can't speak for laughing.
We must have been separated at birth.

[Seahorse]

Actually, now you mention it, I'm the one who disconnected the kitchen sink trap to unbung it and rinsed it under the tap whilst cleverly putting a bucket underneath the plughole to catch the waste water....

....then picked up the bucket from under the sink and emptied it...

...into the sink....

Hazel ... hazel. I can't speak for laughing.
We must have been separated at birth.

As I've done the very thing Hazel mentions ... triplets, I reckon!