Hints from Lyn McConchie: Do you realize that many short computer leads, the ones that have an ordinary 2-3 pin plug at one end, but a half size plug at the other also fit household items like a toaster, hot water jug, wafflemaker etc. Of your kitchen appliance lead dies before you have time to start breakfast/enjoy supper, at a pinch, many short computer connections will do the job until you can get to the shop for a replacement item. Always store eggs pointed end downwards. They keep better. A cheap and easy way with lemons for winter colds; in summer buy any older lemons being discarded or sold cheaply because they are spotted or wrinkled and no longer attractive in the shop. Take them home, juice them, and pour the juice into ice-cube trays. Dump into a plastic bag once fully frozen. One cube, a teaspoonful of honey, an aspirin or two and add hot water. Very soothing to sore throats and a fraction the cost of of the commercial counterparts in sachets.