Greetings from Southern Queensland

[Russell]

Russell our weekend newspaper had a recipe for repellant using water and lavendar oil in it. If you're interested I'll post it. It is one of Shannon Lush's recipes. I haven't tried it but I plan to when we go away.

Sure if you could, that'd be great, and of course the TMX helps in pulverising the raw ingredients. There'd be no mossies in your cakes then either

Russell.

[cookie1]

ROFL.

Here is Shannon Lush's tip. Mix 1 teaspoon of lavender oil with 1 litre of water and put in a spray bottle. Among the many uses for this is a mozzie and fly repellant. She says mist a little over your skin and rub it in.  She also says that this mix is good as a fibre relaxant. Spray it lightly over your clothers and put them on. She says this combined with your body heat will have the creases out of your clothes by the time you reach the front door. I plan to try both of these at Monkey Mia.

[judydawn]

Cookie, you are not just looking for an excuse to leave the iron at home when you go on holiday are you  Don't forget to get back to us and let us know how the experiment went 

[Ceejay]

Hmmm sounds like something a uni student might try to get out of ironing...

Bet my eldest tries things like this when he attends...

[cookie1]

I refuse to iron when we're at Monkey Mia. We spend most of the time in really daggy clothes and go fishing most days if the weather permits. Hence no ironin' for me. When we travel I will drag the iron out otherwise we look  very ruffled. We look so bad at MM that I have seen students I teach not recognise me- daggy clothes, hair everywhere (the water there is salt) and no makeup. Great disguise.

[Very Happy Jan]

HaHa Cookie1- every teacher's dream - A great disguise!!!

[Chelsea (Thermie Groupie)]

I will have to remember that one when I head back to teaching.