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How not to do the ‘How to do it’.

I ’ve never believed in being idle when I’m not working, and this philosophy led to me to the start of a new hobby one Saturday afternoon. I was sitting with a ball of thick twine, which I had unearthed while scratching around in a cupboard, on my lap when my thoughts turned to the current love of houseplants like Victorian ferns amongst the young, and then I thought about how to display them. This also had me thining of the return of seriously retro stuff.

Can you believe that I recently saw a 60th birthday creation where a plastic Barbie doll had been pushed into the depths

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