d-i-y sharpen scissors and aluminium foil

[Bob Eager]

Better to buy it from a food shop rather than a chemist - a lot cheaper. And you don't get the suspicious glances, refusal to sell more than two packs, and the snide comments.

[stuart noble]

Off the shelf in my local chemist along with the bicarb and epsom salts. The only time I was questioned in Sainsburys I said I was refining heroin and the assistant said I didn't look the type.

[Man at B&Q]

It certainly does.

MBQ

[Appelation Controlee]

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If you want suspicious glances, try buying potassium nitrate, especially in the 3kg pack I was able to track down. ;-)

[Tabby]

funny boy

NT

[Windmill]

Amazing! I was told I was lucky to still have a bottle of iodine (actually iodine in a solution of potassium iodide, IIRC).

And weed killer isn't the stuff it once was. Hardly touches the weeds at all.