d-i-y sharpen scissors and aluminium foil

Apr 29, 2011 25 Replies

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.

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.

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

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.

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