Very very cool - yes you win!
OMG you just made me homesick with that L&P bottle!Right - well today I made my pumice and poppy seed soap only a matter of hours before my son returned from his dad's for the day, having made a trip to the beach. He had very kindly collected for me a three litre bottle of sea water and a container full of black sand! Oh no! That means I'll have to make some MORE soap tomorrow. I shall call Raglan Sea and Sand Soap (Raglan is where the stuff was collected from) https://www.newzealand.com/int/raglan/
Here's the water and sand:
ATIAMURU????? I used to live there! You know how tiny that community is? And how big this forum is?? What are the chances? My parents used to own the Landmark servicestation. I don't think it's there anymore? As if the L&P wasnt enough to tip me over.... now I'm really feeling homesick lolyes - Atiamuri is about an hour and a half drive from here - but how do i grind it into little pieces? Easier just to buy it already done - and it gets delivered ;-)
That sounds good @Misschief - I have all of those ingredients right here anyway. Except for orange peel. Do you think it would be suitable as a foot-smoother soap?
WELL!!!! As it happens..... yes! But not exactly when I lived there. Robyn & Grant actually lived at Upper Atiamuri I think, or maybe Ngakuru? Ohakuri? They were my aunt & uncles besties, Tom & Avis Cook. I used to milk cows for Tom & Avis in the holidays once we had left Atiamuri for the Big Smoke (Tokoroa ahahahaha). I didn't know Robyn & Grant's kids. I think they might have been a bit oklder than me and had perhaps left the district?? Or at least were old enough to not socialise with the parents. I am so not telling my Australian husband about this conversation lol. He says all Kiwis are related and if they aren't then they know who is!Did you know the McGregors? Robyn and Grant were the parents, and the kids names I can't remember..Simone? maybe was the daughter. Now that would too much if you knew them as well!
How funny! Well Robyn and Grant McGregor were friends of my parents ever since I can remember ( and I can remember back to age 4). There you go - typical NZ 2 degrees of separationWELL!!!! As it happens..... yes! But not exactly when I lived there. Robyn & Grant actually lived at Upper Atiamuri I think, or maybe Ngakuru? Ohakuri? They were my aunt & uncles besties, Tom & Avis Cook. I used to milk cows for Tom & Avis in the holidays once we had left Atiamuri for the Big Smoke (Tokoroa ahahahaha). I didn't know Robyn & Grant's kids. I think they might have been a bit oklder than me and had perhaps left the district?? Or at least were old enough to not socialise with the parents. I am so not telling my Australian husband about this conversation lol. He says all Kiwis are related and if they aren't then they know who is!
I can't tell you how much you have made my day. Thanks xxx
Ask ypour parents if they know my parents: Ray & Joan Wood. I'm too scared to ask who your parents are lol, they were probably our neighbours in one of about 8 towns we lived in!How funny! Well Robyn and Grant McGregor were friends of my parents ever since I can remember ( and I can remember back to age 4). There you go - typical NZ 2 degrees of separation
I recall Solvol being very scratchy ( last time I sued it was probably about 40 years ago ,lol). But this sand I have from Raglan is so fine that it's like a powder - maybe even finer than the pumice?My 'soap of doom' was like solvol, perhaps even more scratchy. I used black volcanic beach sand, moderately coarse, in it.
I used 150g dried sand and 100g pumice in that one, and it is a serious stripper.
If I could find (or make) a finer sand, and perhaps use less, I reckon It'd get a bit more like solvol.
Hamiltonians though and through.Ask ypour parents if they know my parents: Ray & Joan Wood. I'm too scared to ask who your parents are lol, they were probably our neighbours in one of about 8 towns we lived in!
Or Tom & Avis, who now live in Rotorua.Ask ypour parents if they know my parents: Ray & Joan Wood. I'm too scared to ask who your parents are lol, they were probably our neighbours in one of about 8 towns we lived in!
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