Veronicaaa
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I know it shouldn't surprise me any more, 3 years into my forensic JackWatch, but I will never, ever get over just how stupid she is 
- Notice
Jelly Bean
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So the eight years friendship followed by 5 years solid co parenting takes us through The Poverty© and beyond. So yet again - and this is treading very old ground - where the fuck was this saintly father when SB was cold, hungry and wearing tight shoes? Why didn't he notice? Why didn't he give Monroe child support?
Unless of course, and this might be a leap, she was lying.
Lucky Escape
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hoopdedoo
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Funny how her "fire service training" didn't make her like a "hawk" when she piled stacks of books around her fireplace. As you were.
But since we're on the topic of making things.....speaking as someone who has actually made candles at home:
(a) you don't need to plait string to make a wick, just use a single strand of string (and then only in a pinch if you can't get actual cotton wick, which can easily be ordered online and doesn't take up a lot of space in your house
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(b) you don't need to attach the wick to a recycled ring pull or any such nonsense, just put it in the container, hold it taut and pour wax around it
(c) you would have to save wax scrapings from about eleventy billion used candles to fill tins that size, which doesn't seem like a good use of your time
(d) you don't melt wax in a saucepan, because you'll never get it all out of the saucepan - you use a bowl which you place over a gently boiling saucepan of water
(e) what other fraus have said about the tin cans being lined with epoxy resin and not damaging a screwdriver by using it to punch holes
But since we're on the topic of making things.....speaking as someone who has actually made candles at home:
(a) you don't need to plait string to make a wick, just use a single strand of string (and then only in a pinch if you can't get actual cotton wick, which can easily be ordered online and doesn't take up a lot of space in your house
)(b) you don't need to attach the wick to a recycled ring pull or any such nonsense, just put it in the container, hold it taut and pour wax around it
(c) you would have to save wax scrapings from about eleventy billion used candles to fill tins that size, which doesn't seem like a good use of your time
(d) you don't melt wax in a saucepan, because you'll never get it all out of the saucepan - you use a bowl which you place over a gently boiling saucepan of water
(e) what other fraus have said about the tin cans being lined with epoxy resin and not damaging a screwdriver by using it to punch holes
Julia Edwards
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FRAUMAGE
elepal
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Thaaaaaaaaat's Grifterwang!
Geetbo
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At least it will hide the smell of crab paste.
glubby
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I wonder how long her ‘buying things ban’ is going to last. I bet she’s already ordered another six Cotswold sideboards since she sent that tweet.
Also those tin candles look dire, impractical, and a waste of everyone’s time. This is the type of thing she considers as part of her 100 hour work week, whereas to anyone in the real world it’s just pointless fannying around. Nobody wants to decorate their house with literal trash, Jack. Just like nobody wants to sand down an old tuna can to make an egg ring.
Also those tin candles look dire, impractical, and a waste of everyone’s time. This is the type of thing she considers as part of her 100 hour work week, whereas to anyone in the real world it’s just pointless fannying around. Nobody wants to decorate their house with literal trash, Jack. Just like nobody wants to sand down an old tuna can to make an egg ring.
definitelynotvlad
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Yeah it’s funny how there’s so many photos available to disprove what she says and none at all to support her. Truly a mystery for our times.
Day3TShirt
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Those bloody Emma Bridgewater plates that say bollocks like Dinner~Tea or Spaghetti~Bolognaise around the rim can get in the bin as well, along with signs stating the bleeding obvious. I mean, it’s so prescriptive. What if I want to put cereal in my pasta bowl? LJC, can you just stop being so fucking prescriptive and judgy, Emma? So what if I put Rice Crispies in my Melanzane~alla~Parmagiana receptacle?
Although I would be totally on board with a Bridgewater/Monroe collab loo roll holder bearing the legend Clagnuts~Dangleberries-Winnets.
Although I would be totally on board with a Bridgewater/Monroe collab loo roll holder bearing the legend Clagnuts~Dangleberries-Winnets.
Valiofthedolls
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I truly believe I would rather smell that for eternity than be forced to eat a single meal cooked using a small jar of miscellaneous oil dregs painstakingly collected from fish tins.
That would make me feel very unwell (a sort of not-hole?)
Veronicaaa
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What gets me is the way she says she's going to do something and then just .... doesn't do it? I guess the most recent example is the '4 blog posts per week' which she said she was going to write at the start of the year and then produced none. Zero, nada, zilch. I could even kind of understand if she promised them and then just published one before giving up. But to provide NONE is insane.
noweverythingsucks
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She asked someone if they're OK! You must all be right about the PR training. Thankfully she still dropped in some mememe bollocks about fire service training so we know it's her.
Mr Krabs
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I think we’re far enough into the thread for a thread title nomination-o.
Whatisgoingonlol
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Just sniffed my way back into this thread as I could smell smoke
lilykestrel
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I'm a hawk around open flames, she says, after posting an image of a tin can candle with a flame sputtering above the rim of the receptacle that does not look bloody safe