A Members' Posts

Free: Pouffe. In real leather. (Presteigne LD8) About 60cm sq. It’s very nice, though it’s squishy in middle. Fine for feet. If you want to sit on it, need to take the cover on bottom off and reinforce.

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Free: Exercise Ball (Presteigne LD8) Work those abs! It’s a good bit of kit, but we have less space, so it has to go (and so will my lithe physique no doubt)

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Free: Keiser Professional Spin Bike (Presteigne LD8) Promised This is as used in many gyms. Very heavy, very strong, you could spin your way to Adelaide and back on this. I no longer have the room. It is large (110cm high, 120cm long). It comes with a padded seat that can be put on top of the standard one. It will be with standard pedals, not ones with clip on shoes type in picture. I can deliver locally Monday evening. It will be to kerbside, not an ancient temple in the Yellow Mountains! If Monday doesn’t suit, then you will need to collect from Hereford.

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Free: Mexican/spanish style chest of drawers (Presteigne LD8) Promised It’s around 10ocm by 50cm by 70cm (don’t rely on these measurements) It’s great but two drawers fell apart. Fronts and most or all bits are witg it so some glue and a clamp should resolve. It’s actually in good condition otherwise as my daughter had it for weekend stays so not used much I can drop on Tuesday evening locally. If that doesn’t work you might need to fetch from Hereford as it may not fit in our car.

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Free: Glass and granite extendable table seats 4-8 (Presteigne LD8) Promised This table is a very nice thing but doesn’t suit our new home. It extends and will seat 8 if fully out. The plinths are granite and polished. The top is thick, with centre section smoked glass with some scratches which with polishing paste could be removed. The glass is rounded somewhat at each end so there isn’t a blunt corner. The mechanism is very easy to move to extend it ( the extending glass panel pops up and swivels) but the table is heavy. Missing one screw ( glass rocks if heavy weight put on) but very easy to fix and it was so incidental we didn’t bother. It was extremely expensive and will look fab in right place. I am able to deliver Tuesday evening. It will be kerbside drop off - before you tell me about the few steps to your third floor loft apartment! If you can’t do Tuesday, you will need to fix transport from Hereford. Tv, soundbar, shelf, chairs, marble floor, conservator roof, house, etc not included

12h

Request: Electric cable and boxes (Presteigne LD8) My Japanese garden is going well. Carpets down to kill weeds, big ricks about to go in. I need to do lighting next (which will be subtle and only used early evening sometimes, so one can walk through to pagoda, and very energy efficient) So I need small size 1.5.2.5or 4mm) armoured cable. I also could do with a long piece of 10mm or bigger. Really no piece is too short in the small bore as I have about eight pagoda lanterns to light and so will have quite a few short runs. For the large bore . I need 50m of that but can waterproof a few bits together, so if you only have part that’s fine p Any waterproof boxes would be great too.

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Free: Bouyancy aids (Presteigne LD8) I have four bouyancy aids. See sizes in pics One fits me a 6ft plus strapping lad, one my wife a petit non pie eater, two are kids. I can split so let me know which you can use well

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Free: Canoe splash decks (Presteigne LD8) I have two of these. Can split. Let me know your needs

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Free: Small punch bag (Presteigne LD8) Promised If your chewing on life’s gristle, take it out in this punch bag. It’s about 45cm and good for speeding up hands and cv work

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Free: Turtle fabric 15m (Presteigne LD8) Promised About 15m of turtle pattern fabric. I brought this back from Fuji to make curtains and cushions for my kids play room and then it got put in a draw. Shane on me. Please use it better it would be nice for a child (or in a conservatory)

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Free: Pasta machine (Presteigne LD8) Promised Used often but kept in box and in fine condition; sadly my now being gluten free has reduced it significance in my life.

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Free: Bon viveur tie (Presteigne LD8) Features wine bottles, barrels etc. great for a wine buff. Brand new in wrap. Great for the raving alcoholic in your life.

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Free: Picture frame (Presteigne LD8) Wood, 10x8 good condition

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Free: Tuneable tambourine (Presteigne LD8) Promised This is a genuine musical instrument not a toy. Sadly it hasn’t been played much and should be. I would like it to go to someone who will play it and in so doing bring joy to others too.

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Free: Children’s musical instruments. (Presteigne LD8) Promised Do you have a relative or neighbour you wish to drive mad? Their children need these musical instruments! More seriously, my son now plays guitar and sax well and started out on these and they are great: whistles, rattles, recorder, glockenspiel - everything to turn noise into loveliness. I would really like this to go where multiple kids will benefit so a nursery or playgroup.

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Free: Collection of pine cones (Presteigne LD8) If you want to make a nice Christmas garland, a collection of cones (basket not included).

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Free: Post driver (Presteigne LD8) Promised Makes light work of installing fence posts - providing you pay someone to do it and simply supply the tea! Great piece of kit and works a treat.

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Free: Electric fence insulators, wire and tester (Presteigne LD8) Promised Can be used for containing livestock and annoying relatives (alledgedly)

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Free: Red candles (Presteigne LD8) There are only 223 shopping days to Christmas. I have 10 packs of twisted stem Red candles and 3 packs of plain stems. I should be able to accommodate the needs of many freeglers for the rest of this decade or one lucky winner until ‘the last syllable of recorded time’.

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Request: short pieces 25mm & 30mm pipe (Presteigne LD8) Received I am looking for two pieces of pipe (a metre or two) that I can use to extend the reach and pour of a barrel pump. Don’t need to be clear or corrugated but must be flexible. One 30mm one 25mm

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Request: Pallets (Presteigne LD8) Received I am looking for one or two pallets. Flush with success in finding rocks for my Japanese garden, I now must move them. ‘ Have pallet truck, will travel’ is sadly my current situation as like Baby You Can Drive My Car, I have a driver, but no car... or in this case, pallets. Can you help? If you have one or two I can have or (if they are family pets) lend, I would be obliged.

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Request: Japanese garden items (Presteigne LD8) Received I rescued a Japanese pagoda, imported by a pop star. The new house owners were going to it it in a skip. Now I am building a Japanese garden around it. Given the main feature is recycled, I am trying to do as much of the rest as I can from waste. Each week I come through Gloucester on my way to Oxford. So if any one has plants such as camellia, azalea, rhododendron, heather, hebe, iris, pine, acer, quince, or other Japanese garden suitable plants and are moving them, I would be very grateful, The same applies to rocks large for features, small for path edges, pebbles and gravel. Ornaments will be gratefully recieved too. Or materials that aren’t ‘sexy; but are essential. Someone gave me pond liner to make pockets for marginals the other day, for example. I would love this place of peace and tranquility to come from renewal

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Request: Japanese Garden items - update (Presteigne LD8) Received I am still looking for items for my Japanese garden. A few weeks ago, I told many along the Welsh Marches, and over towards my old home in the Cotswolds, how I saved a genuine Japanese pagoda from a skip and was building a Japanese garden. I asked for help... wow did I get it! So I want to thank people for the enormous generosity and support I have received. I want to thank people like the family over towards Newtown who gave me a beautiful blue conifer. It needed to be moved, so I carefully extracted it, rehomed it in a large tree planter, fed and watered it and will keep doing so until it the autumn when its new, permanent home will be ready. I have been given camellias, grasses, hibiscus, irises and bamboo. And rocks... amazing rocks. From Northamptonshire, I was given 8, 750kg Horton stone rocks. Thank you so much. Not just for the rocks, but the experience. They will be monumental within the garden, creating a primeval, ancient, spritual dimension. One of them looks like a breaching whale. You can tell it does, because, when my gardener’s son saw it, the first thing he said was ‘it’s a whale, dad.’ It makes one think that kami may, just possibly, walk the earth. Intimately watching these stones rise for the ground, be transported with cunning and brute force, see them prepared for positioning... it becomes easier to understand why prehistoric man in Europe, and many in Asia today, find monoliths so profound. Another lovely couple from mid-wales have given me some large, smooth stones that will form islands in the dry river bed and they will be cherished and revered too. Others have given me more prosaic, but still vital items, like two house fulls of carpet to use to suppress weeds before planting, and pond liner to make pockets for marginal plants. It has been amazing. I want to thank everyone. If anyone has items they wish to be rid of that might make this magical place even more special, please do be in touch. I would like to find more rocks to do path edging, some flat stones that can be pieced together (or cobbles) for the entrance, some suitable Douglas fir posts to make a Torii gate - a wonderful joiner has offered to do the making for free) some more statuary. And, in terms of plants, heathers and hebes would be great... and many things I haven’t even thought of! On that note, if anyone has advice, I would love to receive that too. I was asked will the garden be open for charity? Yes. Definitely... but not until all of the people who have been so supportive have had a chance to come a join me for tea and soba noodles and an experience of how they turned an unused, unloved place into one of beauty and tranquility. And did so, largely, from things people no longer needed, or where, like the Japanese pagoda in then second picture, simply going to land-fill.

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Free: Nappy Sacks (Presteigne LD8) Gifted I longed for a roll of sticky tape... but amazon delivered nappy sacks. I am too old for babies, too young for incontinence (just!). So a pack of Eco by Naty 100 percent compostable nappy sacks awaits!

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Request: Japanese Garden items (Presteigne LD8) Received I rescued a Japanese pagoda, where some new house owners were going to put it in a skip. Now I am building a Japanese garden around it. Given the main feature is recycled, I would love this place of peace and tranquility to come from renewal I travel each week from my home to Oxford. So I can collect and would be grateful if any one has plants such as camellia, azalea, rhododendron, heather, hebe, iris, pine, acer, quince, or other Japanese garden suitable plants. I am also looking for rocks - large for features, small for path edges, plus pebbles and gravel. Ornaments will be gratefully received too.

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Request: Japanese Garden items - update (Presteigne LD8) Withdrawn It might seem strange I am posting in Malvern, but given my great aunt was organist at the cathedral (and as a child taught by Elgar) and my grandmother kept wicket for the county, my connections run deep). I first climbed the beacon first age 13. So my connections run deep. I travel through every week to take my wife to a medical appointment in Oxford. I am still hoping for help with my Japanese garden. I rescued a Japanese pagoda, imported by a pop star. The new house owners were going to it it in a skip. Now I am building a Japanese garden around it. Given the main feature is recycled, I am trying to do as much of the rest as I can from waste. Each week I come through Gloucester to take me wife to a medical appointment in Oxford. So if any one has plants such as camellia, azalea, rhododendron, heather, hebe, iris, pine, acer, quince, or other Japanese garden suitable plants and are moving them, I would be very grateful, The same applies to rocks large for features, small for path edges, pebbles and gravel. Ornaments will be gratefully recieved too. Or materials that aren’t ‘sexy; but are essential. Someone gave me pond liner to make pockets for marginals the other day, for example. I would love this place of peace and tranquility to come from renewal

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Request: Japanese Garden items - update (Presteigne LD8) Received I am still looking for items for my Japanese garden A few weeks ago, I told many along the Welsh Marches, and over towards my old home in the Cotswolds, how I saved a genuine Japanese pagoda from a skip and was building a Japanese garden. I asked for help... wow did I get it! So I want to thank people for the enormous generosity and support I have received. I want to thank people like the family over towards Newtown who gave me a beautiful blue conifer. It needed to be moved, so I carefully extracted it, rehomed it in a large tree planter, fed and watered it and will keep doing so until it the autumn when its new, permanent home will be ready. I have been given camellias, grasses, hibiscus, irises and bamboo. And I want to thank the person who gave tiny saplings to grow a forest bonsai. And rocks... amazing rocks. From Northamptonshire, I was given 8, 750kg Horton stone rocks. Thank you so much. Not just for the rocks, but the experience. They will be monumental within the garden, creating a primeval, ancient, spritual dimension. One of them looks like a breaching whale. You can tell it does, because, when my gardener’s son saw it, the first thing he said was ‘it’s a whale, dad.’ It makes one think that kami may, just possibly, walk the earth. Intimately watching these stones rise for the ground, be transported with cunning and brute force, see them prepared for positioning... it becomes easier to understand why prehistoric man in Europe, and many in Asia today, find monoliths so profound. Another lovely couple from mid-wales have given me some large, smooth stones that will form islands in the dry river bed and they will be cherished and revered too. Others have given me more prosaic, but still vital items, like two house fulls of carpet to use to suppress weeds before planting, and pond liner to make pockets for marginal plants. It has been amazing. I want to thank everyone. If anyone has items they wish to be rid of that might make this magical place even more special, please do be in touch. I would like to find more rocks to do path edging, some flat stones that can be pieced together (or cobbles) for the entrance, some suitable Douglas fir posts to make a Torii gate - a wonderful joiner has offered to do the making for free) some more statuary. And, in terms of plants, heathers and hebes would be great... and many things I haven’t even thought of! On that note, if anyone has advice, I would love to receive that too. I was asked will the garden be open for charity? Yes. Definitely... but not until all of the people who have been so supportive have had a chance to come a join me for tea and soba noodles and an experience of how they turned an unused, unloved place into one of beauty and tranquility. And did so, largely, from things people no longer needed, or where, like the Japanese pagoda in then second picture, simply going to land-fill.

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Request: Japanese Garden items -update (Presteigne LD8) Received I am still looking for items for my Japanese garden. A few weeks ago, I told many along the Welsh Marches, and over towards my old home in the Cotswolds, how I saved a genuine Japanese pagoda from a skip and was building a Japanese garden. I asked for help... wow did I get it! So I want to thank people for the enormous generosity and support I have received. I want to thank people like the family over towards Newtown who gave me a beautiful blue conifer. It needed to be moved, so I carefully extracted it, rehomed it in a large tree planter, fed and watered it and will keep doing so until it the autumn when its new, permanent home will be ready. I have been given camellias, grasses, hibiscus, irises and bamboo. And rocks... amazing rocks. From Northamptonshire, I was given 8, 750kg Horton stone rocks. Thank you so much. Not just for the rocks, but the experience. They will be monumental within the garden, creating a primeval, ancient, spritual dimension. One of them looks like a breaching whale. You can tell it does, because, when my gardener’s son saw it, the first thing he said was ‘it’s a whale, dad.’ It makes one think that kami may, just possibly, walk the earth. Intimately watching these stones rise for the ground, be transported with cunning and brute force, see them prepared for positioning... it becomes easier to understand why prehistoric man in Europe, and many in Asia today, find monoliths so profound. Another lovely couple from mid-wales have given me some large, smooth stones that will form islands in the dry river bed and they will be cherished and revered too. Others have given me more prosaic, but still vital items, like two house fulls of carpet to use to suppress weeds before planting, and pond liner to make pockets for marginal plants. It has been amazing. I want to thank everyone. If anyone has items they wish to be rid of that might make this magical place even more special, please do be in touch. I would like to find more rocks to do path edging, some flat stones that can be pieced together (or cobbles) for the entrance, some suitable Douglas fir posts to make a Torii gate - a wonderful joiner has offered to do the making for free) some more statuary. And, in terms of plants, heathers and hebes would be great... and many things I haven’t even thought of! On that note, if anyone has advice, I would love to receive that too. I was asked will the garden be open for charity? Yes. Definitely... but not until all of the people who have been so supportive have had a chance to come a join me for tea and soba noodles and an experience of how they turned an unused, unloved place into one of beauty and tranquility. And did so, largely, from things people no longer needed, or where, like the Japanese pagoda in then second picture, simply going to land-fill.

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Request: Japanese Garden item - update (Presteigne LD8) Received I am still looking for items for my Japanese garden A few weeks ago, I told many along the Welsh Marches, and over towards my old home in the Cotswolds, how I saved a genuine Japanese pagoda from a skip and was building a Japanese garden. I asked for help... wow did I get it! So I want to thank people for the enormous generosity and support I have received. I want to thank people like the family over towards Newtown who gave me a beautiful blue conifer. It needed to be moved, so I carefully extracted it, rehomed it in a large tree planter, fed and watered it and will keep doing so until it the autumn when its new, permanent home will be ready. I have been given camellias, grasses, hibiscus, irises and bamboo. And rocks... amazing rocks. From Northamptonshire, I was given 8, 750kg Horton stone rocks. Thank you so much. Not just for the rocks, but the experience. They will be monumental within the garden, creating a primeval, ancient, spritual dimension. One of them looks like a breaching whale. You can tell it does, because, when my gardener’s son saw it, the first thing he said was ‘it’s a whale, dad.’ It makes one think that kami may, just possibly, walk the earth. Intimately watching these stones rise for the ground, be transported with cunning and brute force, see them prepared for positioning... it becomes easier to understand why prehistoric man in Europe, and many in Asia today, find monoliths so profound. Another lovely couple from mid-wales have given me some large, smooth stones that will form islands in the dry river bed and they will be cherished and revered too. Others have given me more prosaic, but still vital items, like two house fulls of carpet to use to suppress weeds before planting, and pond liner to make pockets for marginal plants. It has been amazing. I want to thank everyone. If anyone has items they wish to be rid of that might make this magical place even more special, please do be in touch. I would like to find more rocks to do path edging, some flat stones that can be pieced together (or cobbles) for the entrance, some suitable Douglas fir posts to make a Torii gate - a wonderful joiner has offered to do the making for free) some more statuary. And, in terms of plants, heathers and hebes would be great... and many things I haven’t even thought of! On that note, if anyone has advice, I would love to receive that too. I was asked will the garden be open for charity? Yes. Definitely... but not until all of the people who have been so supportive have had a chance to come a join me for tea and soba noodles and an experience of how they turned an unused, unloved place into one of beauty and tranquility. And did so, largely, from things people no longer needed, or where, like the Japanese pagoda in then second picture, simply going to land-fill.

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Request: Japanese Garden items - update (Presteigne LD8) Received I am still looking for items for my Japanese garden. A few weeks ago, I told many along the Welsh Marches, and over towards my old home in the Cotswolds, how I saved a genuine Japanese pagoda from a skip and was building a Japanese garden. I asked for help... wow did I get it! So I want to thank people for the enormous generosity and support I have received. I want to thank people like the family over towards Newtown who gave me a beautiful blue conifer. It needed to be moved, so I carefully extracted it, rehomed it in a large tree planter, fed and watered it and will keep doing so until it the autumn when its new, permanent home will be ready. I have been given camellias, grasses, hibiscus, irises and bamboo. And rocks... amazing rocks. From Northamptonshire, I was given 8, 750kg Horton stone rocks. Thank you so much. Not just for the rocks, but the experience. They will be monumental within the garden, creating a primeval, ancient, spritual dimension. One of them looks like a breaching whale. You can tell it does, because, when my gardener’s son saw it, the first thing he said was ‘it’s a whale, dad.’ It makes one think that kami may, just possibly, walk the earth. Intimately watching these stones rise for the ground, be transported with cunning and brute force, see them prepared for positioning... it becomes easier to understand why prehistoric man in Europe, and many in Asia today, find monoliths so profound. Another lovely couple from mid-wales have given me some large, smooth stones that will form islands in the dry river bed and they will be cherished and revered too. Others have given me more prosaic, but still vital items, like two house fulls of carpet to use to suppress weeds before planting, and pond liner to make pockets for marginal plants. It has been amazing. I want to thank everyone. If anyone has items they wish to be rid of that might make this magical place even more special, please do be in touch. I would like to find more rocks to do path edging, some flat stones that can be pieced together (or cobbles) for the entrance, some suitable Douglas fir posts to make a Torii gate - a wonderful joiner has offered to do the making for free) some more statuary. And, in terms of plants, heathers and hebes would be great... and many things I haven’t even thought of! On that note, if anyone has advice, I would love to receive that too. I was asked will the garden be open for charity? Yes. Definitely... but not until all of the people who have been so supportive have had a chance to come a join me for tea and soba noodles and an experience of how they turned an unused, unloved place into one of beauty and tranquility. And did so, largely, from things people no longer needed, or where, like the Japanese pagoda in then second picture, simply going to land-fill.

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