Jill Dyer

Over the summer, I've been collecting the cardboard rolls from toilet paper, and I have a (regrettably) plastic container ready with tubes for seed raising.  Mine aren't so fancy as the one pictured above - just parallel, close - say 1 cm - spaced cuts, then slats pressed to the inside.

Boo-boos, mistakes, errors - in craft projects, an ideal opportunity for creative thinking!

I've been fascinated by Ancient Egypt since I was a kid, so this is a great project.   This write-up featured this week:-
https://archaeology.org/news/2026/03/12/correction-fluid-analyzed-in-ancient-egyptian-book-of-the-dead/
It might also be of interest to you and the students,  

Ha! Christopher - my mother would have done it too, but she usually bought "loose" potatoes - not sorted into same size collections as they are today, so there was always a choice of size.

"How much more far?"  coupled with "Are we there yet"  and 5 minutes into the journey "Mum, can I have a sanwitch"    "Grandma, will I die"  she said Yes and my bro waited all day for the event - he was an 'electrician' from the age of about 5.  We also had "chimbley" strangely enough.

Our family always used a potato to stretch any not-quite-fitting shoes.  Problem is, finding one of the right size to fix the problem.  I think the moisture in the spud helped with the stretch without soaking the footwear.

Jay Angler:-  

It would be helpful to me if I had some idea of the sized of the problem? Number of pages and dimentions?

7-1/2 inches wide by 9 inches tall.  Thickness 9/16 inch   214 pages

Ann Miller - Thanks for the links.  For unknown reasons using the search box to find related topics doesn't work. No idea where I'm going wrong.
Those topics were listed once I'd posted the question,  on the "do you want to see your post now" bit.

My Inkle Weaving text has seen many and better days.  Under the influence of the Aussie climate the pages have come unglued from the cover.  Originally glued in with something that has set like concrete on the spine, and parted ways with the pages.  Pages are all cut, rather than folded at the spine side, but some are in small still together sections, other pages singles and loose, paper is shiny.   Any suggestions welcome - do I remove the gunky set glue and if so how?  Best type of glue to make the repair.  I have lots of bulldog clips for holding together while the repair sets.

It's hard to say . . . but the kookaburra is up there, they know all the best jokes if you go by their laughter, and at the other end of the scale the raven whose call is aark aark aaaaark - the last note on a falling scale - they sound so depressed.  However, top of the list is the Aussie magpie - they get a choir going, first thing in the morning to greet the day.

The plain, unwound, ones make excellent cheese cutters.  Fix one end to a smooth board and add a handle at the other, or handles on both ends - can make two, for a spare or a friend.