Pumice (again!)

[KiwiMoose]

Very very cool - yes you win!

 

[Jan Kates]

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:

OMG you just made me homesick with that L&P bottle!

 

[Jan Kates]

yes - 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?

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 lol

 

[KiwiMoose]

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!

 

[Jan Kates]

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!

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!
I can't tell you how much you have made my day. Thanks xxx

 

[KiwiMoose]

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!
I can't tell you how much you have made my day. Thanks xxx

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

 

[Jan Kates]

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

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!

 

[KiwiMoose]

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.

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?

 

[KiwiMoose]

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!

Hamiltonians though and through.

 

[Jan Kates]

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.

 

[Primrose]

Oh all you Kiwis bugger off. I desperately want to come back for a trip to Northlands but don't have the money at the moment :'(