Aha! Ahahaha.... Cue mad laughter - the reason I haven't been able to log in to my account was because I had misspelt my email address... There's one born every minute, as my mother would say. And what a lot's gone on in the past few months; between me, my kids, my fellow Freecyclers, those lovely young men at the tip (OK, Fester, you're not that old!) TFSR,TWAM and WorkAid, we have now rescued and sent off nearly 50 sewing machines, which would otherwise just have been sent for scrapping. Which pleases me! And some woodworking & gardening tools, too. We're currently sharing our living space with 5 treadles and an assortment of machines that I can't quite bear to let go of yet, for one reason or another; some are of no use to the charities, as they use needles which went out of production 20-odd years ago, or they're too small to be practical, and one or two are of genuine historical interest, so won't be sent out until the discussions are over. Anyway, I will just post a couple of pix, one of a little rustbucket I picked up last Friday,

and one of what it looked like after Sarah's science lesson on Monday:

So you can see we have been busy. Now to try to get my login sorted out...