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It's getting cold, so it's not surprising we have had some tips recently about a problem that has occupied the minds of humans since fires were invented - how to start them easily.

M.S. from Maungaturoto has this idea which was picked up from a friend. "We collect our used toilet rolls and use them to light our log burner. It saves kindling and helps us get rid of waste cardboard, one less box to the recycling station."

Other fire starting ideas we received include dried orange peel, dried tea bags, and dried cabbage tree leaves.

We have also received lots of comments about fire bricks.

O.R. writes, "To make fire bricks tear up old newspapers, junk mail, etc, soak in water until a pulp, then squeeze dry, either by hand or using a fire brick cradle. Leave in the sun or a warm place to dry."

K.B. from Kerikeri says, "My daughter and I also save toilet roll inners; we use cardboard rolls from different products and some small cereal boxes and stuff them full of squeezed out soaked paper for the fires in winter. They take a little longer to dry but make great fire starters."

Dave from Opotiki has taken fire brick-making to a new level. "From humble beginnings - I was making bricks by hand, shredding paper into strips and mixing in a bucket of water before pressing into timber moulds; this was time-consuming and not worth the effort so I picked up an old ringer washing machine. I now had a mixer to make papier mache on a larger scale. I then purchased a quality shredder and two plastic garden sieves to drain the excess water from the mache pulp.

"After the mache has been draining for a few hours (overnight) I toss them into 2-litre icecream containers with a 12mm hole drilled in the bottom of each one. This is then pressed in by hand, pushing the mix into the corners of the containers (moulds)."

Once they're pressed, Dave leaves his bricks in the sun to dry. In winter that may take months so some forward planning is required.

He also has a word of caution: "Once completely dry they can be stacked in a back shed or garage but must not get wet as they - like hay bales - can combust and burn down your shed along with the saved up bricks for your winter fires and we don't want that, do we?" No, we don't, Dave - so please be careful when stacking fire bricks. Each dry brick weighs between 300g and 350g - using 2-litre moulds.

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For a toilet bowl cleaner, mix a quarter cup of baking soda with 1 cup of vinegar, pour into the bowl and leave for a few hours or overnight. Scrub with a brush and rinse."

Marion from Auckland has this tip for a natural weed-killer. "Add half a cup of salt and 8 drops of liquid dish soap to 4-litres of white vinegar.where cards are embedded with chip card and a cardholder. Put in spray bottle and apply. It will kill weeds in two to three days."

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Long-standing Progress member Liz Carroll is the very embodiment of eccentricity as Madame Arcati, her jangly jewellery and fabric shawls wafting about the stage as she 'summons the spirits' by dancing and reciting nursery rhymes.

Wonderfully funny, Liz manages to create a character who is cheeky, whimsical and altogether a bit silly - leaving the audience wondering if she really is a fraud who got lucky, or the seasoned professional she claims to be.

While Liz's fits and trances create great physical comedy, Coward's witty lines shine in the exchanges between Charles (Gareth Saunders), his deceased wife Elvira (Nicola Howe) and his second, living, wife Ruth (Christine Moran).

Nicola is both seductive and ever so slightly sinister as Elvira, playing the temptress perfectly as she slinks around the stage, pouting and making mischief.

The moment she first appears is, for a fraction of second, a little frightening, as she drifts in through the window like some kind of, well, ghost, and there is a hint of malice underneath her comedy tantrums throughout.

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Christine as second wife Ruth, is also impressive, her comic timing spot-on as she throws out some brilliant one liners.

Trapped in the middle of the whirlwind is Charles, who Gareth portrays as slightly hapless, stuck between a vindictive ex-wife with murderous intentions, and a current wife who refuses to play second-fiddle to a ghost.

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