Ah, now we're talking about dryer lint! As I think I have mentioned before, I have a container next to the dryer filled with a growing pile of dryer lint - in a variety of colours depending on what was in the last load.

Apart from making jokes about making little stuffed toys with it - which probably would work - and making threats dropping hints to my Santee (SINSULL) last year about what I might do with it, I haven't actually been able to think of a really good use for my pile of lint. But I trusted that a brilliant new use for it would reveal itself. And now it has!

John has been setting up a new landscape for his model trains, and he thought it would be just perfect as filling for his hills, cliffs and mountains. Covered with plaster and painted, some of my dryer lint has now become part of a model railway landscape!