The cheap foil wrapped doors aren't much better than a painted finish, you only have to look at them harshly with the jif and they start to bubble and you can forget using a brillo pad. I watched a few youtube cleaning video yesterday and seeing everyone just spray and wipe to clean their apparently dirty kitchen and bathroom makes me want to shout BS.

I think next time I'm not going to bother with wall cabinets either, just a couple of larder style ones as far away from the hob as possible, the underside of them is rank.

Not quite re- your post, but I do fantasise about doing up an MGA. Love some cars but so many modern ones just look the same.

Sunny at the moment.

Thank you both.  It smells too good to risk so I'll start with a couple of foot and do the rest this winter.

Do check for bugs but apart from that I can’t see why you couldn’t use the stems in cooking.