What made me cross was that I was working flat out to get everything ready and here was Alan moaning about a bit of stray sawdust".
A little bit of straw, sawdust or pine needles (not hay as it's not absorbent enough) to make litter for the nest goes a long way.
Nelson's studio is murky, silent, full of long bits of wood, sawdust, bags of rubbish, and a box of old travel books.
The top layer consists of a bed of sawdust and wood chips.
My mouth was like a bag of sawdust, no matter how much water I drank.
The disapproving looks you get as you reach for a second scoop of sawdust.
Briquettes are densely packed and formed from very small bits of wood, like sawdust, whereas chunk is naturally created from actual chunks of wood that have had almost everything but the carbon burned out of them.
We're having a bit of a break while they put sawdust down on the popping crease.
* Before you seal the floorboards, it is vital to fill the gaps with a filler material – you can use the sawdust and a bit of glue – to prevent draughts and dust coming up from beneath the boards, and to give a bit of noise insulation.
The most popular item on school-lunch menus, pizza, has been replaced with a "healthy" variety that, I'm told, tastes like a cracker made with sawdust with a bit of watery tomato and runny cheese on top.
