Recent content by Keith_Beef

Maybe an icicle or Prusik knot.

I went out for a fairly long walk yesterday, across a field that's left more or less wild. When the river is very high this field can flood to protect the towns downstream, and by allowing the water to flow unimpeded Paris avoids flooding. I went along the Seine walking downstream past the...

I made my skin red... Five hours of walking along the river on a very sunny day.

I don't grow beans but I buy them fresh when in season or dried. I usually cook them then use them cold in salads, often like the Greek "gigantes plaki" (though strictly speaking that recipe uses Phaseolus coccineus rather than Vicia faba). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gigantes_plaki...

And connect the gutters on the shed to a water butt for watering the plants in the raised bed.

I've used something very similar. I set the into the surface of a workbench so that I could use 8mm bolts to fix machines like buffing or grinding wheels and be able to remove them afterwards and free up bench space. I'm not convinced that they would be great for lateral forces like extending a...

This video on Townsend's channel on YouTube is about spruce beer, but I seem to remember that he discusses other species of evergreen trees and says that one of them is poisonous.

That area is quite sheltered from the wind and it gets very hot on sunny days; mum often finds it too hot to sit out there. I might need to fix another hasp for another bungee cord on the nearest of the two poles, to pull tension against the other pole. But that will have to wait until my next...

Put up a shade in the back garden/patio so that mum can sit out there when the sun is strong. I added two awning poles from Towsure and bungee cord to make it easier for her to install on her own.

An edible heron.

I remember that among my grandad's home brew kit were some screw-on bottle tops with a little cylinder on top, this had a hole in the wall with a small, strong rubber band over it; if the pressure built up inside the bottle, the gas could force its way out through that hole. Apparently there a...

Try looking up Kilju. Typically made from ordinary granulated sugar, a few raisins or sultanas per litre and often a teabag per gallon demijohn. Use a suitable strain of yeast and you can ferment out all the sugar and get up to 14% to 18% alcohol. I used to brew my own wine and beer; I made my...

I'm a bit disappointed that there's not the possibility of going full-on living history, living in a roundhouse for the season. If you decide on a small campervan, it's worth considering that insurance can be less expensive than a car or panel van...

Here are two images showing the offset of the right-hand version of the 2.5kg model.