Recent content by Keith_Beef

The European Commission needs to take a leaf from the Merkins' vocabulary and "grow a pair": by which I mean really apply the penalties laid out in law for breaching the GDPR. Apple and Microsoft continuing with practices that are clearly against the law yet being let off any penalties would...

Where did you learn that? I'm also on a 75mg per day prophylactic dose of aspirin. I've not yet read or heard about shortages in France this year, but your post prompted me to do a bit of research into price and availability.

The modern Dutch word for an umbrella (for protection against the rain) is "regenscherm". "Zondek" sounds like it could have been historically a parasol, its meaning e would be something like "sun roof"... Checking this, I found "zonnedek" as an archaic nautical term for an awning to protect...

Ah, so Fussel's is no more. I'll have to put Pusser's in my coffee, then. How sad.

From my reading of those two articles, I'd say that both Microsoft and Apple are in flagrant contravention of the GDPR by sending a lot of usage data along with unique identifiers that are linked to users' names, email addresses, sometimes postal addresses and telephone numbers (in the case of...

Your phone is probably getting that 31°C from an observation station... It could be the Met Office, a home monitor affiliated with Weather Underground, or some other network. It could even be a "virtual observation" made by interpolating from several real observations.

A mere 36°C in the shade of the bay tree, here.

I thought that was just a Lenny Henry/ Birmingham/Jamaican thing... never knew it was more widespread...

I remember Carnation poured over strawberries for afters when we'd had tinned salmon with vinegar and salad for Sunday tea in summer. We still have a couple of those kitchen tools that punch a triangular hole in a can, sitting in the cutlery drawer. I don't remember ever using them since we...

Mleko is the Polish word for milk. Is there another word on the tube that could be the brand name? SM Gostyń, maybe?

As the actress said to the bishop.

I didn't get much made, today, but installed limit switches on my laser cutting and engraving machine. I played around with Lightburn, the software I use to drive the machine, doing the layout for a passport cover. I bought some kits, stitched together one of them at the weekend and was quite...

That looks great. I made a puuko for my daughter quite a few years ago with birch bark, but before learning about using heat to bond the pieces together, so I used PVA (wood) glue. I have a few pieces of bark waiting, so I'll make another some time in the next year or so.

I just ordered a 1kg bag of organic potato flour (or "Kartoffelmeel", is the bag is labelled) for making pierogi.

I've been looking at a few options for a smaller alternative to a daysack, especially for carrying photography gear. The Helikon Foxtrot popped up in my searches. It looks interesting, especially if I can easily add a couple of long pouches to the front for big and/or heavy lenses (e.g. 300mm...