Recent content by Keith_Beef

Nice clouds, though.

Mum and I went up to the top of Stannington this morning, I took some sightings from a footpath through a field I'd been to in March. Great place to see the eclipse! We went back with her camera, tripod, two folding chairs, glasses and filter held on with masking tape. There was one couple...

I went out yesterday to the park to try to find a decent viewing spot, but this eclipse happens quite low in the sky and there are to many tall trees. This morning mum drove us out to a spot where we'd been back in March to get her used to driving again after a long break. I'd gone along a...

That's not a Barlow, though; a Barlow has a much longer bolster.

I saw one a few weeks ago at our house in SW France. Five of us were sitting around the table outside eating, about 14h15. I heard a slight rustle in the grass and saw a mole that had left its hole;I watched it run over to a pile of firewood about eight metres away. Given that moles are...

I got rid of mine. It was only gathering dust.

I almost always have a Leatherman on my belt. It gets used many times a day, every day. When if I'm just in the house, garden, perhaps a walk up to the chutney shop or into town for a few bits, it's much easier to reach for the Leatherman rather than go to the tool box. I think that the pliers...

Nobody has thoughts on Nessmuk?

Maybe not in the UK. But in the US, definitely. For example 914 is the area code for White Plains, New Rochelle and a few other towns, not far from where I used to work

We have one of those, but it's for steaming vegetables. You put that basket in a deep saucepan, put in your veg and pour on boiling water from the kettle up to the level of the bottom of the basket, put the lid on and bring it back up to the boil then put the lid back on. I'm not sure that it...

If she made a habit of keeping a knife and axe tucked into her waistband then I think that there's a serious problem; why was she so angry or fearful that she felt the need to go around tooled up?

I bought a second insect killer lamp. I bought one of these in spring for the house down in SW France; took it there for the extended 14 July holiday weekend and it worked well. SWMBO had bought a cheap and nasty second hand insect killer lamp from a charity sale and I had it running for a...

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...