What did you buy today?
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Beeswax ingot, and a tin of geranium moisturising cream, and a jar of honey, from the farmers market honey man.
A beautiful white echinatia plant, from the plant people.
Cornish yarg cheese, somerset farm cheddar, from the cheese people.
G/f burgers and some mince beef, from the beef farm people.
G/f sausages, from the pork farm people
A bottle of wine, from the just about local vineyard as a thank you to my neighbour for transferring all my data over to my new phone.
A linnen dress for this hot weather from the charity shop, along with a handmade wooden platter, and a red enamel , with white spots coffee pot.
Oh, and a bar of chocolate....gotta have some in the emergency snack drawer! Nuts and raisins can get boring after a while.
A beautiful white echinatia plant, from the plant people.
Cornish yarg cheese, somerset farm cheddar, from the cheese people.
G/f burgers and some mince beef, from the beef farm people.
G/f sausages, from the pork farm people
A bottle of wine, from the just about local vineyard as a thank you to my neighbour for transferring all my data over to my new phone.
A linnen dress for this hot weather from the charity shop, along with a handmade wooden platter, and a red enamel , with white spots coffee pot.
Oh, and a bar of chocolate....gotta have some in the emergency snack drawer! Nuts and raisins can get boring after a while.
Now that the weather is more amenable, I took a long road motorcycle ride up, over and around Exmoor out to near Barnstable. It was very enjoyable and my destination was the Quince Honey Farm over at South Molton. I bought a small jar of the Exmoor Dandelion set honey, and a mid-sized jar of their Exmoor Heather honey. An expensive treat that I shall hold onto until the winter, when spreading it on my toast cheers me up no end! Yum 
I ordered these lamps a week ago and they just arrived today from the Netherlands.
The one on the right is a Feuerhand 176 with a Pilzkopf shroud manufactured between 1939 and 1942. The mushroom shroud was designed to reduce light emitted from the chimney.
The other is a Feuerhand 175 with a Stormkappe (Stormproof) shroud and was manufactured between 1952 and 1954
The one on the right is a Feuerhand 176 with a Pilzkopf shroud manufactured between 1939 and 1942. The mushroom shroud was designed to reduce light emitted from the chimney.
The other is a Feuerhand 175 with a Stormkappe (Stormproof) shroud and was manufactured between 1952 and 1954
How many lamps do you have now? Some would say I've got too many candle lanterns but there's often room for another nice one...
Good question, I think it's about 70 or so of various types. Actual hurricane lanterns it's around 60. Not as many as Wayland has, I think he just tipped over the 200 mark for all types of lanterns.
They'll all be out on display and lit just about every evening for the Moot, I'll do a proper count then and let you know
I left physical therapy this morning, strangely feeling better. You know you have troubles when feeling even a bit better is strange.
I stopped in to my local purveyor of booze, Publix, to see how long I could stand up and chat with the clerk, who is a friend of mine. While standing in the Publix liquor store the clerk again offered a few bottles of bourbon that we haven't seen in almost 20 years at retail prices. These are highly sought after and usually trade for 10 or 20 times more than retail by flippers. These days these bourbon are showing up with some regularity. So I was able to buy one bottle each of E.H.Taylor, Eagle Rare, Blanton's, Stagg and a rare Chickencock bourbon. I like whiskey, in moderation, always.
As I got home I saw four boxes at the door. Amazon has been delivering packages from last week's Amazon Prime Days. Today, the big river delivered up a Sitivien ST27, a Sitivien ST19 a BAHCO Laplander folding saw and a Helikon Tex boonie hat.
I stopped in to my local purveyor of booze, Publix, to see how long I could stand up and chat with the clerk, who is a friend of mine. While standing in the Publix liquor store the clerk again offered a few bottles of bourbon that we haven't seen in almost 20 years at retail prices. These are highly sought after and usually trade for 10 or 20 times more than retail by flippers. These days these bourbon are showing up with some regularity. So I was able to buy one bottle each of E.H.Taylor, Eagle Rare, Blanton's, Stagg and a rare Chickencock bourbon. I like whiskey, in moderation, always.
As I got home I saw four boxes at the door. Amazon has been delivering packages from last week's Amazon Prime Days. Today, the big river delivered up a Sitivien ST27, a Sitivien ST19 a BAHCO Laplander folding saw and a Helikon Tex boonie hat.
Seiko 5 Automatic
Not many watches suit my small wrists but this one does. Should make a perfect office watch.
Not many watches suit my small wrists but this one does. Should make a perfect office watch.
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Next week for us with temps in the late 20's and maybe 30° on Monday, you're looking a fair bit cooler in Somerset.
Post today was a quarter each of lemon sherbets, strawberry sherbets, and soor plooms from Saltire Candy. Nice, but boring lemon sherbets again. These had sherbet, but not good lemon flavour, taste more like barley sugars.
Although I have an old Tilly I know nothing about lamps. I've never seen, nor had it occurred to me, that you could have a red glass. Do you know what this one was used for?
The only sailing red/green lights I've seen have been huge simple wick types in pubs, but there must have been something for vessels before electrics.
The original start of this thread was asking what "shineys" we had bought. Well, this one is certainly that; a 1600ml stainless steel hiking pressure cooker arrived today, and very nice it is too.
Surprisingly light, 0.7 mm steel, designed really for the Chinese market and cooking rice, only 120mm diameter and very packable. It's just a pot with a lid and fold out handles.
The discussion on boiling water to sterilise and fuel consumption sent me down a rabbit hole, and I found there were several makes.
It is worth it to sterilise not much more than a litre per boil just a little quicker or hotter (maybe 120 C) ? - No probably not.
Unlike HomeSickSteve's Swedish M40 cookset, which is en route, and which I fully intend to use in the field, this was a shiny toy treat buy.
It might however, prove useful for longer lower temp. cooking time items,like say stews and yes, rice, without burning or sticking to the bottom. It can also be used unsealed as a normal pot.
It's a low pressure cooker, max 50kpa, that's about 7.25 psi above normal air pressure and I don't expect massive fuel savings. When I've played with it for a bit I'll report back.
Surprisingly light, 0.7 mm steel, designed really for the Chinese market and cooking rice, only 120mm diameter and very packable. It's just a pot with a lid and fold out handles.
The discussion on boiling water to sterilise and fuel consumption sent me down a rabbit hole, and I found there were several makes.
It is worth it to sterilise not much more than a litre per boil just a little quicker or hotter (maybe 120 C) ? - No probably not.
Unlike HomeSickSteve's Swedish M40 cookset, which is en route, and which I fully intend to use in the field, this was a shiny toy treat buy.
It might however, prove useful for longer lower temp. cooking time items,like say stews and yes, rice, without burning or sticking to the bottom. It can also be used unsealed as a normal pot.
It's a low pressure cooker, max 50kpa, that's about 7.25 psi above normal air pressure and I don't expect massive fuel savings. When I've played with it for a bit I'll report back.
Red was used in a variety of ways, traffic control, on the railways, boats as you mentioned and to assist in keeping your night vision.
Red wasn't the only colour available, I've seen green, amber, blue, violet, teal
Ultra-light Mini Pressure Cooker 304 Stainless Steel with Folding Handle Outdoor Camping Solo Compact Portable Cooking Pot - AliExpress 15
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Err.Don't know if this is right, I've just copied and pasted the ali express address. There are several sellers of the same thing, no idea if this is who I bought if from.
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