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Might light another fire tonight, now that the weather has turned a bit chilly. I lit one a couple of weeks ago, when it was cold one evening, but the weather has been quite mild for the past couple of months.

I have a canvas print of a photo of the Henderson's factory; a present from my little brother, a few years ago.

I was watching an old episode of QI on Youtube last week, and the subject of mushrooms came up. Among the chatter, Stephen Fry referred to a group of mycologists who had bought a packet of dried mushrooms from a supermarket in the UK and tested the pieces of mushroom in it. I tracked down a...

I remember wanting a TV that I saw in a shop window when I was a teenager: hifi separate format, must have been between a 3" and a 4" diagonal, black and white CRT.

Thanks. It is probably a Cheiridium museorum (Leach, 1817), the common name is Book Scorpion.

I see a lot of people like this on my way to and from work. The women for the most part looking at instagram or pinterest collections of clothing, make-up or shoes or are on shopping apps; a few are playing candy crush or bejewelled or are watching a film. The blokes are all watching films or...

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Ah, that explains it! Well done. I've saved the image to my ImgBB space and updated the link.

From that, I guess that you don't see it... There is one there, but I've seen this happen in threads from time to time... sometimes I don't see an image, sometimes I see it but others don't.

This photo came up on another forum I frequent, with a call for help in identifying this fish, found washed up on a beach in South Wales.. That's a size 5 boot next to the very dead fish. Any ideas what species it might be?

It always works for me, too. I call it my magical technique for finding a lost object: just buy a replacement and the lost one reappears.

Picked up earlier in the week from the parcel drop-off (newspaper kiosk down the street from work): a Canon EF 50mm f/1.4 lens. This is intended for a full-frame camera, so on my APS-C camera it's the equivalent of an 80mm or 85mm lens, but with the added advantage that (if I've understood...

I lit one this weekend just past. I've not put on the oil-fired central heating, yet, though. Night time temperatures are going down to about 8°C some nights, but others it stays around 12°C... quite warm. After a few days of intermittent showers, there are mosquitoes trying to get into the...

We have two cobblers in town. One is a fairly big shop, run by a bunch of second generation Portuguese. The place absolutely reeks of stale cigarette smoke, and garlicky stale sweat. I set foot in the place once, to pick up two or three pairs of shoes that SWMBO had left to be soled and heeled...

Look around car boot sales, bric-a-brac shops, and the like, for sewing boxes. Very often, these will come up in house clearances, they are usually stuffed full of old bobbins of thread and with old needles. You'll probably end up with a load of embroidery threads, too, or a handful of...

No. One particular Post Office employee has misunderstood the rules. If you really want to send this little knife back to the manufacturer in Sweden, you can either go to a different post office, or try to get some sort of training for the numpty who is causing you so much frustration... For...

Thanks for that; I'd not heard of these things before. I went googling and found a few. They look a bit like rush lights

In EU law (and so in English law, until further notice), the country of origin is that where the "last substantive change" occurred. But there is no EU-wide requirement to indicate country of origin on non-food items. When I look at an item, if it is not marked with its country of origin, I...

Delivered yesterday: two pairs of jodhpurs and a focusing rail for macrophotography.

General opinion seems to be that the 128GB cards work fine, and some people report that some (but not all) 256GB cards work. https://alikgriffin.com/best-memory-cards-gopro-hero-7-black-silver-white/ https://community.gopro.com/t5/Cameras/Max-size-sd-card-in-hero-7-black/td-p/251954 With...