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I sometimes cook proper (North African) couscous just by stirring some spices, maybe some raisins or sultanas or crushed hazelnuts, into the dry couscous in a bowl, then pouring boiling water straight from the kettle over it. Leave it covered for five minutes to soak, and it's done. Ptitim...

Some food for the new kitten.

Canoeing is very widespread along certain rivers, but I don't know much about canoe camping. Along the Dordogne and Vézère there are plenty of companies renting out canoes by the hour or the day, especially around Brantôme; some of those might rent them out by the weekend or week... Of course...

Well, if you say that finding drinkable water is no problem, I'd carry dried foods. Dried meat, Dried mushrooms, Rice, Pearl barley, Lentils, That's it for the calories. Then some kind of fat, probably ghee if the weather is warm or if the weather is cold I would take some kind of fatty meat...

Thanks, Lou. That helped me find it in Picky Weedia. It definitely looks like Panicum miliaceum (known variously as proso millet, broomcorn millet, common millet, hog millet, Kashfi millet, red millet, and white millet).

The pictures were not showing up for me, either, at first. I think it must have been a problem with ImgBB; I've done nothing, and the pictures now appear.

I noticed these plants growing along the footpath between my home and town when I got back from holiday. Here is one example of the plant; it looks like a grass or grain of some sort. This is the tallest of them, about knee height. A couple of closer views of the seeds I took off a few of...

I can never read about the cane without thinking about Rhodes-Boyson.

tout-à-l'égout Yes, it's a big problem, but one that could be solved by better packaging design and by a bit of consumer participation. Am I the only person here who pulls the plastic film from the empty tissue box, and the cardboard insert from a blister pack, so that the cardboard can go in...

I had a very similar thought.

There's a lot of truth in what you say, but I believe that individual responsibility has to be instilled in children by educators and parents. I don't accept "the kids have no future" as an explanation. I grew up in a poor family in a poor neighbourhood of an industrial city in decline during...

Half a tank of 95 octane petrol. Four cans of Belgian lager. And a LEG VICE!!!1!111!

In the garden yesterday afternoon, my nephew saw something move in the grass near his feet, and asked me what it was. This is only the second one I've ever seen in the wild. The other was about fifteen years ago, found by another nephew, in the field next to the house.

I picked up my straw hat to go out in the sunshine, and noticed I had a new guest. The moth almost certainly chose my hat to match the colour of his wings... He stayed on there while I was wearing it for a good hour and a half, while I went about lighting the barbecue, cutting a notch in a...

Thanks for the info. I recently got myself a 2 by 72 belt grinder. I powered it off a 1HP motor at first, and have a 3HP three phase now (waiting for me to find its final location in the workshop and to run the wiring for the VFD), and I've been trying out a few belts, among which are those...

I like getting my own kids involved in making the stuff they are interested in, rather than either buying it or getting dad to build it. But the RSPB doing hedgehog shelter plans? Whatever next? British Gas selling electricity? Yorkshire Water selling car insurance? I tell you, it's messing...

And what's the belt in that first picture?

Large diameter paëlla pans in loads of different sizes are really, really easy to find, and you can find butane/propane burners in appropriate diameters, too. Paëlla is also a really good dish for dinner parties.

Why am I not surprised by this? I'd have jumped on it, too, but didn't see it until this morning. Congratulations, Wayland. Oh, well... Off to the "vide-grenier" in half an hour, hope to find some more forge tools.

I taught my niece and nephew how to catch lizards a few days ago. I'm surprised they didn't ask to keep one as a pet; they were happy to let the lizards run up and down their arms in in their hair for a few minutes before letting them go.