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  1. British Red

    Hello Fresh / Gousto - Menu subscription services

    That was an excellent, objective & considered review. Thank you very much for taking the time
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    Northern Lights NOW

    Almost certainly yes. My photo is using a fancy camera phone in "Night" mode which makes colour & brightness more vivid
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    Northern Lights

    IMG20241010222920 by English Countrylife, on Flickr Lincolnshire
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    Northern Lights NOW

    Go outside, put your phone in Night Mode to enhance the vividness, let your eyes adjust and look. Do it now IMG20241010222920 by English Countrylife, on Flickr
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    The 'I've found a bargain' thread

    Bias is defined as "the action of supporting or opposing a particular person or thing in an unfair way, because of allowing personal opinions to influence your judgment:". https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/bias#google_vignette I see nothing unfair in couriers charging a...
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    The 'I've found a bargain' thread

    We charge more to deliver to H&I in our store. Our delivery prices are directly in line with what couriers charge us to deliver. The couriers prices are based upon distance from the depot & distance between drops due to population density. This applies to many other locations (Scilly Isles...
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    Compost

    No, you need a mix, roughly 50:50 of green & brown material but it needs to be "fed" regularly and topped up. We can easily fill a dalek in a day. It breaks down fast & then we top it up
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    Compost

    Agreed and you need to be adding enough fresh material to get it up to temperature. Most domestic homes just don't create enough compostable material in a short enough time
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    How to plan a solar system

    Nope, they will be fine
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    How to plan a solar system

    That should work okay
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    How to plan a solar system

    Just disconnect the panel & put a multimeter on the leads of the disconnected panel. A cheap multimeter is worth it's weight in Gold
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    How to plan a solar system

    That's impressive!
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    How to plan a solar system

    I'm delighted Dale, well done!
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    Cheap incubators - bargain or bin fodder?

    When we started incubating our own poultry we bought a cheap Chinese made incubator. It was awful! But that was many years ago & we wondered if they had improved. So we bought one to find out!
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    The Useless Tengu

    Correct. Talisker is a nice Dram but Caol Ila, Bunnie & Lagavulin are all better
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    Poultry registration deadline

    A quick reminder that the deadline for registering all poultry in England & Wales is 1/10/24 (or risk criminal prosecution)
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    IBC Shower tote

    Yup, propane fired power shower. Be sure & choose one that can run on 12V & get the highest possible flow rate
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    Recommendations - knife rescale and sheath

    @HillBill of this forum does really nice work, well worth a chat.
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    What are you preserving?

    Honestly it's one of the easier spices to grow, do give it a go!
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    What are you preserving?

    This week it's been preserving our own smoked paprika. Honestly the smell is incredible!