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My neighbour catches a ton of herring in the summer by himself and salts it all in buckets to last months. Uses a lot of salt though.

TED talk on what a small scale nuclear war some way from the UK would do to the world.

Not that it's totally relevant but here is the HSBC banker who recently got suspended for saying what he maybe shouldn't have. Screeching headlines took a small part of what he said, but one takeaway from it is humans will adapt. No comments on yt weirdly.

50/50 vodka from the freezer and Kahlua, in a thermos, taken to any outdoor party with a pack of metal stacking shot glasses :)

Sauerkraut is super easy and super good for your gut, it doesn't taste too bad either. I have a K&K fermenting pot at 7l and as long as you top up the saline water as it dissipates the stuff stays fresh in there for weeks even before forking out for kilner jars. Cabbages are easy to grow. Bay...

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I could dehydrate stuff for you if you like to then post, I don't have what you want already stored and have never done mushrooms. Evil squeeky things. Would cheese already waxed be ok unfridged anyway for a while? Laughing Cow triangles is ambient in some French shops, is all ok unfridged? You...

I was looking at the Nokia XR20 which is described as tough already despite not looking bulky. I have a Samsung Galaxy Active Tab which I have a replacement battery for, has a SIM, GPS, tough, waterproof, ok screen. Not sure if the current version has the same spec but it's been good so far.

Orange with sprinkles

I just potted up some sweet potato plugs I got in the post, they will be planted in the polytunnel, no heat. I have no idea if they will work, I was surprised they are just little rooted plants and not coming from a tuber. I'm also trying to grow some wild strawberries from seed. From a Gabe...

When I last paid a solicitor to draw up a will they stored it, I assume for ever, for no extra cost. As long as all involved know which solicitor then do you need to worry about storing anything?

"The vortex tube, also known as the Ranque-Hilsch vortex tube, is a mechanical device that separates a compressed gas into hot and cold streams. The gas emerging from the hot end can reach temperatures of 200 °C (392 °F), and the gas emerging from the cold end can reach −50 °C (−58 °F).[1] It...

The Permies forum sometimes allows free access to some of their videos that most of the time they want you to pay for. One of those occasional freebies last year covered a NZ project where they made their own ram pump in a fair sized stream to provide a water supply up and over an adjacent hill...

I think you need UK planning if you are going to extract from the water source. I wouldn't think a water wheel does, but a pipe for a turbine will. A site with a waterfall is more likely (according to one water board info I read) to get permission because it blocks what a fish might do already...

Maybe you could also pick somewhere you've never been half way ish to break the journey up?

A bush craft course I did a while ago showed us how to use a bow drill and a smaller hand drill. Even given the correct material it was still tricky, and being told you need xyz tree or shrub, dead standing, maybe died two or three years ago etc etc, you say ok, now I know what to look for. But...

Fewer people and the streams and waterfalls will be going nuts :) I lived on the north edge of Liverpool for a few years and the Lakes or Snowdonia were both about 80 miles. The sky could look as bad as the forecast said but I don't remember going and not having fun. I moved from there to...

MSR Mugmate or the Finum equivalent. I will be trying this though, just need to work out how to pack up the pot support :)

Some swearing, other Mikedrop podcasts can be good too, here he talks with (or listens to :)) Cody for two hours.

Smitten with a genny is a bit weird ;)