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I bought a freezer a few years ago and, not wanting to risk losing all my stored food if a cheap brand failed, I opted to pay extra and get a good make. It was only after it was bought and full of food that I found out that it's actually made by one of the cheap brands who just bought the rights...

I'm sad to hear that their quality is declining but I can't say I'm surprised. I'm not fully blaming the company though because they've had to compete with other manufacturers making cheaper ripoffs for quite some time now and if people keep buying the cheaper stuff then Maxped will inevitably...

1 It's made especially for wrens and needs to be fitted low down in dense undergrowth. Wrens seem to like that kind of ball shape for some reason.

I'm still pro-bird box after years of experimenting with them. I've currently got around 20 nest boxes up in various locations along with bat boxes and bee hotels which also have their own controversies. They're mostly Schwegler woodcrete boxes and I've been careful to use different types of...

It's the baby tax. Anything to do with babies costs more than you expect. It never seems as bad after you've paid the wedding taxes though. :eek2:

Maybe not the branding you'd like but we use bags like this for carrying around washable face wipes for the kids...

Apparently someone tried to reply to this thread and I hadn't realised it was still here. The knife was sold via a seperate post in Member's Classifieds.

Well I tried a spoonful with a bit of good quality dark chocolate and that was very tasty. I'm not sure about the logistics of coating them in chocolate now but it's definitely worth a look. Flapjacks are a good idea but my wife says she might be able to make me some muffins with them instead...

I've just bottled off my whimberry whisky and I'm left with the alcohol soaked berries to deal with now. Apart from freezing them in small batches to eat with icecream or apple crumble over the winter is there anything I should try with them? In the past I've added various soaked berries to...

The collectors' markets seem to have gone a bit crazy recently. Anything limited edition or 'rare' is snapped up by scalpers and put back up for sale at 3 or 4 times the price. That Heinz Christmas soup that was a limited run of 500 cans is now being sold on Ebay for up to £175 a can. People...

If I won the lottery...

My house smells like cremated pumpkin seeds. :shifty:

20% off posh cheese at Waitrose today so I've got myself a nice big block of Yarg and a Comte as well. I picked up a nice bottle of stout to help wash it all down too. Rude not to really...

It was getting dark and my phone was struggling but I'll be back that way tomorrow and will double check. I don't plan on eating them or anything but I'd like to get some better photos. You can kind of see the translucence in this photo though.

Are these Porcelain Fungus (Oudemansiella mucida)? They were very slimy and growing on Beech.

Dark side of the moose?

My wife snapped one of my global knives in half :cautious:

I really want to try doing a proper rumtopf one year. This year I have gone with whimberry whisky and I'm contemplating making some blackberry as well. The new minimum alcohol pricing has put me off a bit as I can't get whisky under £20 a litre now.

Grey area but generally it's assumed that photography is intentional disturbance. I work in a lot of old buildings where bats can be present and the ecologists we work with say that we can't go in anywhere that's an active roost without licenced supervision. In reality blind eyes are often...

It's kind of illegal to take photos of roosting bats just so you know. I'm sure you were careful not to disturb it but some people get funny about these things. I got a telling off for photographing a dormouse once.