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Ah, Cas Clarke? I had Katherine Whitehorn's Cooking in a Bedsitter, mostly because my Dad had a copy at Uni too.

That sounds good. I'm lazy and bung in red lentils without precooking them to bulk out ragus. I'm prone to using a small amount of meat, loads of tomatoes and the previously mentioned grated carrots as well as the lentils. The other thing I really like the pressure cooker for is cooking beans...

Theodolite.

I'm sure that I am. :)

Some possible hints here - https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/wordofmouth/2010/may/06/how-to-make-perfect-risotto Many ways to skin that particular cat. With paella I usually pour all the stock in at once - but I can't resist occasionally scraping the pan, which I know isn't traditional...

My go-to whenever I have bones around - chicken, pork, beef, pigeon, rabbit... Had a chicken from Costco Thursday night, ate the legs, stripped the carcass down and bunged it in the pressure cooker (Instant Pot, about 45 mins). Still got the breasts to use for meals and the stock will probably...

*Posh* stovies :) I'd have gone with stovies too, but tortilla is a good second. With chorizo for a fancy version, but anything in season works (reminds me - I've got runner beans to use up).

On everything. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-hampshire-64281858 for example. No mains drainage, no mains gas, no streetlights (but we do now have FTTP thanks to a government initiative), there's no facilities nearby so you need to drive to pretty much anywhere - BUT no streetlights...

I'll probably be there trying to buy up all his charcoal again :D

If I order online from Sainsburys I invariably go for the £1 slots (about an 8 hour bracket IIRC). On the one hand, it's a damn sight cheaper than driving there, on the other I invariably end up with short-dated stuff if I do.

Fractionally tangential - would anyone know where a set of replacement scales for a Vic Trooper could be sourced? I'd forgotten the 2 were near-identical (probably confused by the later one-handed GAK I have). Or am I going to have to make my own...?

Having worked in catering in the past (including pizzas), I well know there's significant costs beyond just the food - but that still doesn't stop me looking at that sum and slavering over how much I could buy in ingredients for that. It probably helps that a) I enjoy cooking b) I'm reasonably...

At Badminton I saw sausage baps were at £8.50 each, churros £9, ice creams £5 - didn't get prices on too much else. Wood-fired pizzas were popular @ £13+ per for a small pizza - which I confess had me wondering how long I'd last with a pop-up Ooni pizzeria before being chucked off-site :)...

Catspaw crowbar, the sort with a wide blade (mine doesn't have a notch in the blade which I prefer). Paint tin opener (keep the catspaw free of paint...).

Well, if you want to go that route I've got Rawldrills too :D Very effective on concrete, requires a bit more time & effort than a power drill. They're cordless, but I'm not sure about the battery... Yes, I have a corded drill but I usually end up needing to use it where there's either no...

I probably need one of those too for some concrete removal. Trying to excavate fence post footings with an SDS is not fun,

Vetwrap.

It does - as you say, for most - but I keep hitting up against stuff that shrugs off even the most determined masonry bit. Just needs a bit more weight in the hammer to cope with the stuff that thwarts me. DCD996...

Drilling into concrete I'd probably look at SDS rather than a combi drill. I've got a reasonable hammer drill, but if there's aggregate involved I'm better off breaking out the SDS instead.

Remember the days when some silly bugger would buy up a load of 8'x4' sheets by the pallet from the importers and chop them down to 1' squares and flog them at little more than cost? :D Chris' advice is spot on. I'd maybe suggest the Screwfix speed clamps, as a possible alternative, but the...