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Over here, salamis are hung up on racks at ambient temperature... Not sure that this would be a good idea once started, but while the outer "skin" is intact, they're fine.

Hard boiled eggs Scotch eggs Cheese Pork pie Pasties Any of those will be edible after six or eight hours at room temperature.

They tried to make me go to rehab...

Yes, glues have been used for hundreds of years. I'll dig out a recipe or two either later today or during the week.

While Lamnia might be a good place to start, it is a good idea to compare prices... Lamnia wants €78 for the Brisa necker, but direct from Brisa it is €63.

T' Intarwebs will provide all the information you need, and then some. Most leather supply companies publish articles about the different kinds of leather that they sell. Here's one for starters...

I bought a second hand replacement for my old laptop (that I bought second hand for my son but he found it to big and heavy). The old one is too slow for some software, the screen resolution isn't high enough for other software to run, and it's true that it's big and heavy. So I've got a 2019...

That makes a refreshing change.

There's a vegan substitute sold under the Carnation brand.

Carnation is a brand name used by Nestlé in the UK and Ireland. Condensed and evaporated milk are both milk with 60% of the water removed; the difference is that condensed milk is sweetened while evaporated milk is unsweetened. In France, they are both called "lait concentré" for "concentrated...

Dirk and sgian dubh here: https://www.celticwebmerchant.com/en/buy-sword/dagger/medieval-rondel/ Basket hilt broadsword here: https://www.celticwebmerchant.com/en/search/basket+hilt+broadsword/

If the donor is type O Rh negative then I imagine you don't need to know the receiver's blood type. If you have a flexible tube attached to a cannula in both donor and receiver, you might be able to pinch the tube and run your fingers towards the receiver; a kind of makeshift peristaltic pump...

Yes, over here in France I've bought it by the metre for making fly screens to fit into a window for the summer months. We don't need such fine mesh, though. Hornets and cockchafers make a right racket when they fly into it.

Yesterday: six big oranges and three big lemons.

Four big oranges and four pak choi.

I have a friend who had a problem with deer gnawing the bark off his newly planted walnut trees. He put a single wire electric fence around the field. To the wire he fixed every 20 metres or so a strip of aluminium foil spread with a bit of peanut butter. Then he switched on the current. The...

These look what are in the US called "Bundt cake" tins and in France as "kouglof" tins (from the Alemannic dialect spoken in Alsace, cognate of the standard German "Gugelhupf"). The hole in the middle allows the cake to bake more evenly and quickly, compared to a standard round cake tin.

Here I was, thinking that I'd managed to get through all of Friday and Saturday without buying a single thing. Then I remembered that I had, in fact, bought three things. My travel pass for the month of March. Two copies of Knife Repair and Restoration. I stumbled upon this book an a Norwegian...

I found the Kydex! I don't remember how I made that little sheath, but since I didn't have a hot air gun at the time I almost certainly used the kitchen oven.

My daughter has recently started collecting 1950s to 1980s ceramic and glass table and kitchen wares. She told me about researching the lead content of the glazes, so I got her some lead detecting swabs from Amazon; you might be able to use these on aluminium, too.