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I have a problem when something called a sandwich would obviously be better were the contents served on a plate with a couple of slices of bread and a bowl of mayo on the side. Why on Earth stack a sandwich with that which it cannot contain and shall inevitably result in laundry. The mayo...

Yes indeed, I like this lock on the Nontron and might one day ask someone to do something like it in stainless steel for me. I only have a toy wood lathe. My problem with brass is that, with heavy use, the back “shoulder” of the steel blade will make an impression on the brass collar. As...

Absolutely love a BLT - hold the lettuce and tomatoes. Maybe stick it in the microwave.

Hope the healing is rapid and pain free.

…… and your point is ………? …….. unless you eat cold chip butties Is a butty a sandwich - yes in today’s parlance. Your distinction is new to me and a bit awkward to differentiate warm cheese butties and hot bacon sandwiches :) Edited because emoticon failed.

I have read neither author but T E White, a novelist and outdoorsman, writing at a similar time (1908) is exactly the same. All his references to fire lighting (and smoking his pipe) involve matches. However his accounts of his hikes and canoe trips described various ways of keeping matches...

No one has mentioned chip butties!

I don’t sell my flutes, I just make them. I’m not good at carving so I just stick whatever works up there. I also use a leather gasket below the bird. I make them out of all sorts of things: Oak, bamboo, plastic, steel, aluminium and even pottery. I’ll happily show off my instruments. I also...

Milton Mezrow (Mezz) tells how when they played jazz for the white folks in the fifties they would load all the food they could get into a hatch in the back of the contrabass.

Me too but these days I buy a more experienced olive oil as virgin oil is beyond my budget.

From time to time I run workshops where everyone makes a plastic version of the flute in C minor in about an hour. Some people have said that the plastic flute sounds better than my wooden ones. Not better just different. By the end of the second hour they are all playing their own music. I...

Yes, I feel that I must limit how much I play out of doors. We’ve had a discussion about this recently. There is no doubt that music in the wild can be intrusive but no one tells the birds that. The only comments that I’ve ever had have been complimentary. Am I any less nature than any other...

It is perfectly possible to play The Irish Washerwoman on a First Nation Flute :)

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Leftover Christmas dinner.

I always have a First Nation flute with me. I make them. There are a number of approaches to playing them but the most important one is as he suggests, just to play how you feel. (Irrelevant to the post but I disagree about the sixth hole. All mine are made with five holes and I can still...

My own bread, butter and bacon. Hot processed meat :)

Where do sandwiches stop and burgers start?

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