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Hi, Welcome.

Hi, Welcome.

Whether it is worth €95 would depend a lot in how useful the saw is. They vary from a lump of notched steel to precision tools.

Thank you.

That’sa pretty comprehensive response!

I’m working on making an Opinel#12 fitted with the #12 pull saw and the #12 knife blade but it won’t be light and it won’t be street legal - but OK for a camp on private ground. I totally agree it’s the ideal combination if you use an open fire or a stick stove.

Before Covid I used to go to a hairdresser rather than a barber. I probably left longer time between cuts than most blokes. I have now saved that expense. My hair grew during the pandemic, I learned to manage it (and my lathe) and it hasn’t been cut since. But yes - it was a pleasant...

Does porridge count? I don’t have it with milk even at home. Sometimes a little sugar, sometimes honey. Rice? Maybe with a stock cube mixed in. If it’s only a one nighter then chopped dried veg or otherwise one of the blue dragon sauces mixed with the rice in a plastic tub. Normal cooking...

My satnav is very optimistic about what it thinks I can see after sunset before it goes into night mode. ……. except for a few hundred yards between two bridges on the A5 when it’s always changes to night mode. DAM!

@bearbait I don’t know the answer to this but I have an idea. When I worked in Africa sunset was almost like a switch, very much more sudden than here at 52 North. The surface of the planet is moving faster at the equator. The difference between sun set and dark, dawn and sunrise is up to an...

Most FPSO operators’ procedures consider that any level of ventilation is sufficient to make a confined space safe, subject to gas testing before entry. There are no regulations applicable to confined space entry offshore, certainly nothing that will drive any operator to deviate from its...

How are your animals coping?

Hi Mick, Welcome.

@MrEd I worked 12on 12off night shifts at a factory long ago. We didn’t get paid for the extra hour, they said what goes round comes round. I worked two long ones and never did work a short one!

British Summertime. Why? What’s the point? How does it affect you? Me? I get up at 9 - 10 and go to bed at 1 -2. Other than adjusting the clocks that don’t adjust themselves, nothing changes.

It’s not the t batteries that will render them obsolete. Many of them (If not all) are baby but in Bluetooth linked to a smartphone. It us the programming that will cause the problems. My (very) cheap one even gets the time wrong if it spends a week away from its phone.

Some of these fitness watches are little more than random number generators. I showed a retired NTU nurse my recorded blood pressure and she laughed. No way any one my age could have such a low BP. She then asked everyone in the room to take blood pressures and rejected them all. I’m sure...

I signed up for BBMR (bone marrow) tests years ago. (British) Edited to add:- it’s now the NHS Stem Cell Doner Registry. If you’ve signed with them or the Anthony Nolan Register, then you don’t have to do anything. They have the data that they need.

Good point, well made. It never even crossed my mind but then I’ve never worried about a curve in an old blade.

Don’t be frightened of taking a file to the protrusion yourself to bring the edge back in line. “Sharp” only means effective for what you want to use it for. It’s well worth getting used to working at the blade yourself. Shaving sharp doesn’t matter - unless you shave with it. I sharpen the...