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I'll add my worthless opinion. I don't eat out, but if I did I wouldn't play the tips or service charge game. Just price the tat you're selling at a viable level to make a profit, like most other businesses.

I prefer meat from a named animal- and by named I don't mean Spot or Ginger!

I seem to remember Dibbler's tray which hung round his neck was heated by a small oil stove. So luckily the ban won't affect his business, although the contents of the tray were probably more toxic than hexi anyway...

Good for them, it ought to be available everywhere.

The older the better! Up to a point... :) Anyway, like the creativity!

Don't mean to teach you to suck eggs, and it's been hinted at before in this thread, but there is very little live sauerkraut or kimchi for sale in the UK- the supermarket stuff is all pasturised and therefore dead, so there's no probiotic content. Bit of a scam really. It would need to be in...

Looking good! Not sure the exact method you use, there are loads of ways of going about it. I tend to tie a largish steel nut to the end of the wick to weight it and keep it straight. And before they get to big you can roll the candles between a couple of hard surfaces (think scraps of ply...

Yes, the ones that actually smelled of Christmas, but dropped needles. Oh gosh what a hardship in the age of the vacuum cleaner...

There is an amazing variety of backgrounds here, no wonder we're such a diverse and interesting lot!

We might be- and I hope it's the case- starting to lose that sense of judgement. But it will be a long slow road. When I was young, a van dweller, say, or somebody who travelled the world funding things by an odd job here and there would be seen as a drop out. Now, thanks to youtube etc it's...

Good for you Broch, another subject entirely but for genuinely creative minds often there is nothing worse than the education system.

@The Frightful Ha, I live in the past alright, but it's a real privilege to live in an age where we can pick and choose between the ancient and modern to enjoy the best of all worlds. Just as in bushcraft there's a lot of crossover in rural crafts. No surprise really, since they are just...

It's difficult to see how an 'expert' can give a 'correct' answer either, even if they had survived this very situation in reality, there's no knowing if taking another series of actions would have resulted in quicker rescue, less trauma etc. But thought excercises are fun, and can find flaws...

I hate this question! To answer 'Many things' or 'It's complicated' sounds evasive at best, dodgy at worst! Explaining my antics either start conversations, or kills them. Decided part way through an engineering degree that the modern world, manufacturing and consumerism was a load of souless...

@Chris That could be the answer-businesses specialising in writing these scenarios and selling them as products are redundant, and the staff now have to fill their days chasing around the internet for 'vintage' scenarios and trying to get them taken down?

Yes, too many distractions at that time of life. Anyway, the occasional clean-up job is a sign of productivity and creativity. And a lesson for next time!

A friend of mine was attempting that in our student days. He had to pay for redecoration of the kitchen in the rented house after the resulting explosion.

More choices! Although as I regularly service the car, it's not an issue for me to add charging a torch to the list of things to do. Equally, I'll stick at one light source in the first aid kit- I always have a torch in my pocket, and take a head torch if I go anywhere by car. There's a good old...

Alright, it seems worth paying out for a headtorch- HS10 looks a good option, thanks @Jared, a good neutral white really helps when things get critical and well suited to long term storage given the battery type. Looks similar quality to the Acebeam H16 I'm been hammering every day for a year...

I'm reviewing my first aid kit which lives in the car or handy about the building site which is currently home. I live in the wilds a good ambulance wait from help, and do plenty of stuff with an element of risk. First aid kit consequently includes trauma kit as I may be on my own for some time...