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I have 2 dated 2013 and 2014, and they're 990ml and 1030ml repsectively when filled to the brim, so both under a litre useful capacity.

Sampled the chilli con carne today, and it's actually fairly pleasant. Best of the bunch. The beans don't rehydrate too well though, I'd recommend at least doubling the rehydration time for this one.

Here's an AI ad I don't understand: It's for an investment platform whose selling point is that you can have your investments track the portfolios of other members, and benefit from their expertise. The ad purports to show some of the other investors on the platform that you could follow, but...

Was just on the Go Outdoors web site and noticed the Phoxx 2 is back in stock now, at a bargain £58.65 if you use discount code APRIL15.

An alarming and very plausible idea.

Thanks for the tip on these. I ordered a box yesterday and they came today, so I sampled the chicken tikka massala for lunch and the pasta bolognese for dinner. The packs are pretty slim, which is usually not a good sign - in my experience, the less bulky the pack, the more likely you end up...

Please come back with pictures!

Out walking at the weekend, I came across two fine examples of why when a tree falls over, the council doesn't necessarily need to immediately send out a man with a chainsaw to finish it off. This tree fell a long time ago. At least 4 big branches have continued to grow straight up and are...

Nice weather for ducks, or swans.

I was just looking at the list of April winners: https://www.nsandi.com/prize-checker/winners If you go to page 31, you can see someone in Scotland has won £25,000 on a single £1 bond from 1969! The majority of prizes are going to people who hold the maximum £50,000, as you would expect I suppose.

I made some of those over Christmas too - with some seasonally-appropriate dried cranberries and ginger. Had one the other day and it still seemed good. I think with biscuit type things generally, they don't seem cooked when they're cooked. Supposedly when they come out of the oven, they should...

I have one and would happily recommend it as a good-value option... but it's disappeared from the Go Outdoors web site! Whether temporarily or permanently, I have no idea. The main thing people complain about is it's inner-first pitching, but it is possible to tie the inner and outer together...

The way it's supposed to work is if you make a taxable capital gain, you have to declare it to the Revenue, either on your tax return if you do self assessment, or via the real time CGT reporting service otherwise. Failing to declare a gain, or misrepresenting the purchase price, would be tax...

Martin Lewis's premium bond calculator is very useful for working out your likely returns and seeing how they compare to cash savings: https://www.moneysavingexpert.com/savings/premium-bonds-calculator/ (Looks like the rates may be slightly out of date though.) You want to be putting in a...

Fun fact: it's already been getting lighter in the evenings for about a week. But in the mornings, sunrise will carry on getting later for a week or so after today. I did read an explanation once of why the earliest sunset and latest sunrise are about a fortnight apart, and didn't understand...

That's right, just like dipped headlights on a car. Adjust so the beam cut-off is below horizontal, and you can see the ground ahead without risk of dazzling other people. Also hides the LED from direct observation, should you wish to remain unnoticed. Like the tape shrouds on your lights.

I was making something along similar lines this morning... a visor for a headtorch to cut off the beam below eye level, like dipped beam on your car. The headtorch is a Sofirn H25LR. Being cylindrical with the emitters in the middle makes it a convenient shape to cable-tie an improvised...

That's the one I'd recommend. It automatically plugs in to the various online databases to check the accuracy of your rips, and has strategies to read problem discs. FLAC lossless compression will reduce file size by a third to a half with no loss in quality.

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It's good stuff, for sure. 25-21 UL/D is the set with all Duossal pans. The "Go System GS2000" is a decent Chinese-made alternative to the Trangia gas burner at a fraction of the price.