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In Sweden and Norway you do see a lot of glass jarred vegetables in a way to don't in the UK often thought that was a good system and thing.

Booths supermarkets over here had ecover dispensers at one point. You bought your first bottle of whatever ecover product you used then paid less to refill it in store. They stopped doing it and only did it in certain stores when they did. A trial that didn't work for the company.

We had to get a tick off our son. A tiny one that the green plastic tick removers in large and small sizes could not even get close to hooking. Fortunately we forgot the tick removers one Scottish trip and the only tick removal tool we could find there was lifeventure tick tweezers. Those handle...

Biodegradable plastics? It's there such a thing really? I saw a UN funded research report on biodegradable plastics once. Made me doubt all claims. That research took some of the most common types of biodegradable plastics at the time and made shopping bags of them. They put samples in soil, in...

No it's stopped now. The oil and coolant are exactly where they were. Coolant on max line. Oil was on midway between min and Max two weeks plus ago and on Thursday at the same point on the dipstick. Probably no issue but to be sure my partner wants the garage to check it over. Her call as she's...

Most independent butchers will weigh your meat into your own container. I think you can get waxed paper sheets for this too. Take it with you and they'll use it. Don't and you get plastic. Same with cheese shops if be there's one near you. Where I once lived in Southport there used to be a very...

Isn't there something about recessive genes going on there? I recal something about recessive and not genes and two recessive gene carrying parents might only produce offspring with that recessive gene something like one in four cases. Something about needing recessive-recessive but getting...

Left in Latin is sinister, right is Dexter. So one became a meaning for unfavourable and even later for slightly evil things. The other joined with the word for "both" to become the word for being able to use both hands equally. I think the lefties lost out in the word origins game there. Left...

Thanks for the suggestions. We will look into getting one. Once we get another car related crisis sorted (a lot of white or grey smoke out of our pug exhaust) and get the free cash again. Loaded the pug up for the weekend and now it's letting us know it's not happy!!!

Tranglia billy can! Love the spelling mistake.

Two stoves doesn't cut it. The sales blurb says 25 is for 3-4 IIRC but three of us can't cook pasta in it without overflow or not enough water once pasta is in. No way is it 3 people use in an outdoor activity where you have a healthy appetite. Perhaps 2 sparrows and a normal hiker! We're...

With a guy called David Skeater under the company name Fog and Sleat limited. Company founded February this year and the deal just happened recently. Well he wore it a lot on his TV shows. That and a natural fibre coat I believe he had made in a clothing venture he got into. So he kind of has...

We use a trangia 25 set a lot on all our camping trips. With a gas converter it's perfect for our needs, if it was a little bigger. Does anyone know if there is a similar kit based stove and pot like a trangia that can take a few types of burner? Or at least a gas burner?

Big tent doesn't fit in car and even the beta 350 isn't tall enough for me to comfortably sit in except the centre. TBH I've never found sitting up and headroom an issue. I think it might be for people who are used to it if they lost it but apart from the numerous frame tents we've owned and...

We sold our camper so we're back to the camping scene. It'll be car camping right now, two or three nights from tomorrow night. The dilemma is the boy has grown up to 12.5 years, with the dog and small car we have right now we're not going to be able to use a proper car camping tent. So which...

Most ford ecoboost engines are 1.0 litres and have a reputation for failing. Nickname is ecobang I once heard. BTW when they first came out a Ford main dealer salesman once told to avoid it. I guess I've kind of been put off them not least because of that comment.

We've decided to avoid the large cars with 1 litre engine. Supposedly highly stressed I read somewhere. So that seems to rule out all fords and pretty much every Dacia out there as the 1.6 litre ones are rare. What I do not understand is why most brands are dropping engine size. 2 litres to...

I think some time in the future the older generation will understand and accept the modern world they complain about was what they had a hand in creating and apologise. This will be repeated with read generation shift until we learn to actually make the world into what works for everyone...

Some researchers used a slime mould to model efficient transportation networks. Same for logistics networks. Apparently with the existence of higher levels of food (big cities) and lower levels in other areas the mould detected where to go and most efficient route around the complex network...

Took my custom made Aiguille Alpine pack recently on a city break via trains (and replacement buses - British trains for you). I forgot how supremely comfortable a rucksack made to your exact dimensions is. Looks good in the fells but also city trips on public transport. Good for urban to...