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Oh, I forgot that I always, or 90% of the time, have a Leatherman Supertool and another torch on my belt. The Leatherman gets left at home if I know that I'm going somewhere like a museum, gallery or government building. A broken nail sounds like an annoyance, but when it snags on your...

If I might be so bold as to try to drag the thread back on-topic... Power cuts, shortages of fuel oil and petrol and disruption of food supply would be very unsettling for most people. Like many people of my age on this forum I've lived through those kinds of events without war. Living by...

Apparently... I heard about it on the wireless at the weekend. OH wondered if our son might like that game as a Christmas present. He has a PS5 slim, so without an optical disc reader... How does buying a game for another person work? Would I buy a code that he would need to enter (I suppose...

Mobile phone, bank card, €135 in cash (two €50 notes, a twenty, a ten and a five), a little AAA torch and spare battery, train and bus card. That's enough to get me home by public transport or by taxi from anywhere in about 35km from home and get me a hot meal even if I need to pay cash.

https://www.expedition33.com/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clair_Obscur:_Expedition_33

Anybody had a go at Clair Obscur: Expedition 33, yet?

Here we go again. https://www.wired.com/1998/07/sunk-by-windows-nt/

Yuck, Facebook. There's a petition going on at change.org. https://www.change.org/p/adaptogenic-mushrooms-your-right-to-natural-wellness-is-under-threat However, the statement in the petition blurb: is a bit off... To claim that consumption of a concentrated extract of a substance that a...

The article that I read stated that archaeologists found evidence of a hearth being repeatedly used and temperatures repeatedly getting up to 700°C. So not just a one-off BBQ when a lightening strike had started a fire, more like an established shelter or settlement with a campfire.

I keep a jar of tom yum hot and sour paste in the fridge at work. Two dessertspoons of paste in my 300ml double walled glass, 200ml of boiling water, stir, then 100ml of cold water and it's done. It makes for a good, quick breakfast on a cold day. At midday I put the paste in a bowl, add...

You want to take non-outdoorsy friends and make it a feel like a special occasion... How many friends at a time? Can you split the weight between you and friend(s)? How much comfort would these friends need? How much of a special occasion do you want it to be? Take a look at the Steam...

It's not a separate species; it's a commercial cultivar of sorrel grown commercially here in France. I'm guessing at it being that, from the description and illustration in a seed catalogue that I get.

Thanks, Dale. There's some abandoned farmland near home (it's now used as overspill for when the river risks flooding) that is covered every year with what I think is Spanish sorrel that grows quite tall; I've foraged that a few times.

More turkey tails.

SWMBO and I have been staying with friends at their house in the forest, preserving duck in jars. Wandering in the "garden" I found what looks like something in the dock and sorrel family (rumex). But it is growing flat to the ground and I've not been able to identify it. Maybe it's not a...

China will announce that it has met its deadline. Western agencies will measure emissions from space and say "not quite". China will say "we met *our* targets and you are measuring wrong". When China meets its emissions targets, it's because the government is able to invest huge amounts of...

I think that you'd have to go back a bit further than 100 years to find that in cities. In Sheffield, at least I'm the parts that I know best, slum clearance was planned from 1935 to get rid of the last of the "crofts" (small, Sicily built houses crowded around a yard with a water pump as you...

There used to be a colony in the Peak District, I don't know if they're still there. https://www.bbc.com/travel/article/20170620-the-mythical-roaches-in-englands-peak-district

Oh, delivery companies... From what I read on various forums, it seems to be very definitely dependent on the "final mile" driver and on the software and in my experience also depends on the depot staff. Some drivers will make a serious effort to deliver, others a half-hearted effort and others...

Yes, I've had the loop of the lace of one boot catch a hook of the other boot. Luckily, it wasn't catastrophic. Since then I try to make sure that I don't leave big loops. If the laces are so long that I can't avoid either big loops of long free ends of lace, I find a way of reducing the...