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Boiled cabbage immediately came to mind. My mum worked in various school kitchens as she rose from general assistant to cook in charge. They had to keep to a very strict budget so the ingredients were not exactly the best quality.

If they had a ban on knives in Republican Rome, just think Julius Caesar would still be alive today.

I understand the drive to ban log stoves, I can remember coal fired England, there are sound health reasons you do not want them as your main heating source in suburbia, however freezing to death with no electricity or gas is not exactly healthy either is it?

I rarely wear mine these days, not because it is not any good but it is rather too specialised. I prefer layering up in wool these days, easier to take off a layer when it get's too warm.

Safe and convenient carry in a belt purse.

They actually work too.

Well since nobody else has posted this yet, I will "Who do you think you are kidding Mr Hitler"

Not today but on Saturday to be precise, I bought a Swiss army greatcoat, I mean anything the Swiss produce is quality, they were there next to Bulgarian greatcoats, I would only buy the Bulgarian coat if I wanted to disguise myself as a goat.

Excellent on your key ring takes up no space, and a lot better than the old incandescent one, I really do wonder what some people want out of their torches, we managed without lighting the sky all the way to the moon back in the day. I have still got my original too.

I would expect that to be a rare thing, I have never had a blade failure like that as I can recall. I have broken the tips of knives using them as a prybar but that is another thing it is abuse. I have had spades break in normal use but then they are made out of Chinesium these days aren't they.

I dunno, nature is brutal at times I have seen the damage of storm Darragh at Lake Vyrnwy.

Seven axes hanging on my wall, seven axes hanging on the wall, and if one of those axes should axeidently fall, well there might be blood on the kitchen floor. I had a landlords inspection a while back and I had to warn the young lady who was carrying it out not to lean back as there was a row...

I know the local paper was predicting the Apocalypse and I confess I was rather disappointed when none of it materialised. The snow has all washed out this evening.

I am pretty sure our sewage is gravity fed, it follows the river valley and was built in the 1960s and was tested out by men driving minis down it :)

It has been relatively mild here, none of the doom and power cuts predicted by the newspaper. There was a fall of snow yesterday evening that did not last long, no high winds and it all looks calm and cold out there, which is just as well as I have to get myself to the GP surgery in a bit.

I am clearly not a true lumberjack as the heaviest axe I possess is a Smalcalda from the GDR with a head that weighs no more than 4 1/2 pounds which I have had for over 40 years.

Absolutely, I oversleep and there is just too little daylight left.

I dunno whether it is true or not or AI slop, but I saw on teh interwebs that the Vikings used luminescent plankton in horn lanterns.

Some years back I spent the run up to Christmas in hospital with a suspected heart attack, back in the days when they could still arrange beds for you. I was next to an old man who was clearly dying, he knew it, everybody knew it, he just wanted to be out so he could die at home.

Like a lot of bad laws most people will simply ignore, them, when did anyone every buy a CB license back in the day?