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Good to know but I have been trying to make glacier mints for sooo long and all I end up with is bloody Kendal Mint Cakes. Even polar bears won't eat them, unless on holiday climbing Everest of course. It is the price of summiting, two pieces of Kendal Mint Cake and a few more brain cells lost...

It is the state of the modern world that my first thought on that comment was what has sexual orientation / preferences got to do with standing on their hind legs. Woosh! your joke went over my head but I did end up catching it. Just not laughing much, sorry! :)

II am going to move away from South Cumbria, I do not feel safe with polar bears in Barrow!! They really travel far so I do not feel safe at 40 miles away. What is advised as personal protection from Polar Bears? A Magnum or a large calibre rifle? how do I get a licence for one as a general...

Blood type and Rhesus is not the only factor as MrEd said. There a whole lot more blood types than commonly known about. Some can cause serious issues. If you have the kit to go arm to arm then you are likely to have the kit to go arm to bag then bag to arm. A safer and more controlled method...

Nikwax tx direct is temperamental stuff to get working. It is not just the case of following instructions, you have to be fastidious in your process. WRT wasshing machines, it is hard to get them fully clean of normal detergents and involves a little bit more than a high temp, long boil wash...

Not one type of kit but a style or design of kit. For example I would bring back longer hard shell waterproofs as the design standard for mountain walking on the UK. None of this technical, climbing nonsense that sends water to your groin and is useless without matching trousers.

LIFA is pp but weirdly their merino is 2 layer merino and pp. They've dropped the prowool tag. Mind you when I got mine they had a totally different name again for the fabric. That's how long it's lasted. BTW HH PP LIFA base layers last forever. They'll be digging them up still attached to a...

I have read a lot of various sopoirces about wicking and the majority of the more trusteed sources say wool either does not wick or has very poor wicking properties. AIUI there is surface physics and charge involved but I am so far out of my materials engineering degree to reemember all that...

There was a book on alternatives to the service station on motorways with quality and more reasonable eateries within a few miles of the motorway junctions. One was M6 J32 in the form of a food hut in a carpark on the Millenium footpath by the side of the River Lune. Good old burgers, breakfast...

I understand there are more than thee Waberthwaite ones too but they were the most famous of that kind of former local butcher turned sausage specialists.

There is something like that at the one run by a farm in Cumbria, Tebay services. They own two near there on each side of the M6. They also own one on IIRC the M5 down somewhere near Herefordshire way IIRC. They built that one and I think it also matches your description a bit. The one on the...

I heard Kale was used hence the darker green but I guess any green leaf deep fried and broken up would do I guess.

No idea what the ingredients were exactly but I do not recall seeing an ingredientss list A lot of Japanese character though. It is not your usual supermarket product but an "Asian" market kind of a place. The leaves has an edge to them that looked a little like one side of an oak leaf if that...

My partner came home from the big city with a large pack of sachet miso soup in seaweed flavour. They come in two sachets, one of a pastge and another of dry "seaweed". Bought from a pukka asian supermarket in a city with a Chinese community (China Town) and a Japanese community too. So it is...

Not Cartmel one by any chance? The Apple Pie shop used to be good for, can you guess what? Their crown buns!! Nice round with about 7 little iced and curranted buns stuck together that you tear off to eat. They were always nice but that was 30 or 40 years ago now. The shop was still there last...

There is one high up on the A66, or used to be with a huge carpark. Is that still open or closed years ago? I think France does this better. There is a history of plat du jour there at legally fixed and cheap prices. Two courses and a drink included for probably less than the cost of a full...

Cumbria has a history of family food recipes. IIRC there is a famous butchers towards the west coast known for their sausages based on a generations old family secret recipe. On an aside, I like the story of how kendal mintcake was developed. There was this guy who was trying to rip off the...

I don't usually do elegant. Waffle, digression, losing my thread I do but elegant is not how I would describe most of my posts, but I thankj you for that nice comment!! :)

I had a mate who was in HMRC and he said they didn't; bother with cash tips. Too hard or wasteful to police for little gain. However the service charge in the bill possibly ends up going in the pay slip as a bonus and gets picked up by the employers payroll system with most waiting staff PAYE...

TIp is totally discretionary and paid byt he customer after service and often after the bill has been paid. It is really a cash based system and is effectively a tax avoidance system as cash is not taxed. It is a form of remuneration for the recipient so should actually be taxed. The service...