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When everybody was working from home I was in the attic. I fitted an Inkbird ITC-308 temperature controlled switch and put the probe outside of the attic window, with a rectangle of marine grade plywood with a 125mm diameter vent and an extractor fan turned to suck air into the attic whenever...

It's warm here, too. 33°C in the shade, and I still have the back garden to strim. But I bought some ice cream this morning.

In a cast iron pot I avoid cooking acidic foods, for example anything containing tomatoes. Onions, meat, carrots, turnips, cabbage... All are great. But not tomatoes, citrus fruit, vinegar, wine.

Back from the offie with six oranges to press for juice (got lemons and limes yesterday), six cans of strong beer and six of small beer, a litre and a half of tonic water (instead of lemonade, I use that to make shandy), a bottle of rum and a stick of bread. Oh, and a tub of pistachio ice cream...

Hans Römer Fabrik was a manufacturer of hiking and camping equipment in Neu Ulm (Bavaria). The company also manufactured equipment for the German military during WWI and WWII and continued to supply helmets (and possibly other equipment) to the Finnish army through the 1950s. Been 1939 and 1965...

If you're going to drink cold liquids then you could use beeswax. Last summer (or the summer before) I was at an apple festival and in the market hall was a couple selling little objects made from mycelium. I didn't press them (pun intended) on the process that that use, but they told me that...

Even the non-vintage version of this seems to be priced at around €3 a tin... Anyway, lesson learnt.

Today I took a tin out of the cellar because I had a bit of a tinned fish craving. Big disappointment. I don't remember how much I paid for this, but it isn't worth more than €2.50. It's not unpleasant, there are no off flavours, no strong smell, it's just plain bland. I have a second tin...

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I had a look back through old copies of Viz in the Top Tips.

I couldn't decide where to post this, it is sort of tangentially linked to the tinned fish thread, but this didn't come out of a tin, I made it. Little squid, stuffed with spicy meatball, in a simple sauce made from red onion, coriander powder, dried Greek oregano and tomato pulp. Along with a...

The Deficit Myth by Stephanie Kelton, picked up in HMV a couple of weeks ago for (I think) £1.50 (an offer, something like two books for £3). It's a good read, nice introduction to Modern Monetary Theory. I knew nothing about this, it was never mentioned in my economics classes, but maybe it...

A video popped up on YouTube for me, on Max Miller's Tasting History channel. It instantly made me think of this thread about Erbstwurst.

Maybe an icicle or Prusik knot.

I went out for a fairly long walk yesterday, across a field that's left more or less wild. When the river is very high this field can flood to protect the towns downstream, and by allowing the water to flow unimpeded Paris avoids flooding. I went along the Seine walking downstream past the...

I made my skin red... Five hours of walking along the river on a very sunny day.

I don't grow beans but I buy them fresh when in season or dried. I usually cook them then use them cold in salads, often like the Greek "gigantes plaki" (though strictly speaking that recipe uses Phaseolus coccineus rather than Vicia faba). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gigantes_plaki...

And connect the gutters on the shed to a water butt for watering the plants in the raised bed.

I've used something very similar. I set the into the surface of a workbench so that I could use 8mm bolts to fix machines like buffing or grinding wheels and be able to remove them afterwards and free up bench space. I'm not convinced that they would be great for lateral forces like extending a...