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I suppose if you are homeless you crap where you can

Desert Island foodstuffs? Duck fat Grappa ... I can work out the rest. Well most of it.

Amp up the base - affordable insulated jackets will always be heavy, lighter ones will cost a bomb and be fragile So, yes to Merino - smartwool 1/4 zip 250 gsm. The Woolpower 200 1/4 zipand 400gsm full zip are good For grid fleece, look at Outdoor Research (often on sale), Patagonia or Paramo...

I like truffle. Only problem is that if you use it everything tastes of truffle and nothing else :) I saw a coriander chutney in the supermarket the other day. No idea why I didn't pick it up to try.

Daredevil. It is dire. They have killed TV, now they seem set on killing streaming. What have we done to deserve this. Mind, the libraries have great AV services here .. not Netfix, Disney etc.

Sometimes I think that all the best meals start by frying an onion in bacon fat. Personally, I think I can skip the meaty part entirely. That maybe because I haven't eaten European style bacon for some time now. Here, you mainly get the regular, thin-sliced fatty bacon, which is ordinarily...

Haddock. Or any firm white fish - Cod e.g. Fry in butter with some olives and capers. Eat w/small potatoes squashed up with some olive oil, salt an lemon in them. Once you get a taste for capers you will put them in everything. Very good with pasta. Cook the pasta, stir in chilli oil, capers...

Funny, I always thought dipped candles were somehow denser and burned longer. You live and learn, I suppose. But, why do people make dipped candles? :)

Here's a pic of the Australian carver I mentioned above. I can't find the correspondence - I lost an email account - but, the charming old Trevor who made it had retired and was spending his time recreating old Sheffield patterns for the fun of it and with extreme competence. He sold them for...

I went to uni late - not to OU though. I come from a not well-off background and didn't flourish at school. So, later, I went and did 2 A-levels to see if I had the appetite. Did kind of OK-ish. Got a place in uni as a mature student, aged 27. Worked at the coursework whilst keeping down a...

I have used used cut branches/saplings in the past a few times - not much of a one for hiking poles. Also, expandable poles, while they are guaranteed to work, can be a bit heavy unless you shell out a little

Who did you go as on BB? To the knife question, I really like a Roselli Grandmother ... I have had one since 2010 at least, when it was entirely affordable. Sadly, they are much less so now. Nothing like as slim as those Mora sloyds though. I had one of these once - gone now, no idea where and...

Sounds like egg and seafood trifle. Excellent! Any sherry in it? Were the mandarins in there as a glaze for the fish? Or, is it more like seafood pie with oranges in it? :)

Put them over sausages to stop them spittiing

Winter has scarcely showed here this year. Cold around Xmas, but up around 10-15C most of the time, otherwise. Very unusual. That's for Calgary. Toronto is another story entirely

Is this for a remake of the end of the Sound of Music

I feel I have been more or less dependent on canned fish since being a kid. It is a regular breakfast with boiled eggs and pickled cabbage or beets. For the monthly staples shop, fifteen cans of mainly mackerel and sardines is permanently on the list. Don't much rate tuna, but I'll snap up big...

Tatonka stainless steel mugs. Better than any other metal cup. Ours are ages old now, handsomely dinged up. Perfect fit to a 1L Nalgene. The kids still use theirs more or less daily.

Can't think of anything better. :) But, I don't know anything about the workings of PTSD, unfortunately