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I made some of those over Christmas too - with some seasonally-appropriate dried cranberries and ginger. Had one the other day and it still seemed good. I think with biscuit type things generally, they don't seem cooked when they're cooked. Supposedly when they come out of the oven, they should...

I have one and would happily recommend it as a good-value option... but it's disappeared from the Go Outdoors web site! Whether temporarily or permanently, I have no idea. The main thing people complain about is it's inner-first pitching, but it is possible to tie the inner and outer together...

The way it's supposed to work is if you make a taxable capital gain, you have to declare it to the Revenue, either on your tax return if you do self assessment, or via the real time CGT reporting service otherwise. Failing to declare a gain, or misrepresenting the purchase price, would be tax...

Martin Lewis's premium bond calculator is very useful for working out your likely returns and seeing how they compare to cash savings: https://www.moneysavingexpert.com/savings/premium-bonds-calculator/ (Looks like the rates may be slightly out of date though.) You want to be putting in a...

Fun fact: it's already been getting lighter in the evenings for about a week. But in the mornings, sunrise will carry on getting later for a week or so after today. I did read an explanation once of why the earliest sunset and latest sunrise are about a fortnight apart, and didn't understand...

That's right, just like dipped headlights on a car. Adjust so the beam cut-off is below horizontal, and you can see the ground ahead without risk of dazzling other people. Also hides the LED from direct observation, should you wish to remain unnoticed. Like the tape shrouds on your lights.

I was making something along similar lines this morning... a visor for a headtorch to cut off the beam below eye level, like dipped beam on your car. The headtorch is a Sofirn H25LR. Being cylindrical with the emitters in the middle makes it a convenient shape to cable-tie an improvised...

That's the one I'd recommend. It automatically plugs in to the various online databases to check the accuracy of your rips, and has strategies to read problem discs. FLAC lossless compression will reduce file size by a third to a half with no loss in quality.

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It's good stuff, for sure. 25-21 UL/D is the set with all Duossal pans. The "Go System GS2000" is a decent Chinese-made alternative to the Trangia gas burner at a fraction of the price.

My goodness, if you think you've got a problem then I'm really in trouble. I've just looked in the kitchen cupboard and I can see: 3 cheap polycarbonate bottles from Decathlon; 3 Wildo Hiker bottles; 2 aluminium bottles from Clas Ohlsen and Decathlon; a stainless Lifeventure bottle; 2 Osprey...

My resolve weakened and I decided to buy both Duossal pots. Well actually, I found buying the two pots as separate items was only about £20 cheaper than a complete 27-23 UL/D set, so now I have two Trangia 27's! Anyway, the answer to my question is that the Duossal pots do seem to come up very...

No, they don't really stack together properly at all. The Mk 2 cup is quite a different shape. Actually even if you stack the Mk 2 cup in the Mk 2 cooker, you still have about 2" of empty space under the cup, so the pair stands quite a bit taller than the Mk 1 cooker + Mk 1 cup. The tidiest way...

I know a few on here have small collections of Trangias... can anyone confirm whether the new production Duossal 2.0 pots stack properly with the ordinary aluminium ones? I have a vague recollection of seeing complaints that they didn't, when they came out a few years ago. I'm wondering whether...

The SOG Powerlock has user-replaceable tools, and you used to be able to buy other individual tools to swap in, though they seem harder to come by now. SOG multitools generally have decent pliers but some of the other tools are iffy. Victorinox do one of their little models called the...

Quite a few pictures along with weights and measures here: http://squit.co.uk/outdoors/crusader2.html My view is that without the original's singular advantage of exceptional ruggedness, there are probably better options than the crusader 2, whatever your criteria might be.

Good to know. I used to buy M&S jeans but stopped when they reduced the depth of the front pockets. I don't understand why they would do it. How much material can it be saving?

It depends how they draft the law. If the law says you mustn't send a knife direct to a customer, then the seller might have committed the offence as soon as they put it in the post box, regardless of where the customer is. Personally I'm more worried about the other direction. It'll be a...

Yes they've cut the pack sizes of the LWWF a couple of times, originally they were 300g then 270g and now 250g. The range is a lot smaller too. They'll disappear entirely soon I expect.

I read a piece in the paper yesterday about proposed changes to the antique firearms laws, I'm guessing that'll be part of the same bill. Currently if a firearm is pre-1939 and of a designated "obsolete calibre" for which ammunition is no longer available, you can own it as a curio without a...