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Queues at the shop. Fuck that. Egg (and onion) fried rice. Wok Loads of oil Onion(s) Ginger, garlic, chilli Egg(s) when the onion is nearly done. Let the egg fry enough to hold together but not so much that it’s a complete fried egg. Then stir it up and give it a few more seconds. Turmeric, sometimes nutmeg Rice (cooked, duh) Ideally serve with gloopy soy sauce that you get from foreign shops, not the thin piss from Tesco. Also available from foreign shops, monosodium glutamate. Often called something hopeful like “magic powder,” it does make the dish more like it would be from a takeaway but will probably also give you a heart murmur.
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Can’t help with question but good on you.
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That's the one I meant. Thanks very much.
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Find my thread on them. That’s when I installed them and they were still fine yesterday.
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Very old pear tree (dying gracefully?)
AHPP replied to AndyJ's question in Homeowners Tree Advice Forum
Fruit trees can look old and gnarly but still live well. They like being worked. Say it’s fifteen feet tall now. I’d knock it down a foot or so a year for five years and thin selectively to let light and air though and I bet it comes back fighting. You’ll then have a tree you can pick and prune from a three foot step. Just wade in. -
If you had to pick one, London Plane Tree or Common Lime?
AHPP replied to JackArbAssociation's topic in AA
If you like small leaved lime and you ever venture east, there’s a fucking fabulous coppice of it in Suffolk. -
What Squaredy said and also, in my glorious vision of peaceful anarchy, the absence of government building restrictions will increase housing supply, lowering cost for a given demand.
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Those little Bahco sets are supremely handy. My mate, Neil, an otherwise laid back man, watches me like a hawk when it’s out with us on the driveway and he thinks I might pocket it.
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The same thing I often cook, varied depending on what I have in. Onion and bacon bits fried up Beans (chopped up or messy to eat with a spoon) Garlic, ginger, chilli; the holy trinity of heat Turmeric and garam masala Potatoes (pre-cooked yesterday outside on wood - I could do it all on wood but I can’t bring myself to shit my good wok up with soot yet) Pint of water to make it soupy Salt was in with the potatoes, pepper whenever
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They well may. Their lookout. Why would stuff be more expensive?
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I’ve got an even better one. Stop taxing people like battery hens and they’ll see themselves through. People on average have half their wealth taken in tax (a simplistic appraisal but run with it). If someone had worked for twenty years without being taxed, they could ride out a storm for another twenty years on the saved tax money alone. As it is at the moment, the government’s got about ten minutes of money in reserve because it spent the “bit of money” its collected over the years on bollocks.
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The 20% when sold is what I described when the banks repossess and sell. Unless I've missed some other subtlety?
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On top of donnk's sadly accurate explanation of the farce of fiat, the Persimmon shitboxes are performing a second nefarious function. The government help-to-buy scheme lends prospective buyers 5% of the cost of the house so they only have to find 5% themselves to make a 10% deposit. Now you'd think a party contributing 5% of the cost of the house would get 5% of the equity in it. Not here. The government puts in 5% of the cost but gets 20% of the equity. If people default on their mortgages, the houses will be repossessed and sold and the government will make a tidy profit. Everybody knows there's a house price crash coming. The government positioning themselves like this (and with taxvictims' money remember) is no mistake. One might even be suspicious of some large newsworthy event that puts a lot of people into financial difficulty; the sort of financial difficulty that might make it hard to pay your mortgage...
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QED
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I get my news from Facebook memes and the snapshot of this thread on the new posts list (I rarely venture in). I used to read the news like it mattered but gave up about four years ago. Freed up endless room in my mind. People obligingly bicker about details and adopting the Australian model for this and the Dutch model for that and none of it matters. They’re mainly slaves debating what kind of chains are best. Does government still exist? Right, well let me know when that changes. Until then I’ve got some hammerite to go on.
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Leave this bollocks on facebook.
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I've got a couple of those Ikea knives. They're excellent and I think were only a tenner or so.
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I always smile when people talk about bio oil and say it’s so eco you can drink it. Right o. You first.
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How much per litre when you buy in those twenty litre cans out of interest?
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That's a quality shed so consider filling it with a quality product. Sawn timber should be dried slower than firewood and the lesser airflow inside might be better matched to it. You could extract more value from arb arisings (or waste, acquired stock etc, depending on what your accountant tells you) than you currently are too. What does end up as logs can go outside. Rain does very little harm compared to the benefits of airflow and sun.
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Most jars (Dolmio, Lloyd Grossman etc) are horribly sweet and just generally artificial. I also concur that Patak's jar sauces are marginally less bad but they're still pointless. Doing it from paste/scratch takes little extra effort and is far cheaper and better. Patak's paste was my old curry method but I've learnt how to do it from scratch now and it's far cheaper. I'll post next time I make one.
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Is there really absolutely no point in painting? Not even 10%?
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Main question is will the white be a red rag or a red flag to an MOT man?
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No welding needed. Wasn’t even going to drag out the grinder with a wire wheel. Just rage with a hand brush for twenty minutes and call it good. Happy to faff if it’s rewarded. It’s a cracking van.
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I’m sprucing up my new van. Not a full time tree truck. Daily driver, light camper, occasionally throw some saws in. The chassis and suspension is in good order and I want to keep it that way. Current plan is wire brush, hammerite and then waxoyl. Now where I think I’m being clever is by using white hammerite and black waxoyl so I’ll be able to periodically inspect and see patches of white where the waxoyl’s worn off and brown on white where I’ve got some rust. Am I instead setting myself up for hell at the MOT by making every ounce of inevitable rust visible? Am I better off doing it all black?
