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Daniël Bos

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  1. I should be on commission, I've made at least 20 people buy that book over the past year alone! I was given a bread maker once, but it just sat in the way most of the time. Our kitchen is very small and a bulky machine like that was too much:001_cool:
  2. I make all our bread, but try and plan it so I'm finished by midnight at the latest:biggrin: It's really satisfying work, can be a bit frustrating to get just right but the feeling of victory when you've made one that little bit better than ever before makes it all worthwhile:thumbup1: I'm not sure of it actually saves me any money as I use an electric oven. It's all about flavour, nutrition and knowing exactly what's gone in. Most shop-bought bread has ingredients in it that are not listed (as they don't have to list them) mostly flour treatments, enzymes etc which can be a bit of an issue for veggie's and vegans etc as some of these are "mined" from pigs guts:biggrin: I also eat much less bread if I make it myself. I'm happy with 2 or 3 sandwiches for a working day (4 or 6 slices) but when I eat shop-bread I'll eat the whole bread! If you want to get stuck in, I can thoroughly recommend the book "Bread Matters". It's all you ever wanted to know about bread and then some, and actually quite readable. It has a large section of recipes etc as well, and delves into the science of bread, why different ways of kneading make different bread etc. Well done:thumbup1:
  3. I wear kevlar/stainless steel/thick leather gloves for exactly that reason. I've had one about 1 1/2 inches in my bum-cheek, that hurt but did not bleed a lot as I am a fatty so it just pricked lard.
  4. Kraftech all the way:thumbup:
  5. It has virtually no benefits whatsoever, and a lot of downsides. It was a pointless exercise from the start, a flexing of muscle to see what could be achieved.
  6. Are you sure you mean diameter and not circumference? 4.6m diameter would be an epic monster.
  7. :lol:
  8. Although I agree with the sentiments of the above posts, the reasoning is off. My grandmother is 92, she bikes to the shops three times a week, does all her own housework, her garden and the neighbours' one. Does that mean nobody is allowed to feel old until they're 93? My brother started feeling (and looking) old at 16!
  9. I like your sensitive side:lol:
  10. Some interesting reading here: http://www.arboristsite.com/stickies/109002.htm
  11. You are really old and probably fat, live with it! You can't change your age so no point worrying about it, and if you're too fat: do something about it! All this Jeremy Vine style moaning of people "who just got fat by looking at pictures of a biscuit and can't ever loose weight again" are utter bollocks imo. Learn to live with yourself, be at peace with things you cannot change and work on things you can (and want to). I married an older wife, so I always look young in comparison... or that was the plan, but when people try and guess my age they always guess at least 7 years too high!
  12. It's cost me money, I was considering buying a stihl ms211 and ended up with a husky 346xpg!
  13. 250 is an entirely different beastie, 200 and 240 are "pro" saws.
  14. Rear handled ms200's are awesome apparently, heard nothing but good things about them. I've not heard of anyone that has tried an ms201 though. I'd go for an ms240 though, more powerful (35cc vs 42cc) and cheaper. It is nearly a kilo heavier though.
  15. That's freaky, the thread starts on the 18-11, but looking through your recent posts it states no posts between 14-11 and 20-11
  16. I've been looking for it as well, searched etc, even looked through all your posts in the last month or so, but noffink? The only reason I could come up with was a copyright issue with the tv-link?
  17. If it was 57p/l cheaper, it would still be more expensive than pump-petrol:confused1: And even if it were cheaper than pump fuel, there's the tax-man to check it, like they check red diesel misuse.
  18. It is reasonably practicable surely?
  19. Just a quick one: It was mentioned before that it is illegal in the Netherlands (there is no such country as Holland!) to use pump fuel in hand-held petrol tools. This is not true, nor is it true that it is compulsory to use an alkalyte fuel, technically... It is an employers duty however to ensure that their employers are subjected to as little potentially health-damaging substances as is reasonably possible, which in court means: "Aspen!, or else..." I believe there must be similar employee-protecting laws in the UK. If you can prove that alkalyte fuels are less dangerous (and it appears you can) then can you not force UK employers to use them?
  20. There was a thread on this tree before, but it seems to have disappeared? A sad sequence of event indeed.
  21. Awesome! I reckon it must be BC, the groundies' helmets, road/warning signs and no license plate on the crane...
  22. It's fairly easy, turn it (with a small flat-bladed screwdriver) one way and Idling revs increase, turn it the other way and they'll decrease. They need to be fast enough so it doesn't stall, and slow enough to not start turning the chain whilst idling. It's in your manual. Have a play, not much to go wrong. Not sure you'd learn that on CS 30 as I never did it.
  23. Well done James! I still want to smoke, every single day, lots of times. I bought some baccie the other day though and halfway through my rollie I felt like throwing up and strong gag-reflex. So I tore up the papers, put the baccie in the ditch and released the contents of my tea-filled bladder over it for good measure. And yet I still want to... Tell us about the hypno-stuff, sounds interesting. I've kicked a few addictions over the years, including some class A stuff, a liter of whisky a day, severe ganja-habit etc. All of these I have behind me now and I'm never tempted but the baccie still claws at me
  24. He's probably adjusted the carb so it idles too slow, done with the "T" screw, perhaps this is where the confusion arose?

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