openspaceman
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I have not tried sourdough baking but a year ago I had to cut my way into a patch of ripe rye a tree had fallen into, I brought home some ears , threshed and ground them in a coffee grinder. Added to whole strong wheat if caused the bread to be flat but I liked it. Next time I went back I asked the farmer if I could have a bucket full from the combine. A friend long term lent me millie, a french quern. 15 minutes of grinding just about makes enough rye flour for a loaf. Milling got suspended for a bit while I dealt with a mouse infestation ;-).
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I see so the lining extends from the register plate to the top of the reduced chimney breast and then the twinwall carries the flue up through the roof. I wouldn't worry as all the heat lost from the lining just heats the brickwork and gets back into the house. I depend on the flue gas heating my concrete lined chimney for retained heat once the fire goes out. -
please explain? the flue liner is normally continuous from the register plate to the chimney pot
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I don't see why not if the correct steel is used so much more is known about metallurgy now. One of my billhooks, a standford severquick, is laminated. Some previous owner has hammered the back and it has split to show it. In years gone by the big firms would forge weld two strips of iron or mild steel with a thin strip of high carbon steel in between, this high carbon steel when hardened then tempered forms the cutting edge. They also supplied the laminated steel to smaller makers. I have never owned a yorkshire bill hook but the long handled slashers we used when I started in forestry were that style.
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Yes 30 years old and it is the second time he has borrowed it, he wants to buy it now but I still have two others left over from when I was contracting. I can see I'll be left with the 026, the short is from the coil unit spade terminal to earth.
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Did you rebuild that check valve in your pic? I haven't got back on to the einhell yet. I have a little used 026 a mate brought in because it wouldn't run, loaned out a 262 for him to cut some logs. The 026 shows a short from the coil grounding wire to ground.
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That's the nub, according to that BBC doctor chap if it lists ingredients that you don't have in a normal kitchen it is ultra processed and not good. Trying to make vegetables taste like meat is always likely to involve ultra processing.
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Only thing I had against the standard one at my grand daughter's is that you need gloves to open the door, also too many controls to fiddle with. Shame she won't light it and I end up picking up the tab for the gas bill. I don't remember anything about the baffle support pin either
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middle ground firewood tree (growth rate vs burn quality)
openspaceman replied to Ollie_M's topic in Firewood forum
Try the cricket bat firms that buy the timber. When I last sold some to Wrights they sent their own feller and he cut them with no sink. They then supplied and planted the replacement setts. -
That would be about the same as UK forces lost in the 6 years from 1939 to 1945
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Won't be that then, although it was predicted to increase at Xmas and I know a couple of people hat have it.
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I don't suppose you have any of those funny test kits left.
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It is beyond my knowledge. The median household income was about £30k, so that may be a starting point. I depend on my state pension but as has been pointed out it was only envisaged that retirees would receive it for about 5 years, in fact manual workers who were 65 when I started work seemed to die within a couple of years and I have drawn 8 years pension. In terms of overall wealth it should be affordable. BTW it is scrips and paying £9.65 every month wouldn't hurt me but it is possible my medication costs the NHS more than that. The thing is I seem to have to have a prescription to get the drugs (which I am not even sure I need but don't know the risk of stopping them).
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Still time yet, most of us probably still carry self replicating RNA care of pfizer
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@AHPP is not wrong plus these businesses owned by the wealthy are a means to avoid many taxes
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Not from me it isn't, I have frequently said that most of the problem of climate change and pollution is down to the wealthy and that the cost of supporting the poorest, including inevitable fraud, is inconsequential in comparison.
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We used to hand in our 5 shillings every Monday and as you say those too poor were readily identified and looking back I am sure I, amongst others, discriminated against them, for which I am ashamed.
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Perzactly 😀
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How much for a blood test?
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Which is the way things are trending
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So crud could be either side of the flap to foul the working?
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Yes and the bad saw had a split hose from the carb to the purge bulb which I have replaced with a tight fitting one.
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I was a baby boomer, worked on the tools after college till I was 59 when I did a quasi management job till I drew a state pension I did not intend to stop working and I did continue self employed and paying a little tax (as my income halved) until I had a health issue. I paid into a private pension fund half of which brings me up to about half of the median wage since I turned 70, inflation is denting it. I do have an asset in half this house but that is not the point. Not many people can afford £1000/month for treatment and if I did I would look to the NHS.
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Now now Eggs, it was called national insurance because it is supposed to spread the risk of the cost of health care. Many of us will not have illnesses that cost a lot to treat in our lifetime so our contributions cover the cost of those that do need it. The trouble is as we live longer and medical science produces more treatments keeping us alive gets more expensive and the rich would prefer to keep more of their money so they can avail themselves of advanced treatments as in the american model. In the same way I insure things I have to, like my car, and those things I cannot afford to replace like my house, the insurer picks up the tab for loss of a car and bets (because insurers derived from bookies betting toffs which ships would sink) that the premiums will cover payouts plus a very generous profit.
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I should add that so am I and as I believe the welfare state was a good thing I don't want to be an unnecessary financial burden on it.
