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Ah no boss, it's because if it wasn't that short, you'd need longer arms to pull the cord. But no, thank you for the knowledge.

I'd flipping love a big cat anecdote. It's reason enough to release a few into the wild in the UK, there'd be some great stories out of it. There were more and more wolves appearing in my part of the French Alps just as I was leaving, 5 years ago now, but there's been some pretty scary stories from there since. Pet dogs eaten, that sort of thing. Could have been the Haitians though, not sure. Bloody immigrants. I was nearly eaten by a brown bear once though, which was pretty terrifying, so I suppose that's enough apex predator anecdotes for me.

Please boss, what's TDC short for?

Bigfoot and big cats can't really be mentioned in the same breath, I'd say... we've definitely had stray big cats out and about in the UK at times, whether or not they survive for very long (doubt it) or manage to team up and procreate for a feral population (even biglier doubt it) is another question. Have we got any at the moment, who knows? We'll definitely have another in the future though. Bigfoot, though... even given the vast area of wilderness in the US and Canada, the sheer number of trail cams, rifle scopes, and smartphones snooping around even the periphery would have turned up some evidence by now. Just another once-unknowable question that can be relegated to fairy story, like the Yeti, Chupacabra, Yahweh, and, sadly, poor old Nessie.

Huge bit of wear and tear, that wouldn't pass any inspection. Good place for a soft shackle.

Good work, love a bit of brisket. It was my cut of choice for a roast beef if I had more than, say, 800 people to feed. Just leave a few dozen of them simmering in the bratt pan overnight and flash them through the combi oven to colour. Edit: bacon sandwich in a lay-by for me and the family today, on the road to a climbing wall in Derry. No pics, so it didn't happen.

Pics or it didn't happen.

Er, fairly sure they are still called Christmas presents.

Disappointing, I was waiting for the two guys watching to become the next most prominent hot-spot and be extinguished...

It's tempting (and ultimately inevitable) to steer the conversation towards booby traps (what was one of the more unrealistic suggestions last time? An electrified pyracantha hedge?), which are of course illegal and would only open you to a world of difficulties; but I suddenly recall the endless hours of footage of fire suppression systems being set off by overenthusiastic cooks at public-facing grills (Korean BBQ, hibachi, pierrade, that sort of thing), covering the whole room with the black, oozing, stagnant water that's been sitting in the sprinklers since they were installed, never cycled, never tested. I wonder if your fire prevention controls could be wired into the burglar alarm, like the lights and sirens, and the sprinklers hooked up to a watersource stained with a food-safe blue dye. Would make things a little more stressful for the ne'er-do-wells who set it off, and more amusing for anyone watching it on camera. Definitely not a booby trap either, so you'd get away with it.

Hi Keith. Would you have any photos of your log splitter available? Might help people to identify it!

HowNOT2 have a great video, as usual.

Pah, newfangled nonsense. I'll stick with my Blake's hitch and RSI, thank you very much.

Oh dear!

Nope. Walking away, shaking my head. ...but it's why God invented brisket. For people who like well-done beef.

I have to say, I do prefer the Ukraine conflict to anything going on in the Middle East. It's nice to have such a simple and clear-cut delineation of who are the goodies and who are the baddies, instead of trying share out the blame and trace culpabilities across generations of increasingly-muddy waters. More guns for Ukraine!

There is nothing wrong with pan-roasting larger steak cuts, and you get better results with some cuts than doing them solely on the hob or grill (fillet, cote de boeuf), but 20 minutes sounds a little excessive unless they were particularly thick rump steaks, or a fairly gentle oven. Needless to say, anything beyond a medium with a rump steak (or any cut of steak) is an unforgivable waste of meat. That said, I've absolutely done 20 minute rump steaks, but they've been big fat things for multiple people to share, more like a rump roast than a steak. I'm not going to get into any arguments about personal preference of done-ness with steaks, but I've walked more than my fair share of steaks across the bars in a number of restaurants over the years, and my opinion remains the same: if you are eating your steak with no red left in the centre, you should be ordering something else.

Jeez... the Russians are a bunch of shits at the best of times, but given the latest incident in their long line of shooting down passenger planes (and the absolutely incredible bit of flying by the pilots to avert the worst during the crash landing), this advert where they explode the red-suited western version of Santa (with a sleigh full of NATO goodies...) at the behest of their original blue-suited Grandfather Frost really does take the pisscuit.

Are you saying that people only have a right to complain about the current state of affairs if they are actively involved with dismantling the state apparatus?

I was actually wondering where you'd been. I you can see your words. Merry Christmas!

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" Ham with things" Technically accurate description. Bravo! There wasn't space in my MiL's ovens for the ham as well, so I was sent 300m back up the lane with her's to glaze it. Twenty five minutes of blissful peace and quiet to get it going, a most welcome break.

Didn't want to put you on the spot there, but I kind of assumed! You are right though, it's another step to make the theft more difficult, but another expense...

Have you got trackers installed Mick? Just on big kit, or down to little saws too? It's probably the sort of thing that some people have to be bitten by before they take action... get it all nicked first, then invest in a countermeasure. Like dashcams...