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    Food from your early years as an adult or child?

    Mmm, I do have a Spong mincer, given to me by my mother, as she no longer used it. I think she may have inherited it herself from a grandparent. It still works. I do have two other mincers (that doesn’t count as a collection), a Kitchen Craft one I bought whilst on a self-catering holiday...
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    Food from your early years as an adult or child?

    You wanted dishes from our childhood that are particularly remembered. It’s a bit complex. Lusaka – can’t remember most of the meals (I think they were cooked by our nanny). But I do remember barbeques (we never called it a braai). The boy was sent down to the market for some charcoal, and my...
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    How's your Latin?

    For your shorter inscription why not use the Horace quote: nunc est bibendum. If you want it longer add other appropriate activities: eat, feast, sing &c. edendum, convivandum, epulandum, canandum and so on. I believe in that formation they all have to be gerunds. ‘Gerund with the verb to be...
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    Which micrometers?

    Well, for what it is worth I have a number of Moore and Wright ones. A couple bought new for my EP1 and EP2. But some inherited from my grandfather. Bradford company originally I think. Did everything I ever needed them to do. And not silly money. Old school - not digital. Only need them once...
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    DIY warming drawer

    You may have decided what you are going to do, but I noticed when looking for something else that Lidl have these in again. https://www.lidl.co.uk/p/silvercrest-kitchen-tools-buffet-warmer/p10020919 £25. Width could be reduced by taking the handles off, and possibly cutting down too. My one...
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    Calling Scottish Cooks - traditional haggis?

    Yes, Mistress Dods (a pseudonym) is a bit vague. But then many of the recipes of that time are. ‘Strew a bundle of sweet herbs’ &c. But as I said before it is essentially a peasant dish, and precise quantities are not essential. I had a search of books on my Kindle last night, and the following...
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    Calling Scottish Cooks - traditional haggis?

    OK. Right, the recipe I have used is scribbled down in a notebook, and is probably from The Scots Kitchen (McNeill), or, would you believe it, Fergus Henderson. With alterations. You’ll certainly have the latter if not the former. In my mind the important thing is to get the spicing right...
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    Calling Scottish Cooks - traditional haggis?

    Yes, I have cooked it from scratch, and it is a bit stinky. Not that it matters (other than the smell side) but I have also valued a couple of haggis factories. Those did hum. I'm just about to have lunch, but I'll come back in more detail in a bit. Unless someone forstalls me. Oh, and no...
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    Anyone seen lead do this?

    We had a pretty catastrophic failure of a (big) lead valley gutter a few months ago. Bailing all night for two days to stem the damage until the roofer could get out. Top man – I wouldn’t have gone out on the roof in that weather. Anyway, he reckoned it was lack of expansion joints, which had...
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    UK winter storm

    We’ve got -6c predicted on our hill in the Borders Monday night. -3c in the ‘burgh. But then it warms up again. 50mph winds last night, but, hey, it’s autumn/winter. Wouldn’t call it a storm. On the other hand my parents depart next week from sunny Peebles for their usual few months in Oz...
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    Book for learning piano.

    OK. AJB will give you the best advice. But, for what it is worth: You can’t learn jazz from a book. Or indeed any instrument. Trite, but true. I play sax (alto for preference, but I might be getting a new soprano for Christmas). TBH I prefer pop/rock sax, but as a child of the 80s I would do...
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    Aberdeenshire Newbie - lots of gear and a few ideas!

    Fit like ya loon. Unless, of course, you’re not from Inverurie originally. In which case that may be incomprehensible. Many years ago we used to do the rating appeals on the paper mill there. Good to see another Scottish participant.
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    Circular table apron

    I think I may have posted something of this type before in another place, when you were considering your dining table. However... Lorimer, oak. Curved aprons. Sold at auction by L&T about 5 years ago for c.£8k. I quite like them, although some may find the legs a bit clunky. Anyway, just...
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    Circular table apron

    As I think some one has already said, NickM had a thread on UKworkshop (assuming you can bear to go there) on his demi-lune table. That has a couple of pictures of mine of existing tables that are built with the curved blocks method (but, alas for you, veneered, as you say you don’t do that)...
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    London

    The general consensus seems to be that no-one would really like to live in London. Can’t blame you. I lived there for a couple of years, and subsequently flew down 4 or 5 times a month when I was in practice. The disadvantages outwegh the advantages. I utterly loath the tube. I find it...
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    Carrots for the Deer.

    Posted this before, but just to show what cheeky beggars they are. This is Tyresö, just south of Stockholm.
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    Animals are enjoying the weather.

    We had about -11C (at night) on our hillside at the weekend. Lower than the offically recorded lowest, but then we are generally about 2C lower than the nearest offical recording station. And here is an historical picture of the wunderhund enjoying winter weather. When I say enjoying...
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    Ceiling roses

    Are you replacing/matching an existing one, or does the exact design not matter? We don’t actually have any ceiling roses (building age, and none retrofitted – fine by me as I don’t like central lights), but when some replacement cornicing/mouldings were needed for the Borders property the...
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    Never assume - stupidity strikes again to accident prone A

    Whooo. Poor you. Probably had half a dozen of 240v pings in my life. Twice because of my own doziness, others because of some one else’s stupidity (you’ll note the distinction). Certainly, does liven you up. Although as I get older I do seem to have got a bit more risk averse. A long, long...
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    DIY warming drawer

    Interesting. I’ll be intrigued to know what you decide on, because I’ve been mulling this over for a while myself. What I have at the moment is a freestanding electric tray thing bought from Lidl or Aldi for under £20. It came with some contraptions for food which I threw away (too much like a...
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