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It is almost certainly too small to warm people.... I was not clear. I intend to use it for cooking on rather than keeping warm. The potje is too heavy to be worth carrying outside the garden (for camping and other trips), so if I am cold I will go indoors. I was looking at kelly-kettles and...

I have a 'potje' like the one above (max outside diameter about ten inches). It is intended as a cooking implement - perhaps it stands in the embers? We are never likely to cook enough to use it as a cooking vessel, nor would we wish to burn enough wood to do so. But I wonder if it would make...

The concept of peak oil was based on analysis of actual oil extracted as historical data. The current estimates of oil in the ground are a fiction because oil in the ground is an asset that both affects share price and tax position. They are also a fiction because you cannot tell how much oil...

Maybe this would provide a better comparison: UK Met office forecast for last monday Twatter link

No, I wound up chasing my tail around plenty of sites..... they look like they might do what you want, collect the details, want to phone you..... and then try to sell you something that you don't want. I have to admit defeat.

Online printers are available. They print your document and mail it to you. Postage makes small numbers of sheets expensive (one copy of one sheet is 4.91gbp) but with larger runs it gets more reasonable (10 page document 5.82gbp) eg: Doxdirect | Online Document Printing | Upload & Print...

Hi all, Our garage is on a separate plot of land, not attached to our main plot. It turns out that this means it is not covered by standard house insurance. Ha anyone here managed to insure a separate building? Who did you use? I have tried some google searches but keep getting dragged...

Depends who you are. Company I work for is designing and making making robots. Far quicker to print the CAD drawings than machine them [EDIT: for the prototypes/test pieces]. Saves money and time. Does that count as economic? For me personally I cannot imagine a use at home..... (but I...

Sorry, late to the discussion I have a reolink go. Solar powered, runs on a 4g dongle (4gbp/pcm from vodaphone). Been working for 3, 4? years with only a few blips when the sd card failed. Has stopped working now because I forgot to top up the account. I could easy get it working by phoning...

I lived next door to a chap once - conspicuously well off. He asked me if I would check his house if his alarm went off when he went away on holiday. I declined - no way I wanted to interrupt felons doing their job. He was really disappointed - "what is the point of me having an alarm if you...

In the index of a book on programming there were two definitions: Circular definition: see definition, circular and Definition, circular: see circular definition. Those were the only mentions of those terms in the book.

But not as much a part as some would have you believe.... the part of the earth's population that is expanding is generally the poorer part, and that is the part consuming far less than half the carbon...

Much as I hate to say it (because I am as guilty as the rest of us) energy is too cheap and needs to get more expensive. This is hard to take because we have got used to cheap energy - and have built our lifestyles and expectations around it. Even though our appliances are more efficient we...

Thanks for those suggestions - since we live in the back end of nowhere I will be shopping online. We have a jewson here and an unimpressive local paint shop.....

Hi all, apparently it is decorating time again, but unfortunately Laura Ashley have stopped making emulsion paint. A shame as the paint was really easy to apply and the pastel shades suited us. What other paint brands should we look at? I tried some of the big names from the local Jewson but...

'Scuse me while I kiss this guy. They are called 'mondegreens': Mondegreen - Wikipedia

I know that, and I was taught it by my parents, William Shakespeare and Virginia Wolfe.

There is some nice work there. You are more versatile than me - I am just learning/playing at the moment. Thanks for the gibbins reference. That led me off on an internet journey and revealed how much thee is left to learn.

A kind thought - and maybe there will be in the future. My tools will cut to leave a smooth finish - when sharp. But my skill leaves a finish that is many facets with ‘boundaries’ between them. Especially on convex surfaces. The scraper removes the boundaries to smooth one facet into another.