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While deriding the grockles they're looting, of course ;)

I have to confess that these days I do my barbecuing the easy way - and it doesn't hurt that it's also a better (depending on your taste) way. In a nutshell, I sous vide whatever's going to go on the barbie and then just sear it on the grill. There's no waste of food or charcoal/wood/gas and...

"Spare the rod and the little beggars will still have it in for you anyway..." ;)

You'd be amazed at how many countries there are where that is perfectly legal.... :oops:

"A man is as old as the woman he feels"...or so I've been told. ;)

That's interesting - I never had to take my bull bars off for the MOT but I did have a minor encounter with a boulder on a dark road. The bars took the very slight impact but seemed to distort more than I thought they would. When I got home I decided to take them off to see what had happened. I...

Just to return to the original topic of the thread for a moment, once I'd decided that my initial career as a lawyer really wasn't for me I was lucky enough to get into computing and eventually became a technical manager in a large, and now deservedly-defunct, computer organisation. We had a...

I have to admit that I try not to drive, or be driven in, my wife's car. It looks nice and is reasonably nippy but the thing that really puts me off is that the suspension appears to be made from breeze blocks. We live in a suburb of Sofia, in fact just outside what used to be a village; it's...

And most people don't want to eat the same thing every day but so what? BBQ is just another technique for cooking food, and one which makes it more of a family occasion, but who's suggesting that it should be an everyday one. The point you seem to be making is that people are happy to devour...

I'm a bit of a "BBQ freak" - my wife says so, so it must be true (and 7 BBQs say she's right :oops:) . Among my collection is a massive circular firepit on legs, with a swingable grill; wood is the main heating source here in Bulgaria, so there's no shortage of different types of timber and I...

It's interesting to read about the "computerisation" of cars, which is something that I'm definitely agin, especially with the replace-not-repair approach that is taken in the UK - or at least was: it's been years since I left. Here in Bulgaria there's a plethora of small vehicle service shops...

Amen to that! I mean the stairs bit, not the equations. :( My wife worries about her old parents, as do I - although they're only a little older than I am. I do wonder how she'll fare when we're all gone..... probably very well! :D

This is a very interesting thread. I'm 72 apparently, though how that came about so quickly is a mystery to me, and I certainly remember using Log Tables and still have my fancy German slide rule. I was never a mathematical wizard, hence my choice of reading Law at uni. However, my wife is a...

That's one opinion - but it sure as heck isn't mine! I've felled plenty of big oaks and split the chainsawn lengths by hand but it certainly wasn't fun, even years ago: I did it because there was no other choice. I can split serious logs with an electric splitter in seconds, for hour after...

My wife and I are "belt and braces" folk. I had a covered metal wood-rack built along one side of the house, holding about 15 cubic metres. It's obviously cheaper buying wood earlier in the year and drying it yourself. The belt and braces aspect comes in because we're both fairly immune to the...

My in-laws - both in their 80s - can split several cubic metres of oak and ash logs in an afternoon with the electric splitter I bought them, including lifting them before and stacking them afterwards. They used axes for the job all their lives, up until their late 70s, and scoffed when I turned...

I'd be happy to be called "middle-aged" again - especially as I feel old enough to have started life in a cave.... ;)

I lived off-grid in a 600-year old mas on a mountain in France years ago. It was a tough life but I enjoyed it immensely. Nowadays I'm too decrepit to even think of lugging 50 litres of water or 45kg gas cylinders 3km up the side of a mountain - bad enough in the summer but murder in the...

I have a fix for that! ;) Since my workshop in the unheated basement* is short on space, I built my pillar drill onto the woodburner down there. Obviously the stove can no longer be used - which is no hardship as the only time I lit it I was sweating profusely after a couple of minutes - but...

Yeah, I saw Peter's video - and have been subscribed to his channel for a long time - I love his stuff, and Dennis' "China Tools/Hooked on Wood". I'm just trying to find out if IKEA here will deliver to the branch in Sofia, otherwise it's going to involve a drive to the nearest one, which is in...