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I've only ever met two vegans but they both managed to irritate me in exactly the same way. In each case, not being aware of their preferences, I offered/suggested eating something which fell outside their preferences and a martyrish voice and expression was adopted as they told me "I can't eat...

Yesterday I needed to crosscut the two ends of a board which was about 10" wide and 2 1/2" thick so out came the Sudoku (or whatever the double edged thing is called) and I forced myself to very consciously follow Woodbloke's advice about holding the saw with a particularly light touch. This...

Andy, I think that the modern world is perhaps making you a little over-considerate. I can assure you that I never read that into what you said but thanks for the consideration of my unoffended feelings. I've actually found myself casting a cold eye on a couple of bits of kit that I shouldn't...

I do wish you and your wife all the best and as swift as possible a recovery for her.

So you would have thought but if I remember aright CHT is awaiting delivery of it* (I always go to their website first if after a tool). And as I live in Germany it probably works out the same or cheaper. If previous experience with Dieter Schmid is anything to go by, I will get it on Saturday...

A timely reminder. It's going to be difficult to police though because as soon as someone mentions government policy (the mentioning not being a political thing) it will attract a usually political response. There are simply too many political axes to grind. If, as an exception and this is...

Fair comment. I hereby declare that I've just provided a couple of Canadians with the money to go and watch other Canadians trying to murder each other i.e. visit an ice hockey game ... er, once the ice rinks have reopened.

You know that being confined indoors except for the odd bit of sport is getting to you when you buy something that you know you don't really need: https://www.fine-tools.com/string-inlay-tools.html I've just ordered the cutting head attachment for the Veritas router plane (about half way down...

With all due respect I would suggest that you may wish to adopt a slightly more differentiated approach when thinking of China. I'm sure that the Chinese people have a range of virtues and vices to match those of any other cultural grouping anywhere in the world i.e. they're probably not too...

TN: The US Constitution was written by terrorists/revolutionaries/freedom fighters, which is why they went with the 2nd amendment, second only to freedom of speech. They were convinced that, at some point, their shiny new Republic would return to a despotic form of government, and "The People"...

"Russia has been working hard to create division in the West and its been successful in the UK." I think this translates roughly as, "A referendum and an election didn't go the way I like, two facts with which I can't cope because according to all the theory I've ever understood, once the...

That's balanced, logical and it makes sense. It'll never catch on. :D

That aspect of it hadn't occurred to me. Maybe military style tented hospitals (they are very sophisticated and state of the art as opposed to being just tents) could be stored in logistically optimal locations so they could be put up very rapidly. The only problem with taking up empty buildings...

The Tories dare not be opposed to the NHS, so they de facto accept it. We don't actually know the extent to which they believe in it or not - unless perhaps we are guardianasta telepaths. They certainly do not appear to be having an internal debate about doing away with it or replacing it as far...

Now this is precisely the kind of (malicious) nonsense that I am on about. We are dealing with a virus which is a real world problem. This is no time to be diverting into politics, especially when the "arguments" involved get into hyperbole which borders on lying. No right wing coup has taken...

There has to be money for everything and none of it is government money as it is all taken from us either in taxes or taken out in debt for which future generations will pay tax. And whether we like it or not - and I presume that we all don't like it - the crisis clipped the spending wings of...

But you can instantly see what I mean about diverting it into politics, because you are talking about underfunding for a decade and the reply to that would be that the previous lot trashed the economy so comprehensively that the bullet had to be bitten and savings made. You can surely see where...

As a rule I am in favour of people being free to criticise the government. The exceptions to this are perhaps wartime and where employees are required to sign a contract where they agree not to do it. It seems to me that the current circumstances straddle the border of what should and should...

Mushroom harvesting is indeed a major social thing in some (particularly eastern European) countries, as presumably are the small number of funerals which the activity gives rise to every year.

It's a complex issue. I think that governmental incompetence is a universal given, the difference between countries being the difference in competence relating to specific issues. Some countries are probably generally more competent than others and the reasons may be cultural. For instance how...