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As a spin off from the skonn/scoan row, it occurs to me that sometimes you don't even have a choice of how to say something because you simply can't. For instance, Huawei. I've now run up the white flag and say either nothing or "hooey wooey". Everybody knows what I mean, especially if I...

I reckon the only person who would put the jam on second and who was in full command of their mental faculties would be a food photographer because the result of mini-dollop of jam on top does admittedly look nice.

Nigel and TN: It's interesting that you both refer to milk in the making of clotted cream. The bloke on YouTube makes it from double cream and also recommends 80°C. I did of course set my oven to that temp but given that little more than a rice pudding style skin formed on top, I wondered if the...

I was just joining in the general merriment. It is of course pronounced quelfy glop. :mrgreen:

I've got a classic Italian machine, all chrome and pressure dials and an electric grinder. The only tip I would give, especially if you live in a hard water area, is to try making the coffee with distilled water. Two reasons: firstly distilled water can, by definition, never put a deposit...

Talking of scones (rhymes with stones obviously), I tried to make some clotted cream (pronounced cloated cremm) as per the instructions on Youtube from Steve's Kitchen. The experiment failed miserably i.e. it just didn't clot up. Any thoughts? For instance what fat content should the cream...

For RogerS and anybody else who may be interested in this idea: I think that what goes on at the top of the market can effect the whole market as follows. Suppose there is a limited supply of properties costing 10 million plus and under normal circumstances "normally" rich people would buy...

RogerS, I can't provide you with evidence. As I said, I have no specialist knowledge in this area. I was also talking specifically about cities like London and Berlin where the property markets are very competitive and to an extent atypical. I've read articles in the past according to which the...

I agree with you entirely: Englishman's home is his castle and all that. What I am on about is the distorting effects of massive amounts of wealth skewing property markets to the effect that "normal" people cannot buy. That seems to me to be a phenomenon which it is legitimate for government to...

I'm no expert whatsoever in the economics of the property market but I think that what happens is this: wealth flows in and people buy properties according to the wealth at their disposal. They will do this at different levels of the market. For instance, not every foreign tax avoider has, say...

Jacob, I think that the difference between my idea and a classical left wing approach (we need to try avoiding turning this into a straightforward political issue) is that I wouldn't want to get down into the weeds of regulation. My idea is rather to set the parameters within which the market...

I think you've put your finger on something with that post. It's not the system as such i.e. a free market in housing that's wrong but rather the fact that some people have skewed it in their favour. Clearly as demand goes up, prices follow suit. However, if the demand is coming from the very...

Eh? I don't think that even Pete Townshend could bash out decent chords on a shed. It'd look daft on stage, anyway. :mrgreen:

I'd got to more or less the same point of view by that stage in the thread: David's done a lot of work off his own bat and he's offered up his findings. He's not being dogmatic nor is he preaching. For instance, it's not as if he is demanding that we all ditch our old plane irons in favour of...

If I didn't know better I could be tempted to think that AndyT and CheshireChappie are very bad men indeed: trying to push a poor innocent into addiction. :mrgreen: I do covet one of those ivory rulers though, although they seem to seldom come up on the used tool Websites.

I never realised that people collected tools until shortly after taking up woodworking. I sniffed and thought that I would never go down that particular rabbit hole. Then one day I bought a two foot four fold ruler made by Rabone, then a three footer and finally a one footer (because it's such...

If I remember aright, the WH Smith's in Victoria Station has a few titles. Mind you, I haven't been there for a couple of years.

I've got a fair bit of sympathy for your take on this but the course is inevitably subject to market forces i.e. if there are enough who can afford it, then it will be a success. If not, then the fees will come down or the course will be binned. In any event, the relatively well-heeled attending...

This might go some way to explaining why some diamond stones are held to be better than others: https://www.dictum.com/en/dmt-eah?p=1&f ... 0&o=1&n=12

I think that uniquely in the matter of combination planes there might be a case for specifying Veritas and that is that they claim to have ironed out all the difficulties associated with the older ones when it comes to getting the adjustments and settings bang on. According to the reviews they...