“I should hope so! It’s not like they are a new thing and they’ve got to be stuck together with something.”

Traditional butcher’s blocks made from 2×2 sycamore are not glued.  They are arranged in a grid inside a red hot steel framework, which squeezes them together, without the need for glue. They’re about 6″ deep and heavy as ****! Kitchen chopping boards will never be put through the same rigours, so are a bit overkill. It’s nice to have a chunky great board on your worktop, but a bit overkill…

“I don’t think we need pay any attention to someone who thought that UK eggs are washed.”

And returns individually wrapped half carrots to the fridge…

seriously bonkers!

“I have a plastic board that I use for most of my cooking, plus several other plastic boards for bread or secondary things. I scrub it with detergent and rinse it between each use (i.e., if I cut chicken, I scrub it immediately, then I cut onions and scrub it, then I cut potatoes and scrub it, then I cut carrots and scrub it.) Each night I scrub it again and pour boiling water over it and hang it up to dry. I’ve never had food poisoning from freshly cooked food (waking up drunk and microwaving leftovers of unknown age is another story.) A wooden cutting board won’t make any difference to food poisoning if you don’t constantly clean it when you’re cooking.”

Steady on! That’s a bit OCD!

I use an old Teak chopping board, with a lovely patina, that gets washed after I’ve chopped all the meat and veg for a meal. No need to clean it after every carrot! they’re all going in the same pot…

I’ve never had food poisoning either!

Just get a plastic chopping board – pro ones don’t get plastic bits in your food, and they’re colour coded for different foodstuffs…

alternatively, a wooden one is fine. No need for endgrain on display unless you’re doing some serious chopping with a big cleaver, or you like a heavy 2″ thick board on which to peel your grapes

“Don’t use gripfill, it’s terrible”

and the solvent will leach through in no time. I once, many moons ago, stuck some solid oak skirting to a wall as the client didn’t want plugged holes, and the gripfill discoloured the 20mm thick oak. An expensive lesson….

Being There. Peter Sellers in his last film. Beautiful!

sounds bodgy….

Beans and Greens are all you really need. Spice em up with other nuts, berries and fruit’n veg you”want”. and eggs…

I was in Brittany a couple of months ago. Plenty of fat people there….  But then it’s not a wealthy area.

And their supermarkets are more full of crap than British ones! Getting hold of organic/locally grown produce was a nightmare. All the veg is bigger and greener and shinier, but healthier? Gimmee stunted, gnarled Sussex smallholding fare any day!

Oh, and food in French hospitals is just as crap there as it is here! The rumour of a Glass of wine with dinner is just that…

Start with hospital catering, school catering, and anywhere else there’s a sitting target.

I’ve visited Brighton hoespital a fair few times recently, and the catering there is abysmal. Food cooked elsewhere (highly processed) and shipped in. The only food in the snack shop in A&E not to have sugar as the main ingredient are the crisps.

Other hospitals are equally as bad…

a few years back, a hospital in leicestershire won the BBC food and farming awards cos of an innovative chef who was employed to take catering back in house. They used fresh local produce to feed patients. Doctors and nurses started nicking spare meals so they made more to feed them. Ultimately they kicked out Costa or whoever and started running the cafes, thus subsidising the patient catering.

Anyone know which hospital this was?

Glasses everywhere! I have several pairs of cheap  (£3.99) +1.25glasses all over the shop, but my Swedish architect glassesseem to stay in my bag….

A friend uses a monocle on a string, which seems like an excellent idea! I’m going to get one!

“My hound went through some ‘roid rage when younger a hated a lot of people. Now she reserves that hate for very occasional people, i.e. a youth, hood up approaching the local shop, as covered the lower half of his face with a buff, she didn’t growl or offer any signs before she lunged straight at his face. She’s trained me to be aware of and react to things like this so it’s ok, no teens faces were harmed, his underwear maybe not so good.”

Why? Did he prove to be a wrong’un? Hiding a machete down his trackies perhaps?

‘kin ‘ell…!

If you wouldn’t drink it, why would you cook with it?

There is a God!

” Labour will win, but inherit a shit show which they can’t resolve within 4 years even if they had brave, excellent ideas”

Labour don’t have to resolve things within 4 years but they do have to show they have started resolving them and the world will be a better place if they’re allowed to continue doing so. If they don’t, they’ll let the Tories, or someone worse, in for another 14 years…

“This. “xx candidate won’t win so I won’t vote for them” is self fulfilling.
‘My candidate is definitely going to win so I won’t bother voting’ is just as dangerous.”

Not a problem inherent in PR. You know your vote is going to count!

“And yet, there’s a good proportion of folks on here that think introducing PR would be a good idea…What’s that expression about the dangers of getting what you ask for?”

Because it would be properly democratic. The Right and Left wing may support a more centrist party on some issues, but the tail would not wag the dog!

Nah, Spill the beans Matt!

“Pensioners do have other costs that workers don’t have though so pitting one group against another is not a good idea.”

such as? I’ll be a pensioner in a couple of years, and I’d hate to see any unexpected costs coming my way…

“The same way that saying younger people are less likely to vote is.”

Not the same at all! It is akin to saying “young people don’t vote”.

The present Tory unpopularity is a once in a lifetime opportunity for real change.  I’m still not convinced labour aren’t about to **** it up!

@stumpyjon As above, I honestly think the answer is a proportionally elected chamber with longish terms electing a proportion at a time to smooth out any swings. Remember that the way the commons looks the way it does is an effect of FPTP; a proportionally elected chamber is unlikely to have an outright majority and should in theory lend itself to more consensus based politics, which would reduce the idiocy.

PR should be a priority!

Doubtless the tories will gnash and wail , but with the expected labour majority it shouldn’t take too much statistical manipulation to show them and their followers that with it they would indeed have won more seats, and hence the world would  be a fairer place….

Take it back, but last thing on a Friday afternoon do you really expect better service?

” his preferred way of running is a slower start with a fast sprint at the end. ”

Because he doesn’t warm up adequately?

Who has charged you?

The courier, Customs, or the seller?

How much?

“OK Labour,  don’t mess up and we should see the tories handed their butts.”

Don’t underestimate Labour’s talent for snatching defeat from the jaws of victory!

Proportional representation referendum ASAP, (but keep it under your hats) to ensure we never again have a govt like this one!

That cat has been on the window cill for at least half an hour, in the rain…

Heartless bastards!

Remember, the tory faithful offer free lifts to the polling booth should you request one, usually in a flash motor, so you can arrive in style…

Even in the Desert?

“Absolutely flat out at 80 but would do that all day long”

No it bleedin’ wouldn’t!

aslight motorway incline would see the top whack shrink very rapidly to 60 ish, even in a dyane , with an extra 3hp…

An Ami Super though…

Ami Super – Amiclub de France

There’s quite a few on the Greensand way, designated as footpaths as they’re too tricky for horses…

You might get down them, but up?

I have an Ifi bluetooth receiver going spare… It’s a top notch piece of kit. Plugged into an Audio incinerations valve amp with snell speakers it was cracking!

So these guys just popped into the pub for a celebratory pint..?

The app says organic. The (plastic) packaging says nothing of the sort.

Don’t get too excited….

If you find a copy of “The Devil is in it”, I’ll take it off your hands…

It’s not so long ago that the DVLA website was 9-5 only, Monday to Friday…

If you’re suspicious of a tradesman’s pricing, are you not also suspicious of the workmanship?

If you think they’ll agree your opening figure you haven’t asked for enough!

“nickfrogFree Member
By Amtico you probably mean LVT as there are loads of brands, most of them Chinese made (including Amtico I believe).

It can suffer greening if too much direct sunlight IME. It’s happened in one spot in our house but some reason not in other sun drenched spots which is weird. It’s so much easier to leave with than other solutions however.”

Is that Amtico or A N Other brand?

My parents had Amtico down in the kitchen since the early 70s – green and gold. It showed no signs of fading in nearly 40 years…

Aren’t they out of season?