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by bwaymark
Mon Jun 11, 2007 7:51 pm
Forum: Green Building
Topic: compost toilets
Replies: 31
Views: 18964

Hiya caithnesscrofter:

Quick question about the lugga loo.... is it sturdy? I was looking at them on ebay, and the look a bit flimsy but its hard to say

-Ben (a 20 stone bloke who goes through a lot of toilet seats!)
by bwaymark
Tue Apr 03, 2007 8:38 pm
Forum: Site Information and Announcements
Topic: IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT - FORUM WILL BE DOWN....
Replies: 48
Views: 36582

Sorry everyone, you probably will have to login again...... but self-sufficientish is now back to its own domain name ... :D
by bwaymark
Fri Mar 23, 2007 3:16 pm
Forum: Site Information and Announcements
Topic: IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT - FORUM WILL BE DOWN....
Replies: 48
Views: 36582

strange..... all the avatars were copied over.... it may well be that some will come back once the domain name has fully moved over and its not petitgourmand.com anymore.....
by bwaymark
Thu Mar 22, 2007 7:22 pm
Forum: Site Information and Announcements
Topic: IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT - FORUM WILL BE DOWN....
Replies: 48
Views: 36582

Bonniegirl wrote:But I'd like to know why!! :wink:
Okay, I'll tell you: its because the power couplings on the bulkheads were causing the anti-matter containment field to distablize so I had to adjust the flux-capacitor to avoid an ion charge....
by bwaymark
Thu Mar 22, 2007 7:11 pm
Forum: Site Information and Announcements
Topic: IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT - FORUM WILL BE DOWN....
Replies: 48
Views: 36582

Right... sorry for the delay everyone but it is now well and truly moved over.... for the next couple of days it will say 'petitgourmand.com' which is an extra domain I had lying around it and used it because it made it easier to get everything working (please please please don't make me explain why...
by bwaymark
Fri Mar 02, 2007 6:47 pm
Forum: Allotments, Veg Patches and Container Gardening
Topic: Lidl
Replies: 33
Views: 19713

Because not all nations are 'emerging' or 'developing'. Second world nations are 'emerging or developing' nations. There are nations that are on the up. Third world nations are the nations that aren't developing. Brazil, for example, could perhaps be called an 'emerging' nation, but then, Brazil sta...
by bwaymark
Fri Mar 02, 2007 5:54 pm
Forum: Allotments, Veg Patches and Container Gardening
Topic: Lidl
Replies: 33
Views: 19713

titch7069 wrote:BTW there is no such thing as the third world anymore, they are known as developing or emerging nations.
'They' can call them whatever they want, but in my mind there will always be a thirdworld! :D
by bwaymark
Sat Feb 24, 2007 4:34 pm
Forum: Allotments, Veg Patches and Container Gardening
Topic: Lidl
Replies: 33
Views: 19713

And their fancy 'for life' bags suck too..... I bought two three and they all split at the seems under their first load of wood! The Le Clerk bags from France, however, are great... they really do last!
by bwaymark
Sat Jan 20, 2007 11:29 am
Forum: What's Going On?
Topic: Free Range Mayo
Replies: 25
Views: 14856

All eggs used by Unilever UK Foods are sourced from within the EU. [snip] It is also important to highlight that there is insufficient farm capacity at this time to sustain support for the Hellmann's business with free-range eggs. It raises an interesting question though.... is it better to use hen...
by bwaymark
Fri Dec 15, 2006 12:18 am
Forum: The ish Local - (Chat)
Topic: Discover French foie gras
Replies: 11
Views: 4545

No, its grain. The idea started with Geese which, someone in France told me, naturally stuff themselves. You stick a funnel in the geese or duck's mouth and force feed it huge amounts of grain which swells the liver, which is then harvested and made into fois gras. Can't say I remember having it, bu...
by bwaymark
Thu Dec 14, 2006 4:28 pm
Forum: The ish Local - (Chat)
Topic: Discover French foie gras
Replies: 11
Views: 4545

Chickens aren't force fed for the last ten days, but otherwise its the same for a chicken, being kept in small cages etc, and its the cockerals that are often necked at birth. Having said that, its a quirk of chicken keeping that boys and girls are born in equal numbers yet you can only have one coc...
by bwaymark
Sat Dec 09, 2006 5:52 pm
Forum: What's in the pot? Recipes and anything about Cooking
Topic: Flavoured olive oil
Replies: 10
Views: 6933

Here is some info (from the US): "However, outbreaks of botulism from more unusual sources such as chopped garlic in oil, chile peppers, tomatoes, improperly handled baked potatoes wrapped in aluminum foil, and home-canned or fermented fish." From: http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/dbmd/diseaseinf...
by bwaymark
Sat Dec 09, 2006 5:49 pm
Forum: What's in the pot? Recipes and anything about Cooking
Topic: Flavoured olive oil
Replies: 10
Views: 6933

I was keeping garlic in olive oil (amongst other things) and was told botulism breeds in garlic when it doesn't have access to air (ie: when its in an oil) so its better not to stick raw garlic into oil. I'd assume that cooking the garlic would kill of the botulism, but best to ask someone who knows...
by bwaymark
Fri Dec 08, 2006 10:15 pm
Forum: Bring back the Goodlife - and other Television and Radio related things
Topic: Torchwood - Any good?
Replies: 15
Views: 10223

She is quite fanciable that Welsh policewoman.... how sad is that that I even said it! Still, properly female looking women are so uncommon on TV these days .....
by bwaymark
Tue Dec 05, 2006 8:56 pm
Forum: The ish Local - (Chat)
Topic: obviously hosepipe ban season!
Replies: 4
Views: 1875

rains been steady here in North Devon but the winds have been something else! My trampoline was picked up and thrown into the river (a good thirty feet ride)... not sure how I am going to get it out because the river is raging.... I was feeling really unlucky until I heard of someone else whose tram...