Bleurgh. Horrible stuff. Ditto dessicated coconut.

I have driven – or cycled – along every road within the district council boundary where we live in Somerset. Every road which is coloured yellow, orange, red or green on the Ordnance Survey map. I’ve also been on […]

We have a butt pump. Hozelock Butt Pump. Stick it in a water butt, and it pumps. Through a hose, to where needed. Usually from the butts out front to the butt ‘farm’ by the shed.

Oh, we scarify it, and remove vast quantities of grass and moss every year. That ‘lawn’ is in the veg garden, in front of the shed and is really just a green path. The other lawn is as bad, though and appears […]

Barrow latest.

Well, I ordered a 13-inch puncture-proof ‘solid’ wheel, and received a 14-inch with a pneumatic tyre. Had to add some packers, as the tyre was – just – fouling on the barrow. Couldn’t be arsed to […]

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As has been mentioned here before, carp fishing is so popular that there are at least three magazines devoted to it. The best title name is ‘Total Carp’.

Amongst many other things, I design a monthly model […]

There was probably an ‘I Spy’ book of that in the 60s/70s. A is for Anaglypta. 10 points.

There’s a euphemism in search of a practice. . .

‘Elephant’s Feet’ are also those large round choux buns filled with cream, with coffee or plain icing on top. As seen in Greggs.

Frank Muir: Come with me to the Far East, where you find me with my eelbarrow; a handy device to carry all the goodies I’ve purchased from the Eel Market.

Hannah Gordon: Wait, what? Eel Market?

It had a long, happy life, and expired peacefully. . .

Harry ‘Snapper’ Organs, of ‘Q’ Division, as Sir Robert was before his k-niggethood. . .

Lynn Faulds-Wood: ‘It’s a potential death-trap”.

Update: I’m looking at solid wheels rather than pneumatic on eBay, but interestingly, you can actually buy barrow inner tubes with angled valves!

Possibly distressing image.

Trigger? Nylon, rubber, aluminium, garden implements. . .

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Replying to hubert as well; Sounds like solid advice. I believe my late parents’ barrow with a solid wheel is still going strong, and it must be over forty years old.

The pneumatic tyre gave a nice ride, though […]

A distressing day at Chateau Grey. I went to use our trusty wheelbarrow to take the recycling out, and discovered the tyre and inner tube had burst. The tyre has been badly crazed for a while, but I’d only […]

A pub near us used to do ‘Lancashire’ hotpot, which came with either chips or mash. In addition to the layers of sliced potatoes within said hotpot.

Asda in Bridgwater. Once saw someone in the middle of the day going in, in fluffy slippers and jim-jams, with a dressing gown over the top. NFB. . .

I have a theory – wot is mine – that all the UK’s wildlife establishments have a pair of Red Pandas. On a time share. Mainly nocturnal johnnies, yer Red Panda? Excellent. Enclosure, interpretive sign, strain t […]