Blackpowder
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Thanks to someone Teal I presume just signed on again witrhout problems.
Blackpowdere
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Finding I need to change password ate each login. Can admin help here.
Blackpowder.
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Brass screws are less likely to damage woodworking saws in the future.
Blackpowder
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Does anyone know how the additional amounts of Pre 97 and Post 97 additions to state pension are calculated.
My Pre97 is £1 94 My post 97 is £00. 07
Over a working life I perhaps had 1 week unemployed and 8 weeks off through illness.
Recently a female relation showed me her benefits statement where her Pre and Post 97 payments exceeded £50, this relation had time of to raise 4 children and would have fewer NI contributions than mine.
Blackpowder
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8 minutes ago, JohnfromUK said:
Welcome back!
Thanks John
Blackpowqder
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Hi all back on here at last. Several months ago my screen asked me to clear all cookies did so of course. Found I needed to type passwords on several other sites fr access. Pigeon Watch however told me my user name belonged to someone already- ME. However today changed password and back on full time.
Blackpowder
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1 hour ago, CaptC said:
The small frozen prawns are awful - they are like chewing gum that's been scraped off the road. Not being a environmetalist moaner but all prawns, large and small come from the Far East. Crevettes as per our French ex Euro friends are, on the other hand, fresh and delicious!
No they dont those in the photo look more like Norway Lobster tails rather than prawns and are caught by trawl or creel all around the Scottish coast. Trawl mainly in the north sea but by both methods in Scottish west coast sea lochs. Overcooking can ruin the taste and texture of shellfish so pick a tried and tested cooking time.
Blackpowder
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Had a week at West Loch Tarbet about 9 years ago smashing place, June is a good month to visit pre midge emergance.
Blackpowder
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Frenchmen been helping chase those around for over a month now.
Blackpowder
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Nice job I always have a No. 7 Opinal in my pocket. Trouble is I manage to loose something like 2 every year.
Blackpowder
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1 minute ago, JohnfromUK said:
I have always been an 'omnivore' in that I eat meat, fish, poultry, game, and most things apart from eggs - which don't agree with me. But I was always brought up with a generous selection of veggies on offer - something I have made a habit of through in own cooking. This was tonights 'Sunday roast for one', being a chicken breast stuffed with 'perked up' Paxo and wrapped in bacon, a Cumberland sausage - and ......... veggies.
Thats the way to go, a bit of everything.
Blackpowder
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1 hour ago, shaun4860 said:
The famous Sycamore tree at Sycamore Gap in Northumberland was felled last night by a vandal with a chainsaw.
A 16 year old has been arrested and is “helping police with their enquiries”
What was going through his mind 🤷🏻♂️ it beggars belief.
This was the most photographed tree in the UK, arguably the world.
Made even more famous after appearing in Kevin Costners version of Robin Hood.
What is the world coming too 🤔
Its even featured in a detective murder mystery> What is wrong with people these days?
Blackpowder
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10 hours ago, 12gauge82 said:
Yes and policing in this country is broken and ineffective.
They've basically gone woke and completely risk averse.
Perhaps because politicians have made them this way.
Blackpowder
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9 hours ago, strimmer_13 said:
Sorry I ment have you picked berries yet, plenty about but not quite ready yet in dorset
Realised that after you replied, not had sloes here for a year or two but 4 years ago in Dumfries and Galloway while walking around Wigton Bay in September the blackthorn bushes , which clad entire slopes from field verge to shoreline hung thick with sloes almost like grapes on the vine. Picked a couple of year's supply on that occasion but must get out and around see if we have any local this year..
Blackpowder
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16 minutes ago, strimmer_13 said:
Muslin.
Haven't made any yet have you?
Been making it for years and always forget about the muslin thing. Present batch is strawberry vodka. Last night found a 6 year old quarter bottle of gooseberry vodka back in the cupboard one of the smoothest fruit liquers I have made.
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What to PW members use to filter sloe gin and other liquers . Paper coffee filters do the job but exceedingly slow and keep clogging.
Blackpowder
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7 hours ago, Dave at kelton said:
Timex Expedition?
Exactly my shooting workday watch and cost less than todays fish suppers.
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Your dry stone dyke is fantastic.
Blackpowder
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Makes me glad I dumped my TV almost two decades ago, had never heard of him until the present situation arose.
Blackpowder
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As others have said. Remember to fill antifreeze and inhibitor when you are finished.
Blackpowder
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10 hours ago, ditchman said:
our next door neighbor used to do the best pickled cabbage ive ever tasted.....she used malt and added raisens............noooowwwww....dont quote me on this but i think when she chopped it up...she put it in a bowl over night with a good handful of salt ...this woold draw the moisture out...and in the morning the bottom of the bowl was full of water ....which would be drained off......then quickly run fresh water over the chopped cabbage to wash the salt off ...dry it off with a towel ....then....into the jars with raisens and malt vinegar....
if you do your pickled onions the same way ....they will NEVER be slimy and always be crunchy............
let us know how you get on 😋
Cheers many thanks
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The allotment holds two rather splendid red cabbage which I intend to pickle. A recent purchase of a 5 litre can of malt vinegar used for beetroot has left me with a surplus. Most of the recipes on line seem to ask for cider vinegar but I would rather use the malt I have if its suitable. Anyone got a good home grown recipe with few ingredients?
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1 hour ago, samboy said:
Hi gang.
My mate of over 55 years trod on a nail last week and died in hospital yesterday. I think it was sepsis.
He'd only been retired a month. So be careful out there as you never know what's around the corner.
Lost a good friend three years ago, scratched arm on Tuesday, amputated Thursday and died Friday.
Blackpowder
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5 hours ago, TIGHTCHOKE said:
Rob, you are quite correct, but only if we are going back to the end of the last century.
Far too many people now see a need for long barrels, tight choking and monstrous cartridges.
Dave Carry is responsible in part!
Driven game shooting was and indeed is done with a gun with 1/4 and 1/2 choke and 28 or 30 grammes of 6 shot.
But there are those that have to prove something and want to shoot "Extreme" pheasants, make videos of themselves doing it and basically "SHOW OFF." They have done the "sport" no favours with their selfish attitude.
Exactly well said.
Blackpowder
Changing password at each login
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Well spotted . Just had to change passwords again going to run out of ideas for them shortly.
Blackpowder