Jonty

I bought a gas/no gas Clarke MIG with the idea of using flux core wire so I wouldn't have to mess about with gas. After a short while, as a self taught welder I decided I needed all the help I could get and swapped to gas. There's a great system called 'Hobbyweld' where you pay a deposit for the cylinder and any subsequent swaps you only pay for the value of the gas with no cylinder rental irrespective of how long you keep it.

marsh man, where I was stood when I took the pic at the bottom of my garden is at about 750ft, the summit is about 2,300ft. I was up on the top a few day back up to about 7pm and it was savagely cold once the sun had gone down.

OPP, you need to make sure its specified as a gas/no gas unit. If it is, then indeed you just swap the earth and the torch lead polarity to change between gas and flux core wire.

We’ve still got quite a bit. This is Pen y Ghent in the Yorkshire Dales this afternoon.

Crikey, I remember my mum doing that, 9/10 it worked a dream, but every now and then there was the ‘frantic throwing the blazing newspaper back into the fireplace before the house went up’ episode.

OPP it certainly is true. We didn’t at home, but my nana (who we spent a lot of time with) would always serve up Yorkshire puddings gravy as a starter. Then the beef with all the r]trimmings would also come served with yet more puddings. If there were any left (rare occurrence) we’d have them with ‘treacle’ (golden syrup) for afters. Also, a condiment that was always served with beef was very thinly sliced rings of raw onion in a small bowl of malt vinegar.

I have o say that we’ve just had one of the most fun meals we’ve had in ages. My daughter had a Xmas dinner in a Yorkshire pudding ‘wrap’ at a local deli last week. It sounded so good that I went down the next day but it turned out it was a one day only special. Fortunately we’d cooked a large dinner on Wednesday and had lots of leftovers so I had a g at making them tonight. I would say that next time you have any leftover sunday roast, you should give these a go - I’ve already been told that this is the new Christmas tradition in our house. I made the big puddings in a cast iron skillet and kept taking it out of the oven so they didn’t rise and crisp up like you’d usually want to - that was weird. But once they were stuffed and rolled with turkey, pork sage & onion stuffing, pigs in blankets, goose fat roast potatoes, cranberry sauce and gravy - man they were seriously good… definitely worth a go!

If you're ever in Yorkshire give me a shout.... its a crying shame the leap from game dealer venison prices to shop shelf retail prices for venison. @clangerman that stew looks lovely - I've never hat muntjac, but I understand that it's a very tasty meat.

An ironic offshoot of this emissions additive thing is that the Arla dairy in my local town of Settle has been producing a foul smell across the town for the last year. On a bad day the town really does stink. Arla claim to be trying to resolve the issue, but as yet to no avail. It would be great if they could sort out their own factory emissions before taking on the cows.

It’s the Kashmir 👍 me and the kids ate there a couple of weeks ago. The menu is a little more extensive now than when I started eating there 25 years back but it’s still no frills - just fantastic food.

Thanks wisdom 👍. The leaves were a breeze… I bought a plasma cutter from the midline of Lidl a while back. I gave it its inaugural run the other day to make the leaves….and completely cocked the settings/config up 😂 I ended up getting my grinder out, they were pretty easy to cut out the elipse shapes and then I used the cutting disk just to score the veins in - I reckon once it’s properly rusted up,it should look really good.

Latest endeavour! Owls are a theme here because we have so many visit the trees around our house - some evenings they can drown out the radio! Anyway, the boss has loads of bird feeders so I thought I'd make her a new one. It looks better than the picture now as after being out a few days, the rust masks my dodgy welding. The main frame is 16mm rebar but I had to drop to 12mm for anything I needed to bend - my goodness me, without the right tools even the 12mm is really difficult to bend.

I remember making that at school too mate. You're right with the haddock, I think that's the traditional fish, it's just what the wife asked for when she saw the kippers in this case.

I’m not a fan, but the boss loves it. I bought her some kippers from the ‘best before’ section in booths (they were nearly down to the price of some fresh ones from harrods) and she asked if I’d make kedgeree with them. Poached the kippers in milk and then used that to richen the rice. She prefers a softish boiled egg rather than hard boiled chopped through the dish - who am I to say no?