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I would only class myself as a partially flat earthist. My issue with membrane liners isn't that I like getting wet feet or think that everything must be made out of hair shirts, it just that I've never had a pair of membrane lined boots or shoes which I found comfortable to wear - they just make my feet hot and sweaty.

Also, leather with decent proofing in it is waterproof enough for anything that I'm likely to be doing.

Charge didn't particularly seem to think there was an issue for them to solve. They did offer to send me some bits, I'm waiting to see if they show up.

Plug 1 is alu which I didn't really want.

arrghhh... another choker.

[insert maximum crying .giff]

Yes, fair point. Will be used in the UK, all year round. I'm often in Scotland in winter or spring. Nothing technical, just hills, forest paths, that sort of thing.

I bought a pair of Zamberlans about 25 years ago; think they were trail-lite. They were perfect, it was before they started putting gortex into everything. Eventually the soles came unglued and after getting them glued back on a couple of times, I gave up. Went into Blacks and got a cheap pair of Merrill boots - they are ok in Inverness in winter but the rest of the time my feet are too hot - plus the soles are 80% worn out after a couple of years.

So tempted to go for the welted sole Zamberlans...

What are the best walking boots?

And why does everything have to be effin Goretex lined? My feet get hot; I don't want lined boots. Choice seems to be between:

http://www.uttings.co.uk/p108012-zamberlan-1020-nuvolao-nw-walking-boots-men-s-waxed-mustard-1020pm0p-db/#.Vtq8M2IgGSM

And these

http://www.rutlandcycling.com/98570/products/meindl-borneo-2-mfs-mens-mountaineering--and--hiking-boots.aspx

But there is so much more. For instance, FLAC sounds worse than .wav. And electricity sounds different from, erm, other electricity. So much fun is to be had, surely?

On another forum I sometimes frequent, there is a bloke who is convinced that he can hear "what is missing" in red book (ie CD) sampling rates....

Ahh, sounds like proper feasting provisions.

I see that I remembered slightly wrong and tenderloin did his sauce with brisket. The short rib version is smelling good; it's been cooking for over 3 hours, a couple more should do it.

I was inspired by @Tenderloin oxtail ragu, so went off to get some tails. Came back with short ribs; should work with the same treatment:

http://youtu.be/G487EDeXadA

Share the John Prine love, everyone.

Summary: wet dough and hot, steamy oven.

Hotter than I originally thought, in fact. Following @Bainbridge advice, I did my last lot at 220 then 200; noticeably better.

Had to take my daughter to dentist in Crouch End. Spend 1hr 20min sitting in traffic and missed the appointment. Seems that I'd managed to forget all the reasons why I avoid driving in rush hour. Now remembered.

#timeforatandem

Good spring, decent colour, so quite happy overall:

@Bainbridge - I'm trying a hotter oven. Didn't have time to do sourdough this weekend, so it's just a couple of loaves made with dried yeast. Will post results in half an hour or so. They've had 10 mins at 220, now lowered to 200.

I think its quite nice. In any case, if you buy the f+f and build it with 700c wheels, you can pretty much make it any how you want. They do them in big sizes as well.

I've not seen anyone importing the complete bikes but the framesets are not especially expensive, compared to going custom.

http://www.somafab.com/archives/product/buena-vista-complete-bicycle

I bought an earlier version of these: they continue to provide good service: http://www.richersounds.com/product/standmount-speakers/monitor-audio/mr2/moni-audio-mr2-wal

Glad to hear it - way to go!

Yes, I think I will try a hotter oven. At the moment I am giving them 10 minutes at about 210 and then turning down to about 190. Will try just leaving at 210 and see how they look after 30 mins.

For the record: recently bought a Charge Plug 0, advertised as having a drilled rear drop out. Turned out that mine didn't. Entered into correspondence with Charge; eventually they checked some more bikes and admitted that someone seems to have forgotten about drilling the holes.

I was advised to use P clips and come back for the 2017 bike which will have holes added.

I should have said that this is using a starter that's being kept at room temp and is fairly active. One that's been in the fridge for a while will likely need a couple of days of feeding to wake it up.

For those ones, I mixed up a few spoons of starter with 200g flour and enough water to make a very wet dough, and left that to brew up for 24 hours. Then added that to 1kg of flour and did as described up thread.

Previous weekend, I did it all in one day, using about 100g of starter straight into the main mix, and it works out ok as well.

Ok, let me know whereabouts you are, I will bung some in a jam jar and hand it over.

I'm mainly in Euston during the working day and mainly walthamstow the rest of the time.

Basic recipe for those loaves:
80% strong white flour
20% wholemeal rye flour
10 grammes salt per 1kg flour
660 grammes water per 1kg flour (possibly a splash more, depending on how wet your starter is)
Sourdough starter

Depending on how warm your kitchen is and how active your starter, it may be possible to make the bread in one day, ie combine all the ingredients, knead a tidy tad, leave for two hours, knead a tiny tad, leave for another two hours or so (until dough has increased in size by approx 50%) knead again, shape loaves and put into those wicker basket things to prove,which may take 3 or 4 hours. Bake in a hot oven, ideally on a baking stone, for about 40 - 45 mins.

Those loaves were made with about 600g of flour each.

Yum! I want that for my dinner...