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I've not found that to be a problem, but Harley offer their knits in a standard Shetland as well as a brushed finish.

Unless it's just being worn outdoors, I find anything thicker than a submariner needs to be a cardigan or easily removable. I've got a Black Sheep Knitwear shawl cardigan that's great; if their jumpers are equally heavyweight they'd deal with all but the very worst weather.

Yeah, it's a bit of a faff, but as a hacking no-date movement at least it's quick to re-set.

Big fan of pinhead oats, but alas the missus isn't, so I don't make them as much as I'd like. Especially if you soak them overnight they're not too much faff. Heather honey and half a tablespoon of whisky is a great topping, though maybe best saved for weekends...

Supposed to be 42 hours I think? Because I'm inconsistent with the winding I've not been able to work out exactly what it really is, but that seems ballpark right; it's only been a problem if I wind in the morning and miss a day.

Still wearing my Navigator lots; only downside is, as I've not had a hand-wind before, if I forget to take it off overnight I forget to wind it in the morning, and have had it wind down once or twice.

+1 to the Harley shaggy dogs - I've bought a couple from All Blues Co., and though they're not particularly heavyweight, because of the fuzz they're really quite warm.

For properly heavyweight jumpers I've got a couple of Outdoor Knitwear submariners; they're the Leicester-based supplier of the real thing to the RN, and do contract manufacturing for other brands. Most of their stuff is utilitarian rather than stylish, but it's good VFM. I think at one point they manufactured for North Sea Clothing, who do stylish but pricey knitwear.

Edit: misunderstood which bolt you meant; don't know, sorry.

^^^ yeah, that looks banging.

Digging out some of the rarer bottles from the stash. Dryer and Brettier than I'd expected, but rather good. May now have to seek out Marble's current Old Ale offerings...

A mate built up the big ECTO-1 yesterday, which looks amazing. Took him 9 hours though.

Just looked that up, and it seems they've gone upmarket - I remember buying Pikesville from Gerry's when it was the cheapest decent rye available...

I reckon that may have been done with a partial eye on concentrating minds on the UK side as to what a no-deal Brexit will look like.

Love a stollen, but haven't made one in years. Might have to give that a go.

In other news, my freezing kitchen has meant cold ferments and proofs, but it seems to have worked out ok:

It's Bluetooth-based isn't it, so it's just line of sight distance? My OH gets lots of pings from the app - we think it's because her WFH desk is in the bay window of our front room, so her phone picks up anyone walking past on the street.

Yeah, that's the one to go for (no-date, handwind, on a nato). They're just a little pricey for a pure beater, and for the money I think I'd rather have one of the Timefactors Smiths field watch repros (though admittedly they're out of stock until next year).

To a degree - I've had beers made with wood-fired malts before (e.g. Goose Island's Obidiah Poundage), and the woodsmoke is pretty subtle; I think smoked malts might be partially cold-smoked.

Is any common German beer style not lagered? Weissbier maybe?

Yeah, the Rogue Squadron books were all brilliant - of course they're not canon now, so who knows what the upcoming series will be based on.

Watched Mando S2 finale last night and it just awakened the sheer teenage joy of watching SW for the first time in a way that the later films just didn't. I think the space western episode of the week format, and the fact that they were dealing (at least initially) with minor/unknown characters, gave them freedom from the terrible weight and responsibility of carrying a franchise.

Yeah, I've got some Bulleit Rye that works quite nicely, but it's coming to an end, and I wanted to grab something cheap for over Christmas.

Any particular recommendations for a £20 Bourbon for old fashioneds/boulevardiers, or should I just get whatever's on offer at Tesco (so Maker's Mark/Woodford I guess)?

A legal friend shared this letter Dominon sent to Sidney Powell, which basically says 'retract all your claims and apologise or we'll sue you into the ground'; it makes for punchy reading.

Lots of Belgian beers have pillowy heads like that (as do many German styles). IIRC it's to do with the malts they use and the multi-step mashing; I guess it must promote certain proteins that create the head? The beers are also fairly heavily carbonated, which helps head formation.

It probably took a while to work out that this new strain was genuinely more transmissible.

I found purpose-made proofing boxes very expensive for what they were; I just bought a couple of the largest sistema food storage boxes they had at my local supermarket, which can take 4-6 dough balls each, and are stackable. (Edit: think it was these: https://www.nisbets.co.uk/sistema-klip-it-storage-container-7ltr/s488 )

And of course the spineless cunt can't even start a fucking press conference on time.