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Been invigilating exams all week, and at lunchtime have been going for a walk and having a civilised pint with my sandwiches at one of the many GBG-listed pubs near the university. Today I had a half of the Sarah Hughes Brewery's barley wine 'Snowflake Winter Warmer', and it was delicious: vinous, rich, and sweet. Sat next to the roaring fire with a book, it was one of those perfect pub moments.

No real tips needed - it works well with wettish doughs, giving amazing crusts. Just preheat in the oven as high as it will go, then take out and tip in the dough, replace lid, and off you go! For a loaf made with ~500g flour I'll give it about 15 minutes on max, then remove the lid and turn the heat down to 180 or so; check in another 20 minutes and turn it down to 140-160 depending on how brown the crust is and give it another 20-25 minutes.

Just make sure a) the lid has a metal not a plastic knob, b) never ever absent-mindedly use bare hands to touch the lid or casserole, and c) don't leave your cotton oven glove on the lid once you've removed it - the latent heat can cause it to smoulder away unseen, leading to a kitchen full of acrid smoke when you come back to check on the loaf...

Yes, definitely the Speedmaster IMHO; the best explorer is a 1016, and they're silly money these days.

It's a Bez piece, so my money is on very accurate.

IIRC CBDR control laws give optimum intercept trajectories for guided missiles; I vaguely recall doing a project using them in the aero degree of my misspent youth.

Yeah, with the caveat that it probably does mostly benefit middle-class people that were going to go anyway. Still, I only started to get Opera once I'd been to a couple of productions on cheap student tickets at ENO and Covent Garden; even as a non-student you can find cheap tickets. For theatre more generally the NT's cheap tickets are great. And London's free museums and galleries are one of the things I miss the most about no longer being there.

Do succulents count?

Ah man, I did not need to know about that...

Nice, but only available as a limited edition from the Amsterdam store, no?

As for mincers, DIY are game-changers: http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2010/mar/13/spiced-stout-buns-dan-lepard

My local supermarkets seem to have got their stock levels right this Christmas, alas; not many reduced mincers about. Still have a fruitcake in the cupboard, though.

That is an awfully handsome functional roadster btw.

+1; and maybe some helicopter tape on the inside of the fork?

Presumably the problems are similar to dropping RIBs out of a Herky-bird? Cool stuff, though.

For me the main advantage of the bread machine is you can just bung the ingredients in the night before, set the timer, and wake up to fresh bread ready for you. You don't have to faff about preheating ovens, cleaning bowls etc.; not that any of that is necessarily a massive amount of work, but it all adds up.

Is the bread machine loaf as good as my sourdough? No; but if I've forgotten to get bread I can stick the machine on before I go to bread and ensure I can make packed lunches in the morning.

Ha, I got a cheap (ish) Panasonic when my twins were about 6 months old; they're now nearly 5 and it's still going strong. Gets used for regular white loaves and pizza dough and does a great job.

Fair point; I should perhaps have said 'mainly know how to use it in theory' (because you've got an E-6B in the flight bag, haven't used that in a decade, and played with the watch a few times after you bought it...)

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https://www.sjscycles.co.uk/gear-spares/sram-apex-1-b-adjust-limit-screw-for-rear-derailleur/ ?

If it were me I'd take the screw out and show it to my friendly local engineers' merchant, working on the assumption that it's unlikely to be something terribly exotic; I'd suspect this would be the #tester_approved method, save that he probably knows exactly what size and pitch it is already...

Evans' Pinnacle range is pretty good value for money - the Lithium and Neon models look like they might fit the bill.

Previous prediction of the end to my season was premature; went round to my parents and was presented with a cuppa and some oven-warmed mini mincers (Waitrose I think). Went down very nicely.

Resin crystallising out of the wood?

No mincers in Morrisons today, so it's farewell sweet prince until next year. Wait loss thread will have to wait until I've finished the Christmas cake in the cupboard. And the panettone. Oh, and the panforte.

I very much doubt it, in the same way that I doubt anyone actually uses calculator watches for mathematical operations; I'd imagine pilots derive a small degree of comfort of knowing they've got a potential backup, even if it they don't actually know how to use it...

At my parents for lunch tomorrow and returning the favour with a beef roast on Boxing Day, but I think I'm going to be getting my butcher to butterfly me a pork shoulder for new year...

I run hot, so prefer to carry all my load on the bike rather than sweating with a rucksack; for 15 miles doubly so. If you have rack eyes then a single pannier should take all that with no problems; if not, then this kind of load is exactly what Carradice saddlebags were designed for and have been carrying for 80-odd years. If you might need to bring a uniform back I'd go for one of the larger ones: maybe a Pendle or Nelson.