Category Archives: A-Z Of Thisnthat
SHEDNOTES 90: Scaring squirrels
The Shed liked a tip from Anne Wareham in Spectator 21.3.15 for dealing with squirrels trying to break in to your birdfeeder … “Buy one of those wireless doorbells, cover the receiver part in plastic wrap and bury … Continue reading
SHEDNOTES 89: Some Richard III notes
The Shed’s experiences include a bit of how news organisations work and the enthusiasm which greeted the identification of Richard lll’s remains did remind us that there is a rule against letting facts get in the way of a good … Continue reading
SHEDNOTES 74: Some notes on screws
For years, The Shed has operated mainly on inherited, left-over or reclaimed screws – most of them single-slot originally, although we have moved as far as having a range of crosshead screwdrivers, imperfectly understood, in order to deal with flat-pack … Continue reading
SHEDNOTES 37: Why Jeremy’s coat looks right on Nigel
Ian Jack, Gdn 20.12.14, added an observation worth recording to the sociology of clothes … When Jeremy Thorpe died earlier this month, I remembered his coat: slim-fitting and light brown, with a velvet collar in a deeper shade, it made … Continue reading
TAVISTOCK GOOSEY FAIR
1000 words, published The Bridge, local magazine for Horrabridge, near Tavistock, Devon, December 2014. Goosey Fair: An Incomer’s View October blows in and a man in the pub is telling us about his car being broken into on Whitchurch Road. … Continue reading
ONE-LINE RECIPES – STOCK, CABBAGE, STEAK, SALAD DRESSING
STOCK Harriet Lane, celebrating the wisdom of being over-40 in Stella Mag, Teleg 22.6.14, wrote about learning to love celery and said: The holy trinity of onion, carrot and celery (you can call this mirepoix or soffritto if you must) … Continue reading
TECHIE TIPS –DOING A SWERVE AROUND WINDOWS 8 & DUMPING YOUR CDs
I want to file this advice, and you might find it useful too, from Rick Maybury in Teleg 21.6.14, on taking Windows 8, when we have to have it, back to a more trad interface … … there are … Continue reading
A FILOFACTS ON BROAD BEANS
Bee Wilson on broad beans, Stella Mag, Telegraph, May 2014: For years I accepted the orthodoxy that frozen broad beans will do almost as well as fresh. Some fresh broad bean pods had come in our veg box so, on … Continue reading
READING MATERIAL – 100 YEARS OF BRITS AT WAR AND SURVIVAL AT SEA
If I was a teacher, I would be bookmarking the impressive bit of research which enabled the Guardian to run a story on 12.2.14 saying: When British forces pull down the union jack for the last time in Afghanistan this … Continue reading
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