October 2008
10 posts
Sloe Gin for teh Win!
Update (Sep 2010): You may have arrived here by asking Mr Google “how to recognise sloes”. It appears I didn’t give an answer here, sorry. The easiest way to describe them is by the skin.
The skin is dark blue/purple/black with a greyish patina which makes sloes look like blueberries or tiny, tiny plums.
Sloes occur in clumps on the branches, unless you’ve been...
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In another edition of what appears to be a series of money saving tips from Badger Towers, I decided to give some love to SaveMyPrinter.co.uk for saving me money.
I have an HP Laserjet 1100 which sits on my desk doing very little to justify its existence, occasionally printing a boarding pass or a coupon because it can’t cope with a big job any more. I used to have an HP Laserjet 5L which...
Badgerpower
Not long ago I bought a Current Cost smart electricity meter from Southern Electric’s eco gadget shop. It works by induction, clipping around the mains cable by your real meter and then wirelessly transmitting the reading every few seconds to an LCD display.
When I first plugged it in I got the urge to turn things on and off to watch how much electricity they were using. The house in...
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Rissingtons
On Friday I had a rather pleasant visit to the folks at Rissington (Jon Hicks, John Oxton, Jon P Dennis and Simon Clayson), which was only slightly marred by the failburger four of us had at The Eagle & Child (Stow-on-the-Wold), and the pint of rancid Hooky.
This is what the outing looked like, once we’d avoided the biblical traffic queue into the town by taking a 10 mile Oxton...