Put it on its side and pluck the strings with a keyboard mechanism. Then you won't be expected to carry it around with you, like pianists.
It's best either to have an instrument easy to carry, or impossible.
Does anyone sell one-way heat pumps and plug in modules to make them reversible? :)
SteveW
The smell of a Primus and bacon takes me back to Buttermere, late 1950s.
Bill
There used to be a busker in Manchester (usually on Market Street) with a piano stripped of its casing.
SteveW
I used to leave a paraffin roadlamp under the engine. When I worked on the highways we used to build a bonfire under the diesel tanks of the rollers and blawknox in a morning.
Bill
Yeah, let's have more and more laws. Orwell was right.
Bill
More importantly, Lithium batteries still have most of their charge the next time you want to use them, while the NiCds start your drill and over the next 20 seconds it slows to a stop!
SteveW
Even the less efficient petrol car will do ~450-500 miles, about as much driving as I find comfortable in one day.
Well you're not everybody.
Bill
So we all have to fit into some sort of socialist greeny 'norm'? Look, I'm not normal and I'm glad. Most folk are the same; them that's not been brainwashed by the BBC.
Bill
He just wants you to conform to his socialist paradise, where we're all like robots.
Bill
There is something about that sort of smell combination, that's for sure.
Whilst I do most of the cooking these days, I certainly do all the cooking whilst we are camping or caravanning (folding caravan, few mod-cons) and I enjoy the 'challenge' of making a breakfast for all three of us that will last us a fair time into the day.
That normally ends up being something along the lines of bacon, egg, mushrooms, baked beans, tomatoes and a mug of tea. The trick (with only three portable stoves when camping) is to get it all cooked and served hot. Stuff like the bacon can be kept hot in with the beans, as can the tomatoes and the eggs can share the pan with the nearly done mushrooms. Toast is a bit of a stretch though and whilst we have had reasonable success with one of those 'clamp' type toasters you can put on the grill, they are a bit slow for 3 slices so we normally just have bread and butter.
The spare hot water from the tea goes towards the washing up water. ;-)
If we are going out walking / exploring I might also make a mix of sarnies and a flask of tea and we will pick up some fruit where / if we can.
In the evening if we haven't eaten out, it's more like something you just heat up, like an Irish stew with some tinned potatoes and another mug of tea or coffee but even that can taste as good as a roast dinner when you are tired and hungry. ;-)
Cheers, T i m
What do you mean "we"? Who are you, the Queen? Or are you some desperate saddo trying to sound as if you lead an army?
You've failed to find a reference to me being an anti-Semite. Can you perhaps start to search for a reference to me being racist? I hope for your sake you can find one.
Bill
I'm waiting.
Bill
There might be a market for that.
Sell a car with a 100 mile range. It can have a really light battery for better performance.
Also sell a trailer with a bigger battery and a generator for the occasional long trip.
Andy
no, I'm thinking about recharge
Are you hinting he may shortly embarking on a really long journey and playing his harp on a cloud ?
He won't need an electric car for that.
G.Harman
AIUI that's a tradeoff between battery life and usable capacity. By keeping it near half full all the time they last years.
Also AIUI the Prius is unusually reliable and long lived, which is why minicab drivers like them.
Andy
Edinburgh > Aberdeen is something I have rarely done, last time being about
20 years ago. A couple of hours, probably.I allow 6 hours driving from home (J10 M25) to Edinburgh and stops as appropriate. Roadworks through Cheshire can be very variable.
Or could you cheat in days past and just use a tin of Heinz London Grill, or the posher version West End Grill, not around anymore though some firms make similar products. A Brand called Hunger Breaks do a range that is the nearest I have found.
G.Harman
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