2011/02/23 22:44
Our old plastic mandoline (i.e., vegetable slicer) had broken down to the extent that it normally cost me one finger per onion, so I found a new one at a good price from an online shop called Baking Frenzy.I didn't investigate where the shop was based, but it appeared to be based in the UK, given that all prices were...
2011/02/21 11:49
According to this article in The Telegraph, the British government are thinking about introducing 'double summertime'.Although they're using this bizarre name for it, it's really just continental time, also known as Central European Time, given that it would put the UK in exactly the same time zone as France, Germany, Denmark and many other countries.For that reason, I'd support it...
2011/02/28 18:07
As I’ve written before, it’s an British anomaly that the speed limit is the same on motorways and dual carriageways (70 mph).
The CoLD coalition now seem to considering raising the speed limit on motorways to 80 mph (129 km/h), which would make good sense.
However, I think they should also lower the speed limit on dual carriageways to 60 mph (97 km/h), and on single carriageways to 50 mph (80 km/h) at the same time, but that isn’t mentioned in the article, so I probably shouldn’t get my hopes up.
2011/02/22 18:57
The Scotsman could recently reveal that the Scottish parliamentary election following this year's election will be moved from 2015 to 2016 because the four-year cycle for elections to the Scottish Parliament would clash with the newly-established five-year cycle for UK elections.At first that sounds like a really good idea, but as a commenter called "Save the cheerleader – save the world" wrote underneath the article:Let's see if I've got this right. The next Scottish Parliament will be extended from 4...
2011/02/21 22:34
In an article in The Herald it is claimed that "Scottish universities want to charge students fees of £12,000 for a four-year degree".Shocking as that is in its own right, I found the last part of the article even more interesting:[U]niversities agreed with the Scottish Government to maintain student numbers this year, despite cuts to the teaching budget, by paying...
2011/02/20 22:24
birkesGæren udrøres i den lunkne mælk.Æg, sukker, salt og mel røres i.Dejen slås godt i fadet.Stilles til hævning til den dobbelte størrelse (ca. 20 min.).Dejen slås ned og rulles ud på et melet bord til ca. 25 × 40 cm.Smørret...
2011/02/19 8:21
Spoken and written French are so different that they can probably be considered two separate languages.Nevertheless, most language courses and grammars ignore this issue and try to teach some sort of compromise language in which 'money' is argent, ne isn't...
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