Recent content by Keith_Beef

Every winter I read a thread like this. And every winter there seem to be a lot of people either surprised or outraged by the increase in price.

Here's another report of the same incident. https://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/uk-world-news/baby-attacked-staffordshire-bull-terriers-33039372

I wonder if that should have been "ride"... The Icelandic verb "ríða" can also have that colloquial meaning, as it does in English.

Already a thread about this with some good info. https://forums.horseandhound.co.uk/threads/head-torches.850557

This seems like a good idea. It's annoying to talk to somebody who is wearing a lit head torch and instinctively turns to look you in the face.

Try looking at this thread: https://forums.horseandhound.co.uk/threads/best-torch-for-evening-walkies-and-light-up-dog-collars.849676/#post-15970146

In a pub, many years ago, I saw signs on the toilet doors: "drip dry" (ladies) and "shake dry" (gents).

You could build a little ladder and add a little door to the well cover so that the toad can come and go as it pleases.

I'm having trouble imagining how a toad 🐸 could live inside a water meter. TTRNP

We have a competition going on between me and horses for who can send it the farthest.

A gutstone. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enterolith

How about "employers who are prepared to pay decent wages"?

I am fairly certain that I could find any number of boots like this a couple of years ago, but now that I want a pair they are like rocking-horse droppings. Often described as "field boots" or "WW1 officer's field boots" or "WW1 officer's cavalry boots", many of the modern reproductions that...

In the winter, my grandmother used to keep a storm lantern in the outdoor privy, left lit overnight mostly to take the chill off the air and so stop the water from freezing. I knew several elderly ladies who preferred to use the outdoor privy in the daytime and evening, rather than climb the...

Is this a trendy abbreviation for Schipperke?