Does Access still have the file size limit of 2 GB? I’ve escaped from that world now, but I remember that limit being the bane of my existence.

I rather they said “We don’t know”, than tried to make a guess and got it wrong. I got four years’ worth of unnecessary medication and doctor/hospital visits because of an incorrect diagnosis.

Absolutely. Crazy mouse-eating, territory-peeing man FTW.

Perhaps...those of us who were born there but are not fond of that particular subculture...we tend to leave. I choose to live elsewhere in northern England, quite deliberately.

And then there’s the stinger: once you’ve been poor, the anxiety and downright fear that it accrues can remain. I haven’t really had to worry about missing meals or paying the rent for fifteen years or so, but the fear of everything coming crashing down and leaving me destitute has stuck with me. All it could take is…

In all its true, straggly glory.

Yes. I’m assuming you don’t have a lot of mathematical background, apologies if I pitch this badly. T is a function; its value varies according to the value of x, so it is a function in x, which is what T(x) means. A function like this can be drawn as a curve on a graph, and from the question we can infer that the…

Indeed. And what’s more, sometimes we want light and fluffy as an option for entertainment. If you want gritty and dark, there is always the option of news programmes.

Two pairs of jewellers’ needle-nose pliers and some pre-cut rings in a thin drawstring bag...chainmail on the go. Wrap in a piece of canvas to spread on your lap to work on. Not as tiny as the sewing kit, but smaller than most knitting projects. Small squares (15 cm per side) of chainmail make good pan scrubbers.

Beyond the practicality - you never know what’s going to be useful until it is, there’s the entertainment value that could be gained, and the ‘warning from history’ aspect of the celebrity biography entries. If things are going badly, we can cheer ourselves up by laughing at the old ideas about what was newsworthy.

You can have all of wikipedia on a microSD in an old phone with a solar charger sitting in a metal case (Faraday cage to protect from EMP) in your go bag at less than half a pound.

I’ve never seen any of these in the UK. The cheese replacements available here are almost exclusively unmitigated shite. There’s a pea-protein based one (Soya-free Cheezly, I think) which is vaguely palatable, but sadly does not compare well to even the rammiest el cheapo factory Cheddar. I mean, it’s not like I…

I suspect the problem here is the ‘No sugar added’. If the pear halves were swimming in sugar syrup, rather than fruit juice, then you have your chance of the high sugar content poisoning any gribblies that survived the canning process. (Like jam or fruit syrup?) Plus in a survival situation, all normal considerations…

The film, which I still watch at least once a year, took me to the game. The game took me to despair (I could never get it to run properly and I’m terrible at shooty games). Finally I read the book, which was not what I was expecting at all after the film and the game, but still a good book.

As a knitter I’m more curious to see the jumper inside out, to look at the techniques used.

Out here on the perimeter there are no stars

Look on the bright side: think how much money everyone will save by not buying any of these.

Grandma’s curtains...I’m not sure she would approve.

Original series Star Trek uniform!

This is spectacular.