I forgot about Ted Maul. I remember Peter O’Hanrahanrahanrahanrahan though!
I think he was a reporter for The Day Today and not Brass Eye, I forget.
2 Likes
Well that’s me going down the old batteries rabbit hole. Only just started the Vintage cigarette lighter one after seeing a few YouTube short videos
3 Likes
Can I interest you in collecting uranium glass? 
2 Likes
If there are any cyclists out there with a penchant for collections of stuff, I’d highly recommend my former bike shop colleague’s exquisite collection of derailleurs:
3 Likes
Can we change the thread name to “Stuff we Collect”?
I used to Collect Crested China. The collection started when we were clearing out My Auntys house when she passed away. Started with a Tank with the City of Lincoln Crest. I collected the military stuff until the prices went stupid.
The vintage lighter collection started when I found a few lighters my grandparents used when smoking was acceptable. Not a huge collection yet, but takes up less space than ceramics
Crested China The History of Heraldic Souvenir Ware - Crested China - A Collectors Guide and Price Guide Crested China The History of Heraldic Souvenir Ware - Crested China - A Collectors Guide and Price Guide
If we do, it will immediately veer onto something completely different and even more off the wall!
By the way, I collect rhododendrons…
3 Likes
You’re not putting them in jars of honey are you? 
I heard rhododendrons go very nicely with rhubarb leaves to make a good jam… 
Strange to say, honeybees are not too fond of rhododendrons in my patch, they prefer the flowers of fruit trees which are out at much the same time. Just as well for the bee keeper down the road! Bumble bees are not as fussy but I have never heard of people going after bumble bee honey!
Just for reference, the rhody most famous for psychoactive honey is r. luteum, previously known as azalea ponticum, the common yellow azalea, and it shares with rhododendron ponticum the ability to naturalise in the British Isles. Some others such as r. fortunei will naturalise in very mild gardens but won’t spread.
1 Like
There’s a bloke that has an apiary not far away who i get honey from on the regular when he’s flogging.
He does all sorts (not the 1970s poundland precursor or 1987 Rainbow rip off). Tremendous stuff and better than the stuff in shops that is all fake honey or blended cobblers. You need to check every jar or bottle you pick up in the shops as the label might say marketing guff like ‘pure’, ‘raw’, ‘natural’, even ‘organic’ and other such terms. Then, tucked away in the small print is the give away ‘made from a blend of…’
Put it back on the shelf and buy summat else.
The bloke from the apiary does this other stuff that looks like cream called propolis honey. Brilliant stuff, particularly if you’re feeling a bit tom dick or have a frog in your throat.
You pay a couple of Euro more for his wares but you know exactly where its come from and what’s in it and if he sells you a load of old pony you can pay him and the health inspector a visit!
Have a look and see if you’ve an apiary nearby that sells their output. Well worth a nosey!
We are lucky to have farmer markets at the weekends with loads of different output. One of them sells whopper glass bottles of raw milk. Straight from the udder and in to your bottle. Unreal stuff. The difference compared to supermarket milk is night and day. Well worth trying if you get a chance.
1 Like
I am very wary of raw milk.
2 Likes
Absolutely. Well worth a try though if you get the chance and the farm selling it checks out.
Just the colour alone is totally different. Raw milk is almost beige in colour versus the pure white of supermarket milk. You’d think it was being dyed!
1 Like
As is playing Russian Roulette with a well maintained and lubricated 38 revolver. It’s an exhilarating experience when you hear bzzz of the chamber rotating and stop and then the click when you shoot an empty chamber.
2 Likes
Shell Island (Mochras) is a superb campsite halfway between Harlech and Barmouth, alas it gets too crowded nowadays despite its size. My friends and I found it back in the early 1960s when it was far less developed - just one toillet, two sinks, and a tap every hundred metres or so. There was no shop then, but you could buy raw milk, which was indeed delicious. The trouble was it had no lasting power. Kept in a warm tent it was curdled by the time we came back for an evening meal. We even tried burying it in wet sand, with no success. We gave up on raw milk before we even knew of the health risks!
As an aside, Shell Island is different now: two bars, a restaurant, a cafeteria, a laundry, a supermarket, live music on Saturday evenings in the season - a wonderful place but avoid it in the holiday season!
1 Like
I remember looking at some Rowse honey in the local supermarket and the label reading “Made from a blend of non-EU honeys”. Thought it sounded like a line you’d find in Nigel Farage’s online dating profile…
2 Likes