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So the ones in the 30s are neither too young to care nor don't give a sh1t because they'll be dead anyway!

With a largely vegetarian diet, of course, there can be a danger of deficiencies in vitamins A and B12, iron, calcium, and fat, So all the vegans are going to suffer post-FF, eh? Goodchild is making a nonsensical statement in an otherwise well-informed article. From that list, only B12 is a concern...

If you keep some dried chickpeas, green lentils, mung beans these can be soaked and sprouted to give alkaline protein which will complement the protein found in grains. I reckon I could live off rice, tahini (sesame seeds) and sprouted pulses if I had to.

I used to have a hobby of brewing beer when I was a teenager, it certainly produced better results than the wine. Though I made some good elderberry once, good for a cold. You can make wine out of as many things as you can make ice-cream (apart from, perhaps, bacon-and-eggs), but you'd need some gra...

Thanks Bill, and for the tip on coating with vaseline. In fact I was asking this exact same question on another forum and nobody came up with this suggestion, 10 years was cited as being the maximum shelf life, with inner tubes a lot less. I don't think there's any good solution to avoiding puncture...

Hi, I got myself one of these about a year ago, you buy various bits for about ?400 which installs a frame onto the rear of eg an old steel-framed mountain bike, moves the back wheel back a foot and will carry up to 90kg in weight. It has 2 versatile side pockets which will take a bag of sand each a...