Recent content by Barghest

Sorry for the double post, but this thread came to mind this morning as I was cooking breakfast. We had poached eggs and French toast (a.k.a eggy bread) with sautéed sorrel, another one of Britain's wild edibles. Wood-sorrel was mentioned in an earlier post but true sorrel is actually a...

I think the three Hobbit films are dreadful, very unfaithful to the book and misinterpret many things from it. The Lord of The Rings films were much better and mostly faithful. The Battle of Five Armies is indeed in the book, it's near the very end where the Dwarves are besieged by the Woodland...

Burdock (Arctium lappa and Arctium minor, for the greater and lesser burdocks respectively) was mentioned earlier in the thread in reference to Dandelion and Burdock (a thoroughly good use of Burdock) but it can also be eaten. Burdock is a biennial plant, in the first year it grows mostly leaves...

Have you considered using database replication? It's a built-in technology for most databases. There would be the cost of running a second database server but if it's only cloning the primary database it shouldn't be that expensive. In the event of a failure in the primary database server it...

Don't knock spider plants, I've still got some. The original died years ago but only after having a thousand small plantlets potted up. Their multitudinous descendants are all across the neighbourhood! "Sad Girl with Collie" print - my Nan had one of those on her wall right up to her death. My...