I suppose ginger snaps is just another name for ginger nuts.

`I've always like ginger nuts; the biscuits and the people’.

United Biscuits factory in Carlisle had flood problems so they air-lifted biscuits into Doncaster airport…and presumably others. They said water biscuits were most hard to find but others were affected too. I don't know how Britain can function properly without enough biscuits.

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Sounds like a pain. Don't do it. One problem with email anyway, is that they sometimes go on an slow international holiday before arriving where they're meant to be.

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And there was me thinking butchers did things the proper way. Now I know better.

That's all the reason you need.

@height8 Email posting is such a powerful thing. It means you can post from a machine that doesn't have a suitable browser or post without having to log in to the site. Pretty much every device ever made has email.

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Making your own pork pie? Are the butchers' ones not good enough in some way?

Hooray for dodging call centres.

I wonder how many days downtime in a year would nullify the efficiency gains.

Would be nice to try something like this with my iBook. But all the firewire CF readers seem to be fat things with wires, unlike the USB reader I have which is more of a dongle and therefore niftier…especially for using the iBook on one's lap.