I'm fully aware of how the system works, thank you very much for explaining at me. I'm saying the ruling itself is arse backwards and jumps to a lot of baseless and genuinely misogynistic conclusions. It is difficult to read it as an objective clarification on anything, let alone a positive one.

In which case the ruling, even if one was to accept it as a valid interpretation, let alone its effect on people involved, is arse backwards and has the potential to cause significant harm in the short term.

I also in the same position when it comes to magic but I love making little rituals in every day life, to the point where the simple act of lighting a particular scented candle can elicit a response before I do anything. Just stuff like lighting a candle and having some time to relax and make some nice tea, the blend or type of tea might not have any direct effect on my mood but having reinforced my brain that particular ones are for relaxing or ones for when I'm stressed out, it makes it kind of possible to have the effects i want by blending them like a little potion!

I don't really have an ongoing single project but I do have an ongoing "project" to learn leathercrafting, hopefully one day to be able to have a little sidehustle in making some relatively niche and bespoke things. I've been taking things slow for once rather than rushing headlong into it, not buying too much stuff and getting overwhelmed, practicing things over and over and I'm really loving it.

I've been posting my journey so far in the Leather Craft community with pictures and stories of all the stuff I've made so far.

My latest items that I made just yesterday, a cuff and a small clutch to use the new hardware closures I bought.

Pretty much, yeah. Soak the top one and stretch, smoosh and massage it to the object with a bone folder (I didn't have a bone folder yet so I just used some relatively not-too-sharp items I had laying around) then clamp it in place so it can't change shape and when it dries it will hold that shape. I kind of but didn't precisely follow this - https://mazeleather.com/4-ways-to-wet-mold-leather/.

Because the community is called "Buy European"?

I originally tried to use Inkscape to make a simple pattern but I found it frustrating to make anything of accurate size. I then decided to have a go with LibreCAD instead and found it far more intuitive to make things accurately. It can ouput to svg, pdf and png as well as using dxf natively. I plan to get a cheap little cnc router to just send a pattern and get something cut out of wood or acrylic.

I've been curating a list of UK resources for my own use:

https://stormleather.com/ - Leather
https://identityleathercraft.com/ - Leather, supplies, events, workshops
https://www.jwoodleathers.co.uk/ - Leather
https://www.leathermerchantsussex.co.uk/ - Leather
https://www.jhleather.co.uk/ - Workshops, tutorials
https://www.ebay.co.uk/str/littlebearco - Supplies
https://www.hedgehogleather.co.uk/ - Leather, supplies
https://leather4craft.co.uk/ - Leather, supplies, workshops
https://www.georgebarnsleyandsons.co.uk/ - Toolmaker
https://armitageleather.com/ - Workshops, info

I don't think that it answers the DRM requirement but BritBox is a British service for British tv programmes and films owned by the BBC and ITV. Internationally it serves the US, Canada, Aus, SA and the continental Nordics.

Seppo is pretty common in the UK too, particularly in families with people in the forces.

And as we know, fish is a useless term

I was able to use covid as an excuse as there was a chance I was going to go back to work in the labs and the advice to workers was to be clean shaven if possible. I don't miss it one bit and after the first time I met somebody I knew they never commented on it again.