Important tips we might not know.

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Tell us something we might not know that can help us?

32 pages of side splitting laughter and this topped it off nicely. Can't believe nobody mentioned this sooner 😂

Should have added the quote...!

If you don’t want your husband to file for divorce, don’t read out tips you saw on MN!

I must have the second edition. It's on page 138 of mine - course I got the "pop-up" edition with the "colour the entrails by numbers" option.

Apparently the third edition has an extra 3-D "Lungs 'n' Lights" section*, but I wasn't going to shell out for another copy. Not when I've got all of those sled dogs to feed.

*This has both polar bear lungs'n'lights AND human lungs'n'lights so that if any arctic explorer finds some random viscera lying on the ice, they will know whether to feed them to the dogs or bury them with great respect.

Lightweight!

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but this is stealing! Typically from journalists or those who (a few years ago) made a living through print (now online). You are ruining the livelihoods of those who write or publish for a living. The arts/writers are so under attack. Would you hack a lawyer, an accountant, your own job, or that of other professionals?

Those pop up books are a bugger to negotiate when you're wearing thick mittens (I knew gloves would've been easier but , oh no mittens are better 'cos your fingers keep each other warmer ) . Add on trying to wrangle your husky crew , who don't want to be a Polar Bear's Starter ..........

If only there was a handy guide on line , like those Haynes Manuals for Artic Offal rather than an Austin Princess 1975

going incognito works

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There are two other binturong fans on this thread!!!!

Is it a coincidence that the advert on my side bar is advertising travel insurance for a winter trip? Arctic circle here I come!

@CousinKrispy

Just had to loop up binturong, expecting it to be an obscure Japanese cartoon or item of clothing, for example. Didn’t expect to be a cute, cuddly (probably not in real life) animal.

@Robyn847 surely yellow snow is ok for vegetarians just not for vegans?

They look a bit fierce'n'bitey but apparently they smell like popcorn !

I've binturong once or twice

I do NOT recommend this, but my mother used to deliver a stinging slap on the leg whilst ripping off any plasters I had… it is true, I didn’t feel it.

If you hate cleaning the fridge, line the shelves with an old tea towel. Change and wash whenever. I presume it also works in freezer drawers.

Binturongs are Carnivores, but not carnivorous. So you'd be much safer cuddling one than trying to hug a bear. And could probably safely eat its liver - but please don't.

I do that with the veg drawers, @Roxy69 but hadn't considered extending it to the shelves.

Although, doesn't it interfere with visibility?

@Roxy69 - that is sheer genius.. would like to stay & chat longer but got 2 fridge freezers to sort.. :-)

Tin foil behind a radiator also keeps the heat in the room.
Ps. These days radiators are best on internal walls.

In a heatwave, open your loft hatch. Heat rises, so it helps the heat to escape.

I use stackable clear plastic fridge shelves with lids. Bought from amazon recently when i was having a massive housekeeping crisis and I love them.

Before that I would clean a single fridge shelf every day. i have a horror of mouldy food so this worked. I have 2 side shelves; three main fridge shelves and a vegetable pull out trays and cleaning a single shelf or tray a day meant the entire fridgde is cleaned on rotation every 6 days. For me it was a gamechanger.

Have lost track of my name changes cause this thread is so long and I don’t think I can filter by my posts.

anyway they do smell like buttery popcorn really really strongly, it’s weird cause it’s a strong as cat piss but nice. The one at Edinburgh zoo looks like an old brush, in no way fearsome (or moving).

There is definitely a gap in the market for such a guide. One with an anti-snowstorm index.

I agree that the mittens (and even the gloves) make turning the pages (and colouring in) a bit of a nightmare. I usually use a polar bear claw to separate them. I wonder if they've brought a "scratch-and-sniff" one out yet? Might be easier to find the right page as long as you can nasally distinguish between liver, spleen and gall bladder etc.