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andyBeaker

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I thought a punnet had a measurement, you never get a massive pint of milk!
You were wrong.

A punnet is a small box or square basket for the gathering, transport and sale of fruit and vegetables, typically for small berries susceptible to bruising, spoiling and squashing that are therefore best kept in small rigid containers. Punnets serve also as a rough measure for a quantity of irregular sized fruits.

I made that up all by myself.
 

DEG5Y

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You were wrong.

A punnet is a small box or square basket for the gathering, transport and sale of fruit and vegetables, typically for small berries susceptible to bruising, spoiling and squashing that are therefore best kept in small rigid containers. Punnets serve also as a rough measure for a quantity of irregular sized fruits.

I made that up all by myself.
Not quite so sure!

The word is largely confined to Commonwealth countries (but not Canada) and is of uncertain origin, but is thought to be a diminutive of "pun", a British dialect word for pound, from the days in which such containers were used as a unit of measurement. The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, parenthetically in its entry for geneticist R. C. Punnett (1875–1967), credits "a strawberry growing ancestor [who] devised the wooden basket known as a 'punnet'"
 

sr71caspar

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She positively encourages it.

Seaford is pretty wild you know.

There's a new motorcycle clothing store opening at Hastings, near you, at Route 1066 cafe tomorrow. You should go. Talk motorbikes with people. Get out and socialise.
 

andyBeaker

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There's a new motorcycle clothing store opening at Hastings, near you, at Route 1066 cafe tomorrow. You should go. Talk motorbikes with people. Get out and socialise.
I would,rather stick red hot needles covered in slime in my eyeballs.
 

Dangerous Brian

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I got to use my new brake vacuum bleeder.......
So now I have purchased a new front brake master cylinder rebuild kit because its knackered :(
 

slim63

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A Trangia 25 cook set.

Great things, had mine years & they work well, one bit of advice though boil some water in the pans a couple of times & tip it away before you cook in it otherwise you will get a faint taste to your food
 

DanBow

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Great things, had mine years & they work well, one bit of advice though boil some water in the pans a couple of times & tip it away before you cook in it otherwise you will get a faint taste to your food

Do that every time?
 
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