Questions Thread

[lcfcsnow]

1 hour ago, NAKC20 said:

Had it for years, got a bottle in a kitchen cupboard as we speak. Tend to have it about 50/50 with hot water just to take the sharpness away

Where do you buy it from?

[NAKC20]

9 hours ago, lcfcsnow said:

Where do you buy it from?

We get it from somebody who makes it himself. Not sure its available from main street shops but i think you can sometimes get it from farmers markets and the like.

[FoyleFox]

12 hours ago, Parafox said:

Has anyone else tried this old time remedy for mild respiratory ailments?

 

Blackberry Vinegar. My wife swears by it and it was handed down by her dad. I poo-pooed it as it didn't seem to work for me but, it seems I could be wrong:

 

Key benefits of blackberry vinegar include:

• Relief from cold and flu symptoms Traditionally used as a home remedy, a tablespoon of blackberry vinegar in hot water can help soothe coughs, colds, and sore throats. The high vitamin C content in blackberries contributes to this immune support.
• Rich in antioxidants Blackberries are packed with antioxidants like polyphenols and anthocyanins, which help protect the body against free radicals and may lower the risk of chronic conditions like heart disease and certain cancers.
• Anti-inflammatory effects The compounds in blackberries have anti-inflammatory properties that can help with intestinal inflammation and soothe conditions like pharyngitis and laryngitis.

Blackberry vinegar has been a staple in our family for decades. Dad still makes it to my Grandads recipe. 

It's absolutely bloody awful stuff. I'm a family outlier there though. Everyone else swears by it. 

And, yes, some of them used to enjoy it on Yorkshire puddings, too. 

Personally, I'll stick to honey and lemon in hot water. 

[The Bear]

I bought a jar of apple cider vinegar a few months ago. That tastes bloody awful too and not touched it since. 

[Suzie the Fox]

On 19/11/2025 at 19:53, Parafox said:

Has anyone else tried this old time remedy for mild respiratory ailments?

 

Blackberry Vinegar. My wife swears by it and it was handed down by her dad. I poo-pooed it as it didn't seem to work for me but, it seems I could be wrong:

 

Key benefits of blackberry vinegar include:

• Relief from cold and flu symptoms Traditionally used as a home remedy, a tablespoon of blackberry vinegar in hot water can help soothe coughs, colds, and sore throats. The high vitamin C content in blackberries contributes to this immune support.
• Rich in antioxidants Blackberries are packed with antioxidants like polyphenols and anthocyanins, which help protect the body against free radicals and may lower the risk of chronic conditions like heart disease and certain cancers.
• Anti-inflammatory effects The compounds in blackberries have anti-inflammatory properties that can help with intestinal inflammation and soothe conditions like pharyngitis and laryngitis.

My  mum makes a batch every year and has it on her pancakes. 

[Parafox]

1 hour ago, Suzie the Fox said:

My  mum makes a batch every year and has it on her pancakes. 

Is it syrupy or more like a cordial?

 

The stuff my wife makes is more cordial-like.

 

I find it bitter and sharp and not very easy to take.

 

Blackberry vinegar I mean, not my wife. 

[Suzie the Fox]

5 minutes ago, Parafox said:

Is it syrupy or more like a cordial?

 

The stuff my wife makes is more cordial-like.

 

I find it bitter and sharp and not very easy to take.

 

Blackberry vinegar I mean, not my wife. 

Its quite thick but runny, hard to compare it to anything really. It is VERY sharp and makes you pull funny face when you taste it, abit like if you suck on a lemon. No idea if its been doing any good (healthwise) but she is 83 and going strong and i dont recall her ever having a cold or flu. She loves going out picking the blackberries and then making the vinegar, keeps her busy. So win win 

[StanSP]

On 19/11/2025 at 18:54, StanSP said:

For anyone remotely interested, we had a trace and access team investigate our issue today - it was a leak on our toilet underneath the cistern. 

 

Because there is casing around the toilet itself, and held against the wall with silicon, it would have been impossible to know without their investigation today that this was the cause. So we wouldn't have seen it or been able to stop it earlier. There would appear to be a rubber washer that perhaps has failed, so the water has had to find somewhere else to go effectively, and that's down under the floor. 

 

Thankfully the guy reckons it's not a big leak, and that it is relatively easy to fix. The only issue being that the rubber washers used on the toilets in these new builds aren't universally used, so may be difficult to find 🙄. 

 

Relieved to know where it's coming from now, and just hoping we can get insurers to cover the costs of that repair and damage to wall/flooring... 

The next update... 

 

Insurance company are going to rectify all damage and carry out all repairs

 

Could be approx cost of £3.5k which I'm very grateful we don't have to pay for! Only thing we have paid for is repairing the leak on the toilet which appears to have stopped all other consequent leaks and water coming up on tiles. 

 

 

[Raj]

Want to take the lad to see the Naseem Hamed film Giant.

Its a 15 but the lads only 12- Is it worth risking it, what are cinema staff like with this sort of thing?

It will be Vue at Meridian(as its cheapest!)

[bovril]

Anybody on here au fait with the new UK immigration/passport rules for dual nationals?

 

My daughter is obviously automatically eligible for British citizenship as my kid, but doesn't have a UK passport as she lives abroad and we thought she could for now just come back for her six months as an EU citizen. However now I'm reading that from 26/02 British 'dual nationals' must present a UK passport at the border. On the gov website on 'check if you are a British national' obviously children of Brits are listed as automatically Brit citizens. 

 

This all seems a little absurd to me especially as she's a baby and if she flies with her Mum only who tf is going to know she's a UK citizen anyway?!

 

I realise it's probably better to email embassies etc but I thought with our wealth of foxes fans in other countries there might be someone who has recent experience or who has also been researching it. I know for example there are lots of Aussies who are technically Brit citizens through parentage but don't have the passport, and are now wondering whether they need to get one to travel to the UK post 26/02.

 

Of course none of this mattered til Jan 2021, but hey ho....

 

 

[FoxesDeb]

5 hours ago, bovril said:

Anybody on here au fait with the new UK immigration/passport rules for dual nationals?

 

My daughter is obviously automatically eligible for British citizenship as my kid, but doesn't have a UK passport as she lives abroad and we thought she could for now just come back for her six months as an EU citizen. However now I'm reading that from 26/02 British 'dual nationals' must present a UK passport at the border. On the gov website on 'check if you are a British national' obviously children of Brits are listed as automatically Brit citizens. 

 

This all seems a little absurd to me especially as she's a baby and if she flies with her Mum only who tf is going to know she's a UK citizen anyway?!

 

I realise it's probably better to email embassies etc but I thought with our wealth of foxes fans in other countries there might be someone who has recent experience or who has also been researching it. I know for example there are lots of Aussies who are technically Brit citizens through parentage but don't have the passport, and are now wondering whether they need to get one to travel to the UK post 26/02.

 

Of course none of this mattered til Jan 2021, but hey ho....

 

 

From what I've read about this your daughter will need a British passport, yes. Everyone will need either an ETA or a British passport if they don't need a visa, and as a British citizen she can't get an ETA so will need the passport, or some certificate which I think costs much more than the passport. 

[bovril]

7 hours ago, FoxesDeb said:

From what I've read about this your daughter will need a British passport, yes. Everyone will need either an ETA or a British passport if they don't need a visa, and as a British citizen she can't get an ETA so will need the passport, or some certificate which I think costs much more than the passport. 

Thanks, that's how I understood it. Pain in the arse.

[StanSP]

8 minutes ago, bovril said:

Thanks, that's how I understood it. Pain in the arse.

Wow, she was only trying to help! 

 

 

 

 

 

[bovril]

17 hours ago, FoxesDeb said:

From what I've read about this your daughter will need a British passport, yes. Everyone will need either an ETA or a British passport if they don't need a visa, and as a British citizen she can't get an ETA so will need the passport, or some certificate which I think costs much more than the passport. 

The more I think of this the sillier it is. Let's say an Aussie (Bruce), 50 years old, lived in Oz all his life and with an Oz passport, wants to come to London for a week. His Dad, long since deceased, was born in Manchester, so Bruce is technically a dual Oz/British citizen but didn't need a pommie passport. Are you saying he now needs one to enter? For a start, how are border forces going to know he's a British citizen when he walks up to the kiosk? I don't really see how this is practical or feasible. 

[FoxesDeb]

25 minutes ago, bovril said:

The more I think of this the sillier it is. Let's say an Aussie (Bruce), 50 years old, lived in Oz all his life and with an Oz passport, wants to come to London for a week. His Dad, long since deceased, was born in Manchester, so Bruce is technically a dual Oz/British citizen but didn't need a pommie passport. Are you saying he now needs one to enter? For a start, how are border forces going to know he's a British citizen when he walks up to the kiosk? I don't really see how this is practical or feasible. 

It's not me saying it, it's the UK government. 

 

Bruce won't be able to apply for an ETA because he can't tick the box that says he isn't a British citizen or however that works, so therefore he has to have the passport.

 

How would they know he is a UK citizen? I have no idea, I guess he could just lie on the ETA application and hope they have no way of knowing.

 

https://www.independent.co.uk/travel/news-and-advice/uk-dual-national-passport-rules-living-abroad-2026-b2901039.html

[Vowels]

What is your favourite vowel and why?

 

Guaranteed like for anyone who quotes me and says u/you.

[bovril]

1 hour ago, FoxesDeb said:

It's not me saying it, it's the UK government. 

 

Bruce won't be able to apply for an ETA because he can't tick the box that says he isn't a British citizen or however that works, so therefore he has to have the passport.

 

How would they know he is a UK citizen? I have no idea, I guess he could just lie on the ETA application and hope they have no way of knowing.

 

https://www.independent.co.uk/travel/news-and-advice/uk-dual-national-passport-rules-living-abroad-2026-b2901039.html

Sure I wasn't saying you're silly, but our wonderful government. It's such a ****ing pain in the arse. I thought my daughter qualified for British citizenship through descent, not that she was automatically one. 

 

Thanks for the link. This part interests me which I assume is for dual nationals:

The Home Office confirms: “If you have a valid passport for a nationality that can get an ETA, you can use it to travel to the UK without an ETA or a certificate of entitlement.”

 

But if you don't have a UK passport or certificate of entitlement how do you prove you're a UK citizen  Jesus...

 

Having said all that I understand this won't be enforced before Feb 25th...

 

Edited 26 January by bovril

[bovril]

It's also a bit messy because there are probably tens of thousands of EU citizens that were settled in the UK and had kids and then left, and those kids are technically British citizens and now need a UK passport to come for a weekend in Liverpool...

[Stadt]

Anybody set up their own IPTV or whatever via a firestick? Don’t want to go down the route of a mate-of-a-mate type thing 
 

 

 

 

 

[DJW1]

On 25/01/2026 at 20:36, bovril said:

Anybody on here au fait with the new UK immigration/passport rules for dual nationals?

 

My daughter is obviously automatically eligible for British citizenship as my kid, but doesn't have a UK passport as she lives abroad and we thought she could for now just come back for her six months as an EU citizen. However now I'm reading that from 26/02 British 'dual nationals' must present a UK passport at the border. On the gov website on 'check if you are a British national' obviously children of Brits are listed as automatically Brit citizens. 

 

This all seems a little absurd to me especially as she's a baby and if she flies with her Mum only who tf is going to know she's a UK citizen anyway?!

 

I realise it's probably better to email embassies etc but I thought with our wealth of foxes fans in other countries there might be someone who has recent experience or who has also been researching it. I know for example there are lots of Aussies who are technically Brit citizens through parentage but don't have the passport, and are now wondering whether they need to get one to travel to the UK post 26/02.

 

Of course none of this mattered til Jan 2021, but hey ho....

 

 

I assume your daughter has dual nationality (you didn´t state it explicitly).  If she does, then  it seems she needs a UK passport to enter the UK. If she doesn´t then it seems she needs an EU (Bulgarian?) or UK passport. Is that correct?

I recently applied for a new UK passport from Spain. It was easy and quick, but expensive. I don´t know the situation for children.

I have a friend who lives in Sweden, as a dual national. He doesn´t have a UK passport any more and so can´t enter the UK. He has a Swedish passport but he can´t enter the UK with that (whereas 9 million passport-holding Swedes can!)

There are some "ex pat" web pages that discuss these matters

Good luck!

[bovril]

1 hour ago, DJW1 said:

I assume your daughter has dual nationality (you didn´t state it explicitly).  If she does, then  it seems she needs a UK passport to enter the UK. If she doesn´t then it seems she needs an EU (Bulgarian?) or UK passport. Is that correct?

I recently applied for a new UK passport from Spain. It was easy and quick, but expensive. I don´t know the situation for children.

I have a friend who lives in Sweden, as a dual national. He doesn´t have a UK passport any more and so can´t enter the UK. He has a Swedish passport but he can´t enter the UK with that (whereas 9 million passport-holding Swedes can!)

There are some "ex pat" web pages that discuss these matters

Good luck!

Thanks for the reply.

 

We perhaps naively thought she wasn't a British national yet because she didn't have the documentation. But it seems reading the official websites she's counted as a UK citizen not only through me but also her mum who had settled status when she was born.

 

The important thing from what I've read is that this will not be totally enforced until February 25th and the government are advising dual nationals who don't have UK passports to continue to use their other passport to enter until then. 

[DJW1]

I have a UK passport and the Spanish ID card for foreign residents.

Perhaps It is a good job I haven't taken dual nationality. I can only vote in local elections, not national ones, but I can live with that.

[bovril]

Does anyone use a 4G router as their main internet? I need to potentially work remotely from my family home for a bit but the internet is crap, and apparently can't be improved because of our area. 

 

Just wondering really how it works, how reliable it is, and what are the best providers. 

[danny.]

8 minutes ago, bovril said:

Does anyone use a 4G router as their main internet? I need to potentially work remotely from my family home for a bit but the internet is crap, and apparently can't be improved because of our area. 

 

Just wondering really how it works, how reliable it is, and what are the best providers. 

I used one for a while as a backup if my cable connection went down. It was fine for that - got around 150mb down and about 50mb up. Didn't use it for gaming so can't speak for the latency but it was perfect for office and media use cases.

In terms of how it works:
- It acts as a modem/router/wifi access point with usually a couple of antennas that picks up the signal from a nearby cell mast.
- It also emits a WiFi signal for your local devices, so you have a LAN just like any other modem/router would create plug a connection to the internet.
- You will have the same issues as per any other ISP router that provides wifi, ie if your house is large or you have thick walls the signal will degrade, if you don't normally have issues with that you might be fine.
- You can still add mesh networking or whatever else you normally use (I had a UniFi setup with mind and a few access points with the Three 4G router as a backup internet connection).

How good the signal will be depends on how good your career signal is where you live, although you will usually get a better signal than a phone or tablet as the antennas provide some gain to the signal.

Also consider 5G these days as there is good coverage and it's potentially MUCH faster than 4G. Go on the websites for Three, o2, voda etc and look at their coverage maps, and then choose from that + whatever value their packages are in terms of price.

Edited 10 February by danny.

[bovril]

7 minutes ago, danny. said:

I used one for a while as a backup if my cable connection went down. It was fine for that - got around 150mb down and about 50mb up. Didn't use it for gaming so can't speak for the latency but it was perfect for office and media use cases.

In terms of how it works:
- It acts as a modem/router/wifi access point with usually a couple of antennas that picks up the signal from a nearby cell mast.
- It also emits a WiFi signal for your local devices, so you have a LAN just like any other modem/router would create plug a connection to the internet.
- You will have the same issues as per any other ISP router that provides wifi, ie if your house is large or you have thick walls the signal will degrade, if you don't normally have issues with that you might be fine.
- You can still add mesh networking or whatever else you normally use (I had a UniFi setup with mind and a few access points with the Three 4G router as a backup internet connection).

How good the signal will be depends on how good your career signal is where you live, although you will usually get a better signal than a phone or tablet as the antennas provide some gain to the signal.

Also consider 5G these days as there is good coverage and it's potentially MUCH faster than 4G. Go on the websites for Three, o2, voda etc and look at their coverage maps, and then choose from that + whatever value their packages are in terms of price.

Thanks so much