Some pickling recipes and a source of pickle juice

Barbara Pleasant has published Banish Leg Cramps With Homemade Pickle Juice with recipes for creating three types of pickle juice: Carrot with Ginger, Cucumber with Celery and Mint and Apples with Allspice.

How to compete with Chinese manufacturing

David Heacock with I Run a US Factory. What I Just Saw in China Should Terrify You.

Basically:

• China is looking to the next two decades, not the next quarterly earnings report
• China has built an ecosystem to support manufacturing, they have agglomeration
• China is a competence factory with systems optimised for industrial learning speed
• Everyone in Chinese manufacturing is used to moving quickly
• China's advantage is in industries where speed to iterate matters most
• To compete with Chinese factories look to produce products where you have a competitive advantage, eg. products that are bulky and expensive to ship, or where proximity matters most

 

Gyles Brandreth on the UK's Brexit referendum

Gyles Brandreth hilariously explains the EU referendum on HIGNFY.

Coming home to Australia from the US

@alexandratuohey's Australians can use the toilet without fear again, with bonus house spider.

 

 

BBC's Oat Bars

In Six easy swaps to help you avoid ultra-processed foods the BBC has a simple oat bar recipe. Just use rolled oats, some nuts and dried fruit with honey, peanut butter or mashed bananas to bind them together.