Recent content by Laurentius

Not been stopped since I was a young man some forty odd years ago when I would walk home from the pub with a legal knife in my pocket, even then that was considered acceptable and I was left to go my way in peace.

I have started to treat the Black Belt barrister with the same circumspection I treat any other youtube "expert". I suspect he has an alternate agenda. I have not changed anything that I do on account of his dire ramblings.

Actually it still prohibits a number of items that are legal to own, make and trade including antiques and blunt fencing blades.

Seems to be getting worse, they clearly don't teach them young enough. Round here trees get broken in half almost as soon as they are planted. I hate to suggest regulation as an answer but if you needed some sort of "bushcraft" license to enter various woodlands, like you do a fishing licence it...

When I looked for repairs on the victorinox site, the store finder sent me to 163 Parker Street Leicester, which would appear not to be the same address as the one given earlier in this thread so which one is it?

There seems to be conflicting information on the web. I bent the corkscrew on my huntsman and looked online then checked google maps, which showed something other than the company at the location given on the Victorinox site. That regardless, with all that kerfuffle over posting blades is it ok...

Wild swimming by definition is any swimming in places other than a pool, lido or designated bathing area. Some swimming is wilder than others, particularly if you have to climb half way up a mountain to do it.

I will have to go wild paddling in my local river as it isn't deep enough to swim in, notwithstanding the Council have decided in their wisdom to post no swimming notices when there is clearly not enough water to even get your ankles wet in high summer. Dirty rivers are not a new thing however I...

My SAK once drawn cannot be folded without raising a glass of schnapps to Felix Immler.

It is all about perceptions again, Hunting = brutish and bad, Survival = fighting zombies and is double plus ungood, Machetes = Mexican drug cartels, Billhooks = morris dancing and quaint country pursuits. If somebody makes a movie called "Swiss army ninja assasin" we will be well and truly stuffed.

Boiled linseed oil for me too.

Local Council have just started charging for taking garden refuse. Can't say I blame them, they can barely afford to keep the street lights on the way things are going. I do wonder why some of the folk who complain have not discovered composting yet.

This is true, it uses a lot of water in the production. The problem really is not the production but the population, we use too much water. I do think that products that you grow are better than products that come from oil and coal though, they may not be perfect but they have a better...

I have not bought a new pair of boots in a very long time, I just hunt around the charity shops and if necessary get them resoled.

Plastic is insidious, it gets everywhere. It might be the buttons on your wool coat, the lenses of your spectacles, the washer on the top of your steel bottle. I guess when it comes to groundsheets and sleeping mats I give in. You could have the old rubberized mackintosh groundsheet, and a straw...