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Graham. Got mine yesterday morning. Thanks for organising it - really appreciate your efforts. Cheers, David.

PM & money sent, thank you.

Graham. I'm in for 5 too please. Cheers, David.

Tadpole. You're a man after my own heart. My Trangia highlights include a very French globe artichoke starter followed by a moules mariniere main, with several bottles of champagne whilst camping near Epernay. Also had a memorable ratatoulli with pasta to accompany foil-baked bass and black...

I always fill my burner up to the top, wait for the wick to absorb some, then repeat until the level stops going down significantly. When the burner's full it's easy to light, and you know you'll have enough fuel for whatever you're doing. Having said that I do keep the excess fuel in the burner...

Thanks Ady. That's a useful link. Cheers, David.

Steve. Well done for getting round it. As you say, it's not a problem if you put it over a ridge line, only when hanging it. I had one sent back by a customer a month or two back and checked the rest of my stock. All the rest were the same so it seemed to be just one particular batch. I sent...

This has interested me for some time and I've been thinking about applying for a trapping licence but this is much simpler. I'm really going to try this out when it gets a bit warmer.

Just for a bit of further info you've also got the NATO sizes which work in the same way as the above but relate to a size range rather than a specific size. I've got a S95 jacket here which is a 180/104. So far so good. It's NATO size is 7080/9505, though, which looks baffling until you look...

When you first put some in it gets absorbed and the level will drop. I just keep adding fuel until the level stops dropping so you know the reservoir is full. With the fuel level 1/4 inch or so from the top it will easily burn for long enough to boil your water. You should then have plenty of...

My suppliers, the importers, told me that the material costs had gone up a lot meaning that CC's prices had gone up and were now too much for them. Reading between the lines a little it seemed that there had been a bit of a falling out between the importers and CC - that is only my impression so...

BM. Yup you've pretty much got it right. Thatchreed is the 'parent' company and as far as I'm aware uses those other 'brands' as it's various ranges. I have a feeling Jack Pyke used to be a separate entity but I'm not sure it is still - may be wrong about that though. And yes you're spot-on...

I sell both the Tracpac and the Webtex bashas so I'll try and defend them! They are both cheap and cheerful but they should be perfectly serviceable and shouldn't leak or come apart - complain to your supplier if they do. In my opinion they provide (particularly the Tracpac one) a useful...

Well done, Pignut. Good work. :You_Rock_

Well not quite but I had my first fire from a bowdrill coal last weekend and how satisfying was that. As everyone says it's difficult getting the stupid grin off your face! For anyone that's struggling here are a few observations and things that I found helpful. I had oak, elder and big bits...

Wayland. Really great site you've designed there. Having done a few simple sites myself I can fully appreciate the thought and effort that has gone into it. Good Job. :You_Rock_ Looking at a few random pages I noticed you've got a little discrepancy on your fire one...

Lyndon. To answer one of your earlier questions - You can't keep signal crayfish without a license, but there are lots of places that can. If you have a look at the defra website page (http://www.defra.gov.uk/fish/freshwater/crayfish.htm) there is a link to a pdf...

Thanks Scytale. I just nearly fell off my chair. :You_Rock_

I can thoroughly recommend blackberry vodka. You'll have to wait for July/August though. Last time I made some I had 1.8Kg blackberries (frozen - to get more of the juice out), 2.5 litres vodka and 450g sugar. All put into a gallon winemaking demijohn on the 15th August. By November it was...

It's certainly a bit of a tricky one. If it's only got one set of prominent wings it's going to belong to the Flies and Wasps etc I think. 2 pairs and it can be a Moth which as someone else has said is what my gut feeling is as well. Wings look clear because all the scales have been rubbed...