Recent content by al21

Very nice! Good to see a nice mix of interests out in the woods. Frankly, your interests pretty much mirror my own. I shoot with the Poor's Estate Archers and train H.E.M.A. with the York Free Fencers Guild. I think I'm right in saying that you are also a member of the Dinghy Cruising...

Now then folks! I wonder if someone here might be able to help. I have an old hand crank Singer which I would like to get working again. The serial number is 10317744 which I believe give a year of manufacture of 1891, but that's about all I know. There seems to be some knowledgeable folks...

********! I only looked at the month. Never mind.

Geezer, I'd say welcome back, but hardly posted anything myself for ages. Hlad to hear you feel like doing stuff again! I planned to call you sometime ad I fancy heading your way for a paddle and dust off my fly rod too, if that would appeal to you. I recently received some interesting tea...

A warm day for a black pooch, looks like fun though. Al

Hi Ian, glad to see you posting again, I guess you're feeling better I certainly hope so. I was interested in the original set-up, but in all honesty I'm too far from the site to help run it and unlikely to get over enough to justify taking a place from someone with fewer commitments. Best of...

I keep on remembering stuff, a shepherds crown is a fossilised sea urchin and carried to ward off lightning. Al

While I'm on, and before the yan, tan tetherers start. Sheep counting is done in pairs and goes oneerum, twoerum, cockerum, shuerum, ****herum, shatherum, wineberry, wagtail, tarrydiddle, den. Which gets you to twenty and is all I can remember. Al

Curious Mary, in the Sussex dialect, rarely if ever heard now a dunny or dunnackin is a privy. Also, a tunnel leading water under a road is a bunny, a lady bird is a bishop barnaby, a pied wagtail is dolly dishwasher, a small sickle a swap 'ook and a large one with a cranked handle used with a...

Twenty odd years a go the good lady and I went to Florida on holiday, with the intention of driving around and camping where we could. Our stove was our trusty Trangia. Clearly we were unable to take any methylated spirit on the plane, but didn't anticpate the difficulty in finding fuel for...

A place for everything and everything in its place, as the saying goes. Pretty much what others have said really. It doesn't matter how much kit you have though, if you don't know which pocket/pouch etc you keep it in you'll end up scattering stuff everywhere to find the object of your desire...

Hi Keith, You might find this of interest: http://www.vivierboats.com/html/stock_sail_and_oar.html#ilur particularly as you are in France. A more advanced build perhaps, but also available as a kit. To the OP, at this time of year you could probably go to any sailing club in the land and...

I'm glad to hear Vango's customer service is as good today as it was years ago!

Very pleasently surprised to find myself an eight. Woo hoo! Natural cordage next then. Al

Ged, deleting cookies was one of the first thing I tried, and sadly, hasn't improved things for me. Good to see you're a Debian user too, as this was something that crossed my mind as being a possible cause for my problem. It still could be the problem as I have the disks next to me to...