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I'm surprised they've left it to grow and flower. It's an invasive weed.....I think it's technically an Invasive Alien Species.

Mine did. A wee present, and looked so totally miffed to be told to take that out ! She did it, but she wasn't pleased about it. I think she brought it in to play with :rolleyes:

They are so very simple to make, and you can use other materials too. Dock stems....which are sort of waxy and don't taint if you use them for fish....Iris, reedmace, etc., Useful things too :)

I made this thread years ago, but I tidied up the willows in the garden last week and I'm looking at the snash and wondering what to do with it. I minded this thread, but, y'know, useful though they might be, I thought surely there's something else....and I was on Pinterest looking for something...

If you type, Sinew, dog chew into google, then up will come everything from beef https://www.bettyandbutch.co.uk/products/beef-sinew-dog-chew?variant=40212219658334 to ostrich :) Some of the sites are a tad pretentious and vastly overpriced, but you can buy sinew quite easily at reasonable...

Truly sorry to hear this; I too thought you were in the midst of total immersion in the Iron Age. You had been so looking forward to it all. How did you get home though ? surely you didn't drive with a stookie on ? and how long are you going to be so encumbered ? is there any chance to save the...

To us an anorak needs a hood. It's an Inuit jacket kind of thing. My Canadian great Aunt sent them over to us when we were children. Parka came from the same kind of folks but in Russia.

You know all those wonderful herbs that are just coming out again ? You can make really tasty, and beautiful, foccacia using those.... :)

My guts no longer tolerate gluten :sigh: It's one of life's great sadnesses, because good bread is a pleasure, it really is, and gluten free bread is dire. Good on you making your own bread, it looks lovely, it sounds brilliant and I'm sure it's going to be so tasty. Good bread, bit of...

A smock is a working garment. It can be a very fancy working garment showing the skill of the wife who made it, or it can be a very practical hard wearing piece of kit.....thus the army....but it's a working garment. Smocking is the gathering that makes loose fabric fit to shoulders and bodice...

Think of Damsons as plums though, and plum sauce is pretty good :)....even with ransoms :)

11.5 oz..... if that's American, then it's just a normal sized bottle of soy sauce. Ours works out at 250ml is pretty close to 8 fluid ounces.

Some warm food inside you, and run about a bit, or do some really thorough stretching exercises before you go to bed. I find that if I'm warmed up before I get into my sleeping bag, then I can sleep. It doesn't work for me to get into it cold and hope I'll warm up. I find the hot water bottle...

I make small tinder bundles. The cordage I use to tie them, and the birch bark that I use to enfold the bundle, all fluffs up well with the edge of my knife. That fluff is prefect spark catch. That said, I do like amadou as a spark catch. It'll even take the spark from flint and steel and let it...

Those ferrocerium rods are reactive too....they 'rust' and rot if they're kept damp. So, wrapping them in tinder...in our climate ? I don't think that's a good idea.