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Last week end I did a workshop with Will Lord. Making Bows and arrows is not as hard and complex as I previously thought, yes there is a bit of science with knowing about different woods especially if making a laminated bow. Making arrows was such a breeze I dont think I will ever buy another...

+1 against yew. a lot of people have a bad reaction with yew I have to be carefull working it and carefully wash my hands after or I end up with a jippy tummy

Around here they call that prime development land. Build a hundred houses per acre then sell them to some suckers who cant get insurance because of the problem with the severe problems with the houses sinking in the swampy ground Seriously though that looks like a lovely place might need a bit...

I've been a member of this forum http://www.biobees.com/forum/index.php for a number of years. People who really care about bees, the honey is just a bonus the health of the bees is number one priority The BBKA have constantly dismissed them as clueless amateurs while the BBKA are happy to take...

I'm not one to take side normally but I'm with toddy on this.

Up untill a few years ago I was a part time festival marshal. the first aid we did for that was mainly campsite type injuries, cuts, burns, falls, it's amazing how many stoned and drunk people trip over guy ropes. crowd crushing as well as dealing with excesses of drink and drugs. and the...

Really lovely work.

You can get transfer sheets that feed through your printer that iron on to cotton fabric. Last lot I got was from Jessops not sure who stocks them now they have gone

Seem to have missed this post first time around. Belated congratulations

One of the funniest "lost in translation" moments was a few years ago we had some friends from San Diego staying, went out for a drink with some other friends of ours during the evening one of our friends couldnt get their lighter to work. Barbara who didn't realise her style of bag was refered...

I left school at 15 to join the RN. Having spent all my young days in the Surrey suburbs with the odd school holiday at Hammersmith with my cousins, the broad array of dialects, accents and new words for things was vast. thrown into the mix was pusser slang (navy talk), half the time in the...

nice week ends work there, are you dry curing the bacon or in brine we did half each and found dry curing ends up more salty than brine cured. isn't it amazing how many bags of bits of pig you get when you arrive to collect it. I wasn't sure what to do with the lungs when we got ours...

I was in a well known DIY shop earlier, The man in front of me had a tin of total wood treatment he asked the checkout person if it was any good for wood worm to which she replied with a completely serious expression "Not really it kills them"

there was a pub/restaurant on the news recently that had bricks thrown through the windows because they had squirrel on the menu, served with a red wine sauce

I think the answer would be it depends how it turns out. I've been making wine for most of my life started by helping my dad when I was old enough to hold the syphon tube steady in the bottom of the bucket, made a few kegs of beer in that time as well from all sorts of things from kits to...

I remember my first attempt at tying on a spade end hook and pulling the hook into my finger when i pulled it all tight, had the choice of going to A+E, cutting it out myself or cutting the end off and pushing the barb the rest of the way through. as it hadnt gone too deep I decided that option...

that looks like an awsome stove. I'm guessing you live on the side of a cliff?

Hi I'm not sure how to seperate the relevent pages from the document so I'll have to send the whole thing which is only 33.3kb if you send me your email I'll get onto it there is lots of other stuff that you may or may not find interesting

when I had an operation on my thumb I used one to cover the plaster cast when I was in the shower

Bushman I still have the plans on my external hard drive I can send you them if you want a copy I also have plans for a treadle band saw well it's more a reciprocating saw using a section of bandsaw blade