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https://www.archaeology.org/news/11913-231127-canada-ice-artifacts Artifacts between 2,000 and 7,000 years old. Organic artefacts in good condition.....bark pots, baskets, shoes. Such wonderful evidences :) M

Sodden wet afternoon, I'm sitting at peace with the world, wish the world was all at peace, and I have a cup of tea, a wee bit of stilton and an apple. Happiness is often simple things, I find. Crisp cold night last night, and a huge just on the wane moon in the sky. Working to repair the...

I'm clearing bookcases, and there are four books in this bundle. They are not pristine, they're all very sound though. The Ray Mears one was used at a week long workshop and is a little grubby looking but it's used, well read, not manky, if I make myself clear ? No missing pages, no other...

Fifteen years or so ago (yes, it really has been that long, and we've been blethering for that long on the forum) I mentioned that Himself made tablet, and some was duly sent to folks. It's awfully good :) even if it is an enormous sugar rush. Commercial tablet is hard and sugared out, it needs...

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-highlands-islands-67524231 Too many numpties :sigh: The damage though is not acceptable, not reasonable. Why do they have to despoil that which they supposedly come to enjoy ?

The lads 'went camping' in Eryri, Snowdonia, and had been missing since Sunday. The Police have found their bodies in a car that was partially submerged. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/uk-wales-67484258 It could have been any of our youngsters out there. We did it ourselves, went off with...

Today has been wet. It has been very wet, even for us it's wet. It's supposed to be more of the same for the next few days, but Sean Batty, the STV weatherman, says we're maybe in for a dry clear cold spell by the end of next week.....first snow perhaps too. First snow of the season could be on...

Just been sent a link to this. Sounds like fun :) https://www.kendalmountainfestival.com

I bought two this Summer, and both are far too limited. Fine if all you want are moths and butterflies, but I want insects like beetles, from bright green or red to black and snozzle faced, and wee flies, and grubs and larvae and pupae. Bees would be brilliant too, woodwasps, etc., and the...

There's a report on the BBC this morning about the finds from a Spanish cave. The dates of the artefacts have been reassessed and it's now believed that the grass sandals are c9,000 years old. The coiled grass is just as we still do it now. I make baskets and mats like this. You don't need to...

Over 400,000 years ago someone used stone tools to cut timbers to make them fit together. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-66846772 Wood so rarely survives in the archaeological record, yet it is, with bone, among the most useful, the most widely used materials of construction...

The trees are changing colour, the leaves have started to fall, but I still haven't smelled 'Autumn' in the air yet. It'll come but not quite yet. It's definitely time though; the spiders are trying to come indoors. I've found and thrown out seven so far today, and it's not as though I'd gone...

Last time I bought meths all I could get was Bartoline stuff and while it's 'meths' it's sputtery stuff some how. Playing around with one of the pop can stove @Shewie made he a while back and it's not burning clean. The wee stove is clean, I'm sure it's the fuel. It came out of the original...

@Mesquite's post about survival rations inspired by History brought this to mind again. Bannocks. To me a bannock is just a bready/cakey thing cooked on the girdle. It's a thick flat bread. It can be sweet or savoury, but tbh I've never tried drying it out like a rusk to make a survival ration...

My Rowan tree, and the others in the street, are dripping with fruit this year. So much beautiful fruit. I leave most of them for the birds, but I pick a couple of kgs and usually just make Rowan jelly with it. Really Rowan jelly is rowan and apple jelly.....and the apple trees too have so much...

Rushes are the wet ground weeds. They self seed themselves in my flower beds having escaped from around the pond. Thing is though, they're unharmful and very useful so I always leave some to grow. I generally use mine to make baskets, but they make decent cordage for weaving not just kishies...

https://www.legacy.com/ca/obituaries/princegeorgecitizen/name/brian-thair-obituary?id=52462519 Brian William Thair, PhD, 77, passed away at Prince George Hospice House on June 23, 2023. I wondered why Brian hadn't posted or been on the forum. I missed his posts. I knew he hadn't kept well...

I'm going to bed early so that I'm up early and enjoying being able to get stuff done in the cool before the Sun blazes through. So, out in the garden by five, and it's lovely :D It's cool, it's light, it's calm, the birds are chirping, the garden is full of wildlife, and then the midges...

It's a scorcher of a day here in S. Lanarkshire. We're baking in sunshine. The air is full of willow seeds. Himself says the river is white with them, I know that every spider web in the garden looks like a bit of paper hankie just now. Heaven help us if even one in a thousand roots ! Supposed...

HWTHMBLT has just found another tick on his leg. That's two this week. He walks over ten miles every day through the local woods, along field edges, the river side, etc., and there are deer everywhere. It's only just the start of May, it's not going to get any better through the Summer. What...