Search results

This is the best idea for the web that I've come across in ages.:35: It aims at the heart of most of us are about, if you don't know how somthing is done. You will never understand why it was done, and the effort it took to do it. The past is there to inform the preasent. Without...

A bad map reader relies on his/her sat nav. A good one takes it just in case.

As an adendum. The one thing we are all bemoaning is the lack of knowledge out there. Yes B.Gs actions are overtly dangerous, but R.Ms carries an inherrent danger to it. None of us would condone somone going out and trying to survive on the viewing of one TV programe be it Ray's or Bear's...

Here here. You cant legislate for the idiot Monkey see Monkey do.

This must be the item you buy for the paranoid camper.

The Hydrostatic Head rating of cloth is an unrealistic test, as it is only testing the water proofing agent and that in ideal conditions. look for things like: Taped seems. Ultraviolet resistance you want it to last. The poles both carbon fiber and glass are suseptable to heat damage. A hot...

An old way to make an archery target from the 50s and 60s. You will need; two door mats, a wire coat hanger and a pair of pliers. Place the mats together bristle face in so they lock face to face (put them on the floor and jump on them). Cut the coat hanger into four 5" lengths and poke one...

It looks abit like my grand farthers that he used to take out partition walls with. You go through the wall with blade take nails out with the notch (hand forged nails taper so you don't bend them), then knock them back in with the poll. A very frugall man my grandad. (Thats the polite version...

the best advice I was given onbow making."The only way to learn how to make a bow is to make one, and dont test it by drawing it." You can make a bow like thing out of any branch that bends, the art is getting it right. I'm afraid most of the art is in how it feels. It may look strange but...

Bright Blessings to you)O( Ian

I have just been sent this link. WWW.RUTLANDSONLINE.COM They have a 5kg anvil on offer £14.99 delivered if any ones interested. The anvil is in the hand tool section and will scroll through. Ian

I'm an amature but our dining chairs are made out of the timber they use to hold christmas trees on the pallets. The Pro is my tobe outlaw who from the same timber makes and floggs bespoke furnature.:rolleyes: skip diving is fun never knowing what you'l find but bet you'l find a use for...

If the tarp is a regular pentagon the angle would be 72degrees between each radial. I like the idea, it looks brill.

The penniless and friendless part I can’t comment on. I suppose I have been lucky in that respect. I was only homeless for 6 weeks during the summer of 2002. My main problem was not food and shelter Croydon’s fast food outlets and supper market security staff are of a generous nature and...

This will sound Zen Patience Dont be shy of asking questions. If all else fails Cheat.

This may sound like I'm Scrooge but if you sign up to there mailing lists they send you FREEBIES (especially Kenco)

The way we did it turned out well the marinade was simple. salt 1/2 tsp black pepper 2 tsp glug lea & perrins red wine to cover we used a mixture of sirloin and (wing yip) flank pad reffered to in our house as cows a**e cheek. :) We marinaded it over night. then hung it in the hall for...

Greetings One and All from moderately white Purley:). Ian