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If it wasn't for my weakness for biscuits I'd be eating a fairly trendy diet it seems,at least most of the time. My other half is more of a fundamentalist when it comes to "proper" food and preparation due to suffering celiac disease. One thing that is often mentioned by those championing...

Its normal for young birds of a lot of species to flop out of the nest earthwards during their first attempt at flight and after a period of recovery and orientation to have a proper go at flying. The usual theory is if they were too adventurous and skilful at the first attempt they might hurtle...

Section 1 of the Salmon & Freshwater Fisheries Act makes it illegal to, " discharge, a stone or any type of missile for the purpose of taking or killing of salmon , trout or freshwater fish.". Having found the relevant section ,I realised the thread I'm posting in is quite old but it might...

I bought a couple of the Hultafors heavy duty craftsman's knives from an online trade supplier . Two knives and postage only cost just over eleven quid so its worth shopping around rather than going straight to Amazon. I had the intention of customizing them both but decided to keep one...

My Opinal folding saw snapped!

My mum still tells the tale of how a few weeks after my birth in 1958 she took shelter under the kitchen table with me in her arms during a hailstorm . It actually broke a window . For some time the hail-stones associated with the event held a place in the Guiness Book of Records . I looked it...

Hornets are very much a southern species-Sussex,Hampshire ,Dorset seem to be the strongholds. Finding one in Scotland is interesting. The weather has been kind this year or maybe it hitched a lift in the motorhome. I did find a nest in Diss,Norfolk when on holiday years ago. Even some pest...

Just as likely I've got it wrong:). I just assumed as well :) Either way they'll knock a hole well after the pattern has failed.

Cormorants ,as BR said, are like all birds protected . They can be shot for fishery protection in limited circumstances and in very limited numbers but only with the relevant licence . These were until recently issued by a slow process . You almost had to give the individual bird's name and...

Pretty sure No1 shot equates to UK BB shot-about 4mm. I reckon there to be about 160 of em in that cartridge!

I did say "usually" go for for the head/neck but you are right about rabbits' clever dead-ending defence technique. Given soft soil they'll take the technique a stage further and bury em'selves faster than a ferret (or I guess: stoat) can scrabble the soil away. The things inside a rabbit...

Just wondering why no one seems to have picked-up the idea that hunting with ferrets leads to pierced organs and guts. In ferreting the rabbits are ideally flushed from their burrows by the ferrets and are usually caught in nets and dispatched by neck dislocation . Some folk do...

Is it anything like this?. I know of one instance of a lady being bitten by a spider. While helping a friend with some tree-work we were rather embarrassingly confronted by the lady customer who came rushing into the garden and promptly showed us her bum! Apparently she had been...

I've learned that hazel nuts freeze really well according to one of my customers. Every year I gather some in the hope they will last a few weeks but inevitably end up with a tray of slightly musty-smelling and furry things. Assuming my elderly informant is telling the truth I've...

The saw in the photo is not my favourite. Its usually my old folding Poundland special that sees most abuse. The "big knife" is just an old butcher's cleaver that I attacked with an angle grinder and is used to split wood and put points on things rather than bash the good knife about too much.

Artist's canvas comes in various weighs and can be had from any art supplier. Its good stuff-takes a dye and can be extra waterproofed if need be. My canoe is made of it . New,off the roll, ex-military canvas as used for Land Rover tilts is also not hard to find. Otherwise try boat-yard or...

This a fairly random addition to the thread but maybe worth repeating . On the subject of BSAs my local gunshop owner reckoned that if you could pick up a gun from early in its production run you were onto a winner . As plans for a new model came to fruition the general quality and power...

The Wild Mammals protection Act 1996 makes it an offence amongst several other things to impale ,stab,beat,crush,or stone a wild animal. Whether using a catapault constitutes some sort of stoning might be debatable especially if you were using ball bearings as ammo rather than pebbles . The...

Traditional fly fishing was considered an "art" in itself . The gentleman/woman angler would fabricate -often at the waterside - a replica of the insect that trout were feeding upon at the time and only cast to fish that were already rising or moving to natural prey . This meant that a...

The worrying thing is that the rifle only has to excede the 12flbs limit once to break the Law. That's why it is risky to try improving the factory designated power output of some of the better ones . . Tuning by improving the smoothness of the trigger or reducing recoil will improve...