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  1. DoctorSpoon

    Do your children eventually let you go?

    Maybe I'm a bad mother, but I have always made a point of letting my children know that I have my own life and they need to be increasingly independent. We live in a small village with limited public transport and the kids have been brought up to organise their lives around it and to organise...
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    Japanese knives

    Mmmmmm ... there is some really stunning work on there. These in particular caught my eye... Nicola
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    Mint tea

    I grow mint and lemon balm in a pot outside the front door. They are both great on their own or as a mix of the two. Unfortunately my dovecote is also just outside the front door and I have to carefully check the leaves for dove poo before brewing up!
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    Cleaning up.

    I give pans to the dog for a pre-wash - she's brilliant with anything that's burned on :D After that it's a simple job with a little hot water and a drop of w/up liquid!
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    Nail Nick advice needed?

    This one's the one you want which has some of my research video in it: and there is other useful folding knife stuff on the project website here ... try the help pages. Nicola
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    Car Boot Axes

    Robin did a tutorial on replacing axe handles you might find handy here.
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    Linacre wood fest pics

    He was quite scary-looking but a great story teller! It was a great event but such a pity they let the demonstrators scatter their vehicles all over the woodland. I know it's convenient, but it somehow spoiled the atmosphere. Nicola
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    Weever fish and the even cautiouser Tengu

    That wasn't Robin's experience. He stood on one when surfing in North Wales a year or so back. His foot swelled up rapidly and alarmingly and he was in a lot of pain. Thankfully friends who knew what they were doing were there with their camper van. They heated up a pan of water until it was as...
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    I made a spoon

    Whilst you can manage with a hoof knife (well done Rappleby2000), I think it's worth paying the extra for a hook knife. If you go for one of the Frosts with quite a tight curve, just sharpened on one side - the 164 I think - they don't cost much more than a tenner and you'll find it much easier...
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    just finished a kuksa

    If you don't like the white you could stain it before you oil it. We do this sometimes with both bowls and spoons. Coffee works well or you can use that bottled gravy browning. Build it up in layers, dip it or paint it on, let it dry for an hour then dip or paint it again. Over the course of an...
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    just finished a kuksa

    Robin started this as a demonstration piece on our last 'developers' course when everybody decided they wanted to make one. It has sat in a half finished state for well over a month but thankfully as it's some sort of willow it was still workable when I finally got around to whittling it. As the...
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    Furry white mould

    I'm sure this is just a surface mould that will grow anywhere warm and damp. If your house is that way inclined things will grow furry mould whether you bring it in or not. The kitchen in our old cottage was like that. If you have a fairly warm dry house nothing will grow it. Even if it does...
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    Carving hook: The best of 2 words?

    That sounds fantastic!! Helgess hooks are the best ever and I just love the work of the Nyland lads. By coincidence just this morning I came across a scandi blade handled by the other brother (is it Simon?) that I'd misplaced a while back - I found it under my son's bed :rolleyes: It really is...
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    Wooden Kitchen Worktop.

    Robin built the kitchen units in our old cottage himself from oak. The surfaces were 3" thick slabs, the tops weren't dead flat but I can't say that ever bothered me. It looked fantastic and water wasn't a problem at all - the draining board was also a slab of oak set at an angle with grooves...
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    Any Jack Russell Owners or General Dog Question

    Our dog came from Lurcher Link and they have a sister organisation called Greyhound Gap both of which run excellent forums which will give you advice on suitability and availability!
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    Any Jack Russell Owners or General Dog Question

    Terriers and terrier crosses are great dogs (we have a staffy x whippet), but you have to be firm and keep the upper hand with them. If you let them think they might be boss, even briefly, you're in trouble; they'll do what they want, when they want to, bark at everything and everyone and be a...
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    Bird? Calls

    The drumming noise that snipe make is part of their courting ritual - they swoop downwards quite steeply and I think it's their outside tail feathers that vibrate as they descend and make the noise. It's very distinctive and, as you say, quite like vibrating a ruler off the edge of a desk!
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    Appeal to Duck Experts

    They are Indian runner ducks - they come in all sorts of colours but black ones are the best! Here's mine: You can eat them - we eat the surplus drakes - but there's really not much meat on them. They don't lay particularly well either. However, they are superb comedy value. I'd defy anyone...
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    Checked Luggage

    I'm just back from a trip to the States and took knives both there and back in hold baggage without problem. On the way there my friend Grace and I had a couple of knives each - on the way back we had LOADS having visited a knife making factory and spent a while in the shop :D Grace's bag had a...