Recent content by bearbait

... and a Partridge in a Pear Tree?

And Wye Not?

Well tidy!

Yea, the 47KG ones. I checked back and it looks like it's coming up to three years since I replaced one of the bottles. The oven is electric but the 4-burner hob is gas. It's used for cooking and also for boiling water for teas and coffees, and re-seasoning my cast iron cookware too.

Just a few days after I moved in to my house (2014) the gas cooker failed on me during evening meal prep. The cooker runs on bottled gas and both bottles were now empty. Out came a couple of my camping stoves and 5 minutes later I was back "cooking on gas". This was my hot food prep mechanism...

https://www.thebushcraftstore.co.uk/folding-firebox-baking-kit-for-zebra-billy-tins-28949-p.asp Rather than go for the whole set you may find that your local hardware / cookware store has something appropriate that you could utilise / modify.

If you want to be able to drive it you probably need to be on the same meds as the person who designed it!

Me? Apathetic? Nah! I just can't be arsed...

Not exactly "seen" today, but I've got 55 (yes) videos from my trailcam over the last three days of Crows attacking one of the windows in my house, not just pecking at it but flying up and down the window giving it a good headbutting. Sometimes there's its partner nearby watching and, errr...

If you want to have a play around with tarp configurations sometime (for shade, shelter, privacy - even with a tent) you could take a look here... http://www.equipped.org/tarp-shelters.htm Some are quite complicated but you may find two or three that work for you. I like the Adirondack Wind...

Three or four Leverets hopping around, playing it seemed to me. I was stationary about 30 - 40m away watching quietly (with and without bins) and they didn't seemed overly concerned about me. After a couple of minutes they headed across and disappeared into some Gorse. Nice moment, especially so...

Just finished Earth to Moon: A Memoir, by Moon Unit Zappa. Wow! What a weird and disturbing upbringing Moon had. It doesn't reflect at all well on her parents, Frank and Gail Zappa. Very interesting and immensely readable...

Not spotted, but heard: My first Cuckoo of the year in the Bannau Brycheiniog / Brecon Beacons National Park, just to the north of Twmpa and Rhos Dirion yesterday. Heard it (them?) several times during the day.

I have a pair of Leki poles but only use one of them; the other lives in the car as backup. I wouldn't be without a hiking pole as I find it very useful for easing ascents, and especially so for confidence on steeper descents as my knees are not what they used to be. I don't use the handle loop...

If you have some species of interest on your ground then perhaps donation to a local Wildlife Trust could be in order? If so, then a chat and a walk round with one or two of their officers may be helpful to determine their interest?