Recent content by daveO

It's Coloeus monedula now btw. It got reclassified :(

That looks like a great piece of kit and without having to shell out for batteries you'll get your money back eventually. Nice features too. I wonder how secure the pin number is? Extra points for being a UK company with good ethics too. I'd be inclined to avoid US companies in the current climate.

£27 delivered (edit to say they're under £20 on Ebay) seems too good to be true. It's even got live view so you can check where it's pointing. How do they even make a profit on it? :oops:

Both of mine are Bushnells from the lower end of their range. The one is 13 years old now and still soldiering on. The newer one cost me £67 3 years ago and the quality reflects the price. It does the job well enough but the HD video settings are so bad that they're basically pointless. They...

You could probably get a couple of meals out of the cat too.

It's a pine cone I think. Holford or Eastern White maybe.

It's not a bad match to these maps

This distribution map was shown in one of the latest review papers on mistletoe. It probably reflects apple growing distribution quite well too.

Can we have a better photo of the streaker? :D

I got really interested in mistletoe this winter. I've been driving from South Wales to Cheltenham once a week and it's like through a mistletoe gradient. It doesn't grow anywhere in my borough but it appears once I drive down off the mountain. By the time I get into Gloucestershire it's...

Apparently it came from an old military term GISS, General Impression of Size and Shape, used for identifying aircraft. With birds it's a bit more complicated as behaviour counts for a lot. Experienced birders can often ID birds from a distance just based on movement and behaviour. Or sometimes...

Never buy jackets in a normal shop. They'll shaft you every time.

I've been using the Stanley one for years. They cost under a tenner and are decent enough. I'm on my second one now but the first one had a lot of use and held up well for what it is. It holds enough to do most basic jobs on the car and most of the time I use that rather than getting other tools...

My local tip wouldn't destructively recycle things like this now. They have a facility to clean and restore decent items and then they either sell them on site, donate them or pass them on somehow.

If you don't already have a 'pocket bellows' then I can highly recommend one for smaller kettles. I used to have bad days with my Mkettle and that little thing really helped keep it going.