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    How we gave up the TV Licence - Hassle Free

    Lenny Henry, 1987?
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    How we gave up the TV Licence - Hassle Free

    We've been legally licence free for a few years now. Watch Netflix and Amazon plus Ch4 (mostly for their very good news) but no live programmes. Also no BBC TV (which I have to say is no great loss, the news just isn't news and the only part I miss is early showings of Attenborough's stuff). ITV...
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    A New Knife For My Foraging Adventures

    I always like the idea of brightly coloured knife handles. If it's being used you don't see it anyway cos its in yer hand and if you drop it you can find it easy. makes sense in my head anyway.
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    EDC Pens?

    Its genuinely rare that I need a pen, just on invoice day. Then I have a carpenters pencil sharpened to a chisel point for work (carpenter appropriately enough) and a lumber crayon for marking the frame codes on timber frames. Got a pen in the van. Maybe if I was an officewallah I'd be...
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    sealing a stacked leather knife handle ?

    That 22nd of Jan 63 pic kind of tallies with what I think about the change in head design in about 1960 as yours has that V shape on the side of the head. I'm not positive by any means and if anyone finds proof I'm wrong I'd be happy to see it. I'll see if I can ratch the 1937 one out as the...
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    EDC Pens?

    I have a Bic pen but mostly use it for writing invoices out. It's more of a fortnightly pen rather than an everyday pen.
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    sealing a stacked leather knife handle ?

    Ahh, nice one. You'll have spotted that the inner steel section has a date drop forged onto it. I assume they don't change the date on the drop forging dies every day they start work so my guess is that the date is when the dies are made. I have one with very loose washers that had a 1937 date...
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    Why I hate (most) modern torches

    I'm not afraid of the dark but am often walking the dog a few mins before six in the morning along by the river and in the local park. My dog is great in the dark and can catch the frisbee that I can't see a second after its out of my hand. However, he's a lazy slacker McFly and sometimes...
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    Why I hate (most) modern torches

    I have a Black Diamond headtorch, its got two control buttons so the on off button doesn't have to cycle through a myriad of colours and powers everytime I knock it on. There is a bit of a learning curve to it as it does a few colours and settings but most of thats done via the other button...
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    sealing a stacked leather knife handle ?

    Bere we go, its about sixty years old and I don't know about the first years but it's been used a LOT in the last five. Day to day use, shuttering, on roofs, commercial property fit outs, pub fitouts, you name it. It's very dark, but much of thats from usage. The modern Estwings with leather...
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    sealing a stacked leather knife handle ?

    I've had a few Estwing hammers with stacked leather washer grips over the years. The varnish they use on them at the factory is absolutely mingin, it's slippery wben new and soon ends up as a crackled mess. So I sand it off and replace it with Danish oil or sometimes a Danish oil/Boiled linseed...
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    A New Kelly Kettle

    Personally I quite like the look of the Petromax version. It's stainless steel, got a decent handle and most importantly it's got feet to raise it off the ground which stops or at least greatly lessens the circular patch of burned grass underneath it. I know you can faff on with the Kelly ones...
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    Natural hydrology - flow control.

    Driving through the lake district and you'll see a lot of trees have been planted recently on the fells, much of them are native species. That slows the water down a good bit so the land soaks the water up and is less likely to flood downstream. The grouse moors up at Knaresdale, Croglin and...
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    Government consultation on banning large knives and machetes

    Yup, Boston did it with guncrime and made huge strides in not many hears. Thats where Glasgow police got the idea from. But yeah, it also involves community funding and actual targetted effort instead of some eejit just standing up in Parliament and banning something.
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    New knife laws

    Serrated knives ban? So thats breadknives then eh? And insulation knives? I have a Hultafors insulation knife to cut ichy wool insulation.