Recent content by featherstick

Are we? I can't get in.

"Cuckoo" (or "Kukushka") set during 1944, just before Finland exited WWII. Some great outdoor/primitive living, and a great opening 20 minutes.

Thank you!

Nice one sandbender - now no-one knows why I'm talking about feral dogs. : )

Russian provincial towns have huge problems with feral dog packs - very big packs of 20-30 dogs sometimes. They are periodically culled but back up in numbers very soon. All the wildlife parks would be interesting places, there's one close to us with boar, wolves and bison...the return of the...

Dad always used pieces of wood shaped to the job he was doing whenever he got within arm's length of the blade. Kept all his fingers for 35 years of cabinet-making until he started to go to the workshop hungover.

I find it difficult to see this as anything other than a land-grab. Profitable forest will be sold off and probably asset-stripped. Our long-term biodiversity and economic resources will be sold to a few profit-takers who will make a few gestures towards consultation and local community...

We were out for a walk/forage yesterday (SWMBO and the little fella and I) and I had a look at what was in my pockets. I realised that if we were stranded, we could make a shelter (SAK), light a fire (lighter), leave a note for rescuers (pen and paper), and then find the car and drive home (car...

In that case, I'm taking: A reversible tuxedo; A watch with a built-in laser; and An inexhaustible supply of one liners.

Several years' experience training the British Army, for a start.

His first name is Lynn. You'd have issues too.

Who'd buy a katana at a car boot anyway? It was almost certainly a wall-hanger, and the poor aikido-ka to whom it was given probably forced out a "Wow, thank you!" from behid a grimace, and took it to the dump at the next opportunity.

I've had a day's training with a kubotan (and several years in martial arts generally, aikido in particular). You can do a LOT of damage with one, and I wouldn't like to be on the receiving end. I have a couple downstairs, I take them to Russia with me where a) you won't get nicked for...

Some Nikwax cotton/nylon proofing, I would have thought - wash it in down your local laundrette.

I can't remember why I chose my username...