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  • BushMoot: Come along to the amazing Summer Moot 31st July - 5th August (extended Moot : 27th July - 8th August), a festival of bushcrafting and camping in a beautiful woodland PLEASE CLICK HERE for more information.
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    GreyCat reacted to C_Claycomb's post in the thread W W U do? with Like Like.
    What I would do, and what I would advise you to do are two very different things. I would not have bought an old knife just to cut up...
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    GreyCat reacted to chimpy leon's post in the thread £250 survival knife... with Like Like.
    I’d personally avoid the ever-popular Falkniven at this price point - I wouldn’t be surprised if there was controversy akin to Bark...
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    GreyCat reacted to Tengu's post in the thread Brain Training with Like Like.
    That sounds a few good ideas. Often its fear stops you doing complex things.
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    GreyCat reacted to Pattree's post in the thread Brain Training with Like Like.
    Strip an A10 motorcycle engine right down to split con rod, bolt by bolt. I have rarely got past removing cables Amals and rocker box...
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    GreyCat reacted to dnarcher's post in the thread Brain Training with Like Like.
    Keep learning new skills, keep practicing and applying. Gardening is becoming much more important as retirement beckons. Dancing and...
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    GreyCat reacted to Pattree's post in the thread Brain Training with Like Like.
    I have never thought of sleep as a medicated process but I guess, like Broch, I’m lucky. I’m also pretty sure that I’m not unusual...
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    GreyCat reacted to Broch's post in the thread Brain Training with Like Like.
    Derr... I close my eyes, and fall asleep - 8 hours a night, rarely wake up. No drugs, no technology, at worst a little meditative...
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    GreyCat reacted to TeeDee's post in the thread Brain Training with Like Like.
    Magnesium definitely seems to provide a deeper more restorative sleep without after effects of sleeping tablets. Thats not just me but...
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    GreyCat replied to the thread What are you growing?.
    Had a good Easter weekend in the garden. Finally got the 3 quince trees out of their pots and into a large raised bed which is in the...
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    GreyCat replied to the thread The Good life.
    Interesting. She clearly has a back garden that is larger than many as she has managed to get a polytunnel in. I had one of those...
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    Yeah around us we have a few pheasants that have escaped the shoot over on the other hill, they happily live in the scrubby woodland...
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    GreyCat reacted to slowworm's post in the thread Growing edible cover for Pheasants with Like Like.
    Unless you're growing something special as a pure crop I wouldn't be over worried by pH. Worth knowing and considering but it hasn't...
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    GreyCat reacted to Keith_Beef's post in the thread Growing edible cover for Pheasants with Like Like.
    I think that it depends a lot on what the land is like, the soil, slope of the land, exposure, and how much time you want to put into...
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    GreyCat replied to the thread Oaks and oaks ....
    I wonder though. In the "traditional" woodland *pasture* would most of the oaks/other trees not have been pollarded (with a selected few...
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    GreyCat reacted to Toddy's post in the thread Oaks and oaks ... with Like Like.
    Me too. There are oak trees near us that are 800 years old. They were deliberately grown in what is the Woodland Pasture that's left...