Recent content by JDWilts

Here is something I have decided to try and help with by providing information. I met the Harlequin Ladybird for the first time this Sunday and in quite abundant numbers, in an area where they have not yet been reported. So I have done my duty. Maybe it's something as a community we could help...

He's dead! Can we sue?

VP = Verbally Polished NAAFI = Normally After Ale Fight Instigates CTR = Carefull Tipeetoe Review It missed: The need to constantly find pointless alternatives to established anacronyms or has that now ABC'd?

I remember cap comforters! Official Airfix 1/32nd commando issue. They were meant to be one size fits all but that I can tell you is a blatant lie. They stopped issuing them once colour film for Pathe News reel arrived and everybody lost the BBC English Accents. IE: "Golly gosh RSM, we're on...

I came on here today to post and see if anyone was seeing an upsurge in their sitings of grass snakes and found this post. Hmm I wonder if this has just answered my own question? In the last two days and in two different locations (Northants and Warks) we have seen a couple of grass snakes...

ISTP too! Maybe we should get together and form a club? Hold on, I'm not going to rush into this. I'm gonna have to go and ponder that one. :thinkerg:

Defo a munt. You might find this handy its a really good site: www.deer-uk.com

Hi Walker and welcome. What are you going to use the tent for and/or how often? Also how old/big is your third? What are you going to be carrying it in/on (Lama, Land Rover or somewhere inbetween?) And finally what is your budget? There are a thousand different options available to you. . . ...

Hi Tengu, where in Wilts are you?

We still have a garden full of admirals. They also seem to be very large this year. I saw an absolutely huge one in the New Forest on Sunday. Have you seen www.britishbutterflies.co.uk? Its an excellent resource but its down at the moment.

The enthusiastic chap with the umbrella tonite looks at Mr Mudges first ordinance survey maps. I can barely contain my excitement.............LMAO my sadness knows no bounds.

Bushcrafters caravan?..........................shouldn't that be handmade from birchbark

I think I'm 4000 years too late for Wiltshire. But wow what a moment in history. From that one ad so many great names from the history of the European exploration of the American Wilderness.

February 13, 1822. On that date, the Lieutenant Governor of the state of Missouri, William Ashley, placed an ad in the Missouri Gazette and Public Advertiser soliciting the services of "enterprising young men" to go with him into the wilderness on a quest of great adventure and profit. Among...

Whilst just surfing I came across this: http://www.wwmag.net/core.htm I am not sure on others awareness of this mag but Its quarterly and looks very interesting so I thought I would share it with you. The site has a few interesting back articles published as well. JD