Recent content by Nick93

I'm also looking for a few cutoffs and such. Anyone got any spare?

They always look ripe early but I dont think you pick them till about October time :)

If you are shooting them with an air rifle would a second point blank shot to the head be an effective method of killing them quickly? Double-tap!!

Nothing much about his food supply.. He should get some livestock.. and bees. Maybe he was put off the idea by the hornets :D

The flowers down here are just about opening. I made some cordial yesterday, I didnt have enough for making a lot of anything so I stuck with cordial for now. Im hoping to get some more when i go for a walk again tomorrow. Most that I have found have been protected by a wall of gorse and a tick...

If you've been watching Springwatch then you would have seen the Scottish beavers that are in a trial reintroduction. I knew about them before the show from when they were in the newspaper. But what happens when the trial is over? Will there be further reintroduction elsewhere? Id like to see...

We had some robins, sparrows, woodpigeons and one blackbird reared in our garden this year. But a sparrowhawk got the baby blackbird, it ate it in the garden. We've also had a dove taken and eaten in our garden as well. But predators have got to eat as well I guess.

Just stuck a few leaves in my pocket on my way home, washed them chopped them roughly and stuck them with some cheese in a sandwich :) Interesting point about them not making your breath smell like regular garlic does. Garlic can make your breath smell without even eating it, if you handle it...

Very nice. Autumn has got to be the best season of the year.

I love them. I have one on my shoulder right now :P My female royal python.

You can watch Dual Survival and Les Stroud - Survivorman on YouTube. Both are worth watching. Also "Alone in the wild". Its definatly worth watching :)

Thanks for all the info, just have to get my fishing bits together now :D

I have always wanted to try the method of cooking fish in the embers of a fire. However I don't know what species of plant are suitable for wrapping the fish in.. So just wanted to know what UK plants it is ok to use for this method of cooking? Thankyou Nick

I made the jam and its very nice. I used 400g of sloes and 500g of cooking apples, I cooked this with a little water and then pushed the reddy purple sludge through a sieve. I put this back on the heat and added about 450g of sugar. When this had dissolved I took it off the heat and added the...