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  • Come along to the amazing Summer Moot (21st July - 2nd August), a festival of bushcrafting and camping in a beautiful woodland PLEASE CLICK HERE for more information.
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    Pattree replied to the thread Time.
    How are your animals coping?
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    Pattree replied to the thread Hi from Lancashire.
    Hi Mick, Welcome.
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    Pattree replied to the thread Time.
    @MrEd I worked 12on 12off night shifts at a factory long ago. We didn’t get paid for the extra hour, they said what goes round comes...
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    Pattree reacted to demented dale's post in the thread Time with Like Like.
    I think it came about during the war to give farmers 'more time'. It was called daylight saving. Completely pointless, just leave the...
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    Pattree posted the thread Time in Bushcraft Chatter.
    British Summertime. Why? What’s the point? How does it affect you? Me? I get up at 9 - 10 and go to bed at 1 -2. Other than...
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    Pattree replied to the thread North 511 smart watches.
    It’s not the t batteries that will render them obsolete. Many of them (If not all) are baby but in Bluetooth linked to a smartphone. It...
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    Although there seems to be a weird "Everyone else but us won't manage" narrative going on here I reckon yer maybe flattering yourselves...
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    Pattree replied to the thread North 511 smart watches.
    Some of these fitness watches are little more than random number generators. I showed a retired NTU nurse my recorded blood pressure...
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    I signed up for BBMR (bone marrow) tests years ago. (British) Edited to add:- it’s now the NHS Stem Cell Doner Registry. If you’ve...
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    Pattree reacted to HillBill's post in the thread Knife sharpening service? with Like Like.
    Get yourself a block of wood, half as wide as a sheet of wet and dry and 50mm shorter. 115mm. x 230mm. Glue some foam mouse mat to it...
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    Pattree reacted to C_Claycomb's post in the thread Knife sharpening service? with Like Like.
    Is there a reason you don’t sharpen it yourself? I know some folk have poor eyes, or problems with their hands, but sometimes it’s just...
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    Pattree replied to the thread Knife sharpening service?.
    Good point, well made. It never even crossed my mind but then I’ve never worried about a curve in an old blade.
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    Pattree reacted to Seagull's post in the thread Knife sharpening service? with Like Like.
    Do be careful with that unsharpened blob of the cutting edge near the handle. Tto remove it will certainly leave you with a blade that...
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    Pattree replied to the thread Knife sharpening service?.
    Don’t be frightened of taking a file to the protrusion yourself to bring the edge back in line. “Sharp” only means effective for what...
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    Pattree replied to the thread Spring anyone ?.
    Last night there was a lot of twitting across a field to the west of us but the twoooing was coming from all over the place including...