Recent content by paulcd

I have my folding Swiss Bike! Very swish looking, big knobbly tyres for all that mud and the hills, good components...have yet to work it with panniers and a quick release carrier, so that I can take all that extra kit that we like to take, on the train without paying extra for the bike or...

It doesn't matter how big the wood is in one's ownership. but you can only cut down 2 cubic metres in any one quarter year if you are selling the timber, 5 cubic metres if using on site. Anything more than this requires a felling licence from the forestry commission..not hard to get if you know...

Have you got one, Led? I am seriously thinking about it.

Remember, you have temperate environments in southern oz, so find an arboretum that grows it...but don't nick any as the plant managers won't be happy! Pteridium aquilinum (bracken) is the same species in GB as OZ...after learning that aborigines put it on spider bites, I have had success...

Ah yes, that season when the bugs fly...it makes me think of 'those magnificent men in their flying machines', these cockchafers have to be in less control than the leather jackets/daddy long legs. Wait till I tell my wife they are early...she hates them!

Nice one, Greg! But using our tracking skills, would it be too churlish to suggest that either that spot has been used before or else you had a lot of visitors!? Beautiful weather for the sleep out, eh?

There is a bushcraft bike...a full folding mountain bike...! Go to www.swissbikes.com or PM me if I have got the address wrong

Thanks Mr Rimps We did have a go of something similar yesterday...great to see it in all its glory, but the weather is so nice, I have yet to 'pump up the volume'

A bit of advice please...have a lavvu 8.+ stove Should I 'break' the poles to bring down the apex so that I can then put in the flue/chimney, and add sections as I then re-raise the pole? Cheers, Jon, a good effort!

First photo Lesser Celadine poisonous unless you boil roots in two changes of water after flowering Third is Wood Anemone...never heard of anyone eating this. will look at second again

Hope you weren't too noisy! I slept in my mates canoe lean-to/shed thingy and crapped in his garden when he had the audacity not to be in when I called. I have slept on many a mountain path when there was no other flat land. And I spent one night in the hut at Cadair Idris...they say you come...

Thoughts...is this a compound or a single leaf? Can't tell from the photo. does it have a stem with a groove = poss. ground elder etc or a square stem (in cross section) = poss. a mint. :rolleyes:

Hi A bit off thread, but in my Trees for LifeDiary I have several birches pictured in Daisetsuzan National Park, Hokkaido, Japan...so looks like you do have birch!

I'm afraid I only wear a loin cloth in bed to complete the experience...that would raise a few eyebrows.

The ultimate vehicle for me would have to be a VW T25. I have the 2wd version, but 4wd are available. They did still make them in South Africa until this century, but I don't know if they were 2wd or 4wd. Also they seemed only to make the petrol version. For this century, we need a turbo...