Toddy's latest activity

  • 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.
  • Toddy
    Toddy reacted to slowworm's post in the thread Is "preparedness" a state of mind? with Like Like.
    There's also some online pages. We chatted to someone who investigates when planes go too low and that was an interesting conversation...
  • Toddy
    Toddy reacted to Laurentius's post in the thread Is "preparedness" a state of mind? with Like Like.
    I would agree, if you are a veteran camper it is likely you have accrued enough stuff to get you through a few difficult situations, I...
  • Toddy
    Toddy replied to the thread Is "preparedness" a state of mind?.
    I know I was working in Perthshire, and the pilot of jaguar passed less than a hundred feet from us...horizontally that was...vertically...
  • Toddy
    Toddy replied to the thread Is "preparedness" a state of mind?.
    Knew I'd read this somewhere...
  • Toddy
    Toddy replied to the thread Is "preparedness" a state of mind?.
    Fixed wing RAF routinely 250'. They do practice lower though, I'm told -100' on known military exercise sites....and lower at sea.
  • Toddy
    Toddy reacted to ged's post in the thread Going green broke my fridge! with Like Like.
    Back in the '80s my girlfriend (now wife) got some temporary work at a stately home. While she was working there she lived in the...
  • Toddy
    Toddy replied to the thread Going green broke my fridge!.
    When I was little our fridge was gas powered. In those days folks plugged into the gas lines just as we do with electric plugs...
  • Toddy
    Toddy reacted to ged's post in the thread Going green broke my fridge! with Wow Wow.
    If you'd really gone green you'd have ditched the fridge. It never ceases to irritate me that refrigeration accounts for more than half...
  • Toddy
    Toddy reacted to slowworm's post in the thread Going green broke my fridge! with Like Like.
    That one of the good things they do down in Devon, the tips sell reusable goods...
  • Toddy
    Toddy replied to the thread Going green broke my fridge!.
    I had a friend who kept 'all' of her food in her fridge....even cans of soup :rolleyes: The fridge broke as it tried to cope with the...
  • Toddy
    Toddy replied to the thread Growing edible cover for Pheasants.
    What you could do is plant the 'meadow' of native plants, like the distort, but deliberately add in something like wheat and oats that...
  • Toddy
    Toddy reacted to Tengu's post in the thread Tengus Plans For the Summer with Like Like.
    Going back to the Scottish Iron Age sometime Easter ish. The New Crannog Will open Late Spring/Early Summer (Which may well be slightly...
  • Toddy
    Toddy replied to the thread Growing edible cover for Pheasants.
    I don't see why not...it's native, it's roots hold soil well, it comes up every spring and dies back....like comfrey.....it's not toxic...
  • Toddy
    Toddy reacted to Broch's post in the thread Bistort with Like Like.
    To be honest it's a very versatile green veg. Young leaves can be used as salad or lightly cooked, older leaves use as spinach. The...
  • Toddy
    Toddy reacted to Woody girl's post in the thread Bistort with Like Like.
    I don't have any recipes, but I'm aware it was used in Easter ledge pudding. I'm sure you can google that one. My great gran called it...