Recent content by Toddy

It's hot here today. It's very hot, but it was beautifully cool and calm at 5 this morning :) I love our changing seasons, I feel totally attached to the world when I'm working within those seasons, thinking of the next ones, preparing a little for them. It's a never ending seasonal round that...

Ventile....there's a good reason to use tape instead of cord, it doesn't rub the channel into a line of holes where it gathers. Double layers...they're very good on hood, shoulders and arms if you're working in them the inner layer still breathes while the outer one gets saturated and soaks...

Older, metal chassis machines will generally push through, not so much the 1970's domestic ones though, they were the cusp of when things changed. I have had older ones, but for the sewing I do, I mostly want fine and accurate, so that's what I have. I have two machines, I don't have room for...

That's it exactly. I mostly handsew, so that was a no past a few bits that I wanted to finish very precisely. My sewing machines are usually used for, and are fit for, dressmaking fabrics, quilting cottons. The ventile really needed more ooomph.

That looks so good :D so right. It's a work though; I hate sewing ventile, especially over layers. Well done keeping it so tidy. M

@Pattree See Post No. 25 https://bushcraftuk.com/community/threads/new-hobo-stove-thread.168388/page-2#post-2099041

@Pattree It was WoodyGirl who was looking for a way to make a handle. I believe she was using a wire coathanger but none of us could quite remember just how to bend it. M

Hawkmoth caterpillars that are eating my tattie shaws :sigh:

I honestly believe that everything has a right to live, in some way they fit into the entirety of the cycle.....I make an exception for clegs (horseflies). I kill any one that I spot. I have to carry an epi-pen for their bites. I have yet to find a single benefit that they provide, weird eyes...

I too like the melissa/lemon balm. If it's getting overwhelming just cut it down. It'll live, come back up again with fresh bright leaves. It's one of those good ones to add to any Summer tea. It's lovely if tied in a bunch and put into a bath....even better if you have soapwort to add too. It's...

I get the 'Just a moment' thing, but it resolves in seconds and I'm in to my normal page on the forum. I'm still using Safari on a MacBookPro

Aren't we lucky that they've never taken to inland living like seagulls do ?

We're having a bumper year for fruit here. GFSon1 and myself are both struggling to process all the fruit as it ripens. There's only so much we can eat at the time. Raspberries, blackcurrants, gooseberries, brambles, rhubarb, strawberries and cherries, all at once is a little overmuch. Even...

The Romans wrote of the Picts (that was their name for what the old Welsh called them Prydyn... origin of the word Briton....they were just native tribes) that they worked wonders in the morning and the evening, but in the heat of the day they lay in their huts with their feet over their...

I think it depends on how tidy you want it to be. I know a couple who lived on fresh air, wombling and the kind of happychance of swapping good labour for 'stuff'. They sourced the sawmill scraps...the outside bark strips that gets taken off to get to the useable timber. They literally used...