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My money, if I were to bet on it, would be on a very variable winter: mostly warm, wet and windy but with occasional blasts of icy wind blowing in from the north pole via northern Russia then across Europe into the East Coast... another "beast from the east". This will probably mean that the...

That sounds like what used to be called a BOB: Bug Out Bag.

Teacher in class, "for every word in the English language, you can find another word that means the same thing". One boy is shaking his head. "Oh, can you think of a word that doesn't follow that rule?" "Yes, miss: synonym."

I remember watching a series of YouTube videos with a tutor something like "my self-reliance life". Possibly northern part of USA, but could well have been Canada... This guy built himself a really big cabin, but got loads of stuff brought out to him, I can only imagine by hydroplane using a...

Maybe burn it out with a piece of metal heated in your camp fire?

I would think that drilling a smaller diameter hole, then drilling out to a larger diameter would work for three times the length of the woggle and you could make two pieces with matching internal/external tapers. I trick I saw on the internet is to use a spirit level to get your workpiece...

Depending on what I think I'll need, I could have just a couple of €10 notes, or a few €50 notes. Last weekend I was carrying a leather pouch with €200 in €1 and €2 coins. Throughout the year I put coins on one side for the summer table sales and flea markets. A few years ago SWMBO was in town...

You've never heard of "going commando"?

This will drag the thread far off topic... but here goes... That famous amendment about the right to bear arms refers to the government not infringing the right of the citizen to do so. Step onto private property, such as a shopping mall, and the owner of that property can apply any...

I'd drill them out and replace them either with proper Corby or Loveless bolts, cutler's rivets or interference fit brass bar and epoxy.

I did a few computing classes in the '90s. System administration C level 1 and level 2 Web server, FTP server, mail server admin Web design JavaScript Java Interesting, useful, applicable to my day job, but only in the sense that it makes my day job slightly less boring and slightly less...

Scandi grind blades are really, really easy to sharpen. Get yourself a diamond block, find yourself an hour to spare, and I'm sure you'll be able to learn how to do it. And what you learn today will be useful for the rest of your life.

I have a Leatherman tool on my belt just about every day. It comes off if I know that it would get me into trouble, but in those cases it goes into a bag. I have a super lightweight "parachute silk" shopping bag that folds into a 5cm x 5cm x 0.5cm square. I have a keyring with a small maratac...

Annual table sale in the square, today. The only thing I found worth buying was this cobbler's hammer. There are also quite a few leg vices, this year, but I found a big one a few years ago and a small one in Amsterdam last year. Quite a few stake anvils and a box of hardy tools in various...

I got a set of SouthOrd picks a while ago and while waiting for my transparent training locks to arrive I had a go at what my daughter had used on her school locker, many years ago. First try, snake rake, fifteen seconds.

I modified the Virobloc mechanism on one of my first Opinel knives, a n°6, in about 1993, after the pivot started getting a bit loose and it came open in my pocket. The Opinel factory invented it independently a few years later. There used to be a big scene over here in France, carving the...

Tiny little pry bar and caplifter. Works for opening jars of pickled onions, tins of shoe polish and Barbour wax and bottles of beer. https://ibb.co/7SQ4W5t

BCUK's XenForo is tricky. Or wants me to upload my image to a hosting service and then paste a link... https://ibb.co/n6MzK9b

Do you mean "The Leatherworking Handbook" by Valerie Michael, or "Get Started in Leather Crafting" by Tony and Kay Laier?

Is that the same one whose son asked for a cowboy outfit as a birthday present? His dad bought him Parcel Force.