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If I'm just going out for a walk in the woods, I don't bother carrying any water. The land here is all flat and forest, so I'm in the shade and not really doing anything strenuous. And I seem to be a bit of a camel: I'll drink a half of coffee with whole milk and a half litre of fruit juice...

The three days of riding to the meet-up was with nights in B&B accommodation, with a support vehicle carting our gear and what we needed for the horses, and the support vehicle driver set up picnic table and benches for us... quite glampish, overall, though we riders had to water and feed the...

I admit that I was staying away from this thread, thinking that it was going to be a rant about people who type more than they carve and who surf more than they walk. I don't get out as much as I would like, SWMBO is not at all into camping. She likes a walk through the countryside or along the...

A couple of quick snaps of what I think in a harvestman on the wall of the house.

Great new word: groan + frown = grown.

I think that a person tends to guess at the size of an animal by comparing it to familiar, known objects around it. So in town, a cat walking next to a parked car will look normally cat-sized. But met out in the forest, without a familiar yardstick next to it, might appear much bigger. Anybody...

Wasps started to arrive a couple of days ago, very small and not very insistent around the table. Shield bugs in about the same numbers as previous years. No ladybirds, though. But loads of white tailed bumble bees, plenty of ant lions, crickets, and I've seen a few grasshoppers in the past few...

Can foxes hybridise with stray dogs?

Just been out in the back garden, trying a bit of insect photography with a manual focus 500mm catadiaoptric lens with a fixed aperture of f/6.3 on my Canon EOS100D, from about 2.5m away from the lavender. It's really difficult trying to photograph bees on lavender; they spend only a few...

I saw one of those on the lavender last summer; the only one I've ever seen.

We have loads of bumblebees (not sure how many species) as well as a few species of other bees; they were feasting on the kolkwitzia through the spring, and are now on the lavender. Crickets are marginally lower in numbers; wasps, hornets and mosquitoes are noticeably few and far between. The...

I was talking with a friend a couple of days ago, about how few mosquitoes there are this summer, and that my theory is that we had several short spells of very warm weather followed by short sharp cold spells; I wonder if the warmth prompted larvae or pupae to move on a stage too early, and...

That price is typical of new, unissued stock, but in rare sizes (basically, anything over 41) even issued shirts can be that price. Try googling for "Fältskjorta m59 storlek 45" (field shirt m59 size 45). Add "oanvänd" for "unissued" or "använd" for issued

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You should assume that they contain lead unless you remember who cast them and can find out the alloy that was used. Citadel switched to lead-free alloy in 1997. Incidentally, I found a little bag of 15mm (I think) scale English Civil War pikemen, unpainted, in a drawer in the workshop, a...

They don't run at you, they run with you. I used to regularly take a shortcut through a field full of dairy cows. They used to follow me at a safe distance as I walked. One day, with a "friend of a friend" who happened to turn up where I was living just as I was about to go out somewhere, I...

Nutmeg grater in the handle of a wooden spatula: grind nutmeg and cinnamon into the milk, then use the spatula to stir the milk while it warms...

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Nothing fancy: second hand Canon EOS 100D with the kit lens EF-S 18-55mm with image stabiliser turned on. Most will be in aperture priority mode, aperture set to as wide as possible (usually f/4.6 or f/5.7, depending on the zoom). ISO sensitivity was set to auto.