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When I lived on the boat, kingfishers, herons & cormorant were a daily visitation. I miss living on the water. But I have friends still on their boats.

Nick Hayes is brilliant. I saw him speak this summer and talk about encouraging ethnic minorities into nature.

A discussion about the Memory Code or how we memorise our environment might be interesting. I have never kept notebooks/diaries, but memorise the plants & everywhere that I go regularly.

The only way to survive successfully off the land is if the population is about 5% of what it is now. Nature's biomass needs to be far greater than that of human civilisation. Currently human civilisation is greater than the biomass of Nature.

Those little jumping spiders are usually found in grassland. We have brown & cream stripy ones they normally hunt in the thatch layer of grassland close to the ground.

When we lived on the boat we had a resident spider population. Now we live in a house we still have resident spiders & just as welcome

I have worked with horses hauling timber out of the woods. A team of 2, block & tackle and "slides". I also have friends who live horse drawn in the west country. There are still people hauling timber in the Welsh hills, it's still possible to volunteer and work with them.

Actually it's changing the mindset of motorists which will make the difference. The nearest small shop from me is 300 meters and neighbours drove to it until they put in LTN bollards. Now it's a 1 mile round trip & the people who had to drive making a fuss. The idea behind 15 minute cities is...

We have enough dry/tnned/home preserved food to not go to the shops for 5-6 months possibly longer, plus what is in the garden.

That's really interesting. My question wasn't about environmental impacts of vehicle use it was more of an if for one reason or another you can't use your vehicle would you be really stuck? For example the suez canal was blocked a few years ago & currently the Panama canal has extended...

I live on the edge of a city. My personal car requirements are less than 1 or 2 times a year, max. I do understand that most of what I buy has to get to the market by.lorry, apart from the chicken and eggs, they come from a local farm. I used to live 20miles away from this town too, also...

I'm quite happy to cycle 30-40 miles to a campsite or farm we sometimes camp at. A quiet walk in nature is across the road from my house. I can do shopping etc for the home with bike & trailer. I get to work and home 10m round trip. Yes, the roads aren't that safe for cyclists. Some of my...

I noted the question about phones and wondered, being a non car owner I have no problem doing most things without a car. If you could no longer use a motorised vehicle, petrol/diesel or electric. Could you manage without motor vehicle?

The combination of heat and humidity makes if difficult for the body to cool down through sweat evaporation. "Dew point temperature' and 'wet bulb temperature' are also measures of humidity. These are both measures of how close the air is to being saturated. If they are equal to the actual air...

You paddle an 8 ton canoe if you like..

We used to run the boat diesel engine on biodiesel made from waste cooking oil. The majority of it came bakeries and we'd cruise up the cut smelling of doughnuts! Made you feel hungry..

Poppadoms can be grilled too, also not greasy. But you gotta watch them.

I find that with he bright chromed ones

Have you ever seen a peg loom mattress? Peg looms are an amazing way of making rugs, mattresses etc.

Old tools from boot fairs/ junk markets. Avoid power tools (possibly stolent). 2 identical adjustable wrenches/ spanners, set of stilsons copper pipe cutter. Blowtorch- for making toasted cheese- why else?