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  1. ManFriday4

    Climate Change & Survival.

    Climate is a trend based weather pattern & temperature range over a longbperiod of time (decades, centuries & millenia for example the neolithic revolution required a warmer climate than the glacial maximum could offer. From climate data, which isnt necessarily statistical weather can be...
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    Black lump on fallen tree branch?

    What species of tree was it, was the tree alive or dead. How big was the fungi
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    Sixth Sense - What is it ?

    Esily done in the UK where our mast dangerous predator is a badger. Try that in Grizzly bear country, or on the savannah.
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    Narrowboat

    Best pro If you don't like your neighbours you can untie them
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    Narrowboat

    Actually there were a few cons.. Passers by looking in through the windows- I would stare out at them.. Occasional wierdos on the towpath.
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    Sixth Sense - What is it ?

    Narcissistic/ psychopaths have the ability to read people, calculate their strengths and weaknesses and use them to their advantage. Are you sure she was a psychiatrist and not a psychologist. Psychiatrists are Doctors who spend a further 6-7 years to become registratrars/consultant...
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    Sixth Sense - What is it ?

    I wonder if 6th sense is driven by instinct
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    Sixth Sense - What is it ?

    I'm not talking about psychotic people, I'm talking the Hare-Babiack snake in a suite type, they are not psychotic, they are hardwired lacking a conscience. (Sex-offenders, conmen/women, Borderline PD, serial/spree killers) medication can manage their behaviour, but they don't hear voices or...
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    Cheese With Hot Dog?

    Poisoning the fish?
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    Sixth Sense - What is it ?

    Have you ever met a real diagnosed psychopath? The sort of predator that you meet and they look through you, like they are sizing you up for lunch.. if you meet someone and the hairs on the back of your neck stand up, that's a warning, lisyem to it.
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    Auger

    The Bushcraft "Survival" auger /"settler tool" is a scotch Auger with a minor modification to the eye. Scotch augers (google "Scotch auger") are old world green woodworking tools. It's easier to do woodwork with hand tools on green wood because it's softer & easier to work. You could use it...
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    Bats

    Bats are mostly short sighted. A space suddenly being lot will startle them. Their echo location is super accurate for hunting. If you observe bats hunting then the fly in a circle, oval or within the space they are hunting such as a barn, cave mouth or woodland glade or in more open speces they...
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    Cheese With Hot Dog?

    Hot dogs yuk. Do you know how they make those things? This is the meat industry dustbin product. Sauages from a reputable source? Yes Brown sauce or barbecue sauce
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    Dawn redwood (Metasequoia)

    This is an interesting take, especially in the face of climate change. However, there are invasive species best avoided like roderdendron, in fact they shouldn't even be allowed in private gardens. Would you for example plant sycamore? It coppices beautifully makes excellentw ooden spoons &...
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    What are you currently reading?

    Reading Brading Sweetgrass, Robin Wall Kimmerer. The Author is a conservation biologist & academic of Native American dissent. "Traditional Ecological Knowledge, also called by other names including Indigenous Knowledge or Native Science, (hereafter, TEK) refers to the evolving knowledge...
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    Narrowboat

    Nope, we were just a bit over crowded
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    Birch Bark box Tinder Box

    I collect Birch bark from dead parmrtially rotten trees.
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    Narrowboat

    Loads of nature all the time. See Kingfishers evert day, herons, kestrels, Buzzards, kites, murmerations of starlings in the reed bed, otters. Kisd moments lots of fun and novelty of having a friend who live on a boat for kids, lots of play on and in the boat. Daughter says she misses it...
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    Bike trailer

    I have 2 with different sized wheels depending on the load. This is a 15 mile trek to a camping spot wife a& I go to alot where there's a yurt. This is the big(ger) trolley
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    Bike trailer

    Impressive! Looks very heavy duty