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There was another estate releasing a herd of water buffalo for habitat improvement for similar aims as this case. It is interesting how the release of large herbivores has such a positive effect on habitats and biodiversity. It is often the large herbivores that have the biggest, positive effect...

My great granddad was an engineer then after he got ill he became a pawnbroker i think. Or something like that. Anyway, my gran gave my mum her mum's engagement ring. My mum kept trying to get me and my partner to marry by offering up her gran's engagement ring. My great granddad got it from his...

As a kid I had a treasure box. It was an old plastic ferrerra Rochet box and had alsorts in it including two large milk teeth molars I had removed while under full anaesthetic because they actually had big roots on them!! Still they were too important to throw them away, my treasure!

I live on the side of a flood plain / boggy area behind an old railway dyke from the tidal estuary. There are flood protection details such as flood gates and dykes around the relatively flat farmland opposite my house. The house itself is a bungalow with a garage and undercroft below. This...

We have an old Kennedy 520 toolbox. It is a grey fliptop lid with a removable front panel revealing some deeper and narrower drawers. It is intended as a toolmaker's toolbox and commonly found with all sorts of gauges, verniers, micrometers and other metric devices. In this case it was used as...

I just think it will be a little cold for about 2 weeks during which time we will see a little condensation in the loft, but not enough to be a major issue. All I care about is that it does not get too cold and the condensation issue be bad.

Well I live near an estuary but even with the worst model on climate change related flooding the worse it'll get is to the road over 1 storey below my front door. I can get out via the back door and up a footpath even if I am still around here in 2080 when the flooding could happen IF the worst...

If you only have a plain drill you have to use it or not do the job. I have a number of times had to take a break to cool the bit down before completing the hole. Not great but my dril is quite old and was not a fancy one by even the standards of the day back then. A house warming present from a...

It is a nice idea but I do not want that scevenger to be our dog. It is a border terrier and they are actually known to have dodgy or sensitive stomachs to what they eat. I really do not want a night being continuously woken up to let the dog out to eat numerous plants to provoke an emptying of...

We have a dog that might pay them too much attention. Better to bin it than any of the other ideas. Our dog is a terrier that once ran off 50m plus in a straight line and dug down to bring out a buried tennis ball. It would find it if we buried it or left it for scavengers. When my partner was...

What is the reason for the reintroduction? If it benefits the environment, such as beaver that actively changes the environment which allows for greater biodiversity then I can see the reason. I did see a documentary that explained that in each ecosystem there are keystone species. These are...

Our previous bird strikes the neck was broken, you could feel it when you handled it. Your tale got me worried, did we put birds in the bin that could have come round? I am confident not on account of the necks of those birds being broken. Plus I think both times we put it in a box with ripped...

We only have a wired normal drill and it got through everything we needed it to, eventually. In brick a masonry drill bit went in very easily but we had stone walls too in places. That took a lot of effort and you needed one new masonry bit per hole!! I doubt a proper hammer drill would change...

We have some reasonable sized windows (70s picture windows) and one window has a nice pine tree that reflects into it. We get a fair few wood pidgeons or collared doves being taken out by that window. However today we had a goldcrest strike a different window that is too high to get a reflection...

They do look easy to install. £20 for 10 vents on Amazon. Not sure how many vents would be needed. Guess it is a case of estimating the volume of the loft and how much each vent allows through or rate of flow possible or area of the roof instead of loft volume. I reckon there is a formula for...

I'm seeing the Kennedy toolbox as a project to get to a saleable state to maximise the price obtained. Then when it's good again I'll decide whether to sell it or keep and use it! :) The micrometers and South gauges I don't want. My old job I used mostly vernier and digital ones. My first ones...

There are a few calipers, as in like compasses for drawing but they have curved out or inwards tips depending on whether they are for measuring inside or outside dimensions. Not sure they will have value for selling on. Same with the various hardened tool steel blocks my FiL made at the...

Just realised there are a a few Starrett Depth micrometers. They are more expensive than normal micrometers. I also read a bit and some sources say that the only two brands that you can guarantee a quality product through their production range is Mitotoyo and Starrett. Some of the other noted...

This is not bushcraft but there seems to be a lot of practical knowledge on BCUK so I thought I would ask here first. My FiL is a long retired mechanic and engineer. He started with car and truck mechanic and ended up in the oil and gas a s fitter / engineer on large diesel gensets and the...

Well we're thinking about the one winterizing we do need. On very cold days we get condensation under the lined roof in the loft. It had a third with a lot of extra insulation laid on top of the loft flooring. The central third was just insulation within the loft floor space. Then the final...