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I'm not sure what is uncommon but along with apples, quinces, plums and raspberries I'm growing tayberries & loganberries, cultivated blackberry which is far superiour to wild brambles and blueberries which have done very well this year.

Just a heads up really. I buy the odd second hand item on ebay and try not to over bid so often don't win an auction. Today I went to bid and ebay insisted on my payment details before I could bid. This seemed strange as I never save my payment details with them, always pay promptly and never...

Workwear is my everyday wear.

I would look at it slightly differently and wonder how much of the kit is really needed. For example, I knew someone who was proud of his solar PV as he could do his tumble drying for 'free' (ignoring the £1,000s spent on the panels even after a grant) whereas we have just used a humble washing...

Neither or both. Just something you'd get with a simple AA LED torch, not a flood or spot but a plain torch. The AliExpress one is on the right lines but a bit gimmicky. I'd rather have an ali body and no zoom or levels.

I'm after a simple, but well made, plug in USB torch or light. I.e. Just the light and not a battery. I have a power bank with a built in light that is useful and long running, but faulty. I've looked at other powerbanks with lights but the choice isn't great so a plug in light would increase...

Which ones? I was amused that virtually the same day the BBC ran a story about the lack of wasps were were overrun by them and probably had the most wasps for several years. Plenty of bumbles about and, as a bee keeper, some of my hives have done well. There does seem to be a lack of...

From what little I've seen of Le Loup's posts I would have said the opposite was true. A post by someone who lives a more natural life and is more exposed to the changing climate?

@TeeDee here's a photo of the figs from our tree. A good size and popular with the wildlife including hornets. I'll take some cuttings and might have a plant or two spare in a year; I don't think it is the usual Brown Turkey cultivar, so hope it is one more suited to Devon and worth cultivating.

We inherited a fig with our house and every year it produces hundreds of large figs every year. Sadly it seems to be growing in an old scrap heap so I'm reluctant to eat them. I have taken cuttings and have had a few figs produced in pots but they do seem to like a bit more room than a pot. (I...

Do you have any recomendation for mild chillies? We always grow our own and generally like ones that give a good flavour rather than just heat. Smoking them also worked and is something worth a try.

A good few hundred yards, we have a hen currently doing this. She is nesting over the road and in a back of a field. She's started visiting us as the field she was next to has been harvested so probably less food about.

A dropping from a broody hen pheasant can be 5 or 10 times the size of a normal dropping. Rather than wondering around passing a dropping every few minutes it'll sit on a nest for several hours and then pass a massive, smelly, dropping whilst looking for food for a few minutes before going back...

Possibly a pheasant. It looks like the large dropping a hen will do when it is sitting on eggs. It pops off to feed and produces a large dropping. It'll smell strongly of urea rather than foxy. We still have a hen pheasant sitting on eggs somewhere.

Indeed. And if they can't be prosecuted for carrying a long fixed blade now then when the criminals switch to a long kitchen knife or non-zombie style machete they will still will not be able to be prosecuted.

Not necessarily, no. I'm thinking of tools which are used, not decorative items or whatever. I know of someone who uses a now possibly banned tool for normal work and on at least one occasion police have turned up. He was certainly not committing any sort of crime and your comments on good...

Does anyone need more than one or two knives to practice bushcraft? Probably not but many people seem to have rather large collections. No one is defending someone carrying a weapon to attack someone with, of any description. What is a concern is where the ban has made commonly held tools...

Yep, I can agree with that. I often tell people hens can make a lot of noise especially if they are used to roaming and then shut up. I really miss the every day noise of hens about the place though. And their poo for the compost heap. The other point I'd add is the dealing with a sick or...

Have you logged a claim yet? I expect there's always a small chance of something getting lost but it's what the company does about it that matters. (Even items that only cost a few pounds I received an email notification of delivery, so they are likely to know you've not received your item). To...

What is the green movement? I'd be hard pressed to define one, it often seems to be a do as I say not as I do movement. I wouldn't class myself as green but jumped off the endless growth bandwagon many years ago. Many people would agree with you Tengu but we're in a tiny minority. How to get...