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thank you so much i will try and get some of that if the astonish does not move it thanks

Ok thank you i will grab some and try , i could buy a new chimney but as this one is good just the smoking stain in th top it seams a waste not to try and save it

Hi all ok i love old paraffin stoves and have a fair few including a lovely rippingille stove/oven i fully restore , nowi have been getting in to the old paraffin lamps as well . We are preppers to a point in this house lol yup that is the term people use i call it being prepared like the boy...

Hi i use bio ethanol in my stove that stuff burns very hot and you get a nice flame i found the best way to use it in the stove was pour in a fair amount i let is sit this was from new i left it 24 hours to make sure the wick in the wall was well soaked , i then poured the extra back out and...

Wow fresh eggs , we wanted chickens here but i love the foxes to much and do not wish to be fighting them , also it would be to much work for us now . The wild garlic like you say does spread ours is popping up all over but again i love it , we are going to dehydrate leaves this year but then...

Well i could say i got better than that , my wife is going through what was called the change years ago lol , and she said on the days i annoy her most days lol i can boil her water shall we say lol . I saw that one nice and i ask how well it worked i know it says used by aircrew but that means...

Nice going Woody we also love the sunflowers not just for the flowers we try and save a few heads to hang for the birds in the winter but the squirrels here well ate 30 heads in less than an hour 2 years ago , i do not mind but the seeds had not filled out at all they just munched on it i say...

@Kav good on you mate i just seen your fromthe states as i started to type a huge letter asking about donating to your service lol . I am uk based i have tried well years ago we treid to donate to any charity all the excess food we use to produce on the allotment we would have 80 -100 lb...

@Broch thank you so much i will grab a couple each month for the next couple of months and replace the ones i have , the ones i got came at £3 for 10 so hence why i say you get what you pay for , some do work but as a basic this is north type may be a few degrees out and so on @Jared i will look...

Hi is that really a plastic one , where did you get it if you do not mind i know you say highlander it looks a lot better made than my cheap ones , i do throw them in pockets on rucksacks just incase

Thanks Broch i will look at the ones you have @Wander sorry that was a type o if you look i do say 10 and they were fairly spaced out on the flat top part of the dash , our genuine orienteering one was spot on hence i went off that to compare the other , but as Broch says these were cheap ebay...

I can say i have tried a huge amount of the small plastic ones and they are not worth buying as a very very basic lost need some help to get a rough heading may be but i will say one was saying north for east lol , we put 100 on the dash with blue tack to see how many told the truth and 6 out of...

HI woody i do agree we should be , well being polite words here but the vandals need a good kick up the backside or as our local copper use to do the leather gloves round the earhole . My point is when people start shouting about what they do for others i smell a rat everytime , see if i went...

Hi Martin i thought you were going there on foot lol sorry brain fart here , ok to save your pitch could you not take some cheap garden poles i call them the plastic 8ft green cane type get them at b and m put them where you camp put a tarp on it and just string out the area you are using then...

Hmmm ok silly questionb are you allowed to carry sharps so to speak , i am not sure do they have a police presence , i wonder because i know as a kid we use to carry huge bowie knives round and our air guns and no one said a word as we used the knives to chop trees and make camps but i just...

Ah ok see with the trangia it meant it held far more fuel , see i was thinking that if no wick was used the bio fuel in the chamber would seep up the tube and light like in the trangia stove , just me and my head looking at things lasting longer , see i know paraffin needs a wick but if the tube...

Hi i really like the look of these , now to my question could you lay the wick in some of the wadding i use in my bio fuel stove then roll the wadding round the wick and slide that in the tube i know tight but use thinner wadding to get a good fit , then the wick could still be slid up but it...

I am glad someone else has smelt a rat , now we had 2 allotments i mean full size allotments and no way did we feed and share 1600 people that is BS , now to the story look at the photos hmm how does she know it was 5kg and the pictures are of her back garden in one that she said she used then...

Hi Paul you can grow anything you want but like you say be ware of the size , i have a 6 m x 3 m polytunnel and grow huge amounts of toms lettuce and i start all my outdoor veggies to right now my grape is in there also all the plants waitign to go out , you can get some great books on...

Hi Broch your very right but lets say i have eaten the evidence so to speak it was so years ago now so not sure if the law on that has changed , likei say the carp lake use to trap and i wanted to check the culvert out and wow big monsters in there , they tasted nice with the bbq lol bit like a...