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Beautiful! :)

Absolutely. I’m afraid, as I may have said before, that my selections are at the behest of the offers made under the Tesco Clubcard scheme. The offers vary frequently, and the Aberlour is no longer listed on the Tesco website, even though I only bought it on Wednesday. However, the offer scheme...

Tonight it’s a nice measure of Aberlour 12 y.o Double Cask Speyside malt by the fire. Verrrrry smoooth. This following a beautiful blue and sunny day in the field rabbiting :)

Got that letter today from our leccy provider. Our monthly payment is going up by 50% even though we’re using the same number of units as last year, give or take three or four kWh either way. In other news I see that German consumers are being let off their green levy for electricity….

West Pier:

Hi Wildpiper :). Thanks for the kind words. Oddly enough, the best shooting bow I ever made was a simple flat bow of ERC with a hickory backing for security. It gave the most ideal combination of cast for the low-ish draw weight that I have ever managed to build in. ERC is easy to work, very...

…edited...I was pointing to the lambfoot knives sold by Mole Valley Farmers in the UK, but they are only available in-store, so not much use to you.

We feed year round, and have a healthy songbird population in our garden year round too. That’s the way we like it. There is some predation by sparrowhawks and the like, but that would go on in any case and its lovely to see and hear all of the species which we’re lucky enough to enjoy. I also...

I got that one for Christmas. A good thing to dive into when the fancy takes.

Hi All, just as a nice ending to this thread…. On our return from a few days in Cornwall, we found a package in our safe delivery place. I immediately asked the missus if she’d been ordering stuff online again , but I was assured that she hadn’t. Then on getting back online I found I had a PM...

Hi Jay, I wouldn’t class myself as an expert, but you could do what I did and take some in-person courses with good instructors in or around your area. I was very fortunate to have nagged some great bowyers into running courses - e.g Chris Boyton, Hilary Greenland and others. Plus there are...

Like the Mesolithic/Neolithic man, ya gotta use what you can find! :)

Hi John, I’m glad that it arrived safely with you :) Sending handicraft stuff is fraught with the vagaries of delivery companies, but Parcelforce seem to have, erm, delivered. I would say that from the photos, the brace height could go up a little - perhaps the B50 string is stretching a bit -...

Right handed for almost everything except projectile weapons - bows, rifles, pistols, catapults. That’s down to dominant eye.

I wear a pair of the following trousers for most of my outdoor stuff: https://www.varusteleka.com/en/product/sarma-cargo-pants/55318 Considering I made several purchases from Varusteleka at the same time, I couldn’t complain about the price or postage. They are very tough, comfortable, have...

Could it be a young alder? Pinkish-orange on cut faces when fresh…..

(Checks apple maps…) oh yes, that looks fun. We have the “North Devon TT”, aka the A396 from Dunster to Bampton :)

My current bike is a KTM950 Supermoto. I bought it new in 2007, the only vehicle I’ve ever had with zero miles on it :). It’s still running strong, and once I’d got over the OEM weak points (fuel pump, water pump shaft, wheel bearings), and fixed them all, it’s been great. It always was great...

Good luck!

Ohhhhhh, yummy! I developed a taste for salmiak sweets and Koskenkorva (at different times!) while working in Helsinki, but just the neat version of the vodka. Almost no hangover after “quite a night out”.