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Thanks all. I think we’re going to skip any burning as there are crops in the fields around us and a couple of thatched cottages further down in the village. I could stand over the fire with a hose but I wouldn’t want it embering along for hours on end, only to break into flames again when my...

Hi All, We’ve been trying to catch up with our gardening following the extremely wet winter and spring. One of the jobs I’m facing is to tidy and trim right back our large clump of pampas grass in the back garden. The plant has totally engulfed the section of garden where it is placed. In the...

Looks like lemon balm, but that would be obvious if you crush a leaf.

Mink oil, by Fiebings, for me. See: Linky

At dusk today we noticed the first pair of bats of the year circling in the gathering gloom, in the southern lee of the house. I’m exceedingly unlikely to be able to photograph any of them, but they are certainly very active.

Congrats from me. Life very soon takes over any kind of ‘spare time’ and fills it up, so make sure that you’re doing things that you always wanted to. Life also doesn’t need to be too expensive if you cover the important things, but give yourself a little treat every now and then! Health to...

Have you guys had a look at the Ringway Manchester YT channel? He covers a lot of radio stuff - my particular twist is for cellular, having been a cellular geek - but he’s done some interesting videos around meshtastic LORA devices.

Idiots and those with ill intent always have and always will commit crimes without any recourse to what is or isn’t legal. Banning crossbows and so-called broadhead arrows won’t make any difference to those people. They will still find ways of sourcing those kinds of items for illegal use, and...

Through the lounge window

Sounds a bit like Secret Island in Wivey…. :)

Try Merlin Archery online. Broadheads will be few and far between in the UK as only people who go overseas to bow hunt would use them.

Watched & liked. It’s good to get it off your chest sometimes :)

Hi Hugh. Well, for feathers it isn’t really the size so much as the oil line in the feather, and how tough and resilient the barbs of the feather are. I tend to follow advice from an old friend of mine, Hilary Greenland, and especially from her book “The Traditional Archer’s Handbook, A...

Perhaps another aspect is that a crossbow is far easier to operate effectively as a weapon than a longbow is. Very little training or practice is required to be effective. But all of these comments are as old as time, qv crossbows being seen as “evil”, and “an instrument of the devil”. In the...

Yep. Trade points are as old as metalworking.

If I’m not using paid-for fletchings, I’ll just hang around lakes which hold stocks of geese or swans and keep an eye out….Alternatively, while I was still in Surrey, I made friends with some smallholders who raised turkeys…..a goldmine of great feathers for “a drink” :). See :

If the whistler’s cost will be prohibitive for fun roving, then I’d suggest making a few flu-flus with 3x pieces of full feather fletchings on each shaft. They work well for stumping etc if you put an ordinary field point in the arrow.

Could you post the link for @Broch ?

Yep. It’s actually a brass two-part pile where the front part unscrews from the socket so that you can clean out any soil/dirt that will get in there on a ground landing. They aren’t that cheap, but built very solid so should last for ever(ish). I got mine here: Bearpaw whistling pile Also...

Absolutely pointless gesture politics- “got to be seen to be doing something “. Those proposals would do nothing at all to reduce the violent crime rate. How about actually enacting the current legislation and use stop and search etc? Violent and illegal acts will still continue to be committed...