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Ooh, Dave Budd makes a good knife too, blacksmith forged fine stuff

Shing is also worth talking to be makes a good solid knife. Or guy stainthorp, or if you fancy really up market, Paul mason

I remember buying a 5kg tub of potassium permanganate back in 2003ish. I had to sign an end user certificate to get it.

Hello back from sunny Sheffield!

Degree, PhD. Council funded with bit of student loan. Epsrc. Bit of debt. It helps with my job and I would do it again. But study harder

Boy's brigade for me, 6-35 later years as staff.

Take a look at these https://speedsterstoves.co.uk/combined-windscreens/pot-rests/combined-windscreen-and-pot-rest-for-pans-dia-100mm-to-120mm.html Windscreen with built in pot support As per no affiliations etc

Strange times. First (proper) lockdown I was sent home, eventually on furlough. Got a bit stressed about it all. Now, with the uni not having students in and having to home school I'm back at home. Hard to do teaching lab tech stuff from home. Misses is still going in as a researcher. Will have...

Check out Facebook too, you will find quite a few clubs on there, both normal clubs and contest clubs and societies.

Have a look online for a cable access set/kit it's like a miniature set of drain rods but ment for pulling electric cables through access holes etc. Useful for all sorts of other stuff, fishing behind rads, drawstrings in shorts etc

If you search for websdr you will find a load. The one at twente is a good one, 0-30MHz range. Works ok on a smart phone too

Oh, one bit of advice, get the programming lead, and a copy of 'chirp' there are plenty of YouTube videos on how to use it. Handy for putting repeaters in to the memory as well as the 2m simplex channels.

I'm afraid that I'm to much of a cheapskate! I use mapswithme. It uses open street maps data. You can download what ever to your phone. Not os and lack of grid refs but very useful all the same.

I used to be cook for my old boys brigade company camp. We used to cook 2 hot meals a day for 40 people on an open fire. All the Dixie's used for cooking had a small chunk of wood floating in the top, apparently to take up the wood smoke. Can't really say how effective it was but worth a try...

There was a set of patterns that was sent round a while back. I think Toddy organised it. Still have mine somewhere. Good luck with making it

Decided that I needed to do a bit more, I walk to and from work in the region of 4.6 to 5.3 miles a day with a 9-11kg rucksack at a fair lick, however I decided that my upper body was getting weak, so like a fool I had a go at the marsoc short card. I couldn't make all the reps but gave it a go...

Been busy over my lunch time recently. I made a batch of these a few years back and decided to make some more. Bottle openers made from old plug pins

Found this, if it's of interest https://www.theshoelace.co.uk/acatalog/Square-Cut-Leather-Lace-Natural-EU_RollSQ_Nat.html#SID=33

Rich, have you looked on le Prevo? Think they used to sell leather lace