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Well I've learnt stuff I didn't know I wanted to know on this thread. I love it.

Plant net has been a great help in my plant I.D journey. It gives me pointers and ideas, which I can then fully confirm in books or elsewhere on the web. It provides something of a shortcut, and being always short on time, I need this. Over time I've got a feel for when I can trust it and when...

Could be yellow anemone Anemone ranunculoides. I would have thought it would contain toxin ranunculin as with other anemone species.

One of those little square signalling mirrors off Amazon. I will be returning it.

I remember reading that in the episode with survival lilly her partner had his 'ferro rod' burned by a flying ember. Or am I imagining that? Seems phenomenally unlucky if true.

I had a cracking couple of days on kinder scout in the peak District last week. Got loads of navigation practice in and honed my pacings and timings. Temperature was around freezing but with significant wind chill. Probably doesn't count as winter for many people on the forum. But I learnt the...

I use two apps on a smartphone. I've personally never felt the need for a dedicated GPS unit. I have the ordnance survey app on my phone, although I don't use it because I always have a paper OS map. But I also use an app called locus maps. I have locus maps classic, before it became a...

Interesting, thanks for the link. I think that's a pretty good way of putting it. I think that's what bugs me about the slew of recent articles - George Monbiot's articles included. They seem emotive rather than factual. I'm all for being considerate of neighbours and I'm all for discusssing...

Thank you all for the responses, a lot of food for thought. I have a stove, that really, I don't need. The house just doesn't need it. But then I only run it maybe four or five times a year, on particualrly cold days. I've always figured that everything we do in life has an environmental impact...

Hi everyone. There have been many articles recently (in the guardian at least) on wood burner pollution. I'm interested to know what people's thoughts are on this. Are pollution concerns justified? I have no problem with discussions on pollution in the media, but I can't help thinking the issue...

Ok, some interesting points.

I have to say I'd hate to be in the position of anyone having to ervict a tresspasser from their land who has refused to leave. Use of reasonable force, in practice, is no simple thing, with risk of being assaulted or ending up committing assault. Just to be absolutely clear, I'm not condoning...

I don't think you'd get carted away unless you were committing or intending to commit criminal damage. The police don't have the power to do move you on.

Indeed. Some nice photography otherwise. I did enjoy the oyster mushroom snaring a nematode.

A program called magic of mushrooms, on bbc4 right now. May be of interest to folk on here :)

Thanks Broch that's very informative. I'm not overly familiar with greater celandine, though it seems easily distinguishable from lesser celandine.

I'm nurturing a small patch of these in my garden. You've reminded me to go check on them. My understanding is that, being in the buttercup/ ranunculacae family, the tubers contain the toxin ranunculin which is removed during cooking. Edit: yep, they've appeared.

Here's another. I noticed wood avens poking up through cracks in an alley. I've never tried the leaves, but I did once make a syrup out of the roots.

We have a lot of young Alexander growth in our area, smyrnium olustratum. Silver birch buds can make a pleasant nibble.

I'd be willing to pay tax for the state to manage land for my benefit. Equally, I'd be willing to pay fees for usage of private land, e.g. for wild camping, mountain biking and so forth, so long as it is clearly coupled to upkeep of the land. I'd rather pay a fee than sneak around hoping not to...