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I believe Vikings also carried goats on board their vessels to seed Islands with, Texa of islay has both goats from the Viking era and Spanish, although I think the Spanish came from sunk ships

Ok Who are you? and what have you done with Rich?

I think theres 7 or 8 in our office doing it, first time I've been clean shaven for about 6 months, and 20 years since I last grew a tache.

I've made one of teepees and it works great, but I only tried it with wooden pellets. I had a play with a garlington stove a few years back, heres the link to the post I did, theres a few links in there that might be useful

Wow, disparage the company's going in denuding the forest, not the natives of the area taking one tree. Reality check duh!!!!

I've just ordered one of these very good reviews, slightly more than a third the price

I did wonder, I did a trawl thru various links, this one is quite interesting

Dreadhead, the first entry on google on a search for viking turnshoes comes up with a pdf guide with a step by step guide mate aidan campbells website

21. RichardWW 22. Gailainne

Lol, Ok a few answers, they handle very well, you use your body weight to trim and level the boat, on Ullswater I was in convoy with various sized sailing cruisers, and dinghy's, and kept with them no problem. Yes stability is an issue, just after that photo was taken of me I went out towards...

Trunks The canoe is a 15ft Mad River Reflection, the sail is a Solway Dory 44 sq ft Bermudan, check out the web site SolwayDory

It would be good to catch up, I'm up for it.

You don't need a defence, the Blackbird is the best hammock out there by far

The temperature in the Central belt has dropped significantly over the last week, and Mary is right you can feel/sense it, there's a smell, tone of light that goes along with it. A mate at work this morning showed me a picture of a car park with snow on it, taken the day before in Strathclyde...

Great stuff Hugh really enjoying the thread. A question, I seem to remember a programme, may have been river cottage where the mice were getting into the hives and eating the bees, you foresee this beign a problem, or do you have it covered?

The DC4 is thick enough, (for me at least) to use in the hand, (or finger tips), what I normally do is keep the stone in my right hand (right handed) and the knife in my left hand, switching it toward and away from me as I sharpen, that way I can eye along the edge as I'm sharpening, both edges...

Great pictures mate, good to meet you.

Leave a knife out/around with Mad Dave about, he'll clean it up for you, won't you Dave :)

Oops missed a few posts, BTW Ospreys aint the biggest raptor on Lomond, I'm almost positive I saw a juvenile white tailed eagle on Lomond year before last, Stuart69 and Grooveski were with me, as we were paddling on the East side of Inchconnachan as we disturbed it it kept flying in front of us...

SCR, I'm not arguing, in fact if you notice I stated education begins in the HOME, but inevitably the parents need to be educated first, public awareness during commercial breaks of the various soaps/real tv?, (am I being too cynical yet) anything to get them thinking