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If we are discussing the Anglo-Welsh Jurisdiction, that is not necessarily so... Without other aggravating factors, a collector's item on display in a house gives no presumable inference at law other than that the owner likes and collects such things. An intruder in a dwelling place can't be...

Having had to use military kit and also having had my choice of civvy stuff, I go for the civvy stuff every time. Military kit is usually fine for what it was designed for, but in the case of bergens, that wasn't as a stand-alone load carrier. Price and durability sometimes make surplus stuff...

I use a beetle and small flat-edged billhook / straight-froe, as has been mentioned above. I've forged a couple of the mounted splitters for people, and I made one for myself, but didn't like it much so gave it to an aunt. There is another way I've seen and had a go with, and it works... get a...

That's fair comment; but I think lockdown wasn't the real test it may have seemed for some, in the sense that there was money coming in regardless for many. For myself... I made up my mind when I was a teenager that I wasn't going to do anything I didn't like if I didn't have to; but, that if...

Is 'mud' a euphemism because BCUK is a family forum...?

Interesting, I only knew a little of that. His old place is about half an hour from here, right by a friend of Mrs GNJC. The only thing you could fault around here with is the amount and the spread or the rainfall. :( I think he was an 'idealist', which isn't necessarily a bad thing; but he...

Hmm... he was a strange fellow in many ways. I came across his self-sufficiency book indirectly, having first bought old copies of his 'forgotten' arts and crafts books. I liked them and so I bought the other... yet, as a farmer, I find a lot of it to be eccentric at best. I think it is...

John Seymour's 'Self Sufficiency' is regarded as a classic. He also wrote a couple about old crafts, rural and domestic, which were later combined into one volume - no idea how much was left out, if any.

Nothing off the top of my head for you; but you could apply the sort of logic my boss uses when doing it for me... she just looks at what I use-up, break and / or lose most regularly... :banghead: And then adds some other things that she thinks may amuse me, and chocolate.

It could be if it constituted an aggravated trespass. (CJPO s68(1) (b) & (c))

Well, that's decades of 'knowing' something gone out of the window... again. :banghead: :)

When you've received a fair number of suggestions and have listened to them, please let us know if anything stood as very good.

I think Lofty Wiseman was in on the design of this too; a cousin has one and if the style suits you this is a very well made piece of kit.

You can't do anything practical that will 100% stop them getting in. You can reduce the number trying to get in, even to zero, by making places outside more attractive, and fatal.

You can make a pretty good infusion from hemp, and I believe that some fungi can be used too, but they obviously require some decent knowledge before using. :thumbsup:

Ray has very probably done more for the public understanding of wild Britain than pretty much anyone else other than David Attenborough, and has contributed a fair bit to historical education too. The predominance of brown and green clothing in his wardrobe is the obvious choice for someone who...

Rinse with something that stings then put enough bits of micropore tape over to protect - not too tightly; repeat after your daily wash.

Just started on George Sturt's 'A Small boy in the Sixties' (meaning the 1860s), having already read other memoirs by him. I'm not expecting anything revelatory, but he gives a fair insight to a lower middle class family of the time. He also offers commentary on the people about him, urban and...

I am jealous! I've no idea when the martens were last commonly found around here, guessing maybe pre WW2 because of the size of some rotting cage traps a couple of old fellows had in sheds from then. The 'proper' Welsh name is a bit odd in translation, 'tree ball', but I've only heard 'pele' or...