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I will be trying to make UCO type candles so if anyone could advise how to do it that would be very helpful! Silicone moulds? Buying a solar panel look at the cost per watt, flexy ones are often the most expensive. And of course you won't get the stated output on any of them :) I wondered about...

I looked at a solar powered torch a while back and discovered the Degen DE13 solar powered with hand crank radio with torch, currently £28 from Mr Bezos. FM MW SW. My comment on developing your community stemmed from my realisation that if you are the one not knocking on doors asking for food...

Mash with kale is a fairly well known dish. If you have access to a dehydrator kale is a very good one to do, the leaves go crispy and are most likely the "seaweed" you can buy, you can season them as crisps, or smash it into a dry dust so you get a lot of leaves in a very small space. Easily...

Building your community is certainly something that can always be done. A loner will not last as long as a group who have a similar view established before they need and have to I would think?

Just to add to the mention of exit pupil size above, this also shrinks as you age. If you feel inclined, you can take a photo of your eyeball while holding a clear ruler directly infront of it to measure your maximum pupil diameter. Or ask a friend :) You need minimal light to get maximum...

Well done :)

In our two freezers I had remote thermometers with the display in the kitchen. Before we go shopping the freezer blocks go in and the temp drops a few degrees so we now put the boost button on for a few hours before. That also helps freeze the stuff from the shops, 45 mins away. We got caught a...

Merino wool. Other wool drives me nuts. I did try a wool Brynje tshirt but despite following the instructions it shrunk to about half size. My nipples now poke through cos it's so tight and it only keeps me warm above my belly button. A custom dry suit would be good if you dive with it and are...

No whisky.

W3W combined with a text message is a lot more kid friendly in my opinion which is why I've done it. Plus I've gone through the W3W strings that are near enough my house to pick ones that are easier to not mis-spell, many of the words they use would be tricky for a young un. Any emergency...

That's a relief. Carting two phones round would be annoying. I didn't know that. Don't know how either. Did you know you can text to 999 rather than ring if you register with them first, may be good where you don't have much or any signal. I used a label maker thingy to print out the...

I planted a load of willow to produce short term firewood while mostly alder catches up. The centres for those were suggested to be 1m one way and 1.5m the other to push the harvest wood up straight. Too far apart and it'll wiggle. Pollarded for rabbits. I cut every one off after year one, in...

I looked at a kayaking dry suit a while ago, the salesperson said it's a good idea to put an extra pair of neoprene socks on the outside or any sand between your suit and your footwear will wear holes. If you're not that fussed about grip when onshore, or walking in the same footwear as paddling...

I think asking locally is a good route to an old anvil, especially if there is a building that used to be a forge, there may be a few big lumps lying in the grass that no-one could be bothered to move? This US based channel I think is quite informative, anvil pages for instance...

Husqvarna wellies have a steel toe and sole so weigh a bit, fit my wide feet, aren't the tallest but I find the sole to be super grippy on wet rock. I'm on my third pair in maybe five years? Orange is always nice :) Grubs do a lace up ankle boot which are ok, the Palm ones were a bit narrow for...

I hadn't thought of little finger tip covers, I'll get some :) I do usually start a decent knife in the swede, turn it over then thump the back on the knife on a chopping board but that's not very good for whatever board you have and I don't feel very nice doing that to the knife. So I was...

Insulating tape does work well, is cheap, if you fold the end over a wee bit you can start unrolling it easily and being on a roll you have a lot to play with rather than whatever the plaster manufacturer decided. It also sticks to itself in the wet if you put a bit of tension on as you wind it...

Lovely stuff it is. Thank you :)

Kinda O?T but you can get the likes of 18650 and bigger with a USB on the top too. Very handy.

I hadn't heard of pop up campsites until this last year, where for a few months you can have a few tents on your land/in your garden with no facilities at all but no planning required. I quite fancy doing that but do question the no facilities bit. In the past I've paid for a week in a Lake...