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Stearin makes the wax harder. It keeps candles from bending at room temperature. You want your waterproofing wax to be soft so it is easier to rub on and so it stays flexible on the fabric. Z

Maybe a young muntjac in distress. The purring sound may be what's causing the distress! I have read that you can call in a muntjac by using a blade of grass between the thumbs to imitate the cry of the young. You may of course have recorded me practicing this! Z

At this time of the year we often light the wood burner but then just let it go out as it gets too warm. My latest favourite method is flint and steel, amadou and a sulphur match. The match makes the transition from ember to flame much quicker and doesn't fill the room with smoke. Z

Ah the roar of the paraffin! Makes me want bacon just listening to it. What make is the stove? Z

I'd like to be free of ad-ridden eyesore produced by the thieving miscreants at Tapatalk. Z

Is there an Isuzu pickup owners group on FB? In the Ford Ranger group there's often canopies up for grabs. Z

A friend of my mother had to call the AA because her car ground to a halt. The AA chap spotted the problem as soon as he opened the bonnet: ...she had forgotten to take the blanket off the engine that morning! Z

Nice spoonage! What sort of hook knife are you using? Z

I have heard that because they don't use salt on the roads in Japan, they also don't apply underseal with the same degree of corrosion resistance. The advice was to get any import undersealed and waxoyled before its first UK winter. Z

If you go on the British Geological Society website and find the geoindex map, you can bring up different layers of information. I agree with you that the false colours from the fourth dimension can be baffling, so my trick is to add a terrain layer called hillshade which makes the terrain look...

Go have look at the National Library of Scotland map collections. http://maps.nls.uk/geo/explore/# If you're into maps I promise you will be there for hours. A recent name curiosity was "Deer Leap". Which was a kind of one way fence designed to allow deer into a forest, but not let them out. Z

That's the problem; a mile and a half isn't far enough to get clear of the busy-bodies! Z

Caravans and campervans are not really designed for winter conditions. The main problem isn't the cold, it's condensation. I have done a few frosty/snowy nights in our caravan. You end up burning a lot of gas (it has to be propane for winter), and you will still have running wet walls. With...

When i first saw this knife, my first thought was "Gotta be rawhide". That's an excellent functional sheath, although I can see how you might want to do it again. Does it have a wooden liner? I think rawhide is amazing stuff; like the kydex of the stone-age. Z

"Dark and blurry images taken in haste on a old smartphone" I get lots of these! Z

Thank goodness for that. It has really been bothering me this past seven years! Z

Thanks all. I had to Google "sayas" as I hadn't heard of them before. Z

Beautiful. Z

A couple of my new carving sharps needed protection. First up; my Robin Wood hook knife. I'm not sure where I first saw this idea but it isn't mine. Next is a Mora 106 that I put a handle on. This idea I copied from those made by a guy called Reid Schwarz. It was a real pain to make so he...

I really like that. If the steel proves too soft for woodland duties, it could find a home in the kitchen. Even if it was just for cheese! Z