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Doc said it years ago; Eat a little less, move a little more. It's slow, it's very sustainable, it becomes a gentle habit, and it works :)

It looks like the kind of teapot that the Women's Guild use when they've a lot of folks to serve. Handy when you need it. Might be from one of those tea/breakfast burger vans ? that would explain the matching jugs/sugars too. I used one when camping with a big group. Fill it up with water and...

Nice find :) Just give it a good scrub :D Fairy Liquid and the kitchen green scourer thing. If you really want it clean use something like Pink Stuff or Astonish paste. It'll come up looking brand new :) I'm seeing a dribble down from the base of the spout....is it just from iron-y water or...

Triple Point ceramic, so much better than goretex in our sodden wet.

In the wetter areas of western Europe flax is a good crop, with few issues, but hemp is superb right across the board. It was vilified so badly though that it never recovered well enough to compete. Cotton is a very short staple fibre and easily worked by machines. Linen and hemp are long...

Linen fabric softens with wear. Basically you want tiny tiny wee microfractures in the fibre structures. So, wear it, wash it, wear it some more :) and it'll stop creasing so much. The late Queen was still using Queen Victoria's table linens....they were rolled not folded. The folds make hard...

I have, and it's one of those gentle sort of almost dancing as you move in and away. It's called the Walking wheel. It really needs carefully prepared rovings though. I have a Scottish Spinning Schools wheel that has sound provenance to the late 1740's I have it's clock reel too (you didn't get...

I like the adage about us all living a little more simply so that others might simply live. Our society though is based on 'more', wanting more, wanting security, wanting not to lack, wanting to make a profit from the homes we live in.....to turn all that upside down would need a revolution...

I pinched the tops off and took the fresh sprouting bits to add to my stir fries. Can't say it was superb, but it was tasty, easy grown, green stuff. The seeds make good mustard if you can be bothered threshing enough out. Comes up again for a bit, but they're easy to weed out.

The Boss has been off at the Moot so Admin is running a little slow. I'll flag this so that we know it's been seen and hopefully it'll be sorted out asap :D M

Nice :) very nice :) I like using lily leaves too. It makes really good cordage. Flag iris isn't quite like water rush, but it's good stuff as well.

The other thing that's really good is pieces of bicycle inner tube. Quite handy to use rounds like elastic bands around tinder too.

Be very careful of using reedmace heads.....if they split at all, then you will have the most almightly mess. I know someone who dropped a few down the chimney of my kelly kettle......

Very old thread.....https://bushcraftuk.com/community/threads/tinder-bundles.135268/#post-1929887

I make tinder bundles. Pretty sure there are photos somewhere on the site. You could just smear some vaseline on a couple of make up cotton pads and put them into a wee ziplock bag though. Pretty much a guaranteed start regardless of the weather.

There are different varieties. The wee blue Doff ones come recommended for organic gardeners, and having seen the same blasted squirrel digging them out of the wee stones I have around my pansies in the pot (the squirrel is recognisible, it's got a red streak in it's tail) for the past...

Okay, I've had a read of the bottle and it says, " 12.5 g/kg hydrated ferric phosphate (technical) [at least 9.79 g/kg anhydrous ferric phosphate]" It seems the stuff stops them eating and they succumb to starvation. Iron poisoning. Harmless to hedgehogs, birds, cats and dogs, squirrels and...

Seem to be. My garden gets a lot of visitors and the cats seem to totally ignore the pellets. I think they're basically iron.....I'll have a google and let you know. M

I live next to a tree covered nature walk that runs along side a burn, we are very damp here. It is slug and snail heaven. I can't grow root crops because of keel slugs, and I have to protect things like pansies, pinks, lilies, sweet peas, as well as vegetable peas if I want flowers or crop...

You could join your local Viking reenactment group. I know that the ashes of individuals are sometimes put on the longships they set alight. My friends born to soon baby was given this. Now when the longship is burnt at the end of their year's big show, Mum and sisters put a posy of white...