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I had surgery a fortnight before Christmas. It was impossible for my husband to find decent dressings in the shops. In the end, I looked out the wrapping from the original spares that was given to me at the hospital, and googled that and bought them online from a sort of pharmacy supply; an...

My present one is an ivy hearth (astonishing how thick and branchlike old ivy stems can be. This came from one as thick as my wrist, and a hazel drill.

Now that's tidily done, and practical :D

The link I added to the Clinical Learning Hub is pretty informative. I think it's worth a look through.

Pretty much anytime, but just now they're sprouting two leaves. The leaves are straight, about two inches long and the root is a long robust white thing. Sturdy sort of seed. If you catch them just as they're trying to uncurl then I think they're sweeter. M

Overwintering sycamore keys look dead and brown, but inside the seed end, there's a bright green seed...the pea :) Just now the blasted things are sprouting by the thousand around here. There's an eighty foot sycamore growing just over the other side of the path that runs along side the burn...

It's been miserable weather here for the most part today, but I had bittercress, tansy, sycamore peas, and some pignuts.

I have a copy of Care of Wounds; a guide for nurses, by Carol Dealey. https://www.awesomebooks.com/book/9780632052370/care-of-wounds-a-guide-for-nurses/used?gad_source=1&gclid=Cj0KCQjw2PSvBhDjARIsAKc2cgO4WCXOfJ6IpO9wH9su_uuFO_cpgsR_XxogctZNYb10qHOrBSbI_jYaAhNfEALw_wcB It's not a new...

Next street around from us they had a problem with rats. There were no problems before two people decided to keep chickens. They decided to free range them in their gardens but throw seed down for them too. Of course the local wild birds took the opportunity to feed too. Lot of folks fill...

No, I don't think so. Wintergreen is a small shrub from north America. Gaultheria procumbens, and though some of the native tribespeople used to eat the berries, the oil is most definitely not to be eaten. It makes a good skin antiseptic though. Mugolio is a syrup, one made from the extraction...

You can still get it. Buy as an essential oil and dilute it down in a carrier like sweet almond. https://www.freshskin.co.uk/product/wintergreen-essential-oil/?attribute_pa_volume=50ml&gad_source=1&gclid=Cj0KCQjw2PSvBhDjARIsAKc2cgNQ25Eb-wJhpiDAZLOM5kjP3gBQTst-O4d9lzOcByHHySLR-x7KWfsaAvVYEALw_wcB

Y'know ? I hadn't considered that @Tantalus We know to be careful about where we gather reedmace because it accretes heavy metal in it's roots, but I don't think I'd ever heard that about fungi.....well apart from the arguement about eating chicken of the woods growing on Yew. Interesting...

I think of them as woodland edge sort of plants, in among the grasses there, the wood millet and the like, but I don't actually know if that's true..... @Broch might know ? They come up early, they're up now. Not yet flowering here, but the green ferny bits are up. Might do well near a hedge ...

You mean like a crop ? Well the field we excavated was hotching with them....and it was just old farmland (early iron age) Honestly, they grow so slowly to create the nut that it's not a rapid thing. I get good crops, but that's relative, it's not like growing spuds, iimmc ? Best I managed...

Grow them in pots as @slowworm said. It works, I've done it for years. Deeper the pot the better, sandy mix seems to suit them fine. I just scatter gravel on the top of the pot, shake over some of the seeds from that year's dried flowering stems and let them get on with it. First year it's not...

You have our genuine condolences and sympathy, but you have also been given really sound advice that the best place for you to sell these knives isn't here. Chris already explained EdgeMatters to you, and honestly, I think you need to contact them. Speak with the site owner, he's sound, he's...

Buy a Beaton's midge jacket, and camp where there's a breeze. East coast is generally less infested than west, but anywhere damp (most of Scotland) and there'll be midgies. Good anti-histamines help too. Himself found a campsite on Skye where there was always just enough of a breeze to keep...

Now that would be such a good thing :)

Giving this a bump because I've just come across the brush that the late John Kemp made for me. I watched him make it, I find that kind of craft work incredibly satisfying, somehow atavistically hardwired into the brain. People make stuff :)

Oiled silk is very good. Used to be used for maps and the like. It makes a very good lightweight tarp, but it's easily snagged, not so much torn, but snagged. Not good in rough woodlands sort of thing. Honestly ? it's hard to beat ripstop nylon, it really is. Waxed cotton was the best I could...