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Whilst obviously joking, I have often thought it would be useful to have a full meal in a pouch just like cat or dog food. The best thing I can find is those Merchant Gourmet pouches - https://www.merchant-gourmet.com/collections/all/filter_pouches

Cat food.

Today my OH spotted a pair of mating wasps at it in a sun lit gorse bush. The new queen was much bigger than the male and they were there for several minutes. Not something I've seen before.

I've just seen that, one of my favourite creatures, sort of remind me of work where I used sort out other people's mess. We get quite a few here and they even sort out the cat mess.

https://bushcraftuk.com/community/threads/22mm-orange-barton-silicone-elite.166829/#post-2076991 ?

I was going to start another thread on what to plant as I'm often on the look out for new ideas. The problem for us is most of our ash will be gone in a few years due to ADB. Hornbeam is loved by squirrels so is out; beech, sycamore, field and other maples and oak also get badly damaged so are...

We currently use about 5 cubic meters a year for most of our later autumn, winter and early spring heating, plus most cooking and small amounts of hot water. That's about a cord and a half. We can provide all our wood from about 15 acres of woodland, mostly thinnings and windfall (which often...

What cans are they, army surplus or new? We still get the old metal type ammo cans. I tend to have to keep on top of stuff laying around otherwise a mouse or vole will nibble or nest in it!

To add to what Kepis and others have said, in my experience planning departments can vary from place to place. When I put a pre-planning app in I attached photos and a couple of sketches. It seems our current council mostly tell you to put in full planning. I've have also drawn up my own plans...

An experienced developer, or even a competent builder who does a few properties up on the side, will in all likelihood know what they'll get through planning so I doubt you getting planning will add anything to the value of your house.

I would also worry what the house insurance companies would think of one. I do find the mainstream companies don't like anything nonstandard.

Well, the cat is still here and being well fed. As mentioned a few times if we can catch it and know it's not owned by anyone then we'd get chipped and neutered. But, although it is happy for us to feed it and it comes out and waits for food it is still very cautious, so catching it will not be...

The oak logs I used were freshly cut from my woodland. The spawn was put in the fridge on delivery and logs cut next day.

Have you clicked on the delivery and about us bits? It talks about a flat fee of 3.99 USD and US warehouse and clothing. It also says it's based on laws in Canada.... The contact address looks wrong and google maps can't find the post code. I've not ordered from them, no.

With regard to yield the shiitake I posted an update in this thread: https://bushcraftuk.com/community/threads/fungi-dowel-colonization.155097/#post-2075335 Were started with 100 spawn dowels in about 6 2-3' fresh oak logs. That flush was better than others but you can get several flushes over...

To make compost quickly you not only need a mix of woody and green material but also air and it needs moisture. The plastic bins may not always provide an ideal environment but they are fairly cheap to get hold of and easy to use. To improve things you can build up a pile of suitable material...

Thanks, that's what I thought but they are listed as 1.5v. Just found some specs and they do seem to output 1.8v when new. The torches I have in mind don't list voltage other than AA or AAA batteries but I'll not risk it. It also helped me decide as the lithiums were several times the quality...

I've been sorting out some torches recently and been wondering about the batteries. Firstly, with rechargeable lithium batteries, has anyone ever had one overheat or catch fire at all? I've avoided unbranded cheap batteries but never had a problem with a growing list of them, and I don't know...

Do you plan to use all the 30kw when it's sunny enough to max our, or sell it back to the grid? Also, do you have an idea what a 30kw setup would produce on say a winter's day with a bit of sun and bit of cloud?

It depends on your point of view on catastrophes, plenty of people don't like otters as they will decimate fishing lakes for example. Most would agree that otters shouldn't be controlled but not much is being done to improve their native feeding grounds - i.e. our streams and rivers. Plenty of...