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I don't bushcraft, but when I craft bushes I use something sharp. I have only recently got round to one of these new fangled thingies with a scandy grind or whatchemacallit, too early to say if it is superior to a regular bowie or an opinel. I tell a lie I have had a Martinii puuko for long...

My allotment is a victim of climate change, the intensity of floods has been increasing in level and intensity and so I have resorted to growing stuff in hippo bags filled with a basic layer of logs and brash and compost on top of that. Been very productive for spuds so far and next year I am...

A while ago I discovered Tod Cutler who makes replica medieval knives and swords. I now use his "peasant" knives as everyday kitchen knives. As for the large knife I have a 19th century pattern butcher knife from J. Adams limited, a great company I have had a few blades from now and never...

Nobody has mentioned Maurice Jarre, Lawrence of Arabia yet, I think that set the standard for others to imitate later.

Taking an axe to some overgrown tree limbs, nothing like it.

A slight fall of snow, but overnight the river reached it's highest recorded level ever, higher than last January which was the highest since 2012.

My current car is equipped with 360 degree cameras, and it needs them as it covers about the same space on he ground as a Defender, maybe a bit wider. Oh back in the day when I drove a series, how did I ever manage to park it?

Henry Weston's cider, not good for my liver most like, but .......

I will second that.

I have been using deadwood and brash to create hugelkultur beds on my allotment.

That is nearly a hundred years ago now :)

It all comes down to a matter of taste as personally I cannot abide micarta.

I dread to think what is in our local river, mostly toxic run offs from farms and the local roads I would think. It was associated with a local Polio outbreak back in the 50's there is a Pathe video about it on YouTube somewhere. The Council put up some no swimming notices a while back, but I do...

You can mould willow to make all sorts of living structures.

I was thrown out of my family home at the right time in history, I was able to fall back on a Council flat. Homelessness has always been a thing, particularly after the war, but it was solved by the mass building of Council housing. My grandparents were saved by Council housing during the...

Having used both cheap (presumably Chinese) lanterns and Feuerhand, there is a lot of difference, Feuerhand are just that much better put together.

I can remember in the 70s smuggling a bottle back from a school trip to Germany.

I am an incorrigible drinker of Henry Weston's vintage cider, it will be the death of me, but not just yet.

Very sad, the old order passeth.

I think people get hung up on the notion that it all goes on in the woods somewhere. Take away the word bush and what you have left is craft, and that can be making things with textiles, leather, wood, metal or whatever. I have just been "crafting" a couple of leather knife sheaths and a compass...