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How about banning the culture that makes these ridiculous fantasy weapons cool? Personally I don't mind them banning things no sensible person would even want to hang on their wall, that is if they even exist in significant numbers so long as it draws their attention away from functional and...

That is sophisticated, all I have is an outbacker portable stove, doesn't even have a damper on the flue, but I can cook basic stuff on it.

It rather depends on your definition of wilderness, would the Burren in Ireland count? I would call it wild at least. I would also say Caithness and Sutherland, there is not an awful lot there.

The fun I guess is in discovering and learning. A few years back now, I decided I would take over a piece of land, and I would learn by doing how to convert it from derelict land to a woodland environment part of which spends time underwater. I have had to combat the farmer who thinks I should...

I am tempted to say whatever works, use it, you will find out soon enough whether it is suitable or not. It is not as if there were only ever one pattern of billhook. My Elwell slasher is like a cross between a billhook and a thick machete, it works as well as a bill in some situations. I also...

Willow grows very easily from shoots, and very quickly too. If you have an established willow and pollard it, you have a ready supply of willow whips to plant. It will soon get established. It is exponential, once you have a few established the amount of shoots you will get off them will just...

Plant willows, but whatever you do don't read that Algernon Blackwood story if you do.

How do you keep Ventile clean though, my trousers have become stained with charcoal and I just can't get it out, I am gonna have to dye them black I reckon.

I still have a belt that fastened my trousers when I was 18, it will not even go round my waist these days though.

I remember the Donkey Jackets, they had vinyl over the shoulders just where you need it to be most waterproof. They were eventually superseded by the ubiquitous high viz jacket, which of course is completely waterproof but not breathable. I keep one on the back seat of the car for emergencies.

Wool can be windproof if it is a felted fabric like loden. When I was little I was sent to school in all weathers in a trusty duffle coat, with the hood up that saw me through the winter of 1963.

It is all in the weave basically, I can remember back in the day gabardine being a thing, not sure what that is exactly but it is what they used to make macs out of. At the moment I am wearing wool as my outer layer. I have given over my ventile trousers for wool because that is more comfortable...

Being as I am dependent upon half a dozen medications every day, I might as well give in to the apocalypse.

If you are talking Vango, the Vango blade is not bad in my opinion, you can pitch it in one, just thread the single pole through and you are done.

I know I am getting political here, but I believe it is time that the "rights" or the rather wrongs of landowners like him were curtailed, land is for all not for profit. He only wants to raise grouse so fat cats can pay a fortune to shoot at them and mostly miss. Obviously peasants get in the...

It would be nice if they were compulsorily purchased off the moor.

Four poster bed, draw the curtains to keep the draughts out and an old fashioned stone water bottle. The worst here is being in the top flat with a flat roof there is not a lot above me to keep the heat from escaping. They are supposed to be putting a new roof on soon (whenever that happens)...

Well they don't come much more wrinkly than I, but naturism does have it's fanatics, I can remember once upon a time in the Coventry precinct going about my honest business when I came accross Vincent Bethel in his prime, starkers up a lampost, pretty it was not!

When it is warm I sleep in the buff or in my underpants, the merino only comes out when I need an extra layer.

Can't really see that either unless they are supposed to empathise with all those nude models, however they(the visitors) are being stared at are they?