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I snapped the end off the awl on my farmer but managed to repair it with a file.

To go to the shops I will take my keys, my wallet, my phone, my watch, a handkerchief, a bag for the shopping, my bus pass in case I get lazy, my sturdy walking stick to fight off any bears or wolves, and usually my clothes :)

I can remember doing night classes various night classes back in the day, just for the interest and something to do. Amongst the classes I remember doing was the history of photography, primitive religions, the literature of King Arthur, mostly courses in the arts and literature as well as...

Maybe there will be an outlaw guild of fletchers and archers somewhere in Sherwood forest.

If I were that desperate to own a crossbow, I would simply go out and make one, it is not rocket science. I do hope this doesn't start a slippery slope with restrictions on long bows next.

It all comes down to common sense in the end, a little risk assessment as to where you are going as to whether you can justify your tools. Machete and billhook on my allotment and in my car as I drive there and back. Still in my car when I go to the supermarket later? No. SAK I will take...

There will be talk of a lot of things, however anything that is neither practicable nor enforcable, or meets with a lot of industry resistance is unlikely to make it to the final draft, however I do worry about definitions, such as defining a bowie knife as a combat knife specifically and...

Indeed, Labour supporter though I am, I have little faith in Keir Starmer keeping his word on anything, he does not have a very good track record on sticking to his guns if you pardon the metaphor. Hoping he will drop this nonsense as soon as he is engaged in sorting out some of the real...

I do feel a very strong connection to nature, and always have. Is it a spiritual connection? It depends upon what you mean by spiritual, but I feel that the same spirit that runs through nature is what runs through me, there isn't a real separation, even in my flat I am surrounded by plants and...

Throw it in the river. Future archaeologists will be able to study it then and determine the typology. If you hand it into the old Bill it will further stigmatise and demonise working knives.

I don't think you can beat an old fashioned wooly pully. I stopped buying fleece some time ago for environmental reasons.

Last year out camping in Wales the wind was blowing so hard it was threatening to blow my tent down or rain hard so as I would wake up in a puddle. I chickened out and spent the night in my car instead and slept well and comfortably. The tent was still there in the morning, but it would have...

Yep I always have some readies because sometimes the card readers are down

A fallow deer fawn in my woodland.

Back in the day there was pop for the kids and beer for the adults, not a problem :)

To be honest though it is not an everyday situation, the Council benefit from my occupation of the land, it is very difficult for them to access, hence it being practically abandoned by them, I have put up fences and signs told various people in no uncertain terms to leave the land alone. By and...

It rather depends on what you regard as rights to land. Morally I suppose it is a question of whether you are taking something from someone else who needs it. I read the story of Harry the Hermit on Hamstead heath and decided I must needs take my own piece of land off the Council, I am still...

It is not difficult if you have the length in the back with the seats folded down. Plenty of room in my Qashqai. I have a purpose built plywood bed base to fill the gaps and on top of that an inflatetable sleeping mat.

I recieved delivery of a Tod Cutler low status peasants eating knife via Royal Mail. My postie does not have any problem believing my age :) Anyway I think it is rather too good for a low status peasant and I think will serve very well as a small all round knife for kitchen prep as well as a bit...

Not been stopped since I was a young man some forty odd years ago when I would walk home from the pub with a legal knife in my pocket, even then that was considered acceptable and I was left to go my way in peace.