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I peel spuds. Husband and sons don't like skins in their mash :) I hate wasting the skins though, and tried the whole 'fried potato skins' thing.....put on a kg in a fortnight, so to hang with that :rolleyes: I'm just fattening up the worms with them now. Baked spuds, I eat it all :)

Much under considered tools are good pruners and snips, but they're not only 'safe' in public, they're really good and useful too.

For bark, it is indeed an orange string wooden handled Lancashire peeler. In the kitchen though, I use a Victorinox one :D

Until the housing boom of the 1960's big iron keys were commonplace items. They remained in use for outside coal sheds, workshops and gates for a long time thereafter. I have a collection :D they turn up in the most surprising places at times. Hundreds scattered from midden heaps across the...

I use wee knives....for pretty much everything. Lot of people have told me to, "Get a real knife", like thon Australian fellow who killed crocodiles.....we have a surprising dearth of crocodiles in Scotland though :rolleyes2: I use a tattie peeler to strip bark...got roundly told off by a...

How quickly do you need it ? Silver birch is a weed around here. I pull out literally hundreds from every planter and border, and spaces betweed pavers, in the garden every year. If I didn't I wouldn't get out the door in couple of years. They grow thickly, where their windblown seeds gather...

No, it doesn't wick. It's hair, it's meant to A) shed the rain and B) let it dry off as the hair blows about in the wind. Thing is though; even sodden wet, so long as you stop the windchill (and felted wool does that to a very good effect) it'll still keep you warm....unlike cotton which clings...

Culture vs nurture comes into play too though. Honestly ? if you're cold, put a hat on, it really helps.....even when sleeping. A watch cap is very comfortable to sleep in. Hammock, tent, curled up in a plaid, a hat helps.

I bought one in the 1990's in a sale in Tiso's, and it was honestly too big for me. Son1 snaffled it, and it's still in use. Still sound, and he rates it too. Quality kit. M

We tried doing a what have you foraged this week/month kind of thing, and tried to keep it going through the year....it's past time to kick off a new thread on the topic. Individual plant profiles are hard to keep tidy though; and there are just so very many of them. Happy to see it start...

It's a miserable windy wet day here, and when out to empty the bins I spotted the 'weeds' growing in two planters....lovely crop of fresh bittercress :) A tasty munchie.

Highlanders didn't find it so :D Kilts and blue bonnets :D

When pregnant in a really scorching hot summer, I was told to run cold water over my inner wrists...the skin is thin there and the blood is near the surface. It cools down the blood, cools down the whole body. That's why in the cold we wear long cuffed gloves, etc.,

I think they're asking the wrong question, and the wrong way around. The head has masses of blood flow (scalp wounds bleed profusely kind of thing) and the brain is preferentially favoured with decent blood supply. Percentage wise you won't lose 'most' heat from the head, but covering it up...

When hominids stood upright, striding (obligate) bipedalism as against arboreal (facultative) bipedalism, and walked the savannah's, etc., their skulls were exposed to the sun, and it's heat. Hominids developed a heat dispersing venous system..... "Hyperthermal species have a special...

With a great deal of carefulness, maybe. Honestly, we tried and it was an accident waiting to happen. Mine was one of the heavy ones that sort of had teeth fitted into segments, and it coiled up and packed away in a kevlar pouch. Pretty sure it was heavier than the folding saw. I bought it...

Honestly ? buy a laplander. I had one of the really good heavy chain saws..with the metal rings at the end and kevlar hand straps. We tried it, once, and that was enough. I passed it along to someone else who was keen to try. I think it's still doing the rounds :rolleyes2: Even a cheap folding...

Exped down mat. Mine's the XL....it was a part of a group buy so that was the option given.....and it's a bit long for me at 5'2" but it packs into a normal tent inner just fine. It was a game changer. I had suffered from rheumatoid arthritis for years, and the difference in this mat from every...

The last Aran jumper I knitted for Himself cost me over seventy just for the wool, so I know where you're coming from on this. I think the OP's old fashioned truck stops are a different thing entirely from the reality of most folks stop offs. Most stop offs are over priced, intended as cash...

@Pattree Like this.... https://www.houseofbruar.com/m-myking-sweater-tt06584navywhitecharcoal/ Honestly ? I'd rather pay a home knitter to do it, and buy really good wool for her too. M