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Like the t-shirts 'No Box Required' and Version 2 of 'Not All Who Wander Are Lost'. Would buy one of each of these at £15, in the colour shown.

German Army pre-issued one-handed Victorinox knife.

For me, the commitment is to myself, and I hate to be disappointed by me. Neither do I want to get soft in my old age. Get out there and do what you promised - besides, there's always rum :-)

There's a fair bit more on the Must Farm dig here... http://www.mustfarm.com/bronze-age-river/discoveries/

Fantastic to have the complete house structures, top to bottom. And evidence of actual meals.... Archaeologists tend to be a cautious breed, but I had to smile at this... . "Archaeologists digging two metres (6ft) below the modern surface at the quarry also found preserved footprints...

Considering this lovely weather we've been having, does anyone know Rough Close well enough to comment on such things as land drainage? Should I be thinking about velcro-ing the Polish lavvu edges to the sides of an inflatable dinghy, and bring along a mooring cable?

I was sorry to learn you were mugged - appalled, in fact. People can be such ****s, I thought. Then, reading through the thread, I saw all these good folk offering free replacement kit, and reflected that among us there are gems of humanity who are worth a hundred of those little scumbags. May...

A WW1 homemade trench lighter, in copper, with the Toronto Highlanders' cap badge on it - my grandfather's. Lost when our house was burgled some years ago. Irreplaceable :-(

Just when you think you've seen it all, some genius comes up with a tent that has wood panelling :-D

Can't beat the old Polish Army 2-poncho tents. Weigh nearly 4kgs. but they're just about everything-proof. Go up in 5 minutes, and they come in a nice, unnoticeable shade of olive brown.

If we're talking Black Sheep Brewery, their Riggwelter takes a lot of beating. I miss it. Can't seem to get it down South :-(

One of these lads: http://www.endicotts.co.uk/content/wgerman-wood-handle-entrenching-tool-pick-olive

It all depends what I can find in my brother's cellar, as we spend Yule with the extended family under his roof :-) But in an unusual fit of providence when I was last staying with his family Oop North jun the summer, I did lay in some of these...

Thanks, Stevie. I needed that. A skill that should be learned by every Bushcrafter with an unenthusiastic partner...

My one thing for 2016? Make a catapult and learn to use it.

My day bag of choice is the old British army webbing haversack - big enough for a thermos and sandwiches and maybe a waterproof, but that's about it. Its small carrying capacity is compensated for usually by a multi-pocketed body warmer and combat pants pockets (for knife, compass, map, smokes...

Just in case, you could always try one of my cold weather favourites, which is a finger of dark rum in the bottom of a mug, a spoonful of demerara sugar and top up with hot water. This should banish any anxiety about the science bit. Actually, I find a couple of these banishes anxiety about most...

I ordered a pair of these Polish pelerynas last August and at the time didn't know that they came in three different sizes (I wonder whether most of the dealers do, either). Well, when they arrived, my two matched anyway (no surprises for me as I assumed one size of poncho fitted all Polish...

If you put the grounds into one of those plastic mesh tea infusers that fits onto the inside of a mug, then pour the water over it, I find you get better quality coffee than using filter papers or coffee bags. Or (probably) using a knotted corner of your shemagh, or a Millbank bag :-)

Took a look at the Palaeolithic diet article. Yes, we survived and prospered by being omnivorous... having a varied diet, accustoming our bodies to process all manner of foodstuffs as we discovered them. But we as a specie haven't stopped doing that since. Are we living longer as a result? I...