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Well I never......a few moments ago in my garden, I saw my first Privet Hawk-Moth caterpillar wandering amid a pile of fallen rose petals. What an impressive sight, it has quite made my evening. Regards All Ceeg

Another one here with 17 years, can't quite believe it...Oh! hang on a minute...wasn't there a huge restructuring and change to the site around that time?....p'raps its even longer. Still doing the leather and rope work and finding pleasure in all that the Bushcraft UK has to offer. Regards...

If you don't mind me coming in on this one,SaraR. Given an understanding of the techniques for collecting stock and their necessary aftercare, it is possible to extract seedlings , saplings and right the way up to large trees. Assessing root mass and minimising damage are two of the important...

I must have missed this thread when it was first posted. Hats-off for getting into Bonsai in the first place. You're right about it being a challenge, this is the phase that often puts folk right off after a couple of seasons. There are loads and loads of sorrowful stories where the failure of...

Surely, and perhaps to explain a little, for the benefit of any who feel it difficult to understand the idea of hunting, ( here I quote Gough Thomas's Gun Book)... "this is the pleasure taken from a good gun, to me above all, the intimate, personal weapon through whose instrumentality I have...

I've waited quite a while to come in on this thread...something to do with the to-ing and fro-ing of instances and incidents, those many right and true stacked sheafs of what happened. or could have...on which I have no comment to make. But I will relate that the compasses with which I am most...

The bugle has ceased now, for Captain Tom. What a most grand old fellow. Shabash, Capt. Tom, Shabash! Many salutations to You. Ceeg

Its surprising just how much sewing can be done without glue whatsoever. Try using a stapler to hold things in place. Its one of my favourite leather/canvas tools. Regards Ceeg

Altogether a captivating and thought provoking experience. Regards All Ceeg

Just rub in a ring of contact glue around the back edge and allow to dry. Trim off any tails with sharp scissors. I.ve done this for years on fabrics up to 18 ounce canvas, with no problem. Regards Ceeg...and a Happy New Year to All.

Have made a total of (now) 8 doorstoppers, rope work covered half gallon flagons. The recipients just have to put the sand in themselves, I've done my bit by drinking all the contents. Regards all Ceeg

I've made 6 natural jute-covered four pint cider flagon door stops, for Xmas pressies, Enjoyed every minute. Regards all Ceeg

My Bushcraft fantasy, is to walk in the local woods and hedgerow-ed by-ways without feeling the need to pick up all the trash and detritus of so-called civilisation. As true as I sit here Regards all Ceeg

You get a stronger fix of the eyelet by making a small cross cut, just big enough to admit the head of the cone-shaped male piece, rather than removing any of the material . The flaps of the cross cut will be rolled back and trapped within the ridge collar of the brass insert. I can't help...

Blue polka dot galluses. Regards A slimmed down Ceeg

A layered foam archery target.

I watched all the way through, fascinated. The process of it and the tools needed have a remarkable resonance in some aspects of applied knotting work, even the use of that "third hand" (Swedish fid) and the baton (splicing sabre). And, yes, I too can vouch for the aching fingers in the doing...

Ha. The book was Herrmann's Intuitive Archery....the one I had from Son, was Herrigel's Zen in Archery, And as I pointed out, when apologising, I said that , if I had come across the book that I believed was sent in error, then I would probably have ordered it anyway. On the other hand, the book...

One of the pleasant things of mellowing with the passing years, is that I rarely have cause to be irked by the irritating situations that life throws at one from time to time. I ordered a a book to do with some of the mystical things which associate with intuitive archery...hmmm, it sounded just...

A beaut of a 44@28 Assyrian bow from Bogar of Slovakia. Shoots sweet from the box. 'Fellah knows his stuff alright. Ceeg