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Fabulous! Thank you all - with an OK from you all, i gave it a bit of a gentle bash & it's come out. Tapped it back into the kettle entirely, and then went down the chimney with a cane and bashed around the edge slightly, round in a circle until it got out. This is going to be a right nuisance...

Oh that's great, really good as a demonstration - far more so than just an article. The sight of chilly kneecaps is visceral!

Hello all, I just got a 2nd hand kelly kettle - it was fine as pictured - but I think it got bumped in transit & the stove base is now wedged inside the kettle, on a slight angle. Or possibly it has got cold, or warm, and the metals have expanded. It's an aluminium one. Anyone experienced this...

The Kelly Kettle has now arrived - thank you!

oh absolutely. I wouldn't be worried or paranoid. Most panic about knife crime is centered on cities and teenage boys, I agree it's super unlikely. but I also find that knowing the law and knowing that the police are bound by the law as are you also builds confidence. Because you're not in a...

'Saying nothing' refers to not giving officers in the street talking to you/arresting you any additional information you are not legally required to. So like, your name, where you've come from, what you're doing, where you are going later, etc. Police are trained to talk to people in a way to...

Wild & Game are a game meat company which is more sustainable than factory farmed meat (and tastier and more interesting too), but because they're positioning themselves as sustainable their stuff comes wrapped in a couple of pieces of 1m x 1ft of real raw wool. Extremely good for making...

For the best quality, you should actually look for vintage merino pieces. They're likely to be a bit cheaper, but more importantly, the quality of modern wool is worse than in history, due to overgrazing and climate stress impacting the animals and, in turn, their fleeces. This is recognised...

Thank you all - I'm just backreading now & thinking, but I especially like this one because I am sort of...dozy about the passage of time. Proactively taking note of when he leaves and how long he usually takes would be simple and I see the effectiveness.

So in this example, this was probably a lawful search - "we had reports of two young people matching your description acting suspiciously and we have reason to believe you might be carrying a knife" But if you're hiking through a little village causing no trouble to anyone, and you bump into...

One good thing to do is to learn the law around stop and search. The police have to follow particular rules of procedure, but they also rely on members of the public not knowing that and being either polite or intimidated. The key part: The law says that you can only be searched if a police...

We have a border collie, and I'm astonished every day by the things he can do. He's incredible. When he was a baby puppy, we went to a big family party with lots of dogs. My husband was throwing a stick for all of them. All the dogs would run right up to his feet when he was ready to throw...

That is absolutely terrifying. Tho now you mention it, I did know this - there was recent footage of the forest floor moving like a sea. In the truest sense of the word: awesome. My sense is that anything light enough to be stopped by paracord will be light enough to be stopped by your tent or...

pine martins are so great.

I was thinking these Swedish army surplus pullovers looked stylish, and absurdly cheap for a 100% wool jumper at £10, even if it is 2nd hand. https://www.militarymart.co.uk/products/swedish-army-tree-hugger-pullover?_pos=34&_sid=ea6b1d22b&_ss=r

Hello! I'm in the market for a Kelly Kettle - let me DM you

There are some great charity shops in my area - but nothing good for camping out to date. I'll have to keep my eyes peeled! How safe are the ikea twig stoves? Do they last?

I have been watching gumtree for second hand stuff, but so far it seems like the main demographic who sells their old stuff is people who over-invested in 6 man tents and a massive cooking setup and never got much use out of it. I'm in the valleys :)

Good evening! I'm from South Wales, & I like nature but find hiking quite dull, so I've got into bushcraft as like...hiking hundreds-and-thousands, the colourful lil bits which make the muffin lovely. I really like knots, sewing, handicrafts, and living in environmentally-friendly ways (so...

Actually, yes! I read a really interesting essay about it, comparing previous 'dangerous dogs' news cycles to other 'moral panics'. Apparently the dangerous dog panic comes around every decade or so, and plays the same role in public discourse as fears of satanists and the like. I wish I'd...