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They're a great design for tinder specifically - I used a couple of things before this, a box pouch, a long thin stuff bag from some bit of kit, but when I was thinking about tinder collection - this shape is perfect. It's the ability to open it all the way open so you dont have to force...

Slow day at home so I'm going to post some finished projects. Soft leather tinderbag, with hand-rolled jute cord drawstring. As easy as it looks to make - I used the TA Outdoors video to get the dimensions right, and the leather was from a family member decluttering an attic - it's thin and...

[the link](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V0cxV2vVC0U) for anybody who wants to try it. It took me three goes to make ones i was happy with, i am a very poor cook. The trick is to start preheating the oven as your very first step, then measure out ingredients and mix them etc, so the oven is...

The most useful bushcraft skill I use 24/7 is like, the very basic understandings about clothes and body heat. Knowing textiles, how to layer them, when to remove them, the dangers of water and wind, condensation, and this stuff is useful stood on a bus-stop or even when thinking about...

I've had people come up & give me trouble just for playing with my tarp in the local woods. It's one of those horrible little things, behaviours that are seen as perfectly lovely - parking in an area of natural beauty, having a picnic, sleeping out of doors, napping in your car after a breakdown...

Oh that's an interesting thought. I know the one on the scubaboard also posts a lot of links from the news - obvs scuba diving is so inherently dangerous and quite a small world, so all news about dangers occuring in particular resorts or caves or tour operators are not just gossip, it's...

Ive got some nice soft stuff but id have to double it over for a sturdy project I have in mind, which seems obviously wasteful. Is the stiffness merely about thickness, or are there different ways leather has been treated to get a sturdy finish? I want to make a sort of 'box pouch' so it...

Along a similar line, maybe some people would like to opt in to having their talks at the Bushmoot filmed, and then we could put them out on YouTube across the year. Starts conversation and puts the event on the map.

I always carry one of those bags for life that have a freezer compartment. One of my fave bits of kit. You can use it as a sit mat, for keeping the campsite tidy, for gathering wood, probably for water in an emergency, but my most common use for it is just slamming wet tents into and getting...

One of the scuba diving boards has a near misses and incidents discussion section. IMO it's a mature and valuable thing to share and discuss, a very good source for learning. I keep a personal set of notes every time I go out camping with what went wrong and review them while packing. It's...

I do a variant on the Fandabi Bannock recipe on YouTube - he designed it to blend the qualities of pemmican, bannock and hard tack, and after a couple of practice runs mine taste gorgeous. You need to eat 2 to sustain you for the whole day similar to Lembas, and I def think they are filling...

I want to share a clever trick my husband figured out when they were getting into our house. Use spray insulating foam in the hole. While the foam is wet, push in some wire wool. Spray more foam through the holes and continueaadding wool until the hole is filled. Fixed our problem overnight...

To cut the gordian knot, the cause of homelessness is evictions, ergo you need to prevent that in some way. Taking housing back into public ownership would be a good strategy. As it stands, if you can't pay your rent it's in your landlords best interest to evict you, but this is negative for...

Looks like it's crawling out to get you...!

It's a great post, I used it just the other week.

I don't think there is a non-political way to approach the question. Any response is going to be about how we shape the economy, deploy resources, enforce or change the law; whether change should be driven by government, local government, charity, business, co-operatives, unions, community...

Thank you, I am a keen water bottle user and I had no idea! My ferret was obsessed with the wheat microwavable ones. She would hide them around the house and then move them place to place, like hiding baby ferrets. They must have smelt really interesting. I have one of those victorian copper...

I don't necessarily think it needs to be as huge as that (altho big would be cool if we can deliver!) We could pick a theme per month: fire, shelter, water, biodiversity etc and get to 12 essentials in no time and then break it down. It could be as simple as MONTH 1 - fire. Beginners: make a...

My driving instructor in the Welsh valleys said in the 1970s,the mountain roads would be shut all winter. Doesn't happen now, there's often one day but nowhere near the same. The impact of man-made climate change and ecological destruction is a disturbing thing to contemplate. And especially...

I think this would be really fun, esp if the challenges were open ended enough to be solved in lots of different ways. Hmm, there was a History Sewing Monthly (this is going somwhere I promise) challenge every year run by sewing blogs where there was a theme each month. It was motivating, but...