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This is lovely stuff. Acts as a stock or seasoning, or even just a vegan type of hot bovril drink. https://www.sainsburys.co.uk/gol-ui/product/lee-kum-kee-premium-mushroom-seasoning-powder-200g On offer in Sainsbury's just now with a nectar card. I've stocked up :)

I think those are dead. You might ask a cobbler (shoe repair shop) if he could affix a new sole though. It's surprising sometimes what they can resurrect.

Bamboo's a grass and it's rich in silica....and it will blunt knives.

I found two really, really good mystery boxes. One is craft stuff and the other is stationery. Happy to recommend and supply links....didn't think about those since they're not really 'bushcraft'.

I have 'glover's' needles in sizes from 3/4 of an inch to 2 and a half long. If it's really heavy leather then I find carpet sharps are better for me to use, but if I'm sewing finer leathers then the glovers ones are ideal. It's a massive bundle, but no idea of the quality, or the condition...

It's one of those (if the needles are good) that's worth buying to split up at a Moot or other meet up. Share them out kind of thing. That type, and size, of needle is handy to have a few of in a hussif.....but even I won't use 1.5kg of them :D

We've all done it; spotted a good thing, maybe ? Tonight's is Glover's Needles....those are triangular tipped, sharp and strong, meant for sewing leather. This set is size3, which is about 45mm /just shy of 2" long. But, there's 1.5kg of them ??? for a bid of £10.80 + £3.38 p&p. If they're...

It taught me that I much prefer dealing with living people. I am happy to talk about and teach others about how our ancestors lived in the past, the richness of our culture, the work, development, the way society changes....but digging up graves, dealing with the remains....I'd rather not.

I was given the job of re-accessing the boxes of human bones that had been dug up from Lesmahagow Priory twenty years earlier.....problem was that they had been stored in archival cardboard boxes in the basement of a local museum which had flooded. Those boxes had collapsed around the bones...

@Billy-o said they grow on nasturtiums....well maybe not 'real' capers, but the nasturtiums are used in the same way, and during wartime were very popular as a substitute. My Dad liked them, and nasturtiums grow easily in the UK :)

I think they're a rather acquired taste, especially these days. They used to be used with anything greasy...meat or fish.....but chopped and added to things like mayonnaise too. Good with sauces, mushroom, lemon...surprising just how well they go with some things. If you take to them they're...

Best advice is to firstly make sure that the pieces are as 'shrunken' as the main tent.....if they're new, and haven't been weathered, etc., they might shrink further. Hot wash usually does the trick. Then, I would suggest sewing the patches to the main canvas. You might glue as well, but the...

I very rarely have had any leaking cans....but the few that I did I emptied and looked most carefully for the reason that they leaked. All of them rusted out on the side someplace. None of them 'looked' bashed, but something had compromised the side because it was never just one rust spot, it...

Son2 wanted pasta, so I made pasta with cheese sauce and broccoli, and it looked good enough that I had some too....and have suffered hours of indigestion...I know better, I don't digest milk easily/properly, but I love cheese sauce. Not doing that again, I have had the most miserable night...

Thing is though, I only use the metal as the clean, and cleanable, surface that I lay meat upon to cut it up. I don't try, indeed I try hard not to, cut into the metal. I cut the meat. You don't cut up the serving dish when you carve a chicken, why should you cut hard enough to cut into metal ...

Spalted ash turns beautifully, and ash makes good cutting boards.....

I didn't do Domestic Science at school, I had Latin instead. I don't use detergent on my cutting boards, I do scrub them with the green scourer though, dry them well, occasionally do a salt scrub, but that's pretty much it....and we're still here too :D

That is so true. I grew up in households where the only 'big' knife was the bread knife. The law had said that no one had to possess a knife bigger than would be necessary to cut their meat at their plate...and we got good at using wee knives. The neatest butcher I know takes apart a deer with a...

I think the problem comes because we don't see any other really cleanable alternative than glass or metal. Plastic sounded ideal, but we know now about the microplastic bits. Old butchers shops used wood, and scoured it with salt, scraped the surface off too.....I'm not doing that with meat...

Stainless steel scratches with the sink scourer...from pots to cooker hobs to roasting tins to sinks themselves. I think stainless steel comes in many varieties, and though chromium might be tough, the rest of the mix doesn't seem to be. Toughest thing I cut is a turnip....food wise that is...