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I have a couple of tarpaulins which were originally used in marquees. Very heavy duty PVC coated nylon. The edges are finished by fixing a cord about 8mm diameter to the tarp, and then gluing to both the rope and the tarp, along the whole length of the tarp, a strip of heavy woven nylon fabric...

Trying to reply to your last PM to me Tony... :) Ged.

I'm subscribed for instant email alerts on some threads. Occasionally I get multiple email alerts for the same post to a thread. The most recent example: http://www.bushcraftuk.com/forum/showthread.php?t=70299&p=1538864#post1538864 This has only been happening since the move to the amazonses...

http://www.bushcraftuk.com/forum/showthread.php?t=109394

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-18770328 Apparently If everyone in the world had the same body fat as I do, it would remove 44,615,988 tonnes from the total weight of the world's population. :)

When you use a tin can, do you always take the top right off? Or do you not really think about it? This is what can happen if you don't really think about it: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-norfolk-18195580 A lot of people will open the can until the lid almost -- but not quite --...

Here we go again. SWMBO wants a new daysack. Main specs are: Small size, around 20-25 litres. Decent quality so it will take some use and not sprinkle her stuff all around the Pyrenees. Some sort of frame to let the skin of the back breathe will be a big plus. Not too high, she'll wear it...

Recently I've been in touch with a group in the West Country called Secret World Wildlife Rescue. Amongst other things they care for orphaned badgers. The group forms the cubs into 'families' for release back into the wild. They are healthy when released, in particular they have been tested...

Photos taken today, in Derbyshire. Tens of thousands of these things are floating in patches on puddles. They're less then 1mm long, I'll be getting microscope photos shortly. http://www.jubileegroup.co.uk/JOS/misc/bugs1.jpg http://www.jubileegroup.co.uk/JOS/misc/bugs2.jpg

Here we go again then... I'm starting a Group Buy on the Pyroflint strikers this page: http://www.sharkdesigns.co.uk/home_pages/1_fire_online_store.html#fire_pyroflints This isn't especially to get a better price on the strikers (although we might manage that depending on the numbers) but...

Not often I start a new thread, but this morning I saw bluebell shoots and it perked me up no end. :)

People sometimes tell me I don't know my own strength, but this is ridiculous. I was washing it. http://www.jubileegroup.co.uk/JOS/misc/broken_spork.jpg

The symbol which inserts a URI used to work like this: 1. Click on it. 2. A dialogue box opens with the content "http://" 3. Paste a URI into the box and click OK. 4. The URI is inserted into the text BOTH as a link AND as a text URI. 5. When the text URI in step 4 appears, it is...

This is a an easily reproducible bug in vBulletin. My browser is Firefox running under Linux. I use tabbed browsing a great deal. It often happens that I load a tab with a page from the BCUK site but don't immediately have time to read it all. In that case I'll leave the tab open until I can...

I often use the site's 'recent posts' link. Sometimes I've noticed that it behaves a little oddly but I haven't been able to repeat things that I've thought I'd seen which I thought were wrong. Today is different, it seems to be perfectly repeatable. Here is a screen shot of the latest...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/earth/hi/earth_news/newsid_9139000/9139971.stm

One of the Spitewinter mob suggested that at the next meet we might spend some time looking at sharpening. I said I'd throw together a list of a few of the things that I could bring to give us all something to talk about, so here it is. I've tried to think of particular items/topics that...

In case anyone is interested, B&Q here in Derbyshire had mummy-style "two season" sleeping bags on sale at just under seven pounds fifty yesterday. There were eleven left in the store that I was in.

For no reason that I can fathom, another thread about a tipi reminded me that I was planning to post a link to this. The guy who made it worked for me a few decades ago when I lived in Oxford. I think there was a picture of it on a Christmas card he sent me or something, otherwise I'd...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-10951769