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That is nearly a hundred years ago now :)

It all comes down to a matter of taste as personally I cannot abide micarta.

I dread to think what is in our local river, mostly toxic run offs from farms and the local roads I would think. It was associated with a local Polio outbreak back in the 50's there is a Pathe video about it on YouTube somewhere. The Council put up some no swimming notices a while back, but I do...

You can mould willow to make all sorts of living structures.

I was thrown out of my family home at the right time in history, I was able to fall back on a Council flat. Homelessness has always been a thing, particularly after the war, but it was solved by the mass building of Council housing. My grandparents were saved by Council housing during the...

Having used both cheap (presumably Chinese) lanterns and Feuerhand, there is a lot of difference, Feuerhand are just that much better put together.

I can remember in the 70s smuggling a bottle back from a school trip to Germany.

I am an incorrigible drinker of Henry Weston's vintage cider, it will be the death of me, but not just yet.

Very sad, the old order passeth.

I think people get hung up on the notion that it all goes on in the woods somewhere. Take away the word bush and what you have left is craft, and that can be making things with textiles, leather, wood, metal or whatever. I have just been "crafting" a couple of leather knife sheaths and a compass...

Hi there, I hope you are not a "bushcrafter" because nobody here has any idea what that means :)

I go so far but not beyond, it is impossible even not advisable to keep up with it all. I have been on Facebook since I did my postgrad degree and it was a student thing then, I do YouTube because I am a TV licence refusenik and I did do Twitter until it became Elon Musk's personal *ank fest...

Last line doesn't rhyme I'd fix it if I had the time.

My mum used to have a knitted woollen duffel coat like that, I think she got it at a jumble sale. I can remember many years ago taking her out to a midnight ramble in local woodland and that was what she wore to keep the cold out. She also used to wear a Welsh woolen cape in her later years when...

I was thinking, what did the Vikings wear? I went to a re-enactors market recently and there are a lot of people making historically accurate clothing nowadays including woolen tunics. No they don't have pockets, but that is authenticity for you.

Yes to say they have a blind spot would be an understatement. Sadly what is lacking in our Council leadership is joined up thinking. They are too much about dog whistle politics, but they have blown the wrong whistle here. They passed a policy to plant a tree for every citizen, but Covid came...

I did eventually hear back more than a year ago now so I think it is pretty much moribund in this area. Our Council are currently playing the bad guys by designating a street full of trees for the chop, so they can build a bicycle lane, you can imagine they are not popular at the moment.

Sources tell me that a free school is interesting in buying the property I have also got an alert set up with the Land registry to inform me of any ownership changes in the area. FWIW it has been used as a location by BBC for a TV series set in a Midlands school.

It's probably a while ago now, but the Council did undertake an audit of land available for housing and I went through the document to make sure the site wasn't identified. Although it is no longer greenbelt it is designated as greenspace, along with the allotment and neighbouring farm. The...

And then of course there is the "camel toe" brigade with their hacks and skimpy outfits, not that I would be caught watching.