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Tempted myself by the first one :)...

Yes, this has become a real and substantial headache here. It is now very difficult to sell to, and an even more involved process to ship to, the US. Ensuring fees and customs are prepaid, getting QRs and so forth. Stuff getting returned when people get an unplanned for customs bill. This feels...

You can just buy birch syrup on Etsy, but it is very expensive. Very. But, maybe that isn't surprising. Maple syrup manufacture is a full scale and relatively efficient industry. Though that doesn't explain why there isn't a birch syrup industry. Maybe the trees are too fragile to invest in...

Or Andrew Mountbatten.

I just don't get on well with that steep grind that we tend to associate with the bushcraft name. Have a look at the flat ground O1 Brisa Trapper. Its a good item. And, if you pick up the kit with the wood handle, which is (was) affordable, you can quickly make it very comfortable to use too...

Moras are perfectly OK and, like most people here, I have one or two ... more if their carving knives count in this conversation. I almost never take them or use them. I have had a sort of sentimental itch for a red-handled one for maybe twenty years, but when they introduced the Classic 1/0 3"...

Nice one that. I ended up with a bunch of sodbusters over time, and a number of near-relatives too. I think it is about the most comfortable and useful single-blade pattern; the 3 1/2" blade version, especially so. But, possibly due to that lack of complaint, sometimes it feels a little taupe...

Can't say I have a favourite Spyderco as I have a bunch. But the 52100 Millie here and the Stretch are in the 'carried-very-often' category. They are quite different from each other, but both just great. The PM1 is an old favourite but got nudged out by the Millie, and more permanently so when I...

Have we skipped over rollmops? I know they are more a jar thing than a tinned thing like, but still, rollmops! Lovely. ... aparently an excellent source of creatine (poor things :))

I suppose if you are homeless you crap where you can

Desert Island foodstuffs? Duck fat Grappa ... I can work out the rest. Well most of it.

Amp up the base - affordable insulated jackets will always be heavy, lighter ones will cost a bomb and be fragile So, yes to Merino - smartwool 1/4 zip 250 gsm. The Woolpower 200 1/4 zipand 400gsm full zip are good For grid fleece, look at Outdoor Research (often on sale), Patagonia or Paramo...

I like truffle. Only problem is that if you use it everything tastes of truffle and nothing else :) I saw a coriander chutney in the supermarket the other day. No idea why I didn't pick it up to try.

Daredevil. It is dire. They have killed TV, now they seem set on killing streaming. What have we done to deserve this. Mind, the libraries have great AV services here .. not Netfix, Disney etc.

Sometimes I think that all the best meals start by frying an onion in bacon fat. Personally, I think I can skip the meaty part entirely. That maybe because I haven't eaten European style bacon for some time now. Here, you mainly get the regular, thin-sliced fatty bacon, which is ordinarily...

Haddock. Or any firm white fish - Cod e.g. Fry in butter with some olives and capers. Eat w/small potatoes squashed up with some olive oil, salt an lemon in them. Once you get a taste for capers you will put them in everything. Very good with pasta. Cook the pasta, stir in chilli oil, capers...

Funny, I always thought dipped candles were somehow denser and burned longer. You live and learn, I suppose. But, why do people make dipped candles? :)

Here's a pic of the Australian carver I mentioned above. I can't find the correspondence - I lost an email account - but, the charming old Trevor who made it had retired and was spending his time recreating old Sheffield patterns for the fun of it and with extreme competence. He sold them for...