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Am I allowed to excuse myself on the grounds of age and infirmity, you know it does not last forever. I think you need to be able to use your brain to accomplish what you cannot achieve by brawn alone, which of course is what tools are for. However when you get to a certain age, even the brain...

I can do without the calculus thank you very much, but an understanding of statistics is certainly useful. Many people on seeing statistics quoted fail to evaluate actual risk.

I will try and add something different to this thread as a lot of points have been covered. One essential skill is humility, that is knowing when you are out of your depth, metaphorically as well as literally speaking, and not to think oneself superior to experts and people who have experience...

I have thought that a very good use of AI would be training it to recognise AI, it should be very good at that, but honestly the quality of AI is actually going downhill as it has run out of models to train itself on, so is now pursuing a race to the bottom training itself on it's own AI...

Been there done that, writing advertising copy.

I am retired but I have been many things before that. I suppose I could technically describe myself as a forester which I do on my linked in account, but that really depends on how you define a forest however I do forestry like things for love not for money. In my day I have been carer, advice...

I am going all medieval in my dotage, I recently fashioned myself a big leather belt pouch out of some leather I had lying around. Big enough to handle all my modern junk whilst pretending to adhere to the simple life :) How Leif Ericson ever got to Greenland without his smartphone and satnav is...

My mum was a cook, when she did her City and Guilds she was required to have a set of Sabatier knives and to be able to keep them sharp (to the point where you chuck it in the bin when there is too little blade left to sharpen) Unfortunately after she died her knives were stolen in a burglary.

Now you are talking I have been through a whole gamut of these things before the smartphone. I had a palm which was crap, a Psion series 5 which was pretty good and I would still use but for the fact that it has a busted screen, an HP Ipaq with minimal battery life, and a Tosh Libretto. Back in...

The one on the left I think, gawd only knows what it is useful for.

I don't bushcraft, but when I craft bushes I use something sharp. I have only recently got round to one of these new fangled thingies with a scandy grind or whatchemacallit, too early to say if it is superior to a regular bowie or an opinel. I tell a lie I have had a Martinii puuko for long...

My allotment is a victim of climate change, the intensity of floods has been increasing in level and intensity and so I have resorted to growing stuff in hippo bags filled with a basic layer of logs and brash and compost on top of that. Been very productive for spuds so far and next year I am...

A while ago I discovered Tod Cutler who makes replica medieval knives and swords. I now use his "peasant" knives as everyday kitchen knives. As for the large knife I have a 19th century pattern butcher knife from J. Adams limited, a great company I have had a few blades from now and never...

Nobody has mentioned Maurice Jarre, Lawrence of Arabia yet, I think that set the standard for others to imitate later.

Taking an axe to some overgrown tree limbs, nothing like it.

A slight fall of snow, but overnight the river reached it's highest recorded level ever, higher than last January which was the highest since 2012.

My current car is equipped with 360 degree cameras, and it needs them as it covers about the same space on he ground as a Defender, maybe a bit wider. Oh back in the day when I drove a series, how did I ever manage to park it?

Henry Weston's cider, not good for my liver most like, but .......

I will second that.

I have been using deadwood and brash to create hugelkultur beds on my allotment.