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On the Mohs scale stoneware and porcelain test at about 7. Flint rates 6.5 - 7 It should be possible to get an iron spark using pottery. If you’re going to try it; I’d recommend a sherd from the base of a vessel where the clay has been most compacted, is probably thickest and may be supported by...

I’m surprised and pleased at how many of the Covid precautions are still being carried out, especially given the high proportion of people who ignored them during the pandemic. For some reason people who might have squeezed up at a checkout did keep their distance in my local pharmacy. We...

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A daughter gave me this terra cotta bread crock. It keeps going right! Edited to add: That’s going to be one hell of a butty in the middle!

I might have said this somewhere before. I’ve mentioned it on several discussions in line: I read Reuters. It undoubtably has some sort of bias, particularly it your viewpoint tends to the anarchical. Rightly or wrongly this is how I see much of the current rejection of anything organised or...

The star!!! (Apologies!)

I’ve only been here a couple of years so if this has already been discussed then please ignore. I’ve just seen this Swiss Eagle multitool. At £30 it vastly undercut the Swiss Army knife. The blurb talks about Swiss engineering but that could be eyewash. Anyone tried one? Would heretofore...

Quite apart from a survival tin the #12 saw is a great little tool as long as you remember that it’s a pull saw. Cuts very fast with narrow kerf. I have one in my fire pouch together with a 12mm ferro. I use it closed for fire lighting and open on anything that my secateurs can’t cut. (Mine...

Like yours, my brain was designed to survive in a world that existed many birthdays ago. I’m writing in terms that I understand. If my post reads as patronising then I apologise. There are those here who disagree but I can manage Dropbox easily and it’s free as long as you avoid the upgrade...

:red: Oh bloody hell! Sod’s Law is live and current! Sorry @hughtrimble you must have posted while I was building up steam! PM your address and I’ll try to get it off before weekend. Good luck. You now hold the baton :lmao:

I have received some very enjoyable and still useful gifts posted here. I want to make my point before my offer hangs and it reads like a whinge - it isn’t. The thread has always had gaps between runs of quick exchanges but I cannot help feeling that in the last year or so there have been...

There is already a miniature screw gate carabiner and a big split ring in the packaging. I am adding another screw gate link big enough for a normal trouser belt to pass through. A small snap shackle to clip to it.

No. Around a third female.

Right now! It’s also a good time to hear the sap rising in the tree.

About: 35% including female officers and admin. Sorry @biscuit I started typing so I finished. :)

I’m not sure how relevant today’s Scout and Guide movement is regarding Bushcraft. My experience ranges from antiquated to dated. I was a member of the 3rd Altrincham Scout group - a secondary School based group so there were no cubs and it predated beavers. It was a large “old fashioned” and...

@Dan00001 Is the smaller one to put your stuff into while you sleep in the bigger one?

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The NS book is looking at dozens of aspects of Nothing. Placebo / Nocebo Pre big bang Mathematics of nothing All sorts of different aspects. Well worth a look.

That looks exactly like my coffee mat. Indeed, Something and Nothing are coinciding points on a circle of existence. Something and Nothing can also be viewed like the skins of an onion. Depending on your metaphysics: Did everything generate nothing - as in an omniscient, omnipotent and...