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The difference between an axe and a crossbow or gun is that the axe wasn’t designed to be lethal. I’m eating a tiramisu with a fork. It’s possible to inflict injury with that. The only thing that I can do with a crossbow or a gun is to kill/injure, threaten to kill/injure or practice ready to...

There is one humongous equivalence. That they are the same tool designed to do exactly the same job and subject to exactly the same abuse. Licensing is perfectly sensible for a tool that is fundamentally designed to be lethal. I’m less sure about the total ban on new tools. Certainly...

I have no interest in the knives but Snugpack survived a similar decision by being sort of open about it. The Crysalis and Softie sleeping bags were made in China for a while. but they got a lot of flack. You couldn’t get more British than Snugpak. I am still suffering from a Chinese Snugpak...

Obviously much depends upon the types of plastic that the metal pivot engages with. 50 years ago I bought a Hackman butterfly knife, which had pivot pins in plastic and it was working perfectly until it was disposed of a bit over 10 years ago. There are a lot of examples for sale as vintage in...

I think you are absolutely right @Toddy. I often go off piste regarding washing instructions. I think that you said in another post, avoid agitating so the fibres don’t lock together and shrink the fabric. If you wash an outdoor coat in water that’s the temperature of summer rain I can’t see...

Pork pie. Calories are pumped in. Greens can wait till you get home.

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Fortunately we are seeing a similar spirit emerging in very large bombed cities. How many times have we seen crisis bringing a community closer together?

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I actually tell a version of Aesop’s Ant and Grasshopper story with a twist. While the outcome is the same, the moral (I dislike that term) is very different. (I also tell the story of the three little wolves and the big bad pig.) I cannot imagine a scenario where those who held reserves had...

……. and how can I help them.

Woah there! No confrontation intended! You are defending the strong from the weak :) I am vastly outvoted by the BcUK population who very much agree with you Steve. I’m a winter camper and a coffee addict. It’s been a difficult winter to be outdoors. Very very wet. Simple was required...

It looks as if you’ve mastered a very good way of making coffee that you enjoy. Neither would I, in any way knock the enjoyment of a simple ritual. Our woodland time is filled with dozens of them. All power to you. But: It includes a consumable - the filter. It requires a series of techniques...

No I don’t, really I don’t. It won’t help the discussion. I merely wanted to indicate that she isn’t a child and has a developed social philosophy. She is very aware of anything that tends to be socially exclusive and acts to oppose any such tendency. I used the term merely to indicate that...

…… but do we really? OF COURSE the fact that I can’t find diesel this morning is something that I have chunnered about. The shortage of toilet rolls a few years ago was, for some, an inconvenience but was it a shock? Maybe. Dunno. Also: Arising from that conversation with one of my daughters...

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I took a walk through Attingham Park with a daughter two days ago. It’s a lovely NT estate quite heavily wooded in places and close to the conurbations of Telford and Shrewsbury. The car park was pretty crowded on this sunny day. Conversation turned To Preppers. We thought that if the...

Beautiful blossom but not good around here. There are very few pollinators about my house. Hope that changes in the next few days while plants are fertile.

Having discovered that I own two leaking tents I shall take down the second and bring it in for drying. I shall then sit with a cocoa and decide what I can avoid doing next. This is not an easy decision as the list of things that I could do has various priorities and is a long one. :)

For me, any global conspiracy theory has the same issue: The conspiracy. In a world in which even minor political “secrets” are leaked on a regular basis I have difficulty believing that so many people are keeping a secret so securely for so long. Moon landing, flat Earth or phone masts...