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Sounds like you've got most bases covered. When I think that only 100 yrs ago most places only had an outdoor hand pump, often shared with other households, with only cold water, and heating water on open, or coal fires. long drops for other needs. It makes me grateful. We realy have it so...

It just goes to show that we need to take water supply a bit more seriously. My usualy clear drinking water went a nasty brown a few weeks ago, and tho it was remedied very smartly, it made think again, and get my butt into gear and buy the berkfeld. I'm glad I have my new water filter and can...

A snoring sheep. I had to laugh and woke it up. Sorry little sheep. I never knew sheep snored.

What happened in Cornwall was the delivery driver put the chemicals in the wrong tank. Carelessness on the part of the delivery driver. It wasn't discovered for a while, (I think about a week or so.) Carelessness on the part of the company. Water should be tested daily. Water is critical to our...

I see this week,there have been water problems in Devon due to burst water main, and Royal Tunbridge Wells with water quality issues due to a batch of "bad" chemicals. Burst mains are one thing, but bad chemicals????? Reminds me of the Redruth incident in Cornwall where aluminium was poured...

Ooh, it's gotten soggy wet. We've had some pretty nice sunny but cold days, but back to the wet and dismal again. I'm still waiting for the ark I ordered last year. I think it's the sky blue paint I ordered being out of stock, so I've changed my mind and am now going for tartan. :) Looking on...

Yes, a blanket can be like that. I use a cheap thin light coloured throw, and It only covers half the hammock over my head and about half my torso so there is still a little bit of contrast in the light levels. It can be a panicky feeling of claustrophobia if you cover the whole hammock, but...

Daisy chains and a couple of climbing grade karabinas, and pitching the foot end slightly higher than the head. A pillow to bring your head back to a more comfy height. A good firm mat to stop the sag in the middle and sleeping as diagonally as possible. And definatly a decent underquilt. I'm a...

An easy cheap way to learn cordage making is to use raffia which can be bought from garden centers and craft shops in a big hank. I always use raffia to teach beginners as it's stupid cheap for a lot of product, and it makes yards of cordage which can be used for many things, for instance tying...

I'm now getting some e mail notifications, but when I come onto site, I find there may be more than one reply, but I've only got one notification, and even that is quite a long time after the post has been posted. But at least they are coming through after a fashon.

Well, I've put together a kit. Much of which I already had, but had to buy a few specialised items. It's quite expensive to buy those, but I think we are happy to pay out for expensive car/house/life insurance with no problem, I'm regarding this kit as as insurance policy, with the same idea...

I often see that we do things from the top down, rather from the bottom up. You cannot build an ecco system without the base of the pyramid being already in place. For instance, There is a butterfly that all but died out, think it was one of the blues, and nobody could figure out why. One young...

But then you'd need a flask for the screwdriver, but I think they normaly are used for whiskey etc rather than cocktails.

With wellies, get some long socks, put them over your trousers and then turn them over the tops of the boots. Works perfectly for me. Same with my walking boots. Over the trousers and fold over the top of the boot. Job done!

I've been looking for months! Either they are not my size or too narrow. I have wide feet as I spend a lot of time in the summer barefoot. Most women's boots are quite narrow. My friend j and I saw a lovely pair on Saturday in the charity shop, my size, leather, faux fur lined, good grip, and...

Those first ones look good, and a good price too. Thanks. I'll look into them.

I'm looking for some new winter boots. I have a pair of lace up ones, but I'm struggling with the laces. I always stiffen up in winter and find bending to lace them up difficult, so I'm looking for zip up or velcro snow boot type thing possibly with faux fur lining for warmth as my feet get...

I have had issues since September. I took my phone to a pop up cyber cafe after you told me it was probably a cache problem, and had cache cleared, up date and full health check on it. They said it wasn't my phone, it had a clean bill of health, but after seeing what happened when we went onto...

Deep heat or ralgex spray is choking, and very "warm" if it gets in eyes. Those of us with arthritic bones would need to carry a can of spray to ease those achey moments, especially in the winter when it's cold and the ol' bones and muscles are playing up. I think you can get neck gaiters and...

Thank goodness for that! Being a technophobe, I hate it when things go wrong and it causes me anxiety and frustration as I have no idea whats going on. Thank you Tony, but wish it had been looked at when I first raised my problems in Sept. Still it's sorted now, so, many thanks. I can relax now!