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No I can’t see it and I’m not prepared to faff about. Meh! S

I hate getting wet, I really hate getting wet in winter. Although I run hot I loose heat PDQ as I don’t have much of a body fat store. I try to keep as dry so avoid going out in the rain as much as possible at this time of year. I have assorted coats and have recently replaced my old wax...

Fresh home made sourdough bread. Yaaaay! S

I went to one of the HMO’s that I look after to investigate a report of a very blocked loo. Never the most pleasant of tasks but I quickly removed the whole unit from its position to discover the drain connector seal had flipped at right angles inside the waste pipe thus creating a major...

I stay at home in snowy times. Nice and dry and warm. I do have a huge grab bag with everything I could possibly need for a few days stuck on the A12!:) S

Turnip & potato soup is good. S

Touring Oz on my bike I passed through areas where those few road-signs that existed had been riddled with rifle bullet holes. Not many folk seem to possess shotguns or they were not often used to shoot-up an unarmed road-sign. On the back of this I always took myself a mile or more from the...

Be prepared for incapacitation, hospitalisation and recovery. As an example; Knee replacement. If you are self employed, make damn sure you have three months worth of £’s in t’bank. For all the moaning about ‘scroungers’ and easy access to the benefits system IMO this is total bull51t. If you...

I had a lovely camping spot in Wales. The ground belonged to a friend. I had returned from travelling and with no home to return to ( I’d rented out my house) this was the perfect spot to spend time and think about what to do next. I returned one weekend to find a .22 rimfire bullet hole in...

There is a big size difference between a man and a woman sized billhook. I find and adapt smaller tools so my wife can use them without straining her wrists. If I wanted a lady sized billhook then I’d be askin’ Dave Budd to make one. Ok these aren’t so cheap as a car boot item but they are...

Viennnnnnnnnnnaaaaaaaaaaaaaa;) S

I went to Cornwall in the holiday season. Good god! I vowed ‘never again’! How on earth to those folk who were born and live there cope from May to September??? S

My parents retired onto the European waterways. No land, no property, just their Dutch ‘luxemotor’ barge. They spent nearly fifteen years moving around. My daughter was born on board on on of my ‘oliday visits…. Although not being able to string a French sentence together she’s very proud of...

I had the use of my fathers old sawmill site for a number of years which was fun. A few moots were run but the landowners monetary needs were greater than mine so the plot was developed into executive houses and is no more. I now live in East Anglia and own an ex barley field which I have...

OMG! This sounds horrible, just the sort of thing that goes down-hill rapidly......Vehicle dismantling....Say no more. Sorry to be so vehicle dismantling racist but from experience this is the last thing you need on a farm or in the country-side, particularly on-the-cheap as the environmental...

I went to ‘The Outdoor’ show at NEC with my son and his friend in 2006. The boys were eleven and old enough to go round independently with hourly check-ins. Alpkit was there in its younger days along with some good bushcraft stalls. It was a great day out. I could see and try all sorts of...

My DIL walked the Bibbulmun trail (OZ). OK not in the UK but what surprised her and on the telling, us, was folk ‘lived’ on this trail. Some for nearly a decade! A ‘lifestyle’ choice. Perhaps the Beeb could do a half hour slot on these folk. I would imagine a nomadic lifestyle in Scotland...

I am at the beginning of the install for my underfloor heating system so there is heaps of research to catch up on and then to be reacted upon the following day. This mixed with the flow & return circuits keeps me busy mentally & physically. I would like to have a little part of the house fit...

My wife & I went to https://wakelyns.co.uk/ For their open day. Fab and interesting visit it was too. We came away with a small branch laden with lovely yellow berries which have now been processed and are in the fridge ‘setting’ in readiness for planting in the spring. S

Please let us know how you got on. As and when you return. S