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Carp weather=getting stuff done & finished in the workshop. 5 hours travelling in a car to me sounds painful particularly in bad weather. S

I went for a cuppa with my old mate who is still a keen bee keeper. He had just celebrated his 80th Birthday. He wasn’t at home but his wife made me a brew and told me where he was. Now he’s registered blind but he had two 70 year old helpers and all three of them were catching a swarm up a...

Yes, my son after seven years studying and £75.000 in debt still has the ‘hey-ho’ attitude that he can create an environment to aid the world and in particular this country live comfortably in modern buildings. Long may this last! S

You’ve been having a go at those bl**dy dragons again I know it! :banghead:

I have a beautiful sharp camp knife made by Mr Claycombe . :cool: A handsome knife and lovely in my hand. I have a stainless steel Mora that seems to hold its edge quite well and doesn’t go rusty when I’m messin’ in my dinghy and an assortment of other blades scattered in places where I...

I have never slept in any of my bivvi bags without a sleeping bag. What I do in summer time is lie on my sleeping bag inside the bivvi wearing my joggers/troos and a T shirt or possibly that and a woolly pully. If it turns cold which it does at dawn I can wrap my bag around my body or even get...

My B I L died suddenly aged 42. He was a building surveyor so my sister and I thought that using re-cycled scaffolding planks with which to make his coffin was the right thing to do. Being made originally from pine, even though they looked scabby on the outside, when milled slightly off-centre...

I'm not good with figures but one of the most fun courses was the RYA Day Skipper then Coastal Skipper then Yachtmaster. I managed all over a good number of years and even though I am still carp at figures I am ok at tides and working off the Small craft Almanac to find out what the water flow...

My cordwood stack in 2019

There’s value in crotches if they are in good order. Boat-builders love them. S

I used my loader tractor and stacked vented bags for a few years but I have always been trying to move away from volume.

Now the firewood man arrives, tips the 1.0m3 load. I stack at my leisure and then move the required firewood to the log box. S

A pole barn perhaps. Rain is kept off but wind can pass through. Removing one part of manual handling is paramount. Mine; Arrival on articulated self load wagon, load trailer with mechanised equipment, take to processor, feed processor manually which then self loads bags/trailer on conveyor...

I use five minute polyurethane foamy glue for general woodworking joints. End of. West system epoxy for serious glueing along with Titebond 3. West system is aimed at plywood and particularly BS 1088 ply. The timber or ply must be dry. Titebond is not so fussy. Not wringing wet mind! PVA is...

Ha! Yes, challenges. Ask. I may be able to offer some advice/help. You never know;) I deliberately avoided buying anything ‘listed’ but here the planners were only brought on side when we expressed a desire to treat this project as if it was a listed building…..Not sure how you raise the bar...

I was using a similar amount each year for the past fourteen years. Every now and then a delivery of cordwood arrived to be processed and stored. You may have seen my post about re-building my dairy barn and using copious amounts of rigid insulation. Well, right now I have no demand for CH...

Well done. S

Our rhubarb is just getting going it had a big load of pony poo put on it earlier in the year. S

Purple sprouting is on the menu right now along with mega lettuce grown under a large round cloche. S

I know what you mean re simplicity. I have soooo many things that I need to have to hand when I’m at work hence some kind of organiser so I built the wooden framework else I’d never find anything! My wife tells me the little car really should have a handle on the roof as it is really a tool...