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Supposedly the down from eider ducks is best (eider down, to be precise).

Bah, £700? I have an axe, timber, and there's some fencing wire out the back somewhere...

Another tut on stacked leather handles https://www.brisa.fi/portal/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=20&Itemid=15

On the flip side of course, it's also a hard winter for vermin. Wonder what the tick and midge levels will be like next summer?

Cayenne pepper is supposedly a very useful (and tasty) bleed-stopper, carried by the longhunters and mountain-men. Disclaimer: I AM NOT A MEDICAL PROFESSIONAL.

If the world were more just, nurse 2 would receive nurse 1's wages.

If they dropped any, they wouldn't have such a big stockpile to crow about on the news :D Any serviceman will tell you (courtesy of the QMs) stores are for storing, not for issuing, that's why they are called stores.

Especially considering that captive bolt guns are stunners, not killers. After successful application of the bolt-gun the animal must be killed, usually by pithing or bleeding.

This is a small taste of what will happen when the knifedge, everything imported just-in-time culture we have developed in the last century falls apart for whatever reason.

The blower doesn't work that well either, I remember about 2 Clem's days back, there were massive problems getting more than 3 fires to any kind of heat. Even after we taped as many leaks as possible, noone could get a welding heat. This proved a slight problem as we were holding a hinge-making...

Problem 1 with air pistols (in the UK) is that they are quite low-powered -- as a maximum they are half as powerful as an off-ticket air rifle, and most are a lot lower. Second is the accuracy issue. Just how accuracte are you at shooting at an unmeasured distance at an unknown upwards angle...

The various forms of billhook fill the leuku/kukhri/parang niche in Britain. They are handy things.

To expand a little on my opinion: although CJA 1988 S(139A) allows for EDC of a non-locking folding knife (with blade of cutting edge 3" or less) there has not yet been a test-case with respect to whether long-tang folding knives of the Svord Peasant style constitute a folding knife -- some may...

Are they those new very leafy 'loft tomatoes' I hear are popular nowadays? Typicaly sold dried (though not in the Mediterranian style)?

Lots of people will give you their opinions, but the long and the short of it is that noone knows, becase it's not defined clearly in statute and there has not been a test-case. To give you an indication though I have a similar knife, and my (middle-class, urbanite) dad's reaction was... not...

What about Green River butcher knives?

Looks like it has a bottle-opener under the poll. Luckily I have 'some' ale on hand for axe-testing purposes. Do you want to send it to me now or later? ;)

As Mrs Beaton woudl say, first catch your deer. Most deer-stalkers bin the hide, bones and sinews. Befriend some and you'll probably get more than you can handle.

You have PM.

There's also The Victorian Pharmacy and Victorian Farm Christmas. Expect the latter to be repeated as we enter the Cursed Time.