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Joe can swap notes with Junkyard Fox on living with a barely functioning hand. Wishing them all a swift and lasting recovery.

To answer the second part of your original question: you'll have a very hard/impossible time cutting it up with a junior hacksaw.

That was my experience of the scouts around the late 1990s. Basically just playing ball games in a village hall.

I've carved my Opinel out of necessity because back when I was a reckless teen I broke the tip off so the blade rests further in and conceals the nail nick. Modifying SAKs? There's not much meat on the scales to play with but people certainly fit their own custom scales.

By and large I prefer something pretty simple in terms of shape. One of my favourites is the handle on the Brisa Kephart which I have never felt the desire to change. Other favourites are the Camillus Bushcrafter and also the classic puuko style. Funny you should mention the SAK because I've...

How do businesses still get this so utterly wrong?

I put together a pot, mug, frying pan and meths stove combo in SS and it was heavy enough to convince me to switch to Ti. The difference is huge. However, if you're going down the lightweight route it only really makes sense to marry it up with other lightweight gear. Expense/price/value is...

Sounds very much like elm. Their leaves are like sandpaper.

It's easy to get lost in the "wow that looks clever" and lose track of the bottom line, ie what's the cost of the energy it generates across its lifespan?

Fly tipped rubbish down my road. -_-

Is it the passive voice? I never got to grips with linguistics but no one really talks like that, even me after a skinful.

Well that didn't disappoint!

An extra header tank or 2 in the loft might be the neatest solution for extra water storage, with all necessary allowances for the extra weight of course.

The blue mushroom trays are good for this. Place the potatoes so they are not touching and the occasional rotter shouldn't take the rest with it. Use any damaged ones first.

Vehicle prices have risen such in recent years that I find what I want and what I want to pay no longer overlap on the Venn diagram. The Ford Galaxy comes damn close though, being nearly van sized and available with a thrifty diesel engine.

I've got 100 elephant garlic plants looking promising. Won't be long until harvest time.

Yup, I've never eaten it.

There's a big one that comes out every year on a yew stump where I work. It looks slightly unreal. Other than that I've rarely ever seen them. Perhaps the woodland around here doesn't suit them, most of it being chestnut coppice.

A good hedgcutter will trim the leaves back or if you want to cut it really close then a chainsaw becomes the better tool but it will blunt the chain pretty easily once you get into the humus. Burning it is technically fine but it doesn't look pretty.

Not even on ash trees? I think there will be millions of them this year, looking at all the ash die back :-/