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Ive had a fun little project on the go, that's nearing completion, so I th ought Id post it even though I couldnt decide which category it would go in! Silk production (sericulture) has been around for about 3000 years, but as silkworm only eat white mulberry leaves, it was confined to those...

well all my locusts died in the space of a few hours. The culprit? I bought salad veg from morrisons, and after asking in locust forums, this is a bad idea, any trace of pesticide will kill them and its really quite a lesson learned that the veg we buy is laced with the stuff. :(

Well hopefully the locust life cycle will coincide with the moot, they seem to be reaching old age and not breeding so good! BUT!!! Ive also got a colony of silk work going that im going to have a go at producing silk. maybe I could give a little talk on that, if they pupate before the moot, I...

Ive eaten them raw, or frozen them and then put them in boiling water, then fried in butter. Yes do please give me oakgalls, I find maybe 2 every time Im at a meet

Long time no see on the forums!! After foraging far and wide for oak galls, I discovered they are in fact available on ebay (is there anything you cant buy?!) so would anybody be interested in a short demo on ink and black dye making? I believe it can also be used to dye leather with, I...

I hereby apologize on behalf of the people of stockport :( Pull it together Ryan!

Best tip? Learn to use chop sticks :-). And buy metal ones, they can be used as tent pegs and a rather scary throwing weapon in the hands of a ninja

My phone won't copy the text! Support worker for adults with autism Tattooist/shop owner

Oh dear I hope mine arrived, ive not heard mention of it! I received my homemade damson brandy and wooden spoon !! Cheers ! I'm afraid I didn't get a picture of the brandy it didn't last long enough ;)

I'm beaming ear to ear now! This has made my day ^_^

On my way to Skegness guys , but near the main fire I put some obsidian at the base of a tree. If anybody wants to flint knapp your welcome to try it.

Was a wonderful send off guys. Drews family are amazing strong people.

Ive seen a fair amount of it. I really dont know why its classed as edible, it tastes foul!

well done dave! loving the stabby end! hey I bet you could drill a fine hole into the end of a spoon and stick pencil lead in it.

several of the manchester group shall be coming up, me included x

gutted I cant make this one guys :( and its now more than ever we could all do with huddling round the campfire x

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Maybe we could create a book of memories of drew. My aunts work mates make a book of all her daft sayings at their work and it really helped to read them all x

It such a waste isnt it. I sorry you didnt hear the news earlier. He was maturing and becoming such a wonderful young man, its never easy to start on the outside lane and have to catch up but thats how I felt it was for drew, and he has not been given the chance to show us all how far he could...

Its like Tengu says, People like drew are too full of life to die. A toast of Jack Daniels to Drew, its what you kept pretending was 24 year old malt, but we werent fooled!