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Clever answer: RA 0.54h D 38.54°. Clever Richard answer: take a thermos, as it can get quite chilly (and sunglasses, as it can paradoxically get quite warm as well, in direct sunlight). Considered answer: I hope that the 'clever' answer proves the worth of the coloured lines (the pointer...

If you can't download them from the (link to the) link to Picasa, PM me and I'll send them direct.

And, updating an old thread, here's the slingshot: Original instructions, images lost: http://www.bushcraftuk.com/forum/showthread.php?t=17418

If anyone's still interested, I have posted some explanatory notes: http://www.bushcraftuk.com/forum/showthread.php?t=60805&p=737244#post737244

To find the Andromeda galaxy (without a fancy iPhone app or a star-finding telescope), try these shed-bodged signposts: - Drive North from Ursa Major to Polaris. - From Polaris, drive via Cassiopeia to the square of Pegasus. - Follow the northern branch of Pegasus to the second junction, and...

An alternative to the bushcraft orthodoxy. Bacon butty! I think that we got away without anyone noticing the emergency table repair.

I'm sticking with puffball: but not brave enough to hazard which one. Once I can find my camera, I'll check if any of my shots are in focus. Repeated and awed thanks for what appears to have been the last day of Summer.

Give me a few days, I'll tidy this up and add simple instructions.

Copy that. Feeling very lucky to have had a 1:1 ratio of outdoor professionals to enthusiastic amateurs. Hope to post star-finder chart tomorrow. Chance, Boy & Boy's chum

Is it appropriate to pack 2x tame 10-year-olds?

Almost missed this through inattention: keen, but will need to 'check dates' (i.e. ask Mrs Chance). Would it be bad manners to PM the Aberdeenshires?

Mine got stuttery just before the gasket went... but you'll have sorted this when cleaning. Bad fuel? (like 'bad pint', it can be used to excuse all sorts of errant behaviour)

Does one 'cook' tea? I make a point of dragging mine out if I'm chopping or splitting. The heat control on mine is better when it's in windshield mode for a gas stove. Does a fry count as cooking?

So far I've hit the lower branches and my sternum. I'm planning on welding a brace in the area of highest stress; which, metallurgically, could go either way. Test firing will be tentative.

"Sun" ? The word seems strangely familiar. I must have heard it in a documentary, about somewhere exotic.

I've just bought some steel bar to see if I can get a heavy throwbag up into my trees. Hence the exaggerated use of rubber. I was too impatient for leather, and am making do with duck tape during this development phase. Never mind windows, it's my own face I'm most worried about hitting...

I'm resurrecting this thread, after a search for solar dehydrators. Any feedback, particularly from North Britain ? I was sent some jerky powder for Christmas, and don't feel like shelling out for an AGA or an Excalibur. I'd rather waste time improvising something that probably gets used...

And the instruction ? Canoeing, I'll take for granted. Beyond that: fire/fish/forage ?

I wasn't so lucky a while ago: not to extent of meeting specialist policemen, but in having to make the involved, and ultimately futile, explanation to someone unfamiliar with the equipment. Pity. But I now choose (even more) discretion.

I was lucky with this, as it came straight off the tree, and fairly soon after that into oil/wax. You can see where it was thinking about splitting near the core. Toddy recommended a treatment that wood-turners use: PEG.