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Tengu..don't hit me!!! 5 meters of 60 cm wide wool fabric. (£10) I'm jumping with glee. I have dreams of a full length, very full skirted medievil style kirtle. Perfick! Now I just need the linnen for the under kirtle. I can now afford to buy some good linnen, as I got the wool fabric so cheaply.

I quite like mah Jong. I found it makes my observation and memory skills better as you have to remember where the tiles are you might need a couple of moves ahead. It's also far too addictive! I like the apps that get progressively harder as you complete each puzzle.

I've just had this made for me by a local stick maker. It came home last week, just in time for this thread. It has exmoor stag horn at the top, and a lovely brass ferrule on the base. I think it's chestnut. Though I forgot to ask which wood was used. The only stipulations I gave were for...

I'd plant a couple of minni tomatoes too. I do them in hanging baskets(which you could hang off the shed on a bracket. Also a few strawberry plants along the front edge would be rather nice.

Broad beans are my favourite bean. I like then fresh from the garden, picked small, young tender and sweet, gently simmered or steamed served with fresh real butter melted over them, with a few twists of black pepper. Delicious. I grow them myself as shop bought are left far too long before...

Spuds in pots, onions red and white, shallots for pickling sweetcorn, parsnips and peas are still to show a nose, but I have 3 varieties of courget growing away nicely, and a small pumpkin. Spinach is in and doing nicely, was going to plant the beets, broad beans, carrots and lettuce this...

Lots of goodies today with my monthly trip into the nearest town. A good rechargeable battery bank, reduced to £15 in morrisons. A new fire blanket, to go with my fite extinguisher, only a metre square, but useful and nessasary in the kitchen. Over £30 worth of plants for my bee garden, and...

Yeah, been to that one in the past, it's a lovely site.

Leeford farm in the village of brendon. Cheap and cheerful. But an absolute wind tunnel!

Glad yours seem ok. Just been into town to try and buy honey and the "imported " honey is £1 more for a half pound jar than I was paying for a 1lb jar. I wish I had room for a hive or two, but the garden is much too small. Such a shame. I'd realy love to keep bees.

How are hives doing in general around the country? Here ,a year ago, I had 3 local producers. One has retired, one is thinking of giving up, another found all his bees dead, all 3 hives. (No he is not a beginner and has produced for many years.) And anther friend who produces for himself only...

I've just picked up some bags of reduced sliced mushrooms, which are in my dehydrator now. They have been in for several hours and still seem bendy, rather than crisp. ie, they don't snap, I want to do some mushroom powder,how snappy do they need to be? Is a bit of bendyness OK.? I don't want...

Thank you so much everyone. Often enter, but never come close. I never even bothered checking to see what was happening, as I'm so used to being at the bottom! so this came as a wonderful surprise. Better than an Easter egg! Cheers.

I think that would be a perfect solution for you, especially if you could share the driving with someone. You might even get to the moot.

Thanks, to be honest I was just too tired and in pain with the old creaky bones, to be bothered to do anything else but pull the blanket over my head, offer up a quick prayer and just go to sleep . I couldn't decant to a vehicle, as I didn't have one. I was warm and dry in my bag, and I decided...

It was am un named cheap remote canister fishing stove, but the seperate windshield kept being blown over onto the pan. Windshield is now in two pieces! Can be mended, so no biggie. I don't think any gas stove is going to work in such high winds. Definatly a trangia would have been the stove to...

Must admit I had the thought ..what the ..expletive..am I doing out in this in a flimsy tent! But it was a great lesson in perseverance, and faith in my chosen gear. A few lessons in what works in adverse conditions and what doesn't. I did utilise the fire fir cooking as the gas was too...

Sorry Rich, dont think that is the site. I may be wrong tho. It's about 5miles from Lynton. Though that one looks gorgeous too. The valley was much steeper less wooded and the river fenced off as it was a 20 foot drop to the water. Couldn't get near it for a paddle sadly. Text me what you...

The robens pegs I used for the guys were perfect and stayed in the ground. The origional smokey hut pegs were the ones that gave way, even double pegged on the windward side. The wind veered in the night and took out the leeward pegs which were not double pegged as I figured they would have less...