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It's suddenly gone very still and quiet a couple of hours ago. After all the noise and bluster for most of the day, it feels quite strange. At least I'm no longer chasing the bin down the road.

Just had to chase my big black bin down the path twice in the last half hour. It's empty, so very light. Had to tye it down to the drainpipe, and put some bricks in it. Gonna be a pitta to get them out! I can hear the wind gusting which means in my sheltered enclave its bad! My phone is saying...

Even bigger blob of rain incoming! Toddled down to take a peek at the river, its running like a steam train and close to the top of the banks. Perfect white water canoeing. Looks like we could experience a bit of flooding, tho yesterday there were no flood warnings, today we are on Amber alert...

Went to Xmas fair. Bought honey, wax candles, a sheepskin rug(£20!! Can you believe that!) Handmade soap that smells of pine forests, And invested in a little handmade silver ring. Donated the price of a bale of hay to the exmoor pony centre. I had planned to buy some small gifts to fill in...

A hammock.changed the comfort level of camping totaly, and I love being able to see out, rather than being zipped into something that cut off all connection with nature.

Wrapping the last few Xmas presents that need posting, still a few to go, and knitting a snow covered cottage tea cosy.a present for a local friend. Tomorrow, santa is coming to town, so I'd better get writing my letter.:)

Not where I live. Maybe big towns and cities, but in more rural areas not so much. I picked 100 yrs, but 110, or 125yrs it still wasn't that long ago. It's just that modernity has accelerated so fast that it seems like we have lived the way we do now for much longer. I've rented and lived in...

Sounds like you've got most bases covered. When I think that only 100 yrs ago most places only had an outdoor hand pump, often shared with other households, with only cold water, and heating water on open, or coal fires. long drops for other needs. It makes me grateful. We realy have it so...

It just goes to show that we need to take water supply a bit more seriously. My usualy clear drinking water went a nasty brown a few weeks ago, and tho it was remedied very smartly, it made think again, and get my butt into gear and buy the berkfeld. I'm glad I have my new water filter and can...

A snoring sheep. I had to laugh and woke it up. Sorry little sheep. I never knew sheep snored.

What happened in Cornwall was the delivery driver put the chemicals in the wrong tank. Carelessness on the part of the delivery driver. It wasn't discovered for a while, (I think about a week or so.) Carelessness on the part of the company. Water should be tested daily. Water is critical to our...

I see this week,there have been water problems in Devon due to burst water main, and Royal Tunbridge Wells with water quality issues due to a batch of "bad" chemicals. Burst mains are one thing, but bad chemicals????? Reminds me of the Redruth incident in Cornwall where aluminium was poured...

Ooh, it's gotten soggy wet. We've had some pretty nice sunny but cold days, but back to the wet and dismal again. I'm still waiting for the ark I ordered last year. I think it's the sky blue paint I ordered being out of stock, so I've changed my mind and am now going for tartan. :) Looking on...

Yes, a blanket can be like that. I use a cheap thin light coloured throw, and It only covers half the hammock over my head and about half my torso so there is still a little bit of contrast in the light levels. It can be a panicky feeling of claustrophobia if you cover the whole hammock, but...

Daisy chains and a couple of climbing grade karabinas, and pitching the foot end slightly higher than the head. A pillow to bring your head back to a more comfy height. A good firm mat to stop the sag in the middle and sleeping as diagonally as possible. And definatly a decent underquilt. I'm a...

An easy cheap way to learn cordage making is to use raffia which can be bought from garden centers and craft shops in a big hank. I always use raffia to teach beginners as it's stupid cheap for a lot of product, and it makes yards of cordage which can be used for many things, for instance tying...

I'm now getting some e mail notifications, but when I come onto site, I find there may be more than one reply, but I've only got one notification, and even that is quite a long time after the post has been posted. But at least they are coming through after a fashon.

Well, I've put together a kit. Much of which I already had, but had to buy a few specialised items. It's quite expensive to buy those, but I think we are happy to pay out for expensive car/house/life insurance with no problem, I'm regarding this kit as as insurance policy, with the same idea...

I often see that we do things from the top down, rather from the bottom up. You cannot build an ecco system without the base of the pyramid being already in place. For instance, There is a butterfly that all but died out, think it was one of the blues, and nobody could figure out why. One young...

But then you'd need a flask for the screwdriver, but I think they normaly are used for whiskey etc rather than cocktails.