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Those guys, yeah, am already a member. And yeah, the Steam Tent crowd have been an influence, and a help in a way as regards a piece of music I was searching for the name of .... Troika

Well, it was having just completed the restoration of my Tilley Guardsman and having just acquired a Bushlite ( in my view better than UCO), I was casting around for ' what next '

Two colourful late model Chalwyn Tropic paraffin lamps. The start of a journey

If there was only one book and that was the only one, yep that would be me that had it.

If you're happy with reconditioned machines, I can recommend the Dyson DC04 - it's a beast and certainly better than the DC40 it replaced

Well doped up on Ibruprofen Max Strength I with my support who persuaded me to go attended on the Saturday. To have a number of good conversations with various vendors for some doors I didn't know existed to appear and appear ajar. As to what I bought, I bought a book, the book ; A...

If any are after any decent thick copper wire, beating up 240-110v site transformer is a good source. Bit of a pain to unwind it from transformer core but as I say decent copper wire and well worth the effort. Approx 2mm in diameter and coated of which can be burned off if it's the raw copper...

I weas at a show today where there was a chap displaying his collection of axes to observe a couple of kids asking the chap about his axes to note how the questions changed from general questions to which one is the best weapon. To think who the eff is educating children to consider tools as...

The Beanfield stuff is horrific

When I had a dog, I trained it to back it's rear into a bush when it needed to go

Well maybe not after all, depends, as have screwed up my hip - walking's fine but sitting crouching, even puts socks on = agony

If it's tinned veg you're after, opt for the value range for not only does the product tend to be less adulterated with un-needed sugar or salt, they tend to come in cans that require the use of a good old tin opener. I have a Leatherman, the Juice Xe6 that I back in the day (2001) considered...

I didn't download the app.

Not the weekend just the Saturday - my first Bushcraft event

Sometimes a jack of all trades is master at none, sometimes and yes I own five victorinox models to invariably be carrying three of them daily basis sometimes you just want to use a the right tool for the job. In some ways the SAK as a tool of laziness, in that when one needs to do something...

And I was caused to use the scissors tonight to do a bit of first aid, through the knowledge the Vicky scissors are rather excellent at cutting first aid materials.

Loads where I am and no diseased trees this year from what I have seen I live in a place where my Aunt told me they used to go collecting them off the cliffs where the trees mostly are to sell to the gin distillery

That be the one in this listing, the ' Spartan ' Spartan Red

Tin openers and bottle openers becoming obsolete, er no as perhaps folk are unaware cheaper brands of food tend not to have easy open ring pull systems and beer bottles are still using crown caps. As to the knife described, yeah I had one of them before I had the Vicky, but I lost in woods...

Conservatism I guess, in that perhaps it is when we find things that work we become comfortable with those things to perceive no reason to change and to be fair Victorinox has been a part of European identity for decades to create an air of at least European familiarity. And yes the things...