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Depends on market placement. They may go for a small range of higher-priced premium products made in UK...... it's a niche product after all. Shift the materials used to recycled stuff, market it as "for life" and price accordingly. Arguably that would be true to their roots. Given that the mass...

Not surprising really, The BBC article also mentioned the amount of takeaway residue in the bin bags, which I suspect is the real driver. Can't blame the rats. When humans chuck out a bunch of tasty food in thin bags and leave it there for ages, of course the rats will thrive. As will the...

@forrestdweller : Needles for hand sewing: well, John James https://www.jjneedles.com/ make a good range... I prefer the ones in packets to the ones in pebbles...... ...... but if you want a really nice needle, Tulip needles are the biz: https://www.tulipneedles.co.uk/ and their pins are great...

It's a good point. I use Starlink. I don't particularly like Musk- but actually, it's the team of skilled engineers and others in the company who make this work- not him. I also use Microsoft for work, and use Google. My phone is Android. My phone and screens were all made in China- although...

Unfortunately, we see to live in an era of folks knowing their "rights" and being determined to exercise them- without any acceptance or perhaps even comprehension of the accompanying responsibilities, not giving a fig about anyone but themselves. They are just having "fun"/taking a...

Earlier this week...... a newt and a load of Red Admiral butterflies (not at the same time, I saw the newt in the evening, butterfies during the day). There's been loads of the butterfiles for a few days, since the sun came out. GC

@Herman30 : There's different versions of a "Range." Fundamentally, it's a directly fueled closed appliance that is focused on cooking but will also heat a room. Typically it runs constantly- it will be capable of runnign overnight. In some cases the range also runs a central heating system...

Yes, a kitchen range is a great thing. Lit the (coal fired) Rayburn last night as it's getting chilly at nights, when lit I always have the kettle parked on the side with water warming in it so it boils quicker, (and the cooking gets done on the range instead of the electric cooker). Thing...

This. Totally this. Focusing on the wider elements of "bushcraft" not just knives. A knife is one tool amongst many.... and not always the most useful for a job. My Fiskars bushhook, my old vintage kindling splitter, my craft-orientated knives see just as much use if not more. And if I use a...

Why don't you take a look at Dave Budd's site, and drop him a note? This is the sort of thing he makes: https://www.davebudd.com/axes-adzes-saws He makes really great tools, and of course is a long-standing member and mod on this forum. I don't (yet) have one of his axes, but I have a knife...

Thinking out of the box here.... the website indicates that the Bushcraft Store is one of their event sponsors, so maybe contacting them to get a more reliable contact...... ..... if they are an event sponsor (and trader) chances are they place advertising in the mag, so one would expect they...

At the time we looked at a number of options, but our proven useful work always lost out to those who were better at selling unicorns....... then my IT mate moved onto other things and I was on my own, a microbusiness and couldn't risk losing the (returning) day job work. The market was...

There's also some you-tube videos using cathodic rust removal (electrochemical methods). I haven't tried it, but it looked interesting. (Was looking at ways to remove rust from old tools without changing the metal temper through overheating from abrasive methods, and I fell down an...

The ex-Housing minister was a typical urban policitian, and IMO it's an urban vs country thing not a north-south thing. She also came over as a typical labourite who doesn't care where food comes from so long as it's cheap, and who regarded country folk as rich toffs to be squeezed and looked...

Well I finally cleared the stream overflows...... I ran out of time on Saturday, and we had, ah, a wee bit of rain yesterday..... over an inch in a couple of hours, maybe more. The stream came up as high as I've seen it since the storms of last February, the makeshift "diversion dam" I cobbled...

Shortened a couple of sets of curtains. They are fully lined so it was a bit of a faff. GC

Indeed. I am glad it's not just me that dreads wrestling with the duvet cover! I have my extra quite on top of the bed now, but at some point I will need to extract my winter duvet from its storage case under the bed (It's a M&S duvet, and they rather helpfully supplied it in a zipped case...

Yeah, Flexcut tool ssre still sharp. My carving tools are the sharpest I have. Next after that, my Woodjewel puukkos. Close to carving sharp out the box. GC

I am not burning lignite coal or peat. The "lignite briquettes" are not actually lignite coal...... they are manufactured from wood waste and they are a low-tar, low sulphur fuel for use in woodburners/multifuel stoves. Here is the stuff...

It's that time of year again. The nights are getting chillier, last night we lit the log burner in the sitting room for the first time this year. Only for a couple of hours, but still. We have had the (mains gas) central heating on for an hour a couple of times this week too. Today I had my...