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I finally got round to buying one off Dave Budd. Expensive, yes, but he is very good at what he does, and the tool is good at doing what it ought too as well.

A good point there, I do what I do and I know what I know and there is nobody stopping me, but if I wanted a proper job in forestry or arboriculture I do not think I would get very far at all and if I did take a formal course I am not sure there is anything much useful I would learn other than...

They are becoming quite the fashion, I saw a "yoof" in my local store this evening wearing one, he also had his pajama trousers on.

Ye gods, even I could make something like that with a brass rod and a file, and maybe better looking too.

I read this in a difference sense, that is when is it necessary to bend a stick. As a rule I never do, the shape of the stick gives it character and a bent stick can work just as well as a straight one and act as a conversation piece.

I have been watching Red Fox lately, he seems to be a bit of a tinkerer which I like.

I got one of those black New Zealand merino sheep shearers vests years ago, extra thick and extra long. It has got a couple of holes in it now, but still does a good job.

Yes they did used to have a pig bin, not everything ended in the pig bin though, if they happened to cook a bit too much pudding, some of it got taken home, perks of the job.

Yes and I concur with that from my own experience.

People do not necessarily stop doing a thing because there is a law against it, they stop when it no longer becomes socially acceptable. In my teens I wore a bowie knife on my belt with my dad's approval, nobody in authority ever said to you it was against the law or you should not be doing it...

Last few decades? I think it is longer than that, peasants and nobles both would wear a dagger on their belt in the middle ages, but that was before pockets, I don't think knives have been worn as a fashion accessory since then except for National Costume. Well with the exception of teenage boys...

Boiled cabbage immediately came to mind. My mum worked in various school kitchens as she rose from general assistant to cook in charge. They had to keep to a very strict budget so the ingredients were not exactly the best quality.

If they had a ban on knives in Republican Rome, just think Julius Caesar would still be alive today.

I understand the drive to ban log stoves, I can remember coal fired England, there are sound health reasons you do not want them as your main heating source in suburbia, however freezing to death with no electricity or gas is not exactly healthy either is it?

I rarely wear mine these days, not because it is not any good but it is rather too specialised. I prefer layering up in wool these days, easier to take off a layer when it get's too warm.

Safe and convenient carry in a belt purse.

They actually work too.

Well since nobody else has posted this yet, I will "Who do you think you are kidding Mr Hitler"

Not today but on Saturday to be precise, I bought a Swiss army greatcoat, I mean anything the Swiss produce is quality, they were there next to Bulgarian greatcoats, I would only buy the Bulgarian coat if I wanted to disguise myself as a goat.

Excellent on your key ring takes up no space, and a lot better than the old incandescent one, I really do wonder what some people want out of their torches, we managed without lighting the sky all the way to the moon back in the day. I have still got my original too.