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I would expect that to be a rare thing, I have never had a blade failure like that as I can recall. I have broken the tips of knives using them as a prybar but that is another thing it is abuse. I have had spades break in normal use but then they are made out of Chinesium these days aren't they.

I dunno, nature is brutal at times I have seen the damage of storm Darragh at Lake Vyrnwy.

Seven axes hanging on my wall, seven axes hanging on the wall, and if one of those axes should axeidently fall, well there might be blood on the kitchen floor. I had a landlords inspection a while back and I had to warn the young lady who was carrying it out not to lean back as there was a row...

I know the local paper was predicting the Apocalypse and I confess I was rather disappointed when none of it materialised. The snow has all washed out this evening.

I am pretty sure our sewage is gravity fed, it follows the river valley and was built in the 1960s and was tested out by men driving minis down it :)

It has been relatively mild here, none of the doom and power cuts predicted by the newspaper. There was a fall of snow yesterday evening that did not last long, no high winds and it all looks calm and cold out there, which is just as well as I have to get myself to the GP surgery in a bit.

I am clearly not a true lumberjack as the heaviest axe I possess is a Smalcalda from the GDR with a head that weighs no more than 4 1/2 pounds which I have had for over 40 years.

Absolutely, I oversleep and there is just too little daylight left.

I dunno whether it is true or not or AI slop, but I saw on teh interwebs that the Vikings used luminescent plankton in horn lanterns.

Some years back I spent the run up to Christmas in hospital with a suspected heart attack, back in the days when they could still arrange beds for you. I was next to an old man who was clearly dying, he knew it, everybody knew it, he just wanted to be out so he could die at home.

Like a lot of bad laws most people will simply ignore, them, when did anyone every buy a CB license back in the day?

That looks like the kind of picture the police usually post after a knife amnesty. The only thing missing is the obligatory bat'leth :)

I thought to myself recently on a trip to London what I could do in the event of a train attack, and the answer is not much, best thing in fact the only thing would be to try and put some object between you and the attacker such as luggage or even an overcoat you had taken off. As for Bondi...

Aagh I have just caught myself responding to a ghost thread, anyway to delete this post?

Better than an ICE and it's standard 12v battery though, either way it will keep your phone charged at least.

I had a friend whose mum did the illustrations for that.

Angina has effectively put paid to Hillwalking for me.

I went out for a walk today and I took my poncho for when it started to rain, to be honest I should have taken my drovers coat instead, that way my knees would have stayed dry.

I have never done "bushcraft" to begin with, I have camped, I have hiked, I have practised traditional woodland skills, I have made stuff out of leather and so on, but whatever you call it, it is just things I have either found practical or enjoy to do.

I wouldn't feel very safe living in my block of flats, rather obvious target for drones. I have a hybrid car, and that is virtually a mobile power station in the event of power cuts.