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Received thank you. A lovely knife. Tricky to open, it has to be said, but I love the blade profile, really chunky but slicey with it!

Sorry, but I don’t buy it (no pun intended). Written (very glibly) by the very people who are trying to flog the boards. Just because they and the “British people”, whoever they might be, say it’s true doesn’t mean it’s true. Personally, I’ll stick with my nice wooden boards, tried and tested by...

I remember my grandmother used to have only one knife she used for vegetables and meat (apart from a carving knife and fork for slicing), it was a round ended faux ivory handled table knife that she’d sharpened so often with a pull-through, it had an upside down “smile” in the blade, she had...

I have two really nice carving knives that I bought as upgrades from my mora one, one is a Hans Karlsson Carving Knife that I paid around £80 for I think, and the other, I handled myself using a Kay Embretsen carving blade, I do prefer the Kay Embretsen one, that was a similar price for just the...

Did you bother with breaking yours in, the maker recommends that you start with a really small fire, then a slightly bigger one, maybe one more bigger one still, until you go for a roaring blaze. He reckons it helps to prevent warping. I’ve had mine for ages, but because of circumstances, not...

Hanging the bag full of dog poop on trees or fences is all too common, absolutely vile, it’s almost worse than not bagging it at all because it’ll hang there for so much longer, long after one left on the ground has washed away with the weather.

Talking about cats, have you been to Istanbul? :lmao:

Apparently, there’s a massive problem of children entering the school system nowadays who just aren’t “school ready”. Some even have to wear nappies because they’re not toilet trained, some can’t use a knife and fork, many try to use a book as if it’s an iPad because they’ve never seen a book...

When I make any sort of pickle or chutney, I always leave it for 4 months, in which time the taste improves immensely, the vinegar taste gets muted and the flavours sort of gel together. Same as when you make beer or wine.(hopefully without and vinegar aspects! lol!

My go to lanterns are the Sofirn BLF LT1 and their LT1s which is a smaller one with less features although there is a more (too) complicated version. The BLF can light a room although I tend to use it for mood lighting with the candle function, you can change the colour from yellow through to...

I do really like that!

That’s it, but I’d say my head was, maybe ⅓ smaller, and the haft, possible 2 or 3 inches longer. I’ll dig it out tomorrow and post a picture. The head on mine is all polished metal. I did have a concern the the blade wouldn’t be tempered, but it has been fine in use, keeps an edge fairly well...

A few years ago (so I can’t look up the seller on eBay), I bought a lovely little axe head from a Bulgarian blacksmith off eBay. It’s in the, what I think of as the East European style, with a bearded axe head that leaves a space behind it for your hand to grip the head itself- not sure how to...

I was under the impression from what I’ve read, that the Sami traditionally used these (Leukus) in areas where there was only really stunted birch, to herd their reindeer. In that scenario, they’re well up to the job

That’s the only answer I got wrong, I said Beech.

I’ve been stocking up on spirits while it’s Black Friday. Bought a bottle of Aber Falls single malt whisky- very nice as an “everyday” tipple (not that I do have a tipple everyday.Lol). A couple of bottles of 10 year old Bulleit Bourbon, bought one, then another after tasting, it’s rather...

It looks proper old school, being canvas. The colours seem to enhance it as a whole. I wouldn’t pick those colours if it was clothing, but they look good as a pack, and, like you say, they’re subtle . They’ll blend in nicely if you want a low key walk in the woods.

I do like the backpack, very nice!

For me personally, £60 or £70 is a hell of a lot of money and I would expect it to be left with a neighbour not just abandoned for someone to pick up which is exactly what would happen. All that said, there’s a gunnel gate which is obviously mine and my neighbours which it could have been put...

I didn’t, the tracking was a Chinese company which I’d tracked up to when it entered the country, but then it changed to FedEx without informing me, so there was no opportunity to select an alternative pick up point, such as my local Spar, which is what I normally do. I would have expected them...