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Neither will anyone else. This is conjecture without basis. We always leap about and yell when someone suggests that we might have to give up toys/tools. I’m going to need a law-maker’s statement before I break sweat on this one.

Hi The Bushmoot is end of next month. Less than an hour from Brierly Hill. Hammocks are normal. Come and meet some of us. If every day is a school day, Bushmoot is a Uni :) Edited to add: It’s as wild or as almost civilised as you want it to be.

They are heavy for the area of accommodation but they thoroughly watertight. Check out the size! Look at the poncho “tail”. You want the size 3. It has three silver aluminium peg holes in a row. Even if you are not tall the extra space is worth it. You can rig it with a bi-pole outside the...

Is 240 watts enough? This.

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Nope. The darkest brown eggs that I know come from Cuckoo Marans, they are barred in two shades of grey. This hen lays blue eggs.

Whistle sounds good. I make flutes and whistles but I don’t care what they are made of so mostly plastic, some bone, lots are wooden, bamboo or aluminium. Have you tried drilling right through and out of the end of your whistle - maybe 130mm? (After cutting off the tip.) Then cover the end...

OK - it’s back with me. I’ll potter about the shedroom and maybe make something. I’ll post next week.

Not much. Occasionally specs. Whatever goes in there had better be washing machine and dryer proof!!! I find the ones in fleece and cotton shirts bloody useless as I need two hands to get the zip to move upwards.

For sure. I have to work hard to get that glowing char-cloth to ignite tinder. To the extent that the only fire starter that I use now whether home or outdoors is a big fat 90x12mm ferro. I’ve worn half way through one end over the years. Not about to turn it round yet. It will see me out...

Here in UK we would expect the mandatory declaration printed on the packaging, not just a sticker. No amount of eco-marketing would counter a lot of customer resistance if they weren’t barn or free range. Someone has already said that the eggs in question are not the cheapest. Can the OP...

Just a question: Are the eggs in question labelled caged, barn or free range?

Hi, Is this still available? A project has come up. The leather may well reappear at the Summer Moot.

I’ve just read a romance by someone called Kelsey McKnight. She is very obviously American. Her novels are set in the Highlands and among the Scottish nobility (as she sees it!) The stories are good, well structured and fun but oh deary me. She attempts to write dialogue with a brogue...

He won’t - not with a flint and steel. He’s going to have to have patience. Are you happy with the system yourself? I find it’s the transfer that’s harder than the ember. I gave two six year old Grandsons ferro rods and scrapers when we camped in the spring. They used those well (They...

I would agree to an extent but it isn’t quite as clear cut as that. My Prestige steel (part of a meat carving set) has longitudinal groves and is magnetic. It works like a very shallow file and I can see the material that it has removed when I wipe it with a paper towel.

From time to time I respond to readers questions in the New Scientist. (In an amateur exchange column) Two weeks ago a comedian posed the question: Why do human beings feel the urge to share their thoughts with others? This to a column specifically for sharing thoughts and ideas!!! I thought...

Sorry indeed that your outing has been delayed. Very impressed at the speed with which you are able to get scans and MRI. Hope everything is transient and you are 100% for the replay.

Long ago I worked for the Forestry Commission. We routinely used bill hooks sickles and scythes . We carried dual tapering carborundum stones just over a foot long. Now I use a similar stone but it is flat on two faces. It soon develops curved edges.