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I don't understand Heinnie's description... Among the list of features: Wire cutters ... Metal Saw Wood Saw ... Wire cutter, bender and scraper ... Hard wire cutter Looking at the image, I see only one saw. Or maybe the file has teeth cut along the edge? Tiny teeth. And what's going on with...

I was talking to the manager of the riding school where I learnt. He tells me that he needs to pay a company to take away the mix of straw bedding and manure from mucking out. When I got our first compost bin at this house, I was introduced to a woman who runs a livery yard who was very happy...

Pollinators are out in force at my house. White tailed and buff bumblebees, violet carpenter bees, honeybees, hover flies, not too many wasps, yet.

Not a cathedral, but there is a proper mediaeval castle being built in France: Guédelon. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gu%C3%A9delon_Castle

This made me chuckle... When I was living and working in the US I was often confronted with technical and HR limitations, and often asked my American colleagues (tongue in cheek) "how did you people manage to put as many on the moon?" The response was generally along the lines of "different...

I started a thread in another sub forum. https://bushcraftuk.com/community/threads/hewing-axes.169642/

For those looking for hewing axes, take a look at la-frontiere.fr. In particular there are two versions of a model called Bradva, a lighter one available in both left- and right-handed versions, and a heavier one but only right-handed...

She certainly is a nice looking boat.

I almost opened another can of fish a bit before noon today, but decided on a can of duck gizzards, instead. I fried a small onion in duck fat, then added the gizzards to the pan to warm them.

Chunk

I had a tin of Saupiquet brand mackerel in mustard sauce today. Nice, meaty fish (two decent sized pieces); ok sauce, a little on the sweet side and the mustard wasn't as strong as I would have liked.

I managed to win a second hand lens on eBay: a Zodiak-8 30mm f/3.5 fisheye lens in Pentacon 6 mount. I have an adapter on order from Ukraine to fit this to my Mamiya 645. Under €200 including shipping from Germany, when all the others are "buy it now" for closer to €300.

Smiths revived the Salt'n'Shake crisps back in the 1980s. I don't remember how long the revival lasted, but there's apparently another revival going on now, and the good people of Essex are worried about the safety of the little packet of salt...

Or he is the store detective.

Spring is well under way, here; has been for a few weeks. Horse chestnut trees have finished the sticky bud stage and the leaves are unfolding. The sycomore and field maples have young leaves, various prunus varieties are in full bloom. Buds are still small on the grapevines. Grape...

I was up at Le Touquet at the weekend: black headed gulls, herring gulls, sanderlings, common seals.

Of the five knives that are in the picture that I posted yesterday, all have been EDC from time to time. I bought he stag handled one when I was on a trip back to Sheffield, flying with only a cabin bag, so couldn't take a pocket knife with me. That one stayed for several years at my mum's...

This makes me think that the ridges moulded into the inside of the fridge are still ok... I'd get pieces of aluminium bar, perhaps 3mm thick and about 12mm to 20mm wide, put those side to side and then put the glass shelves resting on the bars.

Nice enough as they are, neither of those are proper Barlow pattern knives, though.

Well, it took an couple of extra days for me to lay hands on them, but here is a quick snap of them. Maybe if the weather improves I'll get some better pictures under natural light towards the end of this week, beginning of next. From top to bottom: - Camillus with brass bolster and plastic...