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I will once the paramedics are on standby!

I think it's 1945 and I still use it. Not bad for an 80 year old bit of kit!

Did Britain copy the Jerry can pretty quickly or were ours a similar design already? The reason I ask is that I have a British one stamped WD (war department) which is the Jerry can as we know it today. I also have a WWII USA one with the screw in cap which is clearly not as sublime a design.

My pop up hide arrived today so I popped it up out in the rain. As various Amazon reviews suggested, it pees through the seams, so a bit of sealing is in order. Managed to wrest it back into its bag and now it's popped up again, drying in the bathroom.

Stamina?! I finished Das Kapital just before Christmas. I was down to my last quark of sanity by the end of that!

Just finished the Mabinogion. I can see how it influenced Tolkien.

A washing machine drum is the classic cheap/free answer.

Cloak and dagger stuff, except the dagger would fold.

Maybe for concealment?

The kind of knife you're after is usually called a hawkbill or pruning knife. Rough Rider, Victorinox and Arthur Wright make versions of it, as a few examples. I can't make a specific recommendation but the unbranded piece of junk pruning knife I have is genuinely useful for certain tasks.

I like the way it held the nut under its foot while it cracked into it. I know they do that with carrion that they're tearing at too and maybe its nutcracking behaviour is an extension of egg eating but even so it seemed outside the usual remit.

Anyone else witnessed this before? 2 things struck me as notable : 1. The magpie dug into the lawn to retrieve a walnut a squirrel had put there. It obviously had an idea of what to look for and how to find it. 2. The magpie then hammered away at the walnut like a woodpecker which I wasn't...

SSDs need powering up occasionally to retain their memory, so if you're thinking of very long term storage such as leaving it in the loft for decades then they may not be ideal.

I use a big Elwell for splitting wood, though admittedly I try to use a smaller one if I can get away with it. Sometimes a big log needs a big axe. My dad still uses a splitting maul too I think.

Fair comment. I've no doubt there are 52 useful plants in the British Isles but admittedly they might not group up evenly in the way I suggested.

I should think you could do a whole deck with just plants and maybe divide them into 4 suits based on land type - woodland, coast, heath and grassland for example?

I can't speak for knifemaking but in other fields of design the worst clients are the ones who don't really know what they want and basically change the goalposts every 5 minutes or wait until they see a finished product and still don't know what they do want but decide they don't want that...

I'd like to get fitter. Nothing groundbreaking, just back to where I was a few years ago.

I was playing with a torch lens and cramp balls today

I find silver a more interesting case because historically it's been up and down like a yoyo where gold generally goes up and barely goes down, like a ratchet. Years ago I assumed that silver should be going up due to the afforementioned industrial applications but it carried on like a yoyo...