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Very impressive! And despite all that work, you still manage to find time to get outdoors!

The trap has been out there for a week now. Around the tree is maize / corn bait. Smeared in places on the tree up from there is the GoodNature hazelnut paste; also on and above the trap itself. Bait topped up daily. Trailcam showing increase in Squirrel activity around the area from before...

My wife and I made a conscious decision not to have children. They're both taking it very badly...

Yup, will do. But it may be a little while yet... The trap is placed where there has been recent sightings of squirrel with my trailcam, and recent damage to the trees around. I've baited around the foot of the tree with some maize, and smeared some Hazelnut paste on the tree above the maize...

Arrived a couple of days ago and now set up, along with my trailcam watching: https://goodnaturetraps.co.uk/shop/a18-grey-squirrel-sentry-kit/ The born-out-of-wedlock Grey Squirrels have seriously damaged almost all my Silver Birches in the woodland over the last two or three years, and have...

Physics tells us that light travels faster than sound. Is that why some people appear bright until they speak?

I've had a lot of serious damage to almost all my Silver Birches from the squirrels. And they've started on the young Oaks, and others, now. They were all born out of wedlock...

I do hope, for your sake, that she is not on this site! Otherwise "Your dinner? It is in the bin, my darling..."

I followed the link originally from the Firebox Stove Kickstarter Project for the 5-Way Cookset. This is the actual link for the paper folding instructions: If you want to make them for other shaped-and-sized rectangular-ish pots and pans, the general formula for the paper size needed I've...

Ta. I'd not really come across it before but the Parchment Paper stops food from sticking to the pan, and saves on the washing-up - a good bonus when one is out in the wilds somewhere! My batch of paper will cope with temps. (oven or otherwise) up to 230ºC.

This is an experiment cooking in Parchment Paper in a small Dutch Oven on briquettes. Browning the cubed pork in the spices... Simmering in the Tikka Masala sauce, with mushrooms... And not forgetting the Nan! All washed down with a glass of mildly-fermented grape juice. Pas mal, as some...

I have had the Jerven Bag Exclusive along with 2 different weight liners for a decade or more now. I've never slept in it as a bag (yet) but used it on many occasions as a groundsheet, as a cagoule, as a windproof and / or waterproof shelter, as a tarp, etc. It has also been used on two...

A cashless society is also dependent on infrastructure. Damage to one or more of the electricity network, the internet, banking / finance servers or the mobile network - possibly by a bad actor - will cause a "hiccup" in the payment system, albeit possibly relatively localised. Not having all...

I always carry cash, along with card. I tend to shop locally so I pay cash for everything from local stores, and the market, up to around £50 - £60, then card. Cash lasts the local businesses longer than card payments. Funnily, once or twice they've not had change so I've had to pay by card...

From Richard Graves' Bushcraft... See also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coolgardie_safe

Thanks! Anchovy and Olive. I felt the lid could have perhaps done with another couple of briquettes. Ah, well...I'm just going to have to try again...

I've been managing to get a few "projects" done. It's been a little difficult until a week or so ago due to the weather. Amongst others... This is baking in a Billy on a Firebox Stove. The Zebra Billy Tin baking kit includes a piece of shaped wire to help keep coals on top of the billy for...

As you don't have a vehicle at the moment, why not just hire a camper when you want to go away for a few days? I'm sure your ladies would appreciate that more than kipping in the back of a car! With no decent loo...

I use 15L - 20L a week for cooking and drinking, and have around 8 - 10 weeks' supply. In my last house, like Broch, the water supply came from a deep aquifer. We never even filtered it. When the CH engineer came to do the annual service / maintenance he would take a few bottles of it back with...

My tap water seems strongly chlorinated (or whatever chemical it is), so much so I can even taste it on, for example, pasta that I've cooked. Not nice. I've even smelt it on myself after a shower. I've been buying bottled water in 5L plastic bottles for quite some time. However, where I get it...