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I think there are a few leatherworkers on here so I thought I would check in here witha few questions about some leather products I have. So I have two differently sourced Travellers Notebook clone covers, a leather pen roll, a custom made wallet and a key holder. The last two were from a NE...

Just a curious thought that sprung into my mind. You hear it said a dog is more intelligent than a cat or a crow is intelligent as a dog. Or other simiar comparisons. Then you see on TV in light entertainment nature shows like season watch when they bring in a crow or raven or starling to...

My partner came home from the big city with a large pack of sachet miso soup in seaweed flavour. They come in two sachets, one of a pastge and another of dry "seaweed". Bought from a pukka asian supermarket in a city with a Chinese community (China Town) and a Japanese community too. So it is...

Years ago I heard the country rule about if you hit it with the car or van you coulkd not take it home to eat it. How true that is I have no idea but who would leave a nice pheasant you just hit?? Now transfer to our house with the big windows and trees reflecting in them. We get a few asmall...

I thought that with the number of leather workers on here there will be good advice about what to do to recover leather at the other end of life. I am not talking about shoes, handbags, coats or furniture leather I am talking about the many leather accessories you might have collected and...

After putting up garden feeders (peanuts, mixes seeds and fat ball for variety) and a fat ball on a suitable ground based site for the Blackbirds and ground feeders we have started to get some birds visiting. This has led to me doubting my ID skills. It doesn't help that I have misplaced my...

When we moved in there were a couple of bird feeders and a rotten bird table. We got a lot of birds visiting in winter especially and we helped them a lot with peanusts and mixed bird seed on the table. All these feeding stations have been broken up and we had to get rid. We now have three metal...

We have recently put out bird feeders with fat balls and among the usual birds we had a brown bird that looked like a female blackbird but something was off. It kind of didn't look quite right. Now I cannot put my finger on it. I think it was slightly a different shape, perhaps a little chunky...

For possibly the last two or three winters I have been thinking about getting a warm jacket to wear when walking the dog, taking junior to football matches and standing around watching and a few other uses too. I am not happy with my buffalo S6 shirt any more. I simply cannot get on with the...

We have an old Kennedy 520 toolbox. It is a grey fliptop lid with a removable front panel revealing some deeper and narrower drawers. It is intended as a toolmaker's toolbox and commonly found with all sorts of gauges, verniers, micrometers and other metric devices. In this case it was used as...

We have some reasonable sized windows (70s picture windows) and one window has a nice pine tree that reflects into it. We get a fair few wood pidgeons or collared doves being taken out by that window. However today we had a goldcrest strike a different window that is too high to get a reflection...

This is not bushcraft but there seems to be a lot of practical knowledge on BCUK so I thought I would ask here first. My FiL is a long retired mechanic and engineer. He started with car and truck mechanic and ended up in the oil and gas a s fitter / engineer on large diesel gensets and the...

My partner recently asked about tough work clothes for gardening duties in all conditions. Something to offer resistance to thorns and tears but is comfortable. I said look at farmers shops. Does anyone have recommendations on where to get good, cheap and tough work clothings for the outdoors...

Anyone end up with a leaking trangia kettle suddenly? We use our trangia a lot especially on van camping trips but also cycle tours and other trips too. It gets a fair bit of use over the years. We got the bigger trangia model probably 10 years ago or so and the kettle came with. Our most...

We use ferro rods to llight meths and ga\\s stoves when camping. It works well but one of our better ones (trust me some brands can be better than others) has a very unever wear. Bassically there seems to be a kind of dug out section so the strike steel catches on it and you can't really run it...

Not bushcraft but it is as much a valid form of outdoors transport as canoes that several on here use. I am getting obsesssed with the idea of getting an inflatable one but really know very little about them. We used to have a family membership of a sailing club in our village (on an estuary)...

A bit of an impossible to know for certain thing but due to an obsessive curiosity I thought I'd see if there's any likely contenders and many on here are very knowledgeable about natural world. Out on this evening dog walk about 5ish. Arnside and Silverdale AONB and on a busy path through...

What is an every day carry really when you get down to it? Isn't it just a list of kit that you think you need for what you are planning? I mean wouldn't a real kit change with the things you have planned for the day? So if you are heading into town for a day in the office your everyday carry...

I'm looking for an occasional wear, workaday watch and have two choices. But a new watch in the £100-200 range, preferably at the lower end of the range. Or get a seiko solar watch working again. The Seiko was stored for a few years in a drawer. I got it out a few years ago and it wasn't...

Man aims laser at peregrine falcon nest. He then handed himself in to police saying he'd made a mistake. Without getting political the guy made a donation to the wildlife charity monitoring the birds, destroyed the laser and sat down with a police officer to discuss safe use of a laser. Now...