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My wife has granted me leave to have a weekend away without her and the kids. The last time we had a holiday was about four years ago when my oldest son had just turned one, and that involved a car full of kit just to sustain a small child for a couple of weeks. Now I'm sat here trying to...

Has anyone got a Maxped Barnacle they want to get rid off? Preferably green but I'll consider any colour.

I've just bottled off my whimberry whisky and I'm left with the alcohol soaked berries to deal with now. Apart from freezing them in small batches to eat with icecream or apple crumble over the winter is there anything I should try with them? In the past I've added various soaked berries to...

I know there's a petition for everything these days and people get sick of signing them but this one is calling on the government to enshrine the UK's new environmental targets (to reverse natural decline in the England by 2030) in law rather than stick to the all talk and no action Tory...

Asking £50 all in. I bought this birdbox camera kit this time last year with grand hopes of having my own personal Springwatch but sadly there's too much wifi activity in my house and neighbourhood for it to work properly so it has barely been used. I pick up about 10 houses' wifi here plus baby...

I've decided to sell my Airboss watch as it's just not getting used since we had kids and just lives in the box these days. It's a really nice watch, automatic movement, 42mm case, strap has hardly been used as I always used a Nato strap with it. Currently on sale at £629 from the shop it came...

I'm not sure what to make of this. I was searching about near the river where I find some interesting old things washing up after floods and I found a folded up sheet of lead. Being lead I put it in the bag for recycling rather than leave it there to pollute the river. It was only when I got it...

Does anyone have one of these that they don't want anymore?

I was reading a book that discussed the historical popularity of pipkins. For those who don't know a pipkin is a glazed earthenware cooking pot with a lid, hollow handle and three little legs. Very similar to some of the smaller cast iron dutch ovens that are popular now but more designed to be...

One of my Maxpedition pouches has developed an unfortunate rip in the material that makes up one of the internal pockets. I think the material has come away from the seam at the side and has frayed as it unravels. I need to stop the rip getting any worse and then patch it on both sides I think...

Fallkniven U2, used but in good condition. Complete with box. SOLD and a CRKT Ritter RSK Mk5 brand new in the box complete with the tin, paperwork and garish paracord that you will no doubt remove as soon as you get it. This is my spare one but the other has been great as a lightweight necker...

As much as I love this little knife I don't use it anymore and I've been thinking about trying a more traditional folder for a while. Ideally I'm after a knife with bone or antler scales and decent quality. The Case Sodbuster Jr with the jigged bone handles would be perfect but I'll consider...

A bit of a sad story on the BBC website this morning. "Thousands of knives and sharp objects are being confiscated annually at London family courts, with campaigners saying it showed how "desensitised" some people were to carrying weapons." "The figures for shorter blades include items of...

To save hijacking the other thread too much I'll move this to a new one. I emailed details of my lamp to the manufacturer who replied "That is a Type No.1 but as you say it doesn’t have the normal label attached. Im curious myself as I have not seen one like this before. It could have been...

I was working at an empty property this week that's being cleared out for renovation. There were a couple of rusty tools by the bins that the owner said I could take. I only really wanted the trowel but took the other thing because it looked useful. I thought it was a pin for securing something...

A treasure hunting Youtuber I follow posted up the video below today. In case you don't want to watch he goes into the woods with some friends to dig out an old bottle dump looking for old or collectable bottles, each to their own right. Sadly a couple of members of the public reported seeing...

It's that time of year again when all the bird boxes need emptying out and cleaning. Most of mine are near houses which makes them easy to maintain but I've got a group of 6 in an area of woodland that have to be cleaned in situ. I try to pick a mild day to do it in case I have to evict any...

Yeah first bit of cold weather and I'm reaching for my winter trousers already. I must be getting old :redface: Sadly I've only now remembered how many repairs my Craghoppers need so I'm looking for a second pair. The Craghoppers are fine but it looks like the colour range hasn't improved beyond...

It popped up in my recommended list and is well worth 5 minutes of anyone's time.

Not wild ones, not with this snow, but I foraged a huge bag of cup mushrooms from the reduced section of Morrison's earlier. As much it was a total bargain I now have a bit of buyer's remorse at facing a weeks worth of mushrooms with every meal. I have a dehydrator and a love of mushroom risotto...