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Late to this thread. The minus 15C can only be an extreme rating considering the woodlore website calls it a 3 season bag. Extreme ratings are survivable temperatures. You will not sleep, you will feel very cold and be shivering badly. Think edge of hypothermia territory. That's if sheltered...

I used to train in Ju-Jitsu with one of the assistant Sensei's being a specialist in Iaido (the website at the time said it meant way of balance but apparently it means way of awareness or always aware.). This is basically a martial art based around an actual katana. It was not taught with...

This is still just a call for input, on a law that won’t affect anyone outside the UK. In fact it will likely never affect anyone on here. BTW I actually knew a young man who has a banning order of some kind on owning knives except for cooking knives iirc. Can't remember the details but he's...

I certainly do not think the Shooting Lobby should have a say in this. IF a released animal affected the artificially high populations of game birds then I think I would rather have the released animal personally. If that is prejudice to believe in increasing biodiversity and returning native...

Game and Wildlife Conservation Trust, is that like the BASC in that they are about shooting and game activities with conservation side being about keeping the game side healthy? If RSPB is a source you would like others rather than taking their POV I think we need more than the Game industry's...

Forgot to ask, ground nesting birds, are they more or less at risk from pine martens than the usual lake district predation by stoats, weasels and corvids? I only ask because I once enjoyed one of the smaller mustelids hunting on a crag ledge while I was waiting for MRT. Spring morning and a...

If 75% of hen harriers live and die on managed, grouse moors does that make the killing or targeting of hen harriers by gamekeepers any less wrong? The killing of one highly protected species is a crime no matter where they lived and died. However it would be good to know how many hen harriers...

Pine Marten release in the Lakes, 13 in a mix of males and females from a well established Scottish population. Grizedale and Rusland area but they're likely to go into the Duddon valley as they move about a bit. According to your BBC article the release came about after a rare sighting in...

Net zero is about human impact due to industrialisation and not about creating no CO2 at all. That is a real strange argument I have never heard before. Are you saying that there is not to be any carbon emissions at all? that simply is not what net zero is. A simple google or check of wikipedia...

Denial is something we all do. Deniers is what we all are. I know climate deniers is a charged term for people who are denying climate change is happening and it is significantly due to human activities. Perhaps I should not have used it but the fact I did does not mean I have blinkered views or...

YMMV of course but I am not writing anyone off I am applying a label to people such as those on the links the OP posted who do not accept the consensus of evidence from mainstream science that there is climate change and it is a serious risk to a lot of the species on the planet. It is a...

One last point to make. There is some significance in the status and reputation of sources. The OP had sources and it is right that we understand the wider implications of their reputation if we are making points, even on forums like this one. AIUI these sites have been fact checked and looked...

The met office marks its own homework does it? Jeez that is so wrong!! Don't we all criticise how inaccurate they are with the forecasts in our own areas? That is before you consider the academics and others who will effectively peer review any climate interpretations out of the met office...

I was taught that if you had too many to plant at once then you create a slot in the ground and put them at an angle in the slot then gently press down to seal the slot. This is very much a temporary solution though and it was for whips (small trees planted for hedging or general planting)...

If you try draining it where is the water going to go? I friend had a small farm and a rich Irish guy bought a larger farm next door for his daughter to play farming on and he paid for drainage on his land. It caused floodding that had never happened on my friends farm in the family history (he...

Batteries are easy to change. Unscrew back, take out the gasket seal, lever out the battery, replace and then google how to get the contact working before replacing the gasket, the back and the screws. REset the time again. Simples!!! If you have any issues then there will be a video online for...

You are correct in the Anthorn, Cumbria being the new NPL signal. Up to 1986 it was still the Rugby clock with MSF signal from a site in Rugby. This stopped in 1986 but the manual I got from Casio with my last and only waveceptor casio watch was after this date still referred to Rugby time...

Get a casio royale for £19.99 from argos. It is a world time watch and if you set your main time as your region then other iirc 6 other zones as needed. However the clever part is your main time zone allows you to switch to daylight savings time, DST shows. Then in spring switch to DST then...

I like the use of a car in RED the film about a retired CIA hitman. In it the way down into the habitat of the retired hitman's mate and former colleague (a paranoid chap indeed) was through the boot of a large, old American car. I think I would like an underground house with a doorway like...

Found my very old Casio DW-290 watch given to me as a leaving present by a past work placememt about 30 years ago. Not worn for well over a decade. Well I was in my local hardware / little bit of everything shop in my village and despite looking at it behind the counter every time I bouiigt from...