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My fault, I'm waiting on a couple of things at the moment

Jon If you are down this way sometime I can let you have a 3'x8' sheet of 1.6mm aluminium that I don't need.

Not Rogues - I've got Rogues; best boots you can buy

Home made windproof matches Bic Lighter Ferro I always have a film cannister with cottonwool/vaseline I collect old pitch pine knots when can or old gorse butts Tried most things including flint and steel with dried camel dung! To me the faster the fire is going the faster I get a hot...

I know what you mean about a camp site feeling like it doesn't want you - come across a few of those over the years. There's a little wood I look after down by the A303 near Ilminster - odd place. Used to have a cross roads of the old A303 right by it, so most likely a gallows or gibbet at...

Wish I had your skills... Have job carving a roast let alone anything more than feather stick. However I do have access to wood so just say if you want some

SWBO will tell me when I am allowed out as soon as she has five minutes!

I look after 1300km (approx) of linear vegetation, covering in excess of 1700ha, this winter alone we will spend over £500K thining and pruning that little lot. So for me to grab a few sticks is quite easy and a pleasure to do

Blackthorn like one or two rosaceae, including apple has a an interesting lichen growing on it that can cause eye problems and makes wounds mildly septic. Blackthorn makes a nice cudgel or nightmans stick but that's about all; if mystical is what you want then you opt for Rowan, Oak, Hawthorn...

Pussers rum, mixed 50/50 with a mixer of your choice. Drink three large glasses in quick sucession. It works a treat

There's a chap down by Honiton who would make you some of those for a sensible price, makes kitchens and such stuff. Used to make church organs so his timber craft is fair

Just and estate car and a roof box - you don't know how lucky you are! This year the family holiday required an estate car, land rover and sankey. Okay I know the toddler requires a lot of kit... Mind you I do like a nice airbed and douvet and the 8 berth Outwell is a nice tent!

Yup sorry - Bampton is near Tiverton on the way up to Exmoor Blackberry camp is between Honiton and Branscombe The Wellington site is on the edge of the Blackdowns looking west

I went to a Forestry Commison seminar on this a few years ago. Not just big cats but all the other oddities out there. It was very interesting. They also talked about the various re-introduction ideas that were being banded about - this being my personal favourite...

October is looking less than good for me now as I have promised my only spare weekend to my eldest daughter and a couple of her friends - roughcamping in the woods! Believe me you do not want to be spending a weekend in a wood with three 'almost ten year old' girls! November is looking okay...

Yes The nicest wood is the Bampton site, it's small (40acres or so) but nicely varied I use it for all sorts of things including a bit of driver training and winch training so I pass on a bit of cash to the lady that owns it when I use it for more than just myself The one by Blackberry...

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Rosa rugosa is a cultivated rose found in gardens I would guess that what you are eating is either Rosa canina or Rosa Arvensis (or a hybrid version) if you are picking it wild. Post up a pick and I will ID it. BYW all rose hips are edible some just tatse better than others

Well I got so excited by the forum I made some posts prior to posting here - sorry! Early 40's, travelled pretty much all over apart from the snowy wastes. I used to teach various disciplines to do with remote area life support, nowadays I work for a big government agency making sure that...

1). Toyota 'cruiser 80 series or 70 series 2). G wagon - LWB with 300GD or retrofitted 2.9litre 5 cylinder (from a Ssangyong) 3). Land Rover - Defender upto 300Tdi or Discofairy upto 300Tdi G Wagons only drink fuel in petrol form and are very strong - parts are scarey though and rust is...