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Absolutely brilliant post! Great to have some history in there and the details of the dimensions… not to mention a bit of humour! Your misses is quite a looker, you lucky devil! Has she got a sister? I’m definitely going to give making a pump drill a go, and if you do get the chance to do...

I'm not so sure. I agree they range in colour, and of course did such a Google search myself to check out the range, but it's not just quite pale but rather brilliant white, at least the one photographed on the tree anyway. If I get the time I'll try and pop back up the heath and get some more...

Hi Adam, I posted a link to the pictures in the original post. Hope they help.

Hi Mike, The white is absolutely fixed in place, I'm rubbing in on my hand right now and nothing is coming off.

Hello Everyone, A couple of weeks ago I went for a walk in my local park in southern england and saw a very strange fungus on a Beech tree (Fagus sylvatica). It appeared identical to a normal horse's hoof (Formes fomentarius) but was pure white in colour. There were several fruiting bodies...

Hi Everyone, I'm off to Venezuela next month and hope to spend some time in the Amazon, and am trying to decide what hammock and mozzie net to buy. If anyone can give me some feedback on what they've used then I'd greatly appreciate it. I'm considering using either a Nomad Hammock...

What are you on about? He didn't say he didn't know what they can be used for, he just wanted clarification on which one it was, and he's quite right that BOTH those fungi can be used for amadou, although I believe it's the trama layer itself that's used for amadou which is beneath the...

Well said, it's such a joke the guy is so popular, and what's more he was not in the full time SAS, as is often stated, but the part time territorial version. Don't get me wrong I'm not belittling being in the TA as I myself was in it once, but there is a big difference between being a...

Shame bear can't do the bow drill yet. Check out the following video of him failing miserable to use the bow drill and then faking a bow drill ember, which looks nothing like a friction ember I've ever seen...

I'm no fan of Bear whats-his-chops, he's all style and no substance. If you doubt this check out the following video of him failing miserable to use the bow drill and then faking a bow drill ember, which looks nothing like a friction ember I've ever seen...