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Would be great for watering my allotment, but I believe they are rather expensive compared to an electric pump and rechargeable power station.

Did a college course around 1980, stock control and double entry book keeping, this would have been on the very cusp of change I think, we learned how to use various accounting machines and commercial filing systems, but star of the show was a commodore pet. Shortly after that typewriters...

What's next for dinner, Yataghans? I doubt it no gangsta would have a clue what that is. I am not going to miss not being able to own a ninja sword made out of Chinesium

Don't whatever you do get the Miltec version, not all GAKs are alike.

Je ne sais quoi 3 jours d'eau mais plusiers jours du nourriture bein sur dans ma cuisine. En France je pense plus du trois jours du vin hein?

Yep I have daffs in my little wood.

I don't think gutta percha was a thing in early middle ages, 11th to 14th century though.

I can remember my dad boiling up some really stinky kind of glue for carpentry that he called fish glue, However so far as carpentry has been concerned in the aftermath I live in the era of Evostik.

Having seen the range of reproduction medieval and historical leatherwork around for re-enactors it has got me to wondering what sort of glues were used (if they were) before the advent of rubber solution. Would medieval leatherworkers have glued applique decoration to sheaths and pouches for...

I am not trained in first aid though I did pick up a few basic nursing skills in having to look after my mum, and I was pretty good with bed sores and lifting and moving arthritic patients, which takes a lot of care and having lived amongst disabled people I know the does and don't of dealing...

Our very own Dave Budd was at the reenactors market today, and whilst it is good to see his wares laid out, I have found a very nice axe maker and ordered another one today which will be made to my individual requirements.

Ooh a philosophical question and I one I do not think I am really qualified to answer, but I will have a go, at least I understand the concept of intelligence in the Human species and that is largely as the study is a social construct that really did not mean a lot before the industrial age...

I saw a cat and a fox, they were nose to nose and totally unafraid of each other, I guess they were acquaintances of old.

I have wool blankets from my childhood, Dutch blankets which were a thing back in the 60s and quite clearly last forever. These days though you should look for army surplus as even though you will be hard pressed to find 100% wool you will likely get something good enough.

I used to have a very big cat, he was a Maine Coon, and they are big cats. I can remember once when it had been snowing how he had bounded over the back garden as he didn't really like the snow and if you saw the distance between his footprints you would have swore it was a panther that made them.

Depends where you are, the re-enactors market is coming to Coventry this weekend, and if you can't find what you are looking for there you should be able to find a maker. https://www.reenactorsmarket.co.uk/

Well I for various reasons find it easier to use the point, I seem to be at less risk of injuring myself that way as I have more control, every day knives have been made with a point since the Romans at least and you will not see a set of Sabatier knives that are not pointed and these are used...

I most certainly use the point in the kitchen I often insert the point first and cut in a guillotine motion with the point as a pivot. Also use the point a lot in opening packaging

How about a Piccolo, not known as the screaming stick by orchestral players for nothing. When you are rescued you can play the sailors hornpipe on it :)

I have been around long enough to have seen good cops and bad cops. Of course I have seen police who seem incapable of dealing with a situation without inflaming it. On the other hand I have not been known never to take an axe or a billhook onto land I do not have title to, and in the presence...