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  1. nickliv

    Plant ID please

    Growing on reasonably recently disturbed land, in pretty full shade under trees. Thanks Nick
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    Osprey Talon 44 review

    OK, I needed (wanted?) a lightweight rucksack for short 2 – 3 day long backpacking trips, 45 to 50L capacity with plenty of features, for the £100 I had lying in my not so sticky fist from Christmas. My current large daysack is a Berghaus freeflow 35 +8, which is a weird curved shape, and...
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    New antler handles knife and nodded bahco axe

    Knifes been on the go for months. I've just handled it and finished the sheath and fire steel. The closest I could get to a flat grind, 4mm o1 hardened at 800, tempered at 200 to 220iirc The axe is a twelve quid 600g bahco one modded to a right handed carving grind, with a sanded oiled handle...
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    Down sleeping bag to quilt.

    Is it simply a case of cutting the hood and zips etc off and just getting on with it? Sent from my GT-I9300 using Tapatalk
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    Cumulus Quantum 200 sleeping bag

    I bought this about 3 years ago and have used it once, for one night in a bothy. I'm moving towards quilts rather than sleeping bags and I don't think it'll get used again. Even last weekend in my ME elasticated bag I felt constricted and slept with it opened out It has only been in its...
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    BDH bottle / Rocket tubes

    I had a big black waterproof container years ago, used it as an emergency stash of grub, candles, small hand tools and screws and nails etc at our bothy on honister years ago. I was up there last weekend and sadly there's been a rock fall onto it and I think it's buried forever. I've tried...
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    01 stock removal knife, copper liners and antler scales

    Here is a work in progress. Its been in progress for over a year, and I thought it was high time I finished a project. It started out as a scandi grind but I changed my mind. Its now a flat with micro bevel. I will be heat treating the blade in a friends glass kiln, thing is, I can't remember...
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    Can I be the first

    To wish you all a happy new year, and to ask if Glen Tanar is on the cards for the spring meet? Sent from my idiot neighbours WiFi. Again.
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    A heads up for galaxy S3 owners

    Hi all. The back on my s3 wasn't fitting properly, I thought I'd broken a clip and left it at that. Last night I noticed some crazing in one place on the back, and thought 'that's odd' On removing the back cover I discovered that one of the Phillips screws had come undone to such an extent...
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    How to turn an android phone into a dedicated gps device

    http://www.alexroddie.com/2013/11/how-to-turn-android-phone-into.html?m=1
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    Homemade cedar strip canoe

    Follow my progress here :- http://www.songofthepaddle.co.uk/forum/showthread.php?42295-Canoe-Craft-freedom-17 About to start putting the cedar onto the frames, which ought to set me up for glassfibring in the depths of the Aberdeenshire winter. Quality planning! Sent from my GT-P5110 using...
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    Sprung sunglasses arms / temples

    I've lost (long story) one of the arms of my favourite pair of sunglasses ( Serengeti Vedi) Serengeti don't make them anymore. Any ideas where I could pick up a pair of arms / temples in a somewhere near matching colour? These ones are anodised brown. And any idea whether or not they'd fit...
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    Millstone Hill, this Friday (27.9.13)

    I'm off for a lightweight overnight bivi up there. Anyone else fancy a sneaky night out?
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    Name the chod

    Found this on top of a 5 foot high monolith near Tarland in Aberdeenshire. Size wise, its about the size of the end of my index finger. Studded with tiny gravel and evidence of fibres running through it. Sent from my GT-I9300 using Tapatalk 2
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    Tree ID

    Growing amongst ash, beech, birch and sycamore in NE Scotland. Didn't have the camera at the time so no pics of tree or berries. Berries were green and hard, possibly as yet unripe. A bit like a big haw or rowanberry. Very pippy. Leaves just on the turn. Leaf smells kind of appley. Any...
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    Wild camp with the kids

    As last night was the last night of the school holidays without a schoolday after it, and the weather was forecast to be good, I decided to take sound bombs 1 and 2 out for a spot of wild camping, along with a friend and his brace of train horns. We opted for the upper slopes of Breda Hill...
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    My daughters school project

    She has been asked to built a boat capable of crossibg a body of water. Under 50cms in length. I suggested a small plywood canoe. I cut the pieces and drilled the holes. Under my instructions, shes done the rest. Sent from my GT-I9300 using Tapatalk 2
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    Glue / tape for fixing baffles in an underquilt

    My neighbour who is a seamstress has agreed to help me with my down UQ project, but she is rightly nervous about getting down in her machine, so I'll have to do the last bit myself. She's a bit leery of seeing the baffles in too. I'd suggested using masking tape to secure the baffles in and...
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    Norways 12hr fire telethon

    http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-21482313
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    Tillyfourie quarry, Aberdeenshire. Pic heavy.

    Headed out today to look round a disused quarry just along the road. Its up in the woods to the North of Tillyfourie. Walking up from the road you pass through a strange sort of service yard, a few portakabins and shipping containers, with other odd things strewn about for good measure...