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23. Seven Sisters Country Park looking south west across the Cuckmere river?

"Corvids are the biggest threats to our native snakes." sorry but this is gravely mistaken conjecture at best, actually its plain tosh. corvids are not, not, not any significant threat to our native snakes, habitat degradation, loss of habitat and fragmentation of habitat are far more...

http://woodlandantics.wordpress.com/ go back through Mark's posts and there is a good recipe for a ramsons pesto... yum!

unfortunately heather honey needs heather i.e. calluna vulgaris flowers and that bee is on an erica cultivar from Portugese type ericas i.e. heaths not heather. not just being pedantic:o, the entire structure and texture of the honey is different. so you only get real heather honey fom hives...

we have similar flowered bog-asphodel in uk, unsurprisingly in acid bogs etc.

loss of that tribe was a foregone conclusion years ago, no fertile members. best hope for any indigenous peoples is to keep the hell away from the rest of us so we don't civilise them to death. thanks for flag up.

fantastic idea and ideology. i saw a similar venue when i was hoping to buy one about ten years ago when i had money... (whistful sigh) running along similar lines to woodcraft folk type facility/organisation? how are you funding it?

get a teenager out in it - infect her with the great outdoors virus! hope the weather is kind and your tinder dry (I assume half the ton is dried firewood in this weather!) :)

good last post. I also us ethe council tip, a few bob will get you allsorts of handy stuff. just picked up a boy's bike and baby carrier for £15 :D and no end of pots, tools, books etc. I never cease to be appalled by the things people throw away as "rubbish" makes me weep. Our grandkids will...

Hats off to all the people who have made and shared their hobo stoves! :wow1: Thanks for the ideas. I am well-impressed by the ingenuity and thrift. Fantastic low-tech, idiot proof, green, most of them will still be functioning long after their owners have worn out :) I have a kelly kettle...

Oaks "Is this the story about the woodpecker hole you found at waist height?" :) no, too small :D we had sites we were supposed to be managing for internatinally rare heathland, but the landowner was well-meaninng tree-hugger (eg parish council) they would say "oh look another...

if it only has to last a year then don't treat it and save energy/chemicals wasted processing oils/paint/whatever. hazel/chestnut poles sound about right depends on weight to be held up... I would use thin complete poles to keep natural springyness and strength from all fibres and I would...

B pendula and pubescens are both a lot of work on heathland sites. ask your county or NP etc ranger service and they should happily let you take sap (and the timber too if you are licensed and insured). I used to manage heaths, woods and heath/wood pasture sites and we had so many different...

Be wary of assertions about large mammals being nocturnal as local, especially isolated, populations often adapt to crepuscal/nocturnal behaviour simply to avoid hom sap. Take otter in Scottish sea lochs versus otters in southern England, same species but the latter are barely ever seen in...

Hope it went well, Sussex Police proved to be all mouth and no trousers at every opportunity. Once had to force them to attend even when had motorbikes trashing a protected site and bikers' van blocked into car park with my pickup. (Back to being a killjoy)

I would think a plug of warmed pine sap would seal against fungal spore attack, but would not personally bother as birch neither scarce nor long-lived in any event, fungi's gonna get 'em sometime! Also (no offence to MA if you tune in) I can honestly say that every birch-sap wine I have tasted...

p.s. in my experience the police almost never understand or exhibit any interest in rural issues:(:(

People expect to be free to use the countryside as a playground as a right - especially post CRoW Act. They often have little or no understanding of the issues around rural land use, commercial interests or the needs and rights of other user groups. Education is lacking, even in small rural...

cool thread I've been foraging and eating fungi for years. I'm disappointed that people still seem reluctant to try fungi i.e. consume them. Go out with someone who eats them regularly locally to you and you will get a handful of safe local idents that you can be sure of on your own. Find...

"Wipe out" is not viable, it'd take years to over-hunt them again. Boar are in most counties now, best get used to them, nimbyism is not a viable option. Dogs out of control or people stumbling into boar with dog on short lead trying to protect it etc. are likely flash points. An educated public...