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I'm back after a little siesta away.. Well, after looking at the new series on BBC1 (Monty's great escape) I finally realized what it was that was puzzling me.. He was suppost to be living the life of a beachcomber but he has actually not done any beachcombing! Spurred on by this - and the...

HI, My wife's really getting interested in photography and has put a load of photo's of her findings in the new forest on the web. If anyone gets a chance can they take a quick look through and give a bit of feedback? The URL is http://gallery.me.com/emma.kranz#100007 She's really...

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article4660269.ece Hope the guy makes a recovery!! As always be carefull out there.

HI, Anyone else notice that after this summer's disapointing weather there is a marked change in the types of mushrooms? I've been out in the forest 3 or 4 times now, and I've picked up over a kg of Chanterelles so far, as well as lots of Bay / Birch brown boletus. But absolutley nothing...

HI, I know about collecting razor clams at high tide using salt water etc. Anyone have any info about snorkelling for them however? I have heard about people still using salt water when diving - and I remember a long time ago someone talking about using a sort of hook knife to pull them out of...

HI, Just got a boot load of dead ELM from my gran's. I was just wondering if anyone has any experience of splitting it, and what is the maximum size I should really cut the logs into in order to get them to split properly? I've got a splitting maul and wedge on order, as I know how hard ELM...

Anyone want to see some photo's? I've only just received them 5 months after the event but you're welcome to look if you want to see a `traditional` way of getting married.

HI, Question for those people who have done DSC1 courses. Did you receive your EU game hunting cards after completing the health-and-safety part, or did you have to apply for them seperatly?

HI, Noticed a lot today, that when browsing threads it takes a long time for them to fully load. It loads up the first page or so, then halts - I can see firefox trying to connect to `mystatus.skype.com` for a while. I'm running XP through a work laptop connected via VPN to company...

HI, Having a bit of a pre-house-move clearout. All the stuff here is free, you only have to pay for postage - or you can pick it up and I'll make you a cuppa tea :) GONE1 X Schott Suprax Camping/Fishing 70% Propane/30% Butane Gas Lighting Lamp. Comes with un-used GoGas 445G cylinder, and a...

HI, I've got a second hand telly going if anyone wants one - I only want 50 - 100 quid or so, but they will have to come and collect it from Poole in Dorset at it weigh's a lot :) it's a Sony 32dx100, 100mhz trinitron widescreen jobbie, built in freeview. 3 scart sockets, although scart 2...

HI, Went out collecting, and saw a beauty of a mushroom but I could not trace it back to either of the 2 books I had with me. If you imagine a cep, about 4-5 cm tall and 6-7 cm wide, definate cep shape with large bottom tapering up to a cap with darker velvet, but all in orange! Growing near...

Half way through and me and the wife have passed the shooting and safety assessments! We got to use the range rifle, which belonged to one of the instructor's. We both managed to get <1" groups at 100yards prone, both having never shot fullbore rifles before. When he said his rifle was...

HI, I'm doing my DSC1 this week, and I've been thinking about taking this further after I (hopefully) pass the course this weekend. How do you go about securing land to stalk on? I presume it's either one of 2 approaches. 1) knock on farmers doors and ask about 2) join a syndicate.

HI, Has anyone had any experience of looking at mushroom spores under a microscope? I've been looking about evil-bay and there are a couple of USB hand-held jobbies that will display 50-100 times magnification on your laptop. Is this enough to use them to aid in mushroom diagnosis? Or if...

I've heard deer barking at me for the first time ever, I am well chuffed :) I went for a stroll looking for some mushrooms in the forest at lunch time. Only managed to bag one birch brown boletus, it's still too dry for anything about at the moment. I was walking back up to the carpark and it...

It's the time of year, but I've stil yet to see any shroom's apart from one or 2 dried up little ones!! This time last year I was burdened down with cep's - now nothing. Come on the rain - the mushroom's are waiting for it!! :Thinkingo

Not a very nice way to promote the outdoor's. these are rare enough at the best of times. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/south_of_scotland/6944017.stm

the wife and I were about in the new forest and I saw a couple of (what I think are) tawny owls. there were 3 of them, flying in the tops about 10m up in the tree's. Small, about 10-12 inches high, brown owls with small ear's. I was very surprised to see them in the daytime - I presume they...

I live in dorset, but I work in warwick. I limit myself to only travelling up every 3-4 weeks for a day or 2, just to pop my head in the office and check a couple of things out. lately however I'm being totally surprised by people's attitude. 2 weeks ago I had to sit in the datacenter for 3...