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Why waste money on a tick remover? My girl-fiend has long enough finger nails and has become very good at romoving them. As the other posts say you need to twist, The bitey bit of the tick has barbs like a fishing hook, when you pull back they just lodge. If you push and twist then the barbs...

anyone ideas of where, i have access to a small wood north of bournemouth but it is very small. There is a huge 30-40m fallen birch there with the most exquisite patterned wood due to some disease so if there are any good carpenters around then i could pursuade my girl-fiends family to let a...

Oh yeah, does anyone know what i should finish my many birch cups and bowls with as I have tried beeswax, orange wax and allsorts of other waxes and my tea tastes horrible. I have even tried olive oil now after seeing someone use it with a spoon. Or should i leave them natural?

cheers, it doesnt start until next year, training for me starts around easter I think. It is some new incentive by the army for schools so I am not even sure if it will get off the ground yet. If you hear anything else about it please let me know.

wow, thanks for all the welcomes. I know lots of teachers are like this, especially the ones just training having come from the real world (or rather that thing that we think is the real world - namely business and selling your souls for more money). The only problem is that we are all too...

i ordered an extra large thinking it would cover a few base layers in the depths of a winter night, it pretty much covered my car as well. If you go to the swanni website it gives actual chest measurements, the large is about a 50" chest - i am 44 and there is loads of room in it left over.

just bought a camo tarp/poncho from surplus and adventure for a tenner! I have a nice tarp from survivalschool.co.uk which was 40. The turboflame is no good in wind, it is not windproof and the small rubber tubes inside tend to come loose after a bit of use. I really recommend the silva...

Hi everyone, My name is Lea and I live in the south west, originally from manchester though. Currently work as a maths teacher and recently become more and more 'disillusioned' with modern society - whats the point anymore ;) I have always loved the outdoor life but used to live out of the...

Hi, I am new to this site and this is my first post, I experienced ticks for the first time this summer. 4 of us were covered with them, some in the worst possible place for a male ;) Next time I camped in the same place I made sure I had eaten lots of garlic and wore deet, every tick that...