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  • Come along to the amazing Summer Moot (21st July - 2nd August), a festival of bushcrafting and camping in a beautiful woodland PLEASE CLICK HERE for more information.
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    What wildlife did you spot today?

    A Wren pecking away in sea weed, to learn sea weed isn't just for sea birds.
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    Best bushcraft trousers?

    Needing something I don't mind getting burned or ripped or modified in some way, I buy cheap military BDU copies from work wear shops.
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    Wool Blanket

    If it's 100% wool yer after, they're not so easy to find in charity shops these days at least not arround the Garrison town I live in, where when they do appear they tend to be wool/synthetic blends, to have to take to the auction sites to find them. I keep a couple in the car and there is one...
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    The Crime and Policing Bill 2025

    Brought up to be supportive of and one time applicant for Lancashire Constabulary, I also used to find them thus until I didn't and not through misdemeanour on my part.
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    Play The Trees - The Bushcraft Flute?

    It was during lockdown that CutiePie (you tube) both inspired and taught me
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    Ask the Audience. Wind up torches.

    And not just anything as major as that but also industrial accidents even military screw ups, oh yeah and lets not forget flooding folk have been moved out because of flooding I have considered creating a BOB and I may yet but not a BOB in the US sense given there is no big country to escape...
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    Ask the Audience. Wind up torches.

    Indeed and if no propriety tubes are available, although little rather useful vaseline tins are , melt it and pour it into plastic straws and seal by melting the ends. Even melt it and pour it into a larger tin like a boot polish tin or other.
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    Useful radio suggestions

    I have a similar one I found in a charity shop albeit mine not being the digital variant has the winder and the solar panel and yes, winding the thing will add charge to a cell phone, so there's that, but the radio it's good as a small portable radio. I also have another, a bog standard battery...
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    The Crime and Policing Bill 2025

    Another word relating is ; deceit
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    The Crime and Policing Bill 2025

    From experience, don't ever let the police in your house without a warrant, not even when they are purporting to be doing you a service.
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    Ask the Audience. Wind up torches.

    If it's about emergency lighting, then the candle is pretty foolproof, and has other uses. But as regards electronic stuff in BOB's I personally could not trust myself including such items because when I need them pound to a pinch they won't be working or at least not as well as expected ...
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    Ask the Audience. Wind up torches.

    Dunno, my experience with wind up stuff seems to describe the storage facilities as always being the weak link in that they just fail to render the generator useless.
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    Play The Trees - The Bushcraft Flute?

    An elderberry Native American style flute being made with ' found ' primitive tools DIY Elderberry Flute And it's pleasing to see there are plenty more musical options on that channel
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    Play The Trees - The Bushcraft Flute?

    I wouldn't know yet through not having tried the NAF, for my instrument is the Irish whistle, the low D is particularly ' environmental '
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    Play The Trees - The Bushcraft Flute?

    With going out into the wilds in mind does anyone take with them or even fashion a musical instrument to play whilst out there? Play The Trees: Intro to the Native American Style Flute. The action of taking inspiration from the landscape can be found at time stamp 13:50
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    Are you a GEARDO?

    I have been, but not for a few years to be trying my best to resist '' Geardos anonymous '
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    Recommend a hipflask

    I am going to have to recommend the no name cheapo stainless steel with captive cap and leather wrap flasks, that can be found pretty much everywhere as the one I got 39 years ago has not failed yet.
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    Shamagh

    Have you thought about a turban to wind the hair up in, for the shemagh can be fashioned into one. But yeah on occasion I use a shemagh albeit not of the Palestinian dfesign, in the colours of black and two shades of green, two shades because the sun did a number on part of it, perhaps I...
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    What did you buy today?

    Today's purchase consisted of a Venture Scout flag, pole, carrier and brass fleur-de-lis pole finial.
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    Cold or just cold.

    Not Diabetes in my own case but Dysautonomia, I have to say I experience similiar to what you report, to also be unaware of becoming too cold until crisis - usually indicated by the desperate need to sleep or if out, the single minded focus on finding warmth occurs. That being indoors despite...