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But it’s TACTICAL. Look it’s not Just serrated, it’s black! To be fair, I think those serrations might be useful on some roots. I don’t like cutting roots when digging planting holes. I suspect that it can introduce infection.

This is about half price right now. In bushcraft terms it’s a dunny digger most of the time but it is also a brilliant post hole digger.

I call it a small spade. Unless you have a sentimental attachment or a reenactment attachment to your portable spade I’d recommend the Roughneck. About 640mm 680long. There are only a few specific reasons that I need a spade and no reason to shovel anything when camping but to have an...

Well well. Our LRF looks pretty damned effective. It’s not a ruddy battle group, it’s a communications network. With respect: I don’t see a thirty hour power cut as an emergency unless you are using something like a dialyser - in which case you already have a plan for power cuts. Our...

Local Resilience Forum. There is quite a lot of preparedness going on. Edited to add: Respondents to the survey seemed to suggest that a fair proportion of communities are doing something about preparedness. That needs work. We have just had a power cut. I performed the ultimate magic to...

Interesting that with such a strong preparedness presence on this forum no one has mentioned their LRF or it’s work. We need to do a lot more work on publicising (without panicking people.)

When I asked how I could keep my otter skin I got two suggestions: Get qualified and established as a taxidermist. and Get established as someone who gives talks in natural history

I hope it means some form of handkerchief which Is the one thing that I cannot think of being without! (And is rarely listed here) .

Don’t think badger is a problem. I found two dead otters in the middle of our village (probably clubbed by fishermen at pond close by and put on the road to look like raid kill) One was very crushed, the other was a Royal otter - it had a spotted pelt. I wanted to make a first aid pouch out of...

Marriage is always a negotiation but I do admit: Three fox pelts in the freezer was pushing it. They are scraped, dry and stored now awaiting their fourth mate.

Bruising doesn’t affect anything. Rot does. Check that the pelt is still gripping the fur. Treating the pelt is easy enough if you don’t want the claws or head. I’m going (one day) to make a hat. I normally remove it with a wooden spatula. One old dog fox needed a knife across his chest...

Well done with the fox. I’ve foraged a few road kill fox pelts and I thought of doing something with a skeleton but chickened out. Is there any useful truth in the idea that an ants nest will clean a skeleton?

Btw. Did you know that shaving soap doesn’t do anything? I read the research over thirty years ago and for all my travels across the world I only carried razor and blades. If you must soap then use the same stuff that you wash your hands with but, really, it’s not necessary. Try it - it will...

Not a problem.

Yay! Why did I never use Rowan berries in my pea shooter??? There was a missed opportunity. (Whatever happened to pea shooters?)

We sometimes get an underground nest in the grass area I laughingly call a “lawn”. We just put a marker around it to warn grandchildren. We show them the wasps going in and out of the hole. We’ve also shown them wasps chewing up a fence post in early Summer. I’ve never been stung by a passing...

…… And where is she currently “vacationing”? Asia?

So was mine above. Humongous eye deleted.

Ah! A man with a computer. Haven’t used one of those for many years. I (evidently) do it differently, as I do most things, on my iPhone

How?