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Good tip. Never heard of using heather or peat before.
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The KK is a bit different to a normal wood fire. On the smaller model it only takes 3 minutes from sparking the cotton wool to the kettle boiling. There is limited room in the fire pan and chimney. You don't get chance to steam off any moisture like you do on an established camp fire so any damp twigs and sticks are best having the bark shaved off. I found some yellow bamboo today and that goes nicely wet or dry if it is split. Pine needles and cones are good too as the resin burns well and gives them some protection from rain.
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I have a plastic 35mm film tub packed with cotton wool mixed with Vaseline and sugar. That is what I use to catch the spark from the flint and steel. You have to tease out the fibres but once it is lit that will transmit a good flame to more substantial fuel. In wet weather you can use bailer twine or small pieces of parcel tape to build up a good fire base when damp wood is harder to get going.
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Now that the weather is turning colder it is time to break out the Kelly Kettle for some hot food while out mole trapping. Today's cookery was on the banks of the River Gartempe in the Vienne department of France. Although we are in lockdown essential activities like mole trapping can continue ? The food, cardboard and tissue paper for fire lighting were in the plastic box. Everything else including half a litre of water was inside the kettle body. It had been raining all night and into the morning so finding dry wood took longer than usual. That is why I had the extra tissue
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Let's See Your Phone Shots !!
Nicepix replied to mattybugeye's topic in Wildlife and General Photography
Found these in one of the gardens I visit on my mole trapping route. I usually find them when they have gone over and ben nibbled. -
Just shake the can and apply to dog. You'll get at least ten weeks out of one can. Sorted!
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Head shot. Or did you go for the boiler?
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I take that rifle is not a break-barrel springer?
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"Can't stop,l have a pike to catch!"
Nicepix replied to comanche's topic in Fresh & Salt Water Fishing
Lovely fish and good angling. Especially on that light tackle. Looks like the charity shop price tag is still on that reel. Of course you have invalidated the guarantee taking it near to water. ? -
Cheers Arry. Much appreciated.
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I came across these in a customer's garden while mole trapping. I hoped that they may be chanterelles but I'm not sure. Last time I picked some chanterelles they turned out to be false chanterelles and I can't now find my wild food book!
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Don't start that hot chestnut again. As long as it is a head shot it doesn't matter.
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That would be considered unsporting in some circles.
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Get yourself an air rifle and pick them off one by one.
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This is exactly what is needed. No deal is the best route to a good deal. Let the EU face the wrath of all those businesses that stand to lose out. Merkel is already wavering and Macron will realise that there are a lot more Peugeot, Renault and Citroen workers about to lose their jobs than fishermen. And the fishermen will realise that smaller quotas is infinitely better than no quotas.
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I think that you misunderstand. There are standards for many goods on sale and for example in the EU these standards will encompass a greater diversity of temperatures than found in the UK. If someone in the UK wants to make plastic hosepipe connectors for purely UK sales they should have no need to have to make them suitable for -40C to +40C as they would for EU approval. So they could make them cheaper than EU made ones. Same with some foodstuffs. The EU enforce higher than necessary standards to protect EU farmers from competition from places like Nth Africa. The UK has no need to follow su
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There is no point sticking to a timetable if the desired outcome looks attainable. The EU are cracking. 20 of the 27 countries don't give a feck about fishing. If the truth was known, the French fishermen will lose more from a no deal than a deal with negotiated and limited access. In a no deal scenario they might as well sink their boats. Merkel and the Dutch PM are both agitating for Macron to drop his demands. Once fishing is out of the way the only major stumbling block is the level playing field. There is no reason for the UK to sign up for that. There is no level playing field. Wage
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The story of British fishermen selling their quotas isn't as simple as people make out: https://unearthed.greenpeace.org/2018/10/11/fishing-quota-uk-defra-michael-gove/ The back story is is far more complex. But in reality there is nothing that anyone can do if a skipper or company want so sell their licence or quota, to stop a foreign investor buying in. Just the same with the gas, water and electricity companies. The sale goes to the highest bidder. If the shellfish market is dependent on overseas markets then that only strengthens the hand of the British Government. Lorries h
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Don't worry. There is no point in cutting off your nose to spite your face. Another couple of days and Macron will drop his demands when von Lederhosen agrees to compensate the fishermen. That is what his tantrums are all about.
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Way back when the vote was announced I got slagged off on a fishing forum by people saying that the UK could not stand up to the EU because of its collective might. I argued that the EU was not a single entity but a collection of 27 members each of whom wanted different things and that at the end of the day it would come to fishing versus industry and the EU fishermen would ultimately be sold out to accommodate a trade deal to benefit industry. I also predicted that the EU would fight dirty and the only way to get a deal from them was to walk away without a deal. Other than the spinless T
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Hoopoe - An unexpected visitor
Nicepix replied to zandy01's topic in Wildlife and General Photography
If you are looking for those sort of birds get over to Cyprus, Paphos area for the spring migration. Loads of cuckoos, raptors, shrikes, golden orioles and other birds pass through. The Akamas peninsular is their first piece of land when flying over from Nth Africa so they head for there. Also, there is a dam just inland called the Evretou Dam where ospreys and water birds stop over for a breather on route north. -
Hoopoe - An unexpected visitor
Nicepix replied to zandy01's topic in Wildlife and General Photography
They are cracking photos of the hoopoe ? We used to see them in Cyprus when we visited there, but when we moved to France we now have our own in the summer months. I can only dream of taking shots like that. That one must have a dodgy sat-nav as they should be migrating south, not north. That said, around this time of year in 2010 we had a hummingbird hawk moth on our window box in Barnsley after some strong southerly gales. -
Like that old song about being able to see Hackney Marshes if it wasn't for the houses in between. ? There is a small lake that I pass on Mole Patrol that is situated on top of high ground, surrounded by wind mills. It is an abandoned farm lake, the farm buildings having been replaced by others some distance away. It is unusual for two things; firstly it is the only lake in the area that never suffers from droughts despite its altitude. Secondly, it contains black bass, and some large carp. How the bass got in is a mystery.
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Yes, it always seems that pike and perch arrive in new lakes almost immediately. Initially they will feed on insect lava and tadpoles but once they get to their third year they will happily eat their young.
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Could the farm pond have been connected to the river at any point in the past? Around where I used to live there were several small lakes created when the river was straightened during the 1970's. One was like a serpent in shape, and had a flow of springwater through it but was landlocked from the new river course. That held dace and chub. And a few local farm ponds had been created by damming a stream.
