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A Spalted Beech bushcraft spoon

A Spalted Beech bushcraft spoon

Posted on 14/01/202214/01/2022 by Mark Cornish

What is Spalting? Fungi are everywhere and are responsible for the breakdown of matter and the beginning of the rotting process. Sometimes sick trees are attacked by these fungi, but once trees or branches fall to the ground in the moist atmosphere of a UK winter, Fungi will not take more than a few months…

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Stanley with a large stick. Photo by Dean Edwards

Maybe I was a dog in a past life

Posted on 09/12/202114/01/2022 by Mark Cornish

It does make me wonder sometimes. I like to be outside and go for walkies and am always on the lookout for the next stick. Don`t know how I am going to get it home or what to do with it when I get it there, but I want it. Most end up on the…

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Devizes Pie competition

DEVIZES IS LOOKING FOR A NEW PIE!

Posted on 09/09/202111/11/2021 by Rosalind Ambler

Devizes Pie was a local speciality for hundreds of years, an ancient version of the recipe written in Old English. The Devizes Food and Drink Festival think it is about time Devizes has a new pie and a competition is being run to discover the new pie.

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Newgrange Ireland

Seasonal Changes – Equinox, solstice, and prehistory

Posted on 16/03/202121/11/2021 by Vaughan Roberts

The year, as we all know, is divided into four seasons: Spring, Summer, Autumn, and Winter. With Spring starting on 21st March, Summer on 21st June, Autumn on 21st September, and Winter on December 21st. (These dates are not to be confused with the meteorological dates for the seasons which are moved to the beginning…

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