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p-p-pick-up a penguin?

not quite kendal mint cake but chocolatey biscuity goodness will provide calories and the wrapper contains a joke to keep morale up during the situation :p

Quite right, i believe they have to be for people who a short-sighted as that makes them more similar to magnifying glass. As far as i know the lens will also have to be made from glass rather than...

Do you meant rub the edible part on to the skin? or the inside of the shell?

Often the solution to the problem is staring you in the face, many people wear glasses, and if theres a group of you in a survival situation one will probably have a pair of glasses. A valuable lens...

If i have been somewhere before i never get lost but if its a new area it depends on one thing - is this the wilderness or city? For some reason i can navigate wilderness a lot easier than a city. I...

"Don't tell a wolf that its a dog eat dog world", while largely this was his criticism against Margaret Thatcher, the wolf being himself, it is good advice - you can interpret it as be careful as to...

This is marginally relevant but apparently in the UK if 5 people (under the same council/borough) ask for land from the council they have to provide it for a small holding, and the rent is really...

Its your mindset more than anything, intelligence only gets you so far as does your knowledge, being mentally strong is the number one factor in my opinion.

To quote a film (can't remem the name):...

no we don't have those in Britain.
this will tell you all about them:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grass_snake

(They may be known as water snakes since they like and feed around water)

Ah yeah my mother and boyfriend keep ferrets and theres some cages in a shed and a big run outdoors. Theres also a polecat thats about ready to drop a few shortly!

Nah didn't eat the grass snake,...

Went to stay with my mother for a few days, on the way back from the ferret shed (to see the new babies) i spotted a baby grass snake, it had beautiful markings for such a young one. Was only around...

All i can hear is the theme tune to the magic roundabout? - Is anyone else getting that?

No seriously if you run really fast death can't catch you, he does have to carry a heavy scythe around, plus skeleton feet suck at running.

Italian Wild Boar - it is delicious. It also makes a fantastic cured meat, i love boar - i would rate it above venison.

Thats it exactly - never stop moving. What people do not realise is from your late 20s your body is starting to fail faster than it grows and repairs, in otherwords if you do not keep exercising (and...

Yeah good for him, congrats.

Good info, i have never prepared an animal other than fish before, i really must get around to doing it. I have seen it done on rabbits before and i remember being surprised at how easily the skin...

Thats good stuff, i like herbal teas :)

That is quite simply... awesome.

Easy to build and easy to modify for other uses, nice little stove that anyone could make, and with easily available materials too :).

Cheers for that!

Results:

Today it was finished, so i tasted some to test it.
Good: Tasted fantastic
Bad: Was not sparkling!

Now i was disappointed with the lack of fizzyness but it did taste great, im...

the sting is removed once cooked, steaming is a popular method.

Please excuse this if its in the wrong forum...

Anyway i was wondering if you have any methods of fermenting milk (cow, sheep, goat, etc).

Fermenting it increases the shelf-life which is always...

For a veggie dish that does sound good but i probably would add the lamb :P

To quote that above linked article:

"Medical researchers acknowledge that charcoal is probably the best known antidote for poison"

Good to know :)

Thats some really good info - water is a serious issue if your lost or in any other survival situation, even if you prepared you might lose or run out of tablets and this is an easy method that...