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  1. I pickle quail eggs in distilled vinegar with dill, mustard seeds, and chilli. it’s even better with a good dose of green peppercorns.
  2. After some deliberation I have cut them apart. They now seem to function perfectly, although will need restitching where the seam was contiguous with the joining stitches. I no longer need nappy pins to go beating!
  3. Serious enough stitching, hopefully a photo will appear with this post.
  4. Ordered direct from Barbour, and still appears on their website. I could cut them apart, but they are so well sewn together it looks deliberate rather than a manufacturing cock up.
  5. The buttons are sewn together so they can either be at the crack or the sack. If at the latter the studs will be pushing through any vegetation, if at the back they should be sheltered. Are your straps separate or sewn together? Absolutely.
  6. My cheap ones that worked well did that. On these the belt straps are sewn together such that either they must go at the back or front, this is the best photo a quick google finds. https://www.redrae.co.uk/barbour-classic-sylkoil-stud-on-short-leggings-olive-MOT0002OL91.htm My cheap ones are like that and work well, but unless I take a knife to these ones to put the straps at the hips would be impossible.
  7. I bought some Barbour wax chaps as I was feeling wealthier than usual and couldn’t find my cheap as chips ebay ones. Every time I wear them within ten steps they are pulling downwards on the front such that I can’t walk properly. I can get a temporary fix by safety pinning the front of the chaps to the front of my breeks but the pins seem to bend and fail within a couple of hours beating. I have the belt loop at my back and as high as possible. Usually over moleskin breeks but cotton trousers are no better. What am I doing wrong? Surely they must actually function in some way or else they would have changed the design at some point in the last century.
  8. Here there is a flat allowance of 1000 whatever the calibre which has never left me feeling under stocked for rifles. The other half however is also licensed bringing it up to 2000 between us.
  9. There was a thread on here a little while back that touched on home lpg tank installations. I have not yet gone down the lpg route myself however I did chat to a lost flogas delivery driver the other week who tells me they do still fill private tanks for automotive use.
  10. I use one of these also and can attest they are fantastic, though I may have mine in one inch rings.
  11. I have had surprisingly good pairs from rydale and Samuel Windsor.
  12. https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/MENS-GREEN-BROWN-DERBY-COUNTRY-TWEED-FARMING-SHOOTING-WAISTCOAT-GILET-BODYWARMER-/132118915536?_trksid=p2349624.m46890.l49286 I have had one of these for six years and all the bits that are starting to look tatty were either chewed by a puppy or caught in something. Can be ordered with a hat to match.
  13. I tend to keep things till they die, at some point, once I have made my fortune, I would love have to have a sidelock with a couple of views from home engraved. It will either be left to someone for whom it will also have meaning or be buried with me. If this is a keeper get something on it that will make you smile every time you see it. If you sell/exchange guns either the enjoyment value to you has to be worth whatever drop in value the gun takes, or it’s not worth doing.
  14. I have stuck with opinel carbones in various sizes for the last few years as they lock but also easily sharpen to a razor sharp edge. In the last year however the locks have undone themselves on three or more occasions whilst using the knives, on one occasion cutting the nerve to my dominant index finger, and a few near misses. I have now lost confidence in them and want to try something else. Could anyone recommend something fairly traditional, ideally made in the western world, even more ideally made in the uk, that takes such a wonderful edge as readily but with a more fail proof locking system.
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