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If anyone is interested, I have accidentally bought a Groupon for 2 Adult day tickets for the Monday. Free to a good home - PM if you want them.

Isn't there a whole Wallace & Gromit film predicated upon this sort of behaviour? When you inject unnatural competition into a situation, the results will be perverse!

I live in Tottenham, and while I've had to boot the local pikey kids out of our allotments because they were pilfering raspberries from a (largely abandoned) plot by the entrance, I've never seen the kind of destruction or stripping that you describe (and these are kids that are out jacking...

Mercuric salts are more toxic than elemental mercury itself, because they are more easily absorbed. Specifically they tend to damage the kidneys - so if this story is true, I reckon your Dad's friend was right.

Also, the medical versions of superglue have special formulations to avoid toxic byproducts like formaldehyde, which can be absorbed (in tiny amounts) from the standard stuff. So in this case there is a difference between the 99p pack and the £5.99 pack marketed for use on humans.

I am going to choose to interpret 'refugee cockroach' as a criticism of tabloid coverage.

Obviously prevention is better than cure - but axes are sharp and unforeseen circumstances can occur. Nobody sensible would argue that a trauma pack is a good substitute for training and careful axe use (for example), but it is a good substitute for bleeding out because of an accident. You can...

My in-laws live in a German fachwerk timber framed house, built in the Viking long-hall style of Lower Saxony, and I'm quite familiar with the multiplicity of styles found around Germany. Many other countries have similar timber framed buildings, with a lot of variety of forms but constructed...

This is a good example of why the usefulness of common names is limited. 'Sycamore' can also refer to fig trees in some languages. What you have there is what we in Britain would refer to as a 'plane' tree. London is full of them - they were given to Queen Victoria and have the advantage of...

Um, I don't generally need a compass when I'm in my native territory, the Peak District - although I'll still use a map if I'm on an unfamiliar route as I often travel in parts that my forebears did not pass on to me. I keep a compass for those times when I can't rely upon my natural sense of...

I think that in England the sporting rights always go to the land holder (who may then dispose of them as he or she will), but certainly in Scotland, it seems quite common to sell sporting rights off separately. I may be mistaken.

Thanks for all the responses! I use Silva myself (preferred them when they were liquid-buffered, but hey) - and I didn't know they made a button compass. I'll check it out! Good tip regarding Sun company, too. Much appreciated! I did wonder whether other magnets was the problem; especially...

I was at the Bushcraft show for a couple of hours last Monday, chatting with a few traders and bushcraft schools etc, and I was keeping my eyes open for a few button compasses that I could use to make little adventurer toys for my son and his mates (they're about 2, but I say start them early!)...

We could test your theory if we had a carpark no-one really cared about and a big tray of white paint... I think that in normal riding, basic physics would preclude turning left without a small right 'swerve' - just in some cases it will be tiny. It *might* be possible to avoid the swerve by...

Thanks! A pity everything else I wrote was so far off the mark! I just ran across another link explaining the same method of determination as per your link, and it is wonderful in its simplicity. The rear wheel is fixed relative to the bike frame, and the distance between the two wheels is fixed...

I think it is established within this thread that undoubtedly that is the case; the parts of the bark that can be stripped are thicker in colder climes. In temperate climates it is fairly easy to damage a birch when peeling off bark - and since the bark layer is thinner, I think the variety of...

I think I've got loads of pre-decimal pennies I could send you. I got them as tokens for the kiddies at my wedding, so they could go to the 'sweet shop' by themselves without the risk of gorging themselves on sugar and then projectile vomiting on the dancefloor. I'll have a look and see if I can...

I thought Feuerhand lanterns were made of brass (chrome-plated or suchlike if you go for silver finish)?

Bushcraft generally involves using natural materials. What you're doing seems more like dumpster-diving. Maybe you could call it a Hobo Bow. Ho-bow? Do you hunt with your ho-bow? Have you taken down small game with it? What small game have you stalked successfully in your local urban...

This explanation will identify which of the two tracks is formed by the front wheel, and which by the rear. However it will not identify the direction of travel, since rear will always 'over-ride' the front, whether the bike is going East or West, for example. I think that you would need to...