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Surely trial and error is the way everything was tuned? Even including the tempered scale and stuff like that?

I thought Linnet Clough was damp this weekend! at least we didnt have a flood!

Chopping it thinly should work in a lot of recipes!

Or if its a crumbly cheese, no worries there eh?

Dave B... not gonna stop shooting them though!

guthrie wrote:Colin, I'm sure we've told you before, just because it is in a film, best selling books, and you can buy it in shops doesn't mean its historically accurate!

Damn... There goes my Braveheart kit I worked so hard on getting it accurate too!

whack the rat!
Get a tube fixed to a board, and a beanbag(or a rag-doll) give it a piece of wool as a tail.

Drop the "rat" down the tube, the kid has to hit the rat with a bat/stick, if they hit it they get a prize

(See what scouting taught me?!)

Yeah... and if you're being inauthentic a rake works really well!

Shoot as many grey's as possible guys!
Hang on... is it possible to have a grey squirrel in that period in the Uk?

Presumably! or getting arrows out of wood, or chopping anything going

Yeah, English yew is terrible! though Witch Elm would've been around, and that makes nice bows!

It doesn't say whether the bows are finished, so maybe they are unfinished staves so bowyers in the uk finish them?

it's just me sticking my oar in!

the draw looks really strange... but maybe it is forced to be like that due to the helm and the breast? I dunno... maybe i'm just used to the straight back, elbow making a slightly vertical arc draw, if that makes sense?

Marcus Woodhouse wrote:if he understood what it was all about then he was missing the point.

I think that sums both things up quite nicely!

My god... Gaiters haven't changed... except the Gore-tex ones!

I use them interchangably(thats not spelt right!) except some classical people will shout at you if you call their instrument a fiddle! The few folk fiddlers(Ooo err) i've talked to don't particularly mind what people call the instrument!

if they're not designed to be moved, could you use pegs? I'm sure most people won't get a hot enough fire to melt them: have a tray with holes, or box section welded into the corners, then holes through the outside corners, and a short peg to keep them in place? Assuming that you're making straight ...

it's odd how things that you learnt 7 years ago that didnt seem important stick in the mind!

People get fussy about things like that... but in all honesty as long as it's understandable it doesn't really matter!

I only know about CE through our RE lessons in school... something about it being apparently less offensive to people of other religions?

Make char cloth?
It's not hard, I'm assuming you can use a ceramic pot for it... and it gets rid of light scraps of material!

I've got wonky teeth... I don't particularly care, i can still bite or chew... it's from me using my mouth to hold all sorts of things... pulling rope with my teeth was possibly the stupidest! I've not got braces, never had them... i think it'd be quite a major job to straighten them all out anyway!

We've got a back yard, with loads of herbs, some growing out of cracks in the concrete... a couple of bay trees, bonsai oak trees. A back garden with 2 oak trees, daffodils, brambles, fushia, rhubarb... A front garden with a budleia, rosemary, other random plants that i don't know. The delicate way ...