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The bark looks like Sycamore.

I was a photocopier repairman and would occasionally get called in to replace a broken platen glass due to the machine being used for...

The Last Grain Race by Eric Newby is an excellent read.

A peregrine falcon has been clocked at over 200mph when in a dive. This was recorded by a Spitfire pilot in WW2, the bird overtook the...

Instead of decking boards you could use scaffolding planks, cut to length as you describe. Not pretty, but you'd need fewer and they'd...

Not in the same league as luxury kit cars but in the mid-eighties there was a project called Africar. The idea was to provide a low tech...

Slow grown spruce.

Oak grown in open parkland would have a spreading habit resulting in low hanging boughs with a natural curvature. Trees in closely...