I quite enjoy float fishing from the pier for mackerel, there is no heavyweight gear involved, and I have a tiny (I mean tiny) tackle box...

Back when I was at primary school, I remember us growing cress. I don't believe I've ever done so since. Yesterday I visited the local...

Back on July 7th, I captured 11 queen ants locally, until yesterday I still had all 11. Alas, Queen 10 (a Lasius Niger and I'm not the...

Finally, my first catch. The mackerel seem to have arrived as there were other people catching them too. Yesterday afternoon I switched...

I have had this small colony (queen number 5) for 2 months now, they arrived as a colony of a Queen and a handful of workers and that is...

A few years ago I used to primarily fund my hobby of RC racing by selling spares in what is a specialist niche market. Some of the spares...

I've been deliberately ignoring the queen ants I captured back on the 7th of July so that they can have some peach to do their own thing....

The postman has delivered me a strange combination of cheap goodies today. Coloured plastic tape, sequins, sparkly tape, coloured beads...

Well, I can see the difference but will the fish? I’ve bought a couple of job lots of fishing gear from eBay, much of it secondhand so...

My third eBay fishing job lot has arrived, so why did I buy this one? basically, I fancied a couple of Red Gill lures and bumped into...

I posted recently about the new queen ants I have captured, several of them seem to have had trouble settling in and have been very...

A complete disclaimer here, I have absolutely no idea what I'm doing, I won't let that stop me though so here is my current kit to be...

The weather was nice first thing this morning after last night's thunderstorms but the rain is forecast to return for most of next week,...

At about nine o'clock yesterday evening, I'd finished what I was doing for the day and was settling in for an hour of YouTube before bed...

I want to make up a few basic fishing rigs myself in the near future rather than buying them, there is a saving to be made and it would...

The other day, I posted about an eBay job lot I purchased to build up my collection of fishing gear at an affordable price. If fact I...

Ants are often quite neat and tidy, some species more so that others. I recently added a test tube pod (from Wakooshi) to my small Messor...

I went sea fishing with my own gear for the first time yesterday, was it a success? I believe so. In fairness, I caught nothing but...

I'm just starting out with fishing, in fact I've not actually been yet. I did but a cheap rod and reel and I got a tackle box with a lot...

My ants need a combination of sugar and protein to thrive, the sugar is easy, I use Sunburst Nectar which is made for the purpose and a...