I was a bit tempted by some of the very cheap soft plastic fishing lures available on Amazon and eBay. They seem to be too good to be...

Lasius Flavus are fully claustral, which means that the queen can survive the full time taken from laying eggs up to the arrival of the...

Keeping a young ant colony in their test tube for an extended period is great for getting them established but it does come with a couple...

I don't want to spend a fortune on fishing gear until I have done enough of it to know that it is a stayer in my list of hobbies, on the...

Yesterday was a significant day in my ant-keeping journey, this is the first homeborn worker, a Messor Barbarus from Queen 5. Admittedly...

I had a weekend break booked to Newcastle, tonight I should have been staying in the Travelodge on the Quayside which would have been...

Back in my school years, I used to go coarse fishing quite often but I've not done so since. I have been thinking about getting some...

Last night, I got around to actually looking to see what the £60 investment I mentioned the other day had actually bought me. It had been...

I was in the process of hydrating one of my ant nests when the doorbell rang, it was a courier delivering a package which should have...

My search for new leisure activities has taken me in a different direction, can you guess what it is yet? Obviously, home brewing. A lot...

Before starting work today, I thought it would be good to do something I've intended to do for the last couple of weeks: create a queen...

I've got my small collection of ants and have enjoyed watching their behaviour, they also have an amazing ability to frustrate me as they...

This summer's hobby is going to be ant keeping. Why, well it started with a random YouTube video and seemed harmless enough even if...

After bumping into some random videos on YouTube, getting interested and then drifting into some research for a week or so, I've bought...

I was going to grow some herbs a few years ago but after planting them I ended up going away for a week or more and they died, I'm going...

I need a new hobby, I was planning to get back into going to the pub and gigs more regularly but, having tried it, my enthusiasm just...

I own two NCM eBikes, a Moscow Plus and a Venice, one for off-road and one for the tarmac. I've put a fair few miles on them and they...

The lighter evenings are here so it is time to change the front lights around on my bikes, why would I want to do this? Basically, it...

I've wondered about this for a while. The AirTag is potentially a really cheap (£25) way to add an extra layer of security to your bike...

The nights are starting to draw in and some of my evening journeys are now ending in darkness for the first time in a few months. Time to...