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    Plastic free camping

    You buy plastic bags in a plastic bag then put it in with the rest of your shopping in a bag for life that's plastic. Perhaps put them in a cardboard sleeve. You buy something like a tool or something that really doesn't need protection. It comes in plastic bag, sometimes in a box after that...
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    Moonshiner Boots - Anti tracking

    Ideas vs reality, with reality that most pro trackers or forensics won't be fooled. It's the less professional say the old time posse made up of townsfolk or small town officer. It's scary how much information a skilled tracker gets from what he/she sees.
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    Plastic free camping

    There is some research done that identified a significant amount of the micro plastics found in fish caught in the sea. It was actually from vehicle tyres. Now how do you stop that? We will need a lot of Ash plantations to make enough wooden wheels! Lol! Now that adds another element, how...
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    Moonshiner Boots - Anti tracking

    And then they see the depth of the impression and work out weight of individual. Not a small person but a man about xxx pounds and based on typical proportions a fairly narrow height range. I seriously doubt law enforcement, at a particular training level, would be fooled that easily...
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    Plastic free camping

    Seriously and without taking the mick, my kit is mostly old now, about 10 years old except for a new 3 year old paramo and a 4 year old buffalo plus a few new consumables like wool socks and polypropylene base layers. One pp base layer is 38 years old and showing no sign of wearing out...
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    The Great Tommy Sleep Out

    Guy at work did it. Does it every year. I'm new but it's heavily publicised here got put into weekly comms since January publicising his justgiving page. About 12000 people work here so he's probably going to raise a few hundred quid. Unfortunately the big company charity is a challenge walk...
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    water bottles and water

    Homeopathic pee? Spring water and aquifers might have been pee once but a loooonnnngggg time ago. Perhaps dinosaur pee?:)
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    Ongoing care

    Hospitals tend to have access to better dressing options than even gp practises / practise nurses and District nurses. There's a lot of new dressings out there and as a private individual they're simply not stocked by places you can get to like pharmacies. I unsuccessfully tried to cut my...
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    Thinking of getting into wood carving? Aldi offer!

    Hey, I could make a bowl out of a few blocks of wood I have. Any tips? I guess there's a lot of wood removal in the middle which takes the time. One question, do you use a clamp to hold the wood? Not got anywhere or anything to clamp the wood to.
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    Thinking of getting into wood carving? Aldi offer!

    Then I'm stuffed before I've started! Still, I'm hoping they've not sold out. I think 13 quid is not exactly going to hurt if I don't take to it. Although with my coordination it could hurt! Lol! Think I'll get one at my next Aldi shop. I was thinking of just playing around with any wood I...
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    Thinking of getting into wood carving? Aldi offer!

    Last week I saw a £12.95 wood carving kit in aldi. It's a corded dremel like tool with a wide range of heads. Not as satisfying as carving with hand blades / tools, but could be a cheapish way of removing wood in a new carving hobby. What do you think?
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    EDC Pens?

    Cult pens have the new kaweco p8ston filler pens. Slightly bigger than their eco sport pens. Basically instead of having to use small cartridges or a converter with bottled ink, you turn the end to pull back a piston which sucks the ink into the reservoir. These generally fit more ink in...
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    Be a real man!

    I just keep "forgetting" to take the bins out so she'll do it. I only got that working once now I just get grief until its easier to get wet while doing it. I have to take it out back the down a flight of outside stairs in the dark! Mind you, the worst part is putting the liner bag in. Having...
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    Be a real man!

    I've heard about a value being put to the job of house wife/husband. If it was a paid role it should be worth a decent salary. Can't remember the figure but I've got 30 k pa in my head for some reason. I certainly think there's a real, value in that role. What's that quote? "Give me a child...
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    Be a real man!

    Nope I wasn't alive in the old money days so definitely 5p charge for anything sharp or pointed. She also insisted on nobody passing her sharp things too. You had to put the down near her for her to pick them up. Not sure if that was a safety thing or her thinking of racing us money by not...
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    Pork scratchings...yes or no?

    In the big houses they grew pineapple in the fashionable glasshouses. Something about rotting manure in boxes outside with the heat generated going into cold frames. Apparently they were quite productive. I think they did a bit about it on gardener's world about 20 odd years ago. Something about...
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    Pork scratchings...yes or no?

    It was in the news a month or so ago. I'm against it but the story was about an American saying a full English should have pineapple with it. Apparently there's a society for the full English who backed it technically on the grounds of its origins. Apparently meat for breakfast was a real...
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    Be a real man!

    My gran said silver coin for anything sharp. If you don't you'll have sharp words! That was 5p or more. Either my gran was a bit too mercenary or inflation. Probably the latter because I was born early 70s so lived through the basket case economy years. Inflation was something I knew about in...
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    Pork scratchings...yes or no?

    So what's your view on pineapple with your full English breakfast? :lmao:
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    EDC Pens?

    Iridium I believe, down one of the allies. Nice guy, I miss that shop. Got presents for myself and others from there over the few years it was open. It was kind of a meeting place. I've been in there many a time when he's made a drink for a visitor. I never knew what happened. I went there to...