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Careless People by Sarah Wynn-Williams. Very interesting book about her years working in a senior role at Facebook. Zuckerberg / Facebook / Meta tried to silence Sarah by means of "lawfare": a legal writ forbidding her to publicise her own book at penalty of massive fine. Nonetheless she...

Four of these Roughneck clamps, for fixing a tarp to the roofrails on my car when camping. (The roofrails fit directly to the roof with no gap underneath so I can't tie a tarp to them.) Alternatively, to extend the span for the tarp and for some flexibility, I can use the clamps to clamp a pole...

The National Library of Wales (https://www.library.wales/discover-learn/digital-exhibitions/maps) and the National Library of Scotland (https://maps.nls.uk/) have old maps of various sorts available for searching and viewing.

Vacuum cleaners? My vacuum cleaner sucks...

I believe that groups of 6 whistle blasts with a minute's pause between each is also a distress call, in the UK at least. The reply is groups of 3 whistle blasts with the minute's pause between each. Repeat as necessary. A similar 6 / 3 procedure is followed with a torch. In addition, the...

Bridge Over Untroubled Water

Nice one! Well done!

... and a Partridge in a Pear Tree?

And Wye Not?

Well tidy!

Yea, the 47KG ones. I checked back and it looks like it's coming up to three years since I replaced one of the bottles. The oven is electric but the 4-burner hob is gas. It's used for cooking and also for boiling water for teas and coffees, and re-seasoning my cast iron cookware too.

Just a few days after I moved in to my house (2014) the gas cooker failed on me during evening meal prep. The cooker runs on bottled gas and both bottles were now empty. Out came a couple of my camping stoves and 5 minutes later I was back "cooking on gas". This was my hot food prep mechanism...

https://www.thebushcraftstore.co.uk/folding-firebox-baking-kit-for-zebra-billy-tins-28949-p.asp Rather than go for the whole set you may find that your local hardware / cookware store has something appropriate that you could utilise / modify.

If you want to be able to drive it you probably need to be on the same meds as the person who designed it!

Me? Apathetic? Nah! I just can't be arsed...