Recent content by Laurentius

My suspicion is that the sender pays extra for Royal Mail/Parcel force to confirm age on delivery. I had a blade delivered not long ago, and there was an extra charge on the invoice for age verification, so presumably the sender had added what they had to pay to the bill. The postie of course...

Because military surplus is too old school and conjures up images of musty smelling canvas and loose stitching (which maybe has an ironic hipster appeal) Tactical in marketing seems to scream out "special forces", "covert operations", cos you know Heroes of Telemark is so old school and even...

There are various things to be considered, chief amongst them how durable it is and how well it will bear your weight over time without weakening or fatiguing, worst thing to happen is if it were to suddenly give way. I use a stick as an actual walking aid on a daily basis wherever I go, which...

Words of two syllables and more are considered challenging to our snowflake generation.

There seem to be mixed feeling about him from some of the "republican" commentators on teh Interwebs, but I am not a royalist and I don't have anything against him. He saw active service and instituted the DoE awards. So he said a few (well more than a few) politically incorrect things, that...

Can't go wrong with this https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B00BW5P5HK/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o04_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1 a bit basic, no zips to snag, huge pockets and is surprisingly warm when the wind is blowing.

You cannot go into any wood anywhere these days without encountering a plethora of stereotypical "bushcraft shelters" they seem to be as abundant as the scars of barbecues and discarded beer cans.

I have both a Sting and a Saracen (bushcrafters OCD, go figure) and I do not have a clue whether either, both, or none of them are genuine Lowe Alpine. My Lowe Alpine mountain cap on the other hand is the genuine article, and the mutts nuts goto winter headgear.

Interesting video, but I had kind of figured most of it out for myself. What came up next when I viewed that on YouTube was a face off between a US pup tent and the lavvu. My pup tent has got to be well old now, as I got it from a local army surplus stores back in the 1970s and it was not new then.

My brother had something very like that from Belstaff.

The Viking ships did not spring fully developed from nowhere, they had a long heritage. The Egyptians, Greeks and Carthaginians were building ships millenia before that but they always hugged the coast, whereas the Viking ships were capable of crossing the open sea.

Willow is classed as a hard wood and it grows ridiculously fast.

If you are going to wear something that is not 100% waterproof (and what other than vinyl is?) most comfortable layer underneath is wool.

Is that the outfit that used to have a shop outside Euston Station?

Tent to crawl into when the weather gets really nasty, tarp for generally living/sleeping under and a windbreak. Being vehicle based the ammo boxes I mentioned in a previous post to keep stuff safe and to serve as worktop/tables, trangia cooker, canteens and camelbak bladder for water and a...