Recent content by neoaliphant

Yes, possibly from a crystal shop....

Living Anachronism on youtube did a review of sunstone last year, that was for his fantasy ranger kit...

It has to be said, things with Ray Mears/Woodlore prices have shot up over the decades.....

It depends on the nature of the conflict when covid happened, an shelves empty of a lot of food, people that releid on processed food suddenly had problems....if you have a stock of ingredients youre less relyinging on shop shelves. Conflicts can cause supply issues So the...

If we refer to a PSK as the lofty survival tin....They arent much use in UK, even in wilderness, mostly because too small to be usefull. In the UK selter against climate is main concern and a tin cant do that much...A lot of tins have fishing kit whoch is hardly ,uch use in UK The origion being...

It all depends on definition of survival.... Dave Canterbury often uses teh term self reliance. Relying on people is a bit like relying on a bic lighter to work 100% of the time and never run out of fuel.... ive seen ultralight hikers just carry a mini bic and thats it for lighting...but a lot...

Nope nope and thrice nope Marmelade isnt a jam, its more like a jelly that hasnt been strained as 1. it uses citrus fruit which makes it not a jam...2 its uses more water than jams do.... So its really an orange unstrained jelly.... but awfull none the less.... Now blackberry jelly, thats...

And the thing is i find americanisms annoying, so its a bit facepalm to be caught doing it myself.... in my defense ive spend many hours researching and watching youtube videos on different nitecore headlamps the last few weeks...and a lot of the world does use flashlight....

Interesting stories both, and I agree, ive used a lot of my kit content on otehr people, probably in anecdotes already posted, one of my gripes is when people wont provide for tthemselves and just bleat for help....loads of peiple did that during covid....sometimes as if getting in trouble and...

most of mine is tools, protection is 2nd but in both smaller kits i have gloves, buff, lightweight poncho.... so theres kits, and then theres tins, i think the tins is only really appropriate for really wilderness, where its if youve lost your kit, or military were its E&E with no otehr...

Excelelnt use of poetry qutation, very impresed with any poem that features a tomahawk...

I just bought a nitecore nu20 classic this week, first time ive had a head torch because for years i stuck to cylindral hand torches that fit in an old nitehead maglite head strap, and ive been blown away by its tiny size, versatility and brightness for the advertised lumens, which makes me...

Good points, reason i carry it is : it was £1 on ali express, it was an xmas pressi, its rugged and i constantly break things, its thick which i like, and most importantly it fits perfectly on my phone pouch which has a pocket for a notepad so makes nice set..... i dont buy large amounts of...

PSK life and death, compact, EDC convenience and comfort and self reliance Possibles mixture of the two, easy of access, a less compact/compressed form of PSK but one you dip in to PSK not needed in UK really But for urban PSK, would things like fires, accidents, terrorist attacks, be...

Injuries can make all the difference, my father fell and broke his hip, his doro phone was on the side board, 6 feet from him, turned off of coarse, and my stepmotehr was outside gardening 30 feet away, and she thought he had a long nap, so he was on the floor for 5 hours with broken hip...