Recent content by neoaliphant

I live off the left of that photo, the view was pretty much the second one as it rolled it, but it was mostly purple, it looked straight out of the oblivion game, just waiting for the oblivion gate to appear There was something liek 20,000 lightning strikes over glastonbury , had loads of...

Taunton is a tarmac jungle.... Did you get the supercell the other week.....glastonbury was weird!!!!

500ml hand sanitiser for 50p burns quite well, almost as well as hexamine made a holder from tealight dish, works well in esbit stove https://cheapfood.co.uk/relisan-alcohol-hand-gel-500ml/ loads of small things, cofee sachets, porridge , individual teabags etc

That is a good point when i did viking renactment, some of used heavier weapons...a "medicine seax" for general weekend training and then for competitions or durring shows, swopped to a lighter every day sword....so much more control, and the heavier weapons built strength similar principle...

Aldi have cast iron dutch oven £19.99, large inflatable mats £12.99... folding tables 12.99.. ProperJob has some decent enamelware out in their spring section, but they do every year, . folding chairs £19.99, whistling kettle 7.99

small suggestion, but separate what you’ve got in to multiple kits.... ie the farmer sak, metal mug, jungle blanket, survival orange bag, go in the start of a waist pack/day kit

Adventure ridge hammock, bugnet and tarp, all for £25 https://www.aldi.co.uk/product/adventuridge-hammock-with-shelter-000000000715644001

Ive gone down the many smaller pouches for making a slimemr nelt kit, and also for organisation i did have a kit in a tangia tin for a bit....makes an excellent tin, better than the british army ones in my opinion as has a decent lid, i get all my pouches off aliexpress now, so much cheaper...

https://www.youtube.com/@RangerSurvivalandFieldCraft This channel has loads of survioval kit videos, and I think he did a modern version of the lofty tin recently, keeping close to the tin and pouch but with modern upgrades

If its too big...you wont bring it... a metal container, a lot of the time in the past its been to make charcloth, to polish for signalling mirror etc. BUT manmade tinders have improved, you could always boil water in foil, make a foil cup etc, i would have thought potassium permangeante or...

Asia supermarkets can be awesome for bulk buying and getting hard to find ingredients, like large bags of MSG, we used to buy loads from wai yee hong in bristol, the skyflakes when they are cheap enough are wonderfull crackers, go great with noodles or with a spread.

Its interestings eeing otehr peoples meal budging plans... Out of interest, with the various hellofrsh hacks...what do you spend per week on hello fresh compared to otehr groceries, and what proportion of the week does hello fresh offer.... To be honest ive never seen the appeal of...

Buying anything in store does have benefits...my fathers just been to Living Homes to look at TVs to get a feel for the size...sends me the model number then I buy it online.... Theres lots of things that if they are out of stock, you can browse similar much easier than online.. Online is...

Supermarket pychology.... the fact that they keep rearranging is to make you wander past areas and search teh shelves, tereby impulse buying otehr things that you dont need Having instore bakeries isnt to make fresh bread...the aroma of the baked goods is to make people hungry and thereby buy...

It depends on whether you have to pay for parking, fuel whether you buy things on offer...whether you need to check vegetable integrity ive seen people pay for a taxi just to go to the local tesco in that situation, for the elderly especially, it makes sense... some elderly people especially...