Recent content by Nic Le Becheur

Have a look on ARRSE (The ARmy Rumour SErvice). Always a good forum for discussing forces-supplied kit.

Clearly. You have yet to learn to stomp an Esbit stove flat in two seconds, fold it into a star shape using your origami skills and then fling it at your victim's throat like a ninja's shuriken.

I find an ex-Army liner inside the my ex-Army jungle bag is fine in a British spring/summer. I simply add a wool blanket and/or thermals, woolly socks and hat as Autumn and Winter come on.

I layer. I've been quite cosy in -5 degrees C inside an ex-army Arctic sleeping bag liner inside a lightweight Army jungle bag inside a wool blanket on top of a Thermarest Ridgerest mattress inside a Norwegian 'knappetelt' poncho buttoned up to make a bivvy bag. All inexpensive and fairly...

Croeso gan Llwydlo ;-)

There should be drop-down menu on your computer's toolbar called 'file'. Open that up and there should be an option to change the image size. Play around with that until it fits.

Rabbits will make little exploratory digs, and squirrels will, as you say, dig out buried nuts - but if the holes are round and go down some distance, then it's likelier to be bank voles. Hard to be certain from the pics, but looks most like rabbits to me.

To me, a bivvy bag is simply a bag you bivvy in. As long as it keeps you warm inside and the weather outside, that's what it is. Personally, I prefer canvas, and wrap up in one of those old Norwegian army modular button-up poncho tents.

Not if we all simply vote and then sit back for 4/5 years and expect those we voted for to do it all for us.

There's always Google Translate. C'est pas mal, pour la traduction en Francais :-)

Es i mewn i dafarn yn Lloegr, a dechreuodd pawb siarad yn saesneg. (I went into this pub in England, and everybody started speaking in English,).

Here's my checklist for what I'll typically take on a long weekend trip (2-3 overnight stays): In summer I won't take the blanket, in summer and autumn I'll take less food and forage instead. In winter I may also take some fresh veg, like a baking potato and an onion or two. Weekend Checklist...

Planting some overwintering onion sets, garlic and elephant garlic. Chard, kale, celery, sorrel, parsnips and skirrets still flourishing.

Treated myself to a pair of Altberg Defenders, which arrived today. Never wore a pair of boots more comfortable from just out of the box. Even cosier than the old Army BCH jobs I've been wearing in for the past 20 years.

One of the best bits of kit I ever bought was a second hand German army issue Taschenmesser, made by Victorinox: knife blade, saw, bottle/tin opener, posidrive and standard 1cm screwdriver heads, and awl.