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They'll be looking through your webcam now......... See if they'll do a defrag and get rid of the virus that has bunged things up the last while. :)

I think I got an extra couple inches of lard around my middle. :) I'll go sleep it off.

At the start the Rhodesian Selous Scout's seletion/training course, an instructor would shoot a baboon and leave hanging in a tree where it fell. Around three weeks later, the surviving candidates where invited to eat it. Which they where glad to by then. The lesson was that you can eat just...

Everything in the UK is also illegal. Just don't get caught, or say it is for charity and dig out a donation form. And if that fails.....run.

Given half a chance, I'd still be in the sandpit blowing things up. :) I got my first pocket knife at 6 and hatchet a year or 2 later -I did grow on a farm. Only recently my Mom admitted to blunting my hatchet, grrrrrr, which I was inclined to use a machete, so I guess she wasted her time. I...

I've used the Kyam bivvy quite a bit with a poncho tarp and it has saved my **** regularly. http://www.outdoorgear.co.uk/Khyam-VSS-Waterproof-Ultralight-Bivi-sku52415303.asp Firstly, it add a few degrees of warmth and as a cold sleeper I treasure that. Perhaps, more importantly, I specialise in...

The best striker I've found is the back of an old hacksaw blade. Works a treat with flint as well. I nice compact solution for the bottom of an Altoids tin. :)

My side of the mountain by Jean George made a delightful book about a boy who runs off and lives in a redwood that he hollows out. A Far off Place based on two ofLourens van der Post's books tells of some youngters fleeing across the Namib Deserted, aided by a San (bushman) and a couple of...

Pots hung over a fire don't tip over and dump water everywhere when the fuel is consumed. Heat goes up, so it is more efficient to place a pot over the heatsource than next to it.

Fisherman regularly pull up 'ice age' artifacts from the North Sea suggesting evidence of a landbridge which was washed away as the ice melted. The English legged it to the left and the French to the right which is the earliest explanation for driving on the left side of the road. The discovery...

Keep your blade sharp, carry a first aid kit, a wear safety glasses or shaterproof sunshades. Cut bush often springs back for revenge, and a thorn in the eye is no joke. Avoid goggles, they steam up and look a bit naff. Buy in the farmers cooperative as the locals know what works in their bush.

Mine would hoover up biltong. But I wonder if it is a way for the missus to make you jump through hoops to see if you are still paying attention. But then ..... As Good As it Gets Woman: How do you write women so well? Melvin: I think of a man... then I take away reason, and...

I remember reading something about human tracks in sunshine melting around the edges and becoming bigger. This led to human tracks being misidentified as yeti. So I'm thinking 'I 'tink I saw a puddy cat'.

I do have vivid memories of digging a little hole away from the firefight in the 'designated' area, several hours after sundown. I had a healthy supply of white gold to hand, a balmy breeze to caress the nether regions as I assumed the position, for a leisurely solving of a problem caused by...

I remember trailbusters where very popular with South Africans visiting London about 15 years ago. you could see them a mile off with their red laces and car tyre soles. Amused the Kiwis and Aussies no end. :)