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    You are going on a 3 day trip and have to stay UK legal so what do you carry?

    SAK cyber tool. I wanted the 100 tools on a Swiss champ but never saw one in a shop near me nor had the money for one. I did however see a cyber tool at reidiculously low price, we are talking at huntsmen prices. So I got it. It is an amazingly useful tool and when fettling my bike I tend to...
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    I can't stand Deadpool

    Deadpool kind of heals himself. His issue is that he has terminal cancer that this superpower is keeping at bay. He can also take a while to heal at times. Like when his legs were cut off. He was seen with baby legs.
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    I can't stand Deadpool

    Robert Downey Jr. He was terrible as Sherlock Holmes IMHO of course.
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    I can't stand Deadpool

    There is a walter presents series based on a French detective and her ASD records assistant. Can't remember the series but it is not bad to see how other nations do the detective thing. A bit simplistic with the ASD element though.
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    I can't stand Deadpool

    I have one contender for the worst Sherlock Holmes, can anyone guess? Let's just say he normally wears an iron suit!!
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    Naturism

    Whe about 13yo a family holiday at a gite in france just over the dunes from a lovely, sandy beach in the southwest, Atlantic coast was interesting. first week there was a world cup series international surfing competition. So all loud rock music and surfer types. So cool. Second week they sll...
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    Advice on Hoarding.

    First rule of forums is to read the whole thread before posting. Guilty of not following this.
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    Advice on Hoarding.

    I bought a book on the KonMari method, in fact a few of them. I think they might be in the stack of books in a plastic box in the undercroft somewhere. I might need them one day!
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    Advice on Hoarding.

    I hear that. Never easy to manage but easy to suggest ideas to others. I was "fortunate" in my partner moving in with me and after expecting our son there was a distinct operation to solve my hoarding problem. Apparently the story, as told by her many years later, involved so much stuff that...
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    Advice on Hoarding.

    What is your timescale? The classic method is to put anything you have not used in X months (commonly 6 months) into storage out of the way. Except for essentials such as FAK. Then if after 2X time (commonly 12 months) then you get rid. It is hard to do as there are some stuff that you might...
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    If there is one piece of kit that’s gone, you could bring back what is it ?

    I have two things, one an individual item and the other an independent, UK company with a top reputation. First is a Berghaus Extrem Alpine or Alpine Extrem rucksack. It is supposedly a 50 litre with something like 15litre overpack capability with the floating lid. It is a single compartment...
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    If there is one piece of kit that’s gone, you could bring back what is it ?

    The owner died suddenly I heard but I was able to get a 2.4m x 2.4m one not too long before that after finding out about them from TGO magazine. Still got it and not used for awhile but I bet it is still waterpoof. Unlike the 4m x 4m DD tarp which is about 4 years and leaks badly.
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    Do metals get old and weakened through time?

    There are different stainless steels and it does depend on which was used.
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    Voluntarily handing in a large blade to the UK police

    As an 18 year old a friend from a rough area of Salford got robbed on the way back to uni. He was held up buy a local with a knife and ended up getting beaten up a bit but luckily not stabbed. Come to think of it, I don't think they were even robbing him but it was a case of beating up a...
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    Voluntarily handing in a large blade to the UK police

    WIll this give results? Really give results? No machetes or zombie knives or large bowies then it is straight back to the large kitchen knife like 47% of the knife deaths had as the tool chosen. If you don't take away the want to carry a knife you won't seriously affect the knife crimes.
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    Voluntarily handing in a large blade to the UK police

    Saw a photoshoot of an amnesty box on TV a few days ago and in the camera pan across the table of knives I spotted what to me looked like a silverline machete that my old company and the one before it bought from Screwfix for about £7 each. They were 450mm / 18" long and very flimsy. If you...
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    Trees in your garden, do you make use of them?

    I'vwe seen interesting willow structures where both ends are stuck in the ground and it looked like new willow was growing out of both ends. It seems to me to be the easiest to grow from cut lengths of all trees from the UK.
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    Kindles and E Readers etc:

    It is good to research and decide based on that, however I was omce very uconvinced by them until I took the plunge and wasted money on one. That was what I expected it to be like but was surprised that I got over my paper book, no batteries, lofi paper book hangups purely by the way it worked...
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    Kindles and E Readers etc:

    Worth pointing out that most free sources of ebooks for non kindle users are out of copyright books not current, copyrighted books. This might limit what you can read. Kindle dominate ereaders in the UK not because of Amazon, although that helps a lot, but because they got a good product right...
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    Trees in your garden, do you make use of them?

    I wonder if you cut the tops off your willow could you try planting a second row with the offcuts to make the hedge thicker lower down? Willow I believe roots very easily from sticks. I guess a row of willows could go a bit thin and see through as a hedge if not careful hence this idea. From my...