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Can I also ask, as well as opening the door and securing it to the left (when looking at the tent) is it also possible to open up the panel to the right of the door i.e. un-peg it and pull it to the side, to create a greater opening in good weather?

Thanks Erbswurst. Glad you've had good experiences with it.

I'm looking to replace my Vango Nevis with something lighter and as such I am waiting for the luxe hexpeak v4a fly-only to become available. I plan to pair it with a lanshan 1, 4 season inner (t door) from AliExpress. Should make a weather proof, comfortable shelter for around 1 kg. I tend to...

I spent many years scuba diving and I think there are parallels to survival and the concept of PSKs. In diving, having the right kit that is well maintained is obviously critical. But what really stops you dying on each dive is knowing your limits (mental and physical), having a good buddy, not...

To add to my post above, for my foray into the hills of the UK, I don't take a whole lot more: back up firelighting options for the stove (ferorod and matches), but then it goes beyond the realms of a PSK i.e. I'll add a bivi bag, water filter and the necessary clothing depending on the time of...

This is quite topical - I'm off on a seaside holiday to sunnier climes, and I've just packed a PSK. It's in a clear ziplock bag and contains plasters, compedes, burn gels, sterile dressings, tick remover, some cordage, a compass, a Swiss army knife for the inevitable slicing of apples and a tiny...

Some kind of truckers hitch? I wasn't very clear in my original post; I meant using a prussik to hold a tarp in place on an already established ridgeline. I wouldn't use a prussik to tension a ridgeline either, although I suppose it could work. I was playing around with some horrible, springy...

Fell down a rabbithole of knot nerdery this evening. I'm sure many of us use prussiks for securing tarps to ridgelines and various other uses. And I'm sure many of us use tautline hitches for making adjustable guy lines. Tautline hitch is a rolling hitch tied to its own standing end, and is very...

So modelling on steroids! That's quite fascinating.

Ok here's a question. How does AI actually work? Let's say you want AI to make decisions relating to a pandemic. It needs data to work on, presumably the same data that is available to humans. Humans would model the data to predict what may happen with (crucially) the degree of error or...

I work in pharmaceuticals and I can see AI having a phenomenal, positive impact in discovery of new drugs and treatments. And when it's done that, it will be able to work out my unemployment benefit payments.

That's worth a whole new thread in itself :) But in the context of my post, by 'logical' I meant what's best and morally right and acceptable for us - although what's morally acceptable to some will not be to others, of course. It presumably would mean AI following a code of ethics, if such a...

That's the point; hopefully the AI solution would be the most logical one. Speaking of illness, how about COVID? Say we had entrusted decision making on pandemic management to AI, at least in part, I wonder how the outcome would have differed? Same with interest rate setting and economic...

Perhaps we could replace all governments with AI systems that adhere to some kind of universal code of ethics. All decisions would be based on logic and science, no need for elections or political parties that follow this or that ideology. Imagine, all the current issues that become politicsed...

You can eat the inner pith, although I found it quite bland. Paul Kirtley has an article on it https://paulkirtley.co.uk/2013/rosebay-willowherb-taking-the-pith/

My experience with ticks in east anglia (which is a tick and Lyme disease hot spot) is that the doctors here are on the ball. You mention a tick bite and dodgy rash and they whip out the antibiotics without hesitating. I speak from experience. I don't believe there is reason to keep the ticks...

Thanks Nice65. Skullcaps are in the mint family and the stem of this plant was distinctly round. I think I may need to keep an eye on it and wait for flowers to appear.

I'm stuck on this one. Looks like nettle but isn't. Slightly, softly hairy round stems (not lamiaceae), with purple tinge. It's a big plant, a good four feet tall. Just can't figure it out. https://postimg.cc/Z9HkDTb2 Also, thought I'd post this. I reckon it is hedge mustard, Sisymbriun...

Bilberry pies were a childhood fixture for me, although unfortunately being back down in East Anglia now I won't come across them until I'm next travelling. I did find a large patch of giant hogweed this afternoon. I managed to spend a bit of time comparing the younger specimens with young...

Wandering the moors of the peak district at the weekend gave me a chance to refresh ID of some Ericaceae species. Good to see them in flower in spring, which I'm not so used to. These were intermingled. Here we have what I call bilberry, Vacxinium myrtillus, not to be confused with blueberry...