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Nice bag! I like that pan too

I find just using the sliding knot and leave them in place when packing up works https://www.msrgear.com/blog/best-camping-knot-tie-taut-line-hitch-knot/

Endless renditions of Tie Me Kangaroo Down? That's just cruel. :)

... deleted that. It was the wrong one

Hiya, but!

You are right, BigMonster. This doesn't need to be over-thought. Carry a few bits of inner tube and some matches in a block of wax. Plus a lighter for convenience. :) Ferro rods? Pffft!! :lol:

I just had a Dupuytrens Contracture repaired. It's when the tendon working your little finger shrinks and your finger curls in. Couldn't get gloves on in the end. Wossisname's got one - Bill Nighy. Anyway, the doctor told me that it is pretty closely identified with the UK and comes from...

I remember in junior school in the early 70s our school was split up into a bunch of 'houses' which we were all put into for competitions and so forth - Normans, Saxons, Jutes, Danes. Then, in class, we talked a lot about Angles, Romans, Celts etc. How they lived, arrived, who they fought with...

Best of luck with the unexpected shift - packing and unpacking at Christmas - a recipe for confusions

Had a phone conversation with a friend abruptly ended once. Found out later he'd dropped his phone in the lavvy. What is the etiquette here; taking a call while taking a dump, I mean. Close friends and rellies maybe OK. Business acquaintance and friends of friends maybe not so. Is there a...

Museums crowd? Go absolutely smart/conservative with one quirky but good eccentric marker; an accessory ... ring, earring, bag, pen, hair dye, shoes whatever it is. At points in your career you will have to talk to the public, people with money to donate and government agencies. You will have...

Nice. Coconut oil. Never thought of using that. Too warm here in the summer, I think. Though having just fully reread you post, its not as warm as Costa Rica :):) I waxed a couple of bags with just beeswax a while ago. Works great, but they smell rather of honey now

Happy Birthday :)

That is a very handsome basket. I would like one

Possibly the collateral and long-term impacts of Covid, Brexit, Cop26 etc. make people feel less sure about money. Inflation is at 3%, expected to be above 4.5% soon, and this is being signalled in different ways. (Mind, I am sure I remember inflation at +20% in the 70s). On the other hand...

Barbours, I mean Just seeing my old and derelict Solway off, and will scour eBay for its replacement (vintage, that is) What do people think are the different merits of the Border and the Northumbria? :)

Cuts both ways, I think. If people are really unhappy in the city and it doesn't suit them and they get depressed and difficult and complainy, it is better for both the city and the country if they leave the city and go where they are happy. Me, on balance and having lived in both about the...

I have never though to recycle those little ally pots ... but will now, if only to save a trip to Ikea.