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  1. Alan De Enfield

    For Those Of Us Of A 'Certain Age'

    This may help (starts at 45 seconds ends at 60 seconds)
  2. Alan De Enfield

    For Those Of Us Of A 'Certain Age'

    Could you not ?
  3. Alan De Enfield

    For Those Of Us Of A 'Certain Age'

    A guy went into a French seafood restaurant and asked to see the dishes of the day. The waiter wheeled over a trolley with a large tank full of various species, and the man examined the dishes. "I'll have the little green squid with the hairy lip, please" said the man. "An excellent choice...
  4. Alan De Enfield

    Lymes Disease - 3x more cases than expected.

    https://www.theguardian.com/science/2019/jul/31/uk-lyme-disease-cases-may-be-three-times-higher-than-estimated Cases of Lyme disease in the UK may be three times higher than previous estimates, according to new research. After analysing the anonymous medical records of 8.4 million people from...
  5. Alan De Enfield

    A craft in the bush rather than a Bush craft

    I have a RAF Issue No4T with full CES. The Binos are the same model but came with a leather case marked AM (Air Ministry) and a AM marked watch.
  6. Alan De Enfield

    A craft in the bush rather than a Bush craft

    Nice to see them displayed, I sometimes wish I could have mine out on the wall but they are all live. L42A1 Sniper No4T RAF Sniper No4 Mk1* (Savage) No7 Mk1 (BSA) One of only 2000 made for the RAF (the only magazine fed .22RF Lee Enfield) No5 Mk1 Fazakerley No1 Mk3* Ishapore. No4 Mk1* (In 410...
  7. Alan De Enfield

    A craft in the bush rather than a Bush craft

    SMLE No 1 Mk3 & a 1907 bayonet No4 Mk1 & a Mk9 bayonet Live or neutered ?
  8. Alan De Enfield

    On Dealing with the Water board...

    Whilst maybe a little higher risk that the 'High Street' banks, with peer-to-peer lending you can get up to 1% PER MONTH...
  9. Alan De Enfield

    Improving temp performance of sleeping bag

    Just remember that even to achieve those ratings they are taken assuming that the subject is using a sleeping pad, tent and is wearing a base layer of thermal underwear. The tests are to the EN 13537 Standard Yes - two will be warmer than one but I doubt 'twice as good' Lying on the ground in...
  10. Alan De Enfield

    Cheap mors pot style kettle 1.2ltr

    Not sure if we are on 'the same wavelength' here I have often come across "Chinglish" but 'two little boys in one little bull-pen' is a bit extreme. Duje zdovolenii commodity, zamovlyav bowler for 1600 ml. Priyshov is approximately for 2 types. The goods are yakisniy, that's about packing in a...
  11. Alan De Enfield

    Cheap mors pot style kettle 1.2ltr

    Thanks - I'll have a root-about on those links.
  12. Alan De Enfield

    Cheap mors pot style kettle 1.2ltr

    But they are 750ml not 1200ml. The 750ml is 750ml to the absolute brim. It is effectively 600ml. The 1.2l steel ones are quoted as 1.2l to the brim but a 'usable' measure of 900ml. I could do with a 1.2l titanium pot at 'the right price.
  13. Alan De Enfield

    *The* Gift-It-On Thread

    Open this link https://postimages.org/ Click on the "choose image" box Go to the location where your picture is stored (on the phone, or PC) Click on it Once it has loaded, click on the "little blue copy box' on the right hand side of the line called "Thumbnail for forum" Come back onto this...
  14. Alan De Enfield

    *The* Gift-It-On Thread

    Presumably its pointy and / or sharp , or off the top shelf in the Newsagents.
  15. Alan De Enfield

    On Dealing with the Water board...

    The costs of getting it to an acceptable standard, electricity test certificates, gas test certificates, landlords insurance etc etc etc may be prohibitive. The pain of the 'renters' phoning you in the middle of the night because a fuse has tripped, or the water tank is leaking, or doing 'a...
  16. Alan De Enfield

    Subverting Targetted Advertising

    Did you really think that you have "PRIVATE" email ? I use Gmail and noticed some oddities ; a quick search revealed this : Google has clarified its email scanning practices in a terms of service update, informing users that incoming and outgoing emails are analysed by automated software. The...
  17. Alan De Enfield

    On Dealing with the Water board...

    If you mean uninhabitable (rather than uninhabited) invite your local Environmental Health officer to visit and declare it uninhabitable (not fit for use, or whatever term they use)
  18. Alan De Enfield

    Lightweight tent.

    These Chinese companies come and go as regularly as some folks change their underpants. It seems as if most of these tents are manufactured by Naturhike and sold by a multitude of companies under different names. Here is a link for the same sort of tent : They do 3-season and 4-season...
  19. Alan De Enfield

    Lightweight tent.

    Let me think about for a while …………………………………… YES CERTAINLY. And the quality really is excellent with taped seams, double stitching, support pads behind the guying points, seemingly pretty good quality zips, I had a bit of a problem on the 1st erection. One of the 'nipples' on the end of a...
  20. Alan De Enfield

    Lightweight tent.

    The Hubba Hubba was GBP £379 with 'Go-Outdoors membership discount card'. I paid GBP £75 inc delivery for the Chinese copy (UK warehouse) Today's list price on the Hubba Hubba is GPB £445, todays 'discount card' price is GBP £399.99...