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    Sold Alox Farmer

    Pm inbound!
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    Suggest a battery Bank Please.

    I just received an INIU bank from the big river today - 20,000mah for about 13 quid. It's my second of this brand and I am still very happy with the first one which is a couple of years old now.
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    Time

    I got taught that time shifting was due to one body moving (relatively) faster than another. The body moving faster experiences time more slowly than the body moving slower. Think I got that the right way round....
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    Axminster Power Tools - Administration

    I wish I still had a local store, unfortunately they closed it last year. It will be a massive shame if they do go under, I hope that they will at least be able to maintain an online presence
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    What did you buy today?

    Precisely why you need another shed, to make more space!
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    OFF GRID INTERNET. Questions and advice ask

    Have a try. It should still tell you which networks are available and at what signal strength. I'm not suggesting that you tether your phone, but use the info to steer choices of dongle provider.
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    OFF GRID INTERNET. Questions and advice ask

    Should look like this
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    OFF GRID INTERNET. Questions and advice ask

    You may not be getting 4g on your network, but it might be there on a different network provider? Try this (should even work on a dumb phone) Settings - network - mobile data There should be a setting that says "automatically select network" If you uncheck this, the phone will start scanning...
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    Wheres all the knife makers gone off of bcuk

    The potential is that if I were to join that forum, I might suffer "poverty by EM"
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    Dish washing in UK.

    Sounds like my mother-in-laws efforts was washing up. We are pretty sure that she uses vegetable oil instead of fairy....
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    Dish washing in UK.

    Depending on the meal (Bolognese/curry) and the dog (colour etc) you occasionally have to rinse the dog with clean water...
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    For Sale Fjallraven number 68 jacket

    Does it have a size?
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    Multi dims socket

    I bought one of those sockets many years ago. Its kind of ok if the nut/bolt is reasonably loose, but for most that I tried it on it was fairly useless. Sits on the toolbox taking up space to be honest...
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    How to fix this ? Norwegian food container hot / cold food drinks. 18 litre insulated British Army

    I just looked at sugru as a possibility but it doesn't stick well to polyethylene or polypropylene. Any idea of the inner material?
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    How to fix this ? Norwegian food container hot / cold food drinks. 18 litre insulated British Army

    I think it should depend on if there is much flex in the plastic inner. Ca glue wont deal with much flex, nigelp's suggestion might be better in that case.
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    Question to owners of the Leatherman Signal

    Up until this morning - neither! And then I found someone selling a mut for very cheap, will have too what state it is in when/if it arrives!
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    How to fix this ? Norwegian food container hot / cold food drinks. 18 litre insulated British Army

    Maybe have a look at super glue and baking powder/bicarb (I forget which)?
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    Vacuum cleaner recommendation?

    Henry's are also designed to be fixed if they break. 99% of everything else is designed to be skipped.
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    Work Boots

    I used to wear haix boots which are excellent if a little heavy. Best boots that I have ever had were a pair of doc marten safety boots (totally different to normal docs which I can't stand) which lasted several years and were super comfy. Of course this means that they were discontinued 5...
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    Forest Bathing... Hammock

    I suppose that depends on whether you are hammocking for sleep or hammocking just to chill?