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    Foraged teas

    I love using wild leaves and berry’s in salads, the wife gathers them and it’s a challenge for me too make a dish from only foraged foods
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    Foraged teas

    I like wild strawberry leaf tea, blackberry root tea, water mint, and camomile. All found local to me, also got some chaga which is rarely found down here.
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    Sold Frost River Summit Pack

    This is gorgeous, I’m getting tempted!
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    Got caught out yesterday.

    gotcha mate, Well I’m in if we decide to press forward :cool:
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    Got caught out yesterday.

    Do you think there would be interested in a group buy for the kit above mate?
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    The Covid19 Thread

    No I’ve got a media blackout going on, and i don’t own a t.v anymore so it’s easy to forget, I know that I’ve got more than my share of masks, sanitizer etc now that there available incase it’s like it was at the beginning, or they become compulsory! but I’m concerned about flu season, and if we...
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    The Covid19 Thread

    Woody girl, let’s hope they where panicking.
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    The Covid19 Thread

    We have a local birch wood fen here, 15 mins from home it’s 86 hectares, Not big but enough to get lost for a couple hours we come every week sometimes 3 or 4 times no matter the weather, we don’t see a single soul, the last month it’s been cars lining all the narrow gravel roads bins...
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    The Covid19 Thread

    I know we don’t do politics here and for good reason, but I don’t buy the cunmings incident, I think it’s another distraction tactic, I think it’s been smoke and mirrors from the start, they locked us down to late gave us misinformation and now everyone else is easing so we can’t look weak by...
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    The Covid19 Thread

    I know, we don’t have a vaccine for SARS and that was a decade ago, so if there’s a vaccine all of a sudden il be wearing my critical thinking hat. One thing is for sure woody girl, we’re bloody good at adapting, we’ll be alright.
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    The Covid19 Thread

    My gut is telling me it’s being lifted to soon for favour Of the economy, and that in itself brings its own set of concerns, also now there’s things brewing stateside I hope we don’t have a situation like we did in London/ Manchester with riots spillover etc, so I’ve been thinking about getting...
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    New from Essex/Cambs

    Hi great to have you!
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    Got caught out yesterday.

    Hey, yeh I’d be interested mate, cheers for the helpful advice! Struggling with the thumb, it’s completely numb like pins and needles and pangs when I pick things up, so I think I definitely caught the nerve ending, I’m back in on Tuesday so they can sort it then
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    Got caught out yesterday.

    I know mate, All this has just made me think about all the times that I’ve been first or second on the scene of something nasty, and in some cases not even so bad and have had to improvise every time because I’ve not had the knowledge or any first aid kit atall, and it took it happening to me to...
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    Got caught out yesterday.

    Lol I’m just glad we’re all talking about first aid :bag:
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    Got caught out yesterday.

    okay so with personal experience in mind, last year I broke my radial head and Had to have surgery, that sucked but I got myself to hospital and now having recently had a bad bleed which required blue lights, I want a small no nonsense bleeds kit in reach because not having it in reach really...
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    Got caught out yesterday.

    So far that’s the way I’m going, most things I’ve ordered have arrived today, and I’m in the midst of organising it, I’ve tasked the wife with packing a grab bag for us (in case of an unexpected trip to the hospital or spending an impromptu night away from home) there’s a couple apps that are...
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    Got caught out yesterday.

    Ignore one or the other I’m still getting used to commenting on the forum and didn’t think It had posted :banghead:
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    Got caught out yesterday.

    That’s a nice pouch mate, I’m still looking for a good pouch, I do like the 5.11 tho, do you think there’s anyThing else I’d need?
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    Got caught out yesterday.

    That’s a nice one mate, I’m still looking for a decent pouch before I pull the Trigger