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ive good wood fired Esse range, does loads of baking, heats half teh house, does the ironing, constant hot water from kettles, especially if being a big baking day of bread and cakes, lots of washing up needed so free hot water. empty flour bags to light the fire, old dish cloth scraps...

Good point, i think my battery was only £2, it was just to be able to use an old spare torch, i also use it as a micro battery bank...you definitely need high drain batteries for the high lumen torches

And if you have a range, the hot water is free from the kettle anyway if theres 2 of you baking in the kitchen, putting chcolate batter/frosting utensils in to a clean bowl of water will get you grumped at ive discovered....this is a way to volunteer yourself to wash the next load of dishes

i remember doing that to my families pigs in about 1990...added the dry pig porridge to teh water....

Not all batteries are created equal, i just got a1800mah battery for my rcr123 1000lm powered mini torch, and its dimmer on turbo than my nitcore which is rated 350lumens....so im thinking either the max current is limited, or the origibal manufacturer of the torch overstated the lumens....its...

I concede that they have got more efficient but the cost of the electricity for 1 cycle is the equivalent to 84 litres of water! not many people have free water supplies....and most is metered nowadays... and the link above assumes large amounts of water and minimal dishes... but then a...

This is interesting theres so many different views I had a youtube argument with some people raving about a mini dishwasher designed for motorhomes. apparently "everyone" nowadays uses a dishwasher that uses 20+ litres of water and people who use this mini dishwasher are morally superior as it...

excellent, my mechanic is doing one up for about £7k, so im tempted

Very interesting, how much was it im thinking of getting the exact same car and same colour once my Rav4 dies....

Yes, possibly from a crystal shop....

Living Anachronism on youtube did a review of sunstone last year, that was for his fantasy ranger kit...

It has to be said, things with Ray Mears/Woodlore prices have shot up over the decades.....

It depends on the nature of the conflict when covid happened, an shelves empty of a lot of food, people that releid on processed food suddenly had problems....if you have a stock of ingredients youre less relyinging on shop shelves. Conflicts can cause supply issues So the...

If we refer to a PSK as the lofty survival tin....They arent much use in UK, even in wilderness, mostly because too small to be usefull. In the UK selter against climate is main concern and a tin cant do that much...A lot of tins have fishing kit whoch is hardly ,uch use in UK The origion being...

It all depends on definition of survival.... Dave Canterbury often uses teh term self reliance. Relying on people is a bit like relying on a bic lighter to work 100% of the time and never run out of fuel.... ive seen ultralight hikers just carry a mini bic and thats it for lighting...but a lot...

Nope nope and thrice nope Marmelade isnt a jam, its more like a jelly that hasnt been strained as 1. it uses citrus fruit which makes it not a jam...2 its uses more water than jams do.... So its really an orange unstrained jelly.... but awfull none the less.... Now blackberry jelly, thats...

And the thing is i find americanisms annoying, so its a bit facepalm to be caught doing it myself.... in my defense ive spend many hours researching and watching youtube videos on different nitecore headlamps the last few weeks...and a lot of the world does use flashlight....

Interesting stories both, and I agree, ive used a lot of my kit content on otehr people, probably in anecdotes already posted, one of my gripes is when people wont provide for tthemselves and just bleat for help....loads of peiple did that during covid....sometimes as if getting in trouble and...

most of mine is tools, protection is 2nd but in both smaller kits i have gloves, buff, lightweight poncho.... so theres kits, and then theres tins, i think the tins is only really appropriate for really wilderness, where its if youve lost your kit, or military were its E&E with no otehr...

Excelelnt use of poetry qutation, very impresed with any poem that features a tomahawk...