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    Recommend a YouTube Channel

    Ship Happens - why coz I admire these folk's tenacity Ship Happens
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    Glass wearers.

    Yeah I do think monitors have screwed with our vision as I have noticed with myself it's not so much I lack the vision as it does sort itself out in time it's that my focus motor appears to be sluggish as if it's got used to focusing my peepers at a constant set distance, perhaps monitor...
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    Bird track - not seen this one before

    Oomigoolie bird? No can't be it seems it has legs.
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    Flies

    It's fly paper and the humane fly swat that see service in my place given the spiders seem not to be earning their keep. Oh and when am brewing the vinegar traps are out. Ooo that's a thought, now I have permethrin spray... curtains
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    Flies

    Fruit flies ? Check yer bins Fly paper works.
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    Hammock advice/ tips

    Ah another side sleeper as I was wondering about that as all the pics I see of the things in various advertising material seem to describe back sleepers. Where if I do that not only will I have a terrible kip it will sound like a tractor with a broken gearbox - or so I have been told.
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    Forest Bathing... Hammock

    I did the ground stuff in my youth, to say it no longer appeals so if I am going to ' get out there ' I need to find another way
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    Does anyone else not know how to ask for help?

    Another problem with asking for help and particularly so when it concerns the caring profession is being rebuffed. Of which is a bit of a kicking when it happens given all one has gone through to find the courage to ask for help and yes it is about courage when one is not used to asking for...
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    Hi - Just Joined

    Welcome, and yes I second another, this is the friendliest forum on the internet, at least in my own experience.
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    Front or back of a hat?

    Seems are usually at the back
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    Does anyone else not know how to ask for help?

    'Lest we forget '
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    Does anyone else not know how to ask for help?

    Well ideally they should be since the Armed Forces Covenant Duty came into force in 2022 and yes folk like me do like to make folks aware just in case there is a suffering Vet abound. For I knows what it's like when civvy mental health services doesn't understand. I'll say again, am a might...
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    Forest Bathing... Hammock

    Yes it is my intention to do more with the hammock than just forest bathe for I as a mature adult have yet to get involved in the practical aspects of bushcrafting so hope the hammock may form part of an eventual sleep system.
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    Forest Bathing... Hammock

    What with a need to give Forest bathing a go through my recent re-observation of a crafter I used to follow to empathise with, I have come to the question pertaining to hammocks and the need to obtain one at least for the practice mentioned above ( and below) , but maybe my later perhaps nearer...
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    Does anyone else not know how to ask for help?

    If it helps any, one can self refer to NHS Talking Therapies, in addition to both BACP and UKCP private therapists and if you're ex military, there is this crowd
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    Does anyone else not know how to ask for help?

    Men invariably have a problem in asking for help through being conditioned not to, to when they really need to, to through various can't find the way to, and one particularly pernicious; a variety of impostor syndrome in that they feel unworthy of asking for help through, guess what; being...
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    Vacuum cleaner recommendation?

    Check it out, there are some conversion kits that enable cordless Dysons to be run on power tool batteries which is great if you have need of a battery to run a power tool - just rob it off the vacuum cleaner
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    Vintage Rohan Clothing Care ?

    Yup my oldest is an '80's Olfio, of which in the winter I used to wear under a Survival Aids double ventile Arctic Ranger ( of which grrr, my mother threw out) I like Rohan, Rohan defines it's own fashion. Stuff that lasts isn't that good for commerce hence the need for fashion. My later '...
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    Vintage Rohan Clothing Care ?

    What would folk recommend for the washing and reproofing of Rohan garments made from the fabric: Polyamide, (Axiom, Goa, & Backpacker) one garment of which (Axiom) also sports a hydrophillic laminate of which is clamed to offer permanent water repellancy? Though not campfire proof, this stuff...
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    Help me identify an old brand

    Yup, DofE logo, I know that one well