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Guinness and biscuits brown do the job.

In order to avoid the original orientation issue I have decided to just wear bicorn hats. This introduces the problem of wearing fore and aft verses athwartships.

They’ll have slipped you the radioactive brew before you get that far!

Unless you use it as some sort of code? Seam to the front means the camp is in distress!

Yes the various groups who want water access should cooperate if the want to get anywhere. More public awareness, partly for the reasons you note, may help if a political party thinks it will get them support. We all know this. Therefore people have raised points that will undoubtedly be...

People do get charged to use the roads, toll bridges, car parks as well as various congestion charges. Often these were built using tax money as was the public transport network which is subsidised and not free for most. So we do pay to leave the house already. If it’s an everyone’s...

I have been a keen kayaker and I am sure the freedom to use many more waterways is appealing to many. I can’t imagine anyone one on theses forums thinks enough is being done about water pollution in this country. Increased access will bring increased use. The ratio of sensible to fookwit may...

If they can find a way to get money out of you for it they will.

The charms of the river bank! I have a few qualms about the public being given unfettered access to waterways as a right. It’s far from a small minority who leave waste or cause problems. One of the locals here was beaten unconscious by fly tippers last month. I encounter two or three groups...

I really enjoyed the Navigation element of the Mountain Leader course (at Plas-Y-Brenin). Practical on the ground day and night exercises in micro navigation. Pretty much everything in the course came down to navigation in the end. Also the students were all ATI’s so there was a degree leg...

Jack Daniel’s should bring out Ouiji board drinking game.

I need to renew my subscription to Dim-Mak magazine. Cut steel with bare hands. I have a napkin signed by Count Dante somewhere, it should be banned as a deadly item.

I tried a few things. Farm labourer; Deepsea diver; Military contractor; Big Pharma office jockey*; Outdoor education; Scuba diving instructor. *Spot the odd one out that was shite. Gig economy. Yeah I think there is less opportunity for “doing what you are passionate about” and have a...

The clan will have to hold a memorial drinkathon.

When the first attempt goes too well…. :D

Yes there are times I get the Medium Alice out. I think it was a development of the old tropical/jungle framed pack. Clone frames sometimes turn up cheap so you could hang almost pack on it. The straps and pads are often quite poor on the clones however. The kids were out on DofE today and had...

I have come to the realisation my bushcraft has just been LARPing the Eldar Scrolls. Everything I know about plant ID I may have learned from a video game…. ;) I swear the Gray Fox stole my tent pegs.

Like Broch says some tents suit different uses and users better than others. Are you especially tall? Will you have a dog with you? Are you solo? Are you car camping? There are a lot of variables. Most tents will work but some will be a PITA for some activities. I like a very open feel so a...

I am a retired professional cover model for a an international publication. Unfortunately the publication was Underwater Contractor International and I never really broke out of that role. ;) I now do a bit of diver training and some related maritime jobs. Quite a lot of tea gets brewed.

Comment did not show up immediately. I was referring to the cyclops. EDC is it always carry the same (few) items or adapt it for different circumstances? I have a couple of items I always have with me plus two or three “kits” that I pick up depending on season etc.