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FWIW - Rik's right. :)

I don't know exactly where the saying came from, but I believe it was native American: We build a small fire, and the fire keeps us warm. The white man builds a large fire, and feeding the fire keeps him warm. :) :campfire: :)

Please define "Cold Weather". :)

Well apart from being surprised by the vitriol in some of the posts here I have to say that this Monbiot bloke raises some interesting points and they do seem to me to, er, cover some ground. This one seems, er, on the money: "When essential public services are being cut, giving €55 billion a...

I have a few Helle knives. I really like the Odel. I like the Harding but I'm not keen on the button/strap arrangement. The Kvernstein vanished without trace when I returned it by post with a chipped pommel. Similar to the Harding for the button/strap arrangement. I have to say that the...

Our education system has got a lot to answer for. :banghead:

Or you could take a short break near my home in France and watch them dithering about all day on the electricity cables... http://www.jubileegroup.co.uk/JOS/misc/red_squirrel.jpg

Oh, heck, I forgot. "Fighter Boys" and "Bomber Boys", both by Patrick Bishop.

You want photos of my bare walls??

You can have your very own copy of the Openstreetmap database (but it's 46 gigabytes and rising) if you like. Nothing like the OS map but very useful all the same. http://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=6/53.995/-2.000

If it were mine I'd just sharpen it and use it. I very much doubt it's stainless but stranger things have happened. There's nothing like that hanging on my walls, but then I'm not one for a lot of decorations.

That's nothing like the full headers of an email. Look for how to get the full headers displayed and post them.

If you have to ask this question it's probably too late already. Was the message that you got in an email? If so, it was very likely forged. It's trivial to forge email. To find out if it was forged, look at the email headers. Use a search engine to find out how to do that - it's different...

Agreed that for one man, if you can carry the bulk and weight of a two-man tent it's far better than squeezing into a one-man tent. If you want weather tight, it's not going to be very cheap. Cheap tents will usually shelter you from rain, but the groundsheets often fail badly. When I use...

Well, it will be fine if you don't burn larch. :) Canvas is a lot more resistant to sparks than man-made fibres.

Oh, I forgot - if I could only keep one of the thousands of books on my shelves, it would be "Emergency Navigation: Improvised and No-Instrument Methods for the Prudent Mariner" by David Burch. This was originally a two-volume set, but that's out of print and this single volume replaces it...

Ouch! You're right of course. :sulkoff:

"The Making of the Atomic Bomb" by Richard Rhodes is one of my all-time favourites. I found "Patton: A Genius for War" by Carlo D'Este a very good read. "Black Hawk Down" by Mark Bowden is absolutely riveting but of course it's set in Ethiopia...

Do they read history at all?

Agreed no heat source. You can make the air move with a little fan.