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Because part of my thing is muscle cramping I keep electrolyte chews in both my edc and in the car as getting a cramp attack when one is bombing down the motorway is not at all fun and if am going to drive anywhere where if I can't pull over for a hobble about I make sure I have plenty of...

Milky Masala chai

And so following on from both Mr Waidson's rather informative article on the restoration of archaic Hurricane lamps I got me one in the hope I could restore to find something as pleasingly useful as yes I get it about the pressure lamps as I have already restored a Tilley Guardsman but being...

Potentially the pong of a paraffin - of which would be common with archaic pongo gear given lighting and cooking fuels. I just hang ancient blankets out on the line to let wind, sun and sometimes rain when I forget to have a go at it

Not to offer advice as regards the consumption of stuff given mention of medication but I with an ANS dysfunction issue will offer some physical methods I employ to improve my own comfort in hot weather 1. The Soggy cloth method - cooling by way of evaporation The soggy cloth method...

The problem with supplying stuff sharp is the question of how sharp given not all razor edges are equal, but sharpening takes time where commercially time is money to consider what must give to maintain an attractive product price and then of course we do like to sharpen stuff to our own...

Would they then qualify as concealed weapons ?

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

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...

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

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

Fruit flies ? Check yer bins Fly paper works.

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.

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

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...

Welcome, and yes I second another, this is the friendliest forum on the internet, at least in my own experience.

Seems are usually at the back

'Lest we forget '

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...

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.