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A work IT security communication email came out as part of a security week thing going on. It was very interesting as it gave us various websites to go to check your online presence and threats. It was not aimed at work but at personal activities outside work. The one that I found most...

Anyone know a brand that sells extra long waterproof trousers? I'm 196cm tall and I'm looking for some to wear when I cycle commute from the station. I've got a pair that is just about long enough for hiking, prefer if they were an an inch longer, but when cycling the bent knee and position...

Does anyone have a 30 litre waterproof rucsack recommendation to give me? I am getting overwhelmed going into huperfocus / obsessive mode to find the best one where peerhaps good enough is,, well good emough!! So far I have: - Alpkit Gourdon 30l - had 3, 4 or even bottom many as 5 over the years...

We need to get a towbar fitted to take our bike rack and 3 bikes possibly 4 at times. No idea what to get or where to go to get it installed. Thinking of trying a local garagee we use and trust Then checking out a national installer (possibly even the nearest indispension trailer dealer who does...

We're at the back end of a Lanzarote trip and I'll tell you straight I don't think I can cope with heat like I could even last year. I'm really sweating at times and tiredness kicks in. I suspect it's medication I'm now on that is having an effect. I wonder what advice people might have for me...

So we're in the stage of a potential review of access to the outdoors again. BCU are talking about access to water, to clean water, etc. That's along with joining the BMC and the ramblers in presenting to the all parliamentary committee on outdoor access. Do you think that the water access...

Just seen a thread that sounds similar but their smaller capacity,tall person sack is 45-55litres. I am looking for a lot smaller capacity at 20 - 25litre instead. For me 45-55 litres is a good wildcamping / backpacking size not a smaller capacity. So I think this thread is different and worthy...

I have all the kit from when I last paddled but it is of course well used from when I did paddle and of course a good number of years old. So I am curious as to what could still be used and what is perhaps best left to my past. Kayak - plastic white water / play boat from a shortlived brand. It...

FiL has lots of slides and no longer got a working way to show them. A cheapo slide digitiser is absolute garbage and is not user friendly, takes about 5 minutes per slide to get onto the computer due to a very unfriendly USB route or memory card route. So what are the best options? Take them...

We use a trangia 25 set a lot on all our camping trips. With a gas converter it's perfect for our needs, if it was a little bigger. Does anyone know if there is a similar kit based stove and pot like a trangia that can take a few types of burner? Or at least a gas burner?

We sold our camper so we're back to the camping scene. It'll be car camping right now, two or three nights from tomorrow night. The dilemma is the boy has grown up to 12.5 years, with the dog and small car we have right now we're not going to be able to use a proper car camping tent. So which...

Finally sold a camper and now considering family car that can carry more camping kit than our pug 208. Thinking Kia Sportage but Dacia duster was mentioned. That's 4x4 I think. Are 4x4s more expensive to maintain due to the all wheel drive? I've read chains instead of timing belts, is that...

There's times when you've forgotten a lead for your dog but you've got rope, or I found myself in that situation. So what quick knot would you use? Criteria - no sticking out loose ends, it could work with thinner rope up to say stiff 8mm, quick to tie to a D-ring on the collar, and not be...

I think there are a few leatherworkers on here so I thought I would check in here witha few questions about some leather products I have. So I have two differently sourced Travellers Notebook clone covers, a leather pen roll, a custom made wallet and a key holder. The last two were from a NE...

Just a curious thought that sprung into my mind. You hear it said a dog is more intelligent than a cat or a crow is intelligent as a dog. Or other simiar comparisons. Then you see on TV in light entertainment nature shows like season watch when they bring in a crow or raven or starling to...

My partner came home from the big city with a large pack of sachet miso soup in seaweed flavour. They come in two sachets, one of a pastge and another of dry "seaweed". Bought from a pukka asian supermarket in a city with a Chinese community (China Town) and a Japanese community too. So it is...

Years ago I heard the country rule about if you hit it with the car or van you coulkd not take it home to eat it. How true that is I have no idea but who would leave a nice pheasant you just hit?? Now transfer to our house with the big windows and trees reflecting in them. We get a few asmall...

I thought that with the number of leather workers on here there will be good advice about what to do to recover leather at the other end of life. I am not talking about shoes, handbags, coats or furniture leather I am talking about the many leather accessories you might have collected and...

After putting up garden feeders (peanuts, mixes seeds and fat ball for variety) and a fat ball on a suitable ground based site for the Blackbirds and ground feeders we have started to get some birds visiting. This has led to me doubting my ID skills. It doesn't help that I have misplaced my...

When we moved in there were a couple of bird feeders and a rotten bird table. We got a lot of birds visiting in winter especially and we helped them a lot with peanusts and mixed bird seed on the table. All these feeding stations have been broken up and we had to get rid. We now have three metal...