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    Tyre sandals?

    Same, but when I attempted to make my own using a motorbike tyre, I had to resort to an angle grinder in order to get through the steel belting.
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    How NOT to fell a tree

    How on earth is it madness? I work as a Health & Safety advisor on construction sites and you see people who can barely do their own buttons up anymore due to HAVS. I think having to rotate tasks between people is a small price to pay to prevent that. Otherwise, we might as well get...
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    Fear of the dark

    Unfortunately not as good as Jonathan's story, but my only vaguely ghost-ish story goes like this: A few years back, whilst working on a conservation project in Northern Cyprus, our 4-man camping site was on an abandoned cheese factory (don't ask). It was a fairly rambling place with several...
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    Bird sounds

    Bird 2 sounds like a lapwing to me. I've always thought they sound like someone tuning a radio. http://www.rspb.org.uk/wildlife/birdguide/name/l/lapwing/index.aspx Farmland would fit that too. What's your knowledge of ornithology like Bullfrog, should we be looking at common or obsure...
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    turboflame lighter: refill

    I resorted to this also, after buying a new can of fluid to make sure that wasn't getting low. Filled inside a couple of seconds when previously I'd struggled to get any in, lighter normal way up.
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    Boots for African trekking/building

    I'll bet you end up wearing flip-flops most of the time. I've a pair from matalan that I estimate did over 100 miles around a variety of Kenyan terrains. Think they cost about 3 quid. Wish I could find another pair the same, as even though they are still going strong, they cannot be far...