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  1. rommy

    Your lowest point...

    In bushcraft terms only I mean. Someone raised the point tonight and it made me think deeply. I remember on one of my walks sat in my tent bathing my infected big toe nail. I'd already lost my little toe nails but this was giving me grief. I'd just past a hospital earlier in the day and wanted...
  2. rommy

    Knife identification...

    Can anyone tell me anything about my little knife? A good few years ago my son and myself befriended a young German para camping in NW Scotland. He had finished his walk and was about to set off back to Inverness airport but decided to hang with us for a few days when we offered to drive him...
  3. rommy

    What was your bootsale finds today??....

    Hard work today but got these: http://i885.photobucket.com/albums/ac58/7797100/001-3.jpg Another military roll mat ( got one last week as well ) for 50p and a nice Billy for 50p. Billy is a good fit on a Trangia 25. :) Geoff.
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    And todays bootsale bargains are...

    An unused 3 x 2 tarp with stuffsack, An unused Eurohike groundsheet, 8 new steel pegs, An unused Craghopper Dri-Pac bum bag, All contained in a nice Karrimor holdall.......All the lot for £7-50p! I didn't haggle!!!:D Geoff. http://i885.photobucket.com/albums/ac58/7797100/002-2.jpg
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    50p Trangia gas conversion.......

    I've been having a stove week! Polishing my 96's etc and contemplating what I'm keeping and what I am giving my sons etc. ( I've got 6 x Trangias, 4 x 96's , six gas stoves etc!) Well I noticed an epigas backpacking stove that I paid 50p for at a boot sale and sat wondering about using it as a...
  6. rommy

    This Weeks Car Boot Bargain....

    Following on from last weeks bargain when I got the unused Coleman Avior 3 man tent for £20, I was walking around a bootsale when I saw erected on the grass next to their car a two man carp bivvy, this one to be exact: http://www.amazon.co.uk/TF-Gear-Force-Man-Bivvy/dp/B0018CQH6K Two ladies...
  7. rommy

    Boot Sale Bargain....

    Just got back from our usual tour of the local boot sales and spotted this: http://www.worldofcamping.co.uk/shop/coleman_avior_x3_tent_2010__1658 Having a word with the bloke selling, he told me it had only been erected once in his garden and not been slept in - a quick inspection confirmed...
  8. rommy

    Hi Folks..

    My names Geoff, been into wild camping all my life, long distance walking ( done John o'Groats to Lands end camping all the way), I'm also into airguns, knives and all the usual stuff ;) Slowing down now though as I'm nearing sixty!! Brought four lads up, always taking them to NW Scotland for...