Essential item for inclusion in your survival kit

[Zingmo]

I used to wear contact lenses but I changed back to glasses. I remember a trip to snowdonia where I lost the little pot the lenses lived in and had to keep them in corners of food packets overnight! I suddenly realised how dependent on civilisation they made me. Now when I buy specs I always go for the bendy type which are far less likely to break.

Z

 

[Ahjno]

I used to wear contact lenses but I changed back to glasses. I remember a trip to snowdonia where I lost the little pot the lenses lived in and had to keep them in corners of food packets overnight! I suddenly realised how dependent on civilisation they made me. Now when I buy specs I always go for the bendy type which are far less likely to break.

Z

For that same reason I have a strict regime when it comes to my contact lenses. The little pot / lensbox thingy lives in my trousers when out in the field, mine has a small eye, so I attached a thin piece of string to it - fastened to my trousers.

In my first aid kit I carry a small zip lock bag (about 4x2 inch) with a spare set, a spare box and spare personal medication for 3 days.

 

[rik_uk3]

Welcome Aaron

Nothing wrong with buying a set of 'off the shelf' reading glasses for a couple of quid, two pair even; perhaps keep one set in your FAK.

 

[Bush Matt]

Welcome Aaron

I wear contacts and consider them up their in imprtance with the credit card and passport whilst on holiday. Daily throw aways make for the best short term backup, glasses in the bag for longer term. Lose them and its pennies so I tend to have them in pockets, bags, friends bags, anywhere and everywhere! Just have to remember to pack hand sanitiser if out and about.

Matt.

 

[Biker]

Welcome Aaron

Nothing wrong with buying a set of 'off the shelf' reading glasses for a couple of quid, two pair even; perhaps keep one set in your FAK.

Yeah, that's my exact point exactly. Buy 'em, stash 'em, forget 'em, until you need 'em... and hope you don't

Thanks for the welcome folks.

Aaron

PS FAK? Hmmm the mind boggles over these aronyms. Is that like "FEK!" from Father Ted?

Don't mind me, I'll get used to the terminology eventually. I still struggle opening a deckchair, but I'll persevere.

 

[FGYT]

Aaron

PS FAK? Hmmm the mind boggles over these aronyms. Is that like "FEK!" from Father Ted?

Don't mind me, I'll get used to the terminology eventually. I still struggle opening a deckchair, but I'll persevere.

FAK = First Aid Kit

so close but more like

"FEK! .......... Get the FAK ........ ASAP"

ATB

Duncan

 

[Toddy]

Somewhere there's a list of the more commonly used abbreviations.

FAK is first aid kit.
EDC is everyday carry.
HWMBLT is the husband , while
SWMBO is the better half

cheers,
Toddy

 

[Ahjno]

Somewhere there's a list of the more commonly used abbreviations.

FAK is first aid kit.
EDC is everyday carry.
HWMBLT is the husband , while
SWMBO is the better half

cheers,
Toddy

Aye, it's a sticky milady, see here:
http://www.bushcraftuk.com/forum/showthread.php?t=1537

 

[Biker]

HWMBLT - He who must be listened to.

Oh, that's just delusional!

More like;

HWMBCUA - He who must be cleaned up after

HWMBFO - He who must be fed occasionally

HWMBT - He who must be tolerated

or more accurately for some:

HWIBIASGITW - He who is buried in a shallow grave in the woods.

Thanks for the others. Once I'd thought about it I remembered First Aid Kit having read it in context someplace here. The others I'd found used over at the British Blades forum and ran a google search for the answers.

Aaron

 

[Toddy]

Oi! I said I *listened*........ I didn't say I did what I was told!

When I'm vexed at him it's HWTHMBLT........He Who Thinks He Must Be Listened To


cheers,
Toddy

 

[Paul_B]

For more general acronyms check out the urban dictionary site. It is an eyeopener to find out what ppl are saying with the TLA's

 

[Biker]

Oi! I said I *listened*........ I didn't say I did what I was told!

When I'm vexed at him it's HWTHMBLT........He Who Thinks He Must Be Listened To

cheers,
Toddy

Open mouth, insert foot. I just realised you're female. D'oh! :yikes:

Sitting here chuckling away to myself. Glad you took in in good stead dear lady.

 

[Toddy]

No worries
Suppose I shouldn't laugh, but it was funny. I forget at times that not everyone knows.

New folks on BB can be a bit puzzled at it too

Ny normal name for forums was already taken here, so I just used my maiden nickname. My brother usually uses it nowadays...........he's in for a hellova shock if he ever searches for Bushcraft using his own name

cheers,
M

 

[oldtimer]

Oldtimers need our specs. Being without them means no mapreading, no safe knife use, no surefootedness on uneven ground, getting hit in the face by unseen branches and things. In other word spects are vital. I always carry a spare pair in my pack, but you question made me realise that without my full pack, although I have comprehensive bt miniturised possibles kit with me at all times I have neglected a key survival tool. How good it is at my age to still be able to learn from a new comer's question. I'm going out tomorrow to buy a fresnel lens- even i can see my way!

 

[Fredcompanybushcraft]

Now when I buy specs I always go for the bendy type which are far less likely to break.

I had a problem with the "bendy type"
I was having dinner with my cousins and my aunt
My aunt asked if my glasses were the "bendy type"
I said "I think so" and demonstrated by bending them slightly.
SNAP!
Luckily I had a spare pair...

I'd have a couple of pairs of the cheap specs, but unfortunately I'm short-sighted, and they only do long-sighted ones round here. I keep a couple of old pairs of prescription specs anyway.

 

[Alexlebrit]

Oh, I hadn't seen this thread before (which is ironic given the subject). I've been needing glasses since the age of 4, moved onto contacts at the age of 11, but I wear rigid gas-permeable lenses, not the big jellyfish ones, mainly because that's all that was available at my prescription, which is basically anything beyond my nose is blurry.

I now carry spare contacts, spare spare contacts and have endless pots of old ones stashed in every place possible, the car, every bag I own, coat etc. The great thing about gas-permeables as opposed to soft lenses is that you can spit and stick if you need to take one out, it looks horrid popping one out, sticking it in your mouth, sucking it clean and then popping it spit-laden back in your eye, but in an emergency needs must (an opthamologist will now appear and scream at me).

Oh and Aaron, make sure you've got a spare pair of spec in your car/on your bike at all times. If you need specs in France, you have to have a spare pair in/on your vehicle everytime you use it; a speccy-friend was fined because she forgot her spare pair. 90 euros and three points, she wasn't happy.

 

[Biker]

Oh and Aaron, make sure you've got a spare pair of spec in your car/on your bike at all times. If you need specs in France, you have to have a spare pair in/on your vehicle everytime you use it; a speccy-friend was fined because she forgot her spare pair. 90 euros and three points, she wasn't happy.

Oh you have GOT to be kidding me!

Hmmm I need mine just for reading and close up stuff, so maybe that's OK. I'll find out some more about this. I bet someone of English lineage in French governemtn must have made that law. Sounds stupid, nanny state enough to be so.

Harsh? okenest:

 

[Alexlebrit]

Oh you have GOT to be kidding me!

Hmmm I need mine just for reading and close up stuff, so maybe that's OK. I'll find out some more about this. I bet someone of English lineage in French governemtn must have made that law. Sounds stupid, nanny state enough to be so.

Harsh? okenest:

Ah you're OK, it's only if you need them for driving, if it's just reading you're fine. Of course if you wear contacts like me, then les flics can't tell, so can't ask to see your spare pair, unless you were very good when you swapped your licence (you have haven't you?) for a French one and told them you need glasses.

EDIT: And it was the socialists who introduced this.

 

[Biker]

Bloody socialists what have they ever done for us... wait a sec', I'm confusing them with the Romans.

Thanks for the reply. I'll find out from our french neighbour if she knows about this law, she wears glasses in her sleep so she can dream clearly, she's that dependant on them.

Au reservoir.

Aaron

 

[EarlyRiser]

I don’t wear glasses but I have two children who do and the lenses and screws are always falling out of theirs. A constrictor knot, using strong thread, has been good enough to fix them most times.

If I’ve still got the screw but it’s no longer tightening properly I’ll thread the ends back through the hole before putting it back in. Once the ends of the thread have been trimmed you can barely see there’s been a repair.

Cheers,

Tom