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Yes, I received another headtorch for Christmas. I think that's number 5 or maybe 7. Actually quite a different and interesting one.
It has a wide headband type LED light that is very bright and gives a wide illuminated area for general trotting about duties, and a variable-power spotlight on the side of the head for specific task lighting. Besides the usual push buttons it also has a side infrared switch on/off by waving your hand . Rechargeable battery with claimed durations for each function that are, I think, realistic and useful. Apparently all for a tenner 0n-line.

So now I can go running around in the undergrowth at night with a Rambo-ish headband and not fall over a log or run into a tree. Or maybe useful for that desperate late night need to get up in my underclothes for a wee..with both hands free...
 
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I’m fine, really :27:Just going through the AA sized ones and finding a decent battery with a USB port to go off with the blue one that has sold pending funds.

Today I’ve bought nothing very exciting, a decent pair of 4.5” stainless steel beard scissors to catch the strays. For about 3 or 4 weeks I’ve been picking up the battery trimmer or the brush and double edge and then not doing it. If it’s not coming off, it needs a bit of maintenance.
 

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Yes, I received another headtorch for Christmas. I think that's number 5 or maybe 7. Actually quite a different and interesting one.
It has a wide headband type LED light that is very bright and gives a wide illuminated area for general trotting about duties, and a variable-power spotlight on the side of the head for specific task lighting. Besides the usual push buttons it also has a side infrared switch on/off by waving your hand . Rechargeable battery with claimed durations for each function that are, I think, realistic and useful. Apparently all for a tenner 0n-line.

So now I can go running around in the undergrowth at night with a Rambo-ish headband and not fall over a log or run into a tree. Or maybe useful for that desperate late night need to get up in my underclothes for a wee..with both hands free...
I think I received the same - spotlight on each side though. A bit different to other head torches I’ve got. I wouldn’t have picked it but actually seems to cover the bases well enough. I’m happy to not use the hand wave function though!!
 
I think I received the same - spotlight on each side though. A bit different to other head torches I’ve got. I wouldn’t have picked it but actually seems to cover the bases well enough. I’m happy to not use the hand wave function though!!

I have one and I do thin its good for general illumination - certainly bright.
Only criticism is its very much Flood as opposed to throw making it suitable for DIY tasks and maybe road running but a Throw element tends to be needed for off road running. Bit more distance.


But its a cheapish LED bar so good for what it does.
 
Plash palatka, I wanted to make a canvas windbreak for the firepit. This was the cheapest option.

I was tempted by the Norwegian tent sheet but think I’d need two. Might be a future purchase.
 
I took a punt on a Lowe Alpine Triple Point Ceramic jacket for twenty quid. I expect the membrane will be past it's best and thinking, if I like the jacket, I might try waxing or fabsil the outside. It'll just be a coat for popping to the shops, picking my son up from school etc.

 
A small masurbjörk board and some scales, three pairs each of holly and sweet locust.

The board is going to become the sheath for my "baby Bowie" a very, very long term project.

The scales, because I've decided to make some bushcrafty knives including making my own blades, as a change from the puukkot that I've made in the past, from bought blades.

I really need to put in some practice (and probably make some jigs) to get my grinds more even.
 
Few of these for some young map readers / adventurers I know

Shout out to Polymath Products.


Have now received these - the illumination element isn't as strong or as easily charged as I would prefer. I have contacted Polymath directly with my feedback but wanted to leave a comment here so others can be made aware.
 
I took a punt on a Lowe Alpine Triple Point Ceramic jacket for twenty quid. I expect the membrane will be past it's best and thinking, if I like the jacket, I might try waxing or fabsil the outside. It'll just be a coat for popping to the shops, picking my son up from school etc.

They are good coats, hope a bit of nikwax wash and direct will do the trick
 

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