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Nothing special. The tent blew clean off me and left me gazing at the stars in the rain. Nearly a year ago. I laughed, I really did. I had a car for shelter and everything else is waterproof. This was its first test since then other than my garden. The top vent is repaired, a couple of new...

I’m posting this having been reading the water bottle thread. i admit to total ignorance of aerial slumber. I understand the fluid input side of the “Water Bottle” thread. The fluid output element is mind boggling. Is a hammock so very hard to get out of. As a ground dweller I am...

Just that!

All too often when I pull down my jacket hood after rain, my leather headband lifts off my head. This i don’t notice until long after it’s dropped somewhere. So I’ve ordered some veg tanned strap but it’s raw bright pink. Rather than just grab the old Kiwi polish tin, I thought I’d ask here...

I bought this nameless knife at a car boot sale some years back. I’m pretty sure someone has been throwing it into some sort of target and the loveless bolts have stretched loose. It’s perfectly serviceable as a roping knife once I’ve taken up the backlash but it’s irritating. Anyone know how...

Does anyone else “sharpen” the back of their knife blades? Not all of them! My Opinels come with a precise 90 degree edge which is famously effective on a ferrocerium rod, but they make excellent veg scrapers and wood dust makers as well. I have a cheap chefs knife that I’ve been using for...

This is obviously ridiculous and will take governments decades to correct, if they ever do. It’s indefensible. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-68278444 The problem for ME is not that I’m prevented from reaching these areas but that a walk is sometimes spoiled by confrontation...

A recent reaction to a post made in the small hours had me wondering. I have always been happy working night shifts. I sleep anywhere easily and always used to take night flights on long haul so that I didn’t waste working time. My night shifts alternated with day shifts every month. I...

Maybe you heard it first here:) Kelly Kettle are working on a new version of the little 600ml kettle. It is intended to be as light as possible and as small as possible so it will be aluminium and shorter than the current version by about 40mm. It’s still at the prototype stage, for one...

If you follow The Gift It On thread it is worth having something ready to offer in case that perfect item comes up. But How long do you hold on to junk in case you spot something? I have just benefited enormously from the deal. The carbon Opinel thati scored is a luxury that I haven’t afforded...

Low priority suggestion:- As a newcomer looking back over old posts; what chance of a “jump to last post” fixed at the top of each page. Some of these threads are looooooong and a search takes you back to the beginning.

SORRY - just seen that it’s was discussed a couple of years ago. Still it’s a poll experiment. I used to use a Zenith SLR camera and then later a Pentax. I religiously taught my children the relationships between aperture and timing. But I also taught them to keep the camera set at f8...

This British army sleep system is pretty old. I believe it’s a Type 38 but others may know better. An old soldier told me that the end caps on the crush sack should meet. I store the bag loose to preserve the poly filling. Even with my full weight on the sack and pulling like a goodun I can...

Just done a pre-trip check on my Vango Trek sleep mat. It’s leaking air badly from a puncture near the seam under the valve. I cleaned the area with meths and used a patch that came with it but even before I’d cut it I wasn’t impressed. It didn’t work. Perhaps it was my lack of faith but I...

Have a happy day and spoil yourself rotten. All the very best. (I think you said that your birthday was today.)

Has anyone compared a phone or sat-nav bearing with a reliable compass? I’ve just bought a cheap compass from Blacks in Keswick. I’ve just compared it with my iPhone compass and I’m getting a four degree difference! It may be strange but I’ll trust the magnet before I’d trust the phone...

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I have a bundle of key ring stuff that I don’t use because I never remember I’ve got it. It lives in a drawer these days.

Just that: We talk about EDC stuff. How many pockets do you normally have available whether for trekking, camping or day to day? Trousers/skirt, waistcoat/warmer or jacket? Add in belt pouches if you want to.

I don’t want to take away from the floods thread. It’s good to know how members are getting on. but @Paul_B prompted me to think about natural ways of controlling water. Today the water in the Seven started dropping. In a number of towns along the river they have introduced flood barriers...