Well Tom, in the photo, apart from a mini torch, bank card, cash, notepaper, pencil, car key, knife sharpener, swiss army and opinel i've got an old phone and some birch bark. I didn't design it to take a phone - it just happened to fit though I doubt I'll carry it in there. By the time I'd have got the antler button through the catch and squeezed the phone out it'd have rung off (good excuse tho!).
I'm still pondering whether or not to invest in a multitool and ditch the swiss army. If I do go for it then the multitool will replace that and, if I'm not planning on whittling then I'll leave the opinel out too. After all, how many blades does a man need in one pouch?!!
The birch bark was just stuffed into a little pocket I'd made for a mini-torch (not the one in the photo) but it promptly broke as soon as I finished the pouch (the torch not the pocket). However, I've found a perfect replacement at B&Q so the torch and the birch bark are out. . . maybe. I might keep some birch bark in there for emergencies like if I'm thrown out of a canoe and deserted in the jungle or something but as I only go to a wood in North Wales I don't know . . .
I sewed in a little metal ring from a key chain and attached a lanyard clip so my car key clips in.
So, with the possibility of the multitool option and the B&Q torch, and the phone and opinel left out, there should be room for some more things but what they could possibly be I have no idea at the mo. A wafer thin phone the size of a playing card? A mini pack of playing cards? Oh, the dog whistle! Defintely the whistle, but that's only dinky and I won't need it when the dog stays at home.
Mmmm, I wonder if this is why they're called "possibles pouches". In fact, does anybody know where the name came from and why?