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I've just finished Laurie Lee's As I walked out one midsummer morning about his travels on foot in Spain in the 1930s, supporting himself by busking on his violin. (It's a wonderful book - I've read it several times.)

Mick F wrote:What would I do if it was a criminal law that I shouldn't "trespass" to collect MY logs?

Supposing you didn't know them at all, you could walk up to their front door, ring the bell, explain what happened and ask politely if you could collect them.

Ben at Kinetics is a very friendly chap and built an extreme recumbent for my brother in law a few years ago. He does a lot of bespoke parts fit Bromptons and will literally turn his hand to anything if it piques his interest : http://www.kinetics-online.co.uk/ If it doesn't you can wait a long tim...

I've caught occasional glimpses north of Glasgow but they've always been marred by cloud and/or light pollution. However in September we had a family holiday in Iceland and after a wonderful week we were treated to a fine display:

From the NHS site: Who should have the BCG (TB) vaccine? BCG vaccination is only recommended on the NHS for babies, children and adults under the age of 35 who are at risk of catching tuberculosis (TB). There's no evidence the BCG vaccine works for people over the age of 35. https://www.nhs.uk/condi...

How does that work?

Great news!

I've always wondered just how much benefit the triangulation really brings. I have three racks, an old Bor Yueh which is somewhat triangulated, a Topeak one which isn't and a Tubus Fly which isn't. The Tubus is made from largish diameter stainless steel tube and the other two from thin aluminium ro...

I still have and occasionally use the Primus 96 I bought in 1973. So much more interesting than the Trangia!



From the Rough Stuff Fellowship archive

+1 for Tristops - they are cheaper than Koolstop, too.

I took a Stanley knife to a Nidd to make a similar cutout. This reduced the unyielding rock-like feel a little and without the lace I found it comfortable right from the beginning. Some years later it got very wet* and sagged a little but adding the lace back has restored it. My cutout is slightly l...

Consider too what sort of an example the parents are setting to their children. What kind of drivers will they be?

Caledonia64 wrote:Vango are affordable and not perhaps considered top of the range ...

They are not only affordable but IME very well designed, reliable and robust enough for Scottish conditions. Probably not 'sexy' or fashionable enough for a lot of people but they would always be my first choice.

I have an 80-year-old disabled friend who gets about with an electric wheelchair. Recently she set off to her local social club but had to turn back because of a police van parked half on the pavement. A lack of dropped kerbs and a blind corner meant that she couldn't find an alternative route. She ...

I have a Lamy safari and I love it - as you say it is very comfortable and the nib moves very smoothly. When I was at school a long time ago, writing with ink was introduced in Primary 4 (8-year-olds). We used scratchy steel dip pens and school ink, mixed from a powder which settled into a sludge in...