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by RIP
Sat Jan 27, 2024 6:35 pm
Forum: General banter
Topic: Yay, it's cheery Friday.
Replies: 3944
Views: 483174

Re: Yay, it's cheery Friday.

In a fusion of interleaving posts I wonder if Teapot would eat pineapple for breakfast. Maybe if it was hollowed out and had a mouse hidden inside it? In a genuine, for once for Reg, Cheery Friday report; I've just been down to the river to check on my little guerilla-planted babies (23 oak saplings...
by RIP
Sat Jan 27, 2024 12:27 pm
Forum: General banter
Topic: Yay, it's cheery Friday.
Replies: 3944
Views: 483174

Re: Yay, it's cheery Friday.

We're all expert practitioners Here of the noble art of the Second Breakfast, and indeed Third Breakfast. I'm not sure how this suggestion would go down with Boners: https://amp.theguardian.com/food/2024/jan/26/english-breakfast-society-recommends-swapping-tomato-for-pineapple Swap the fried toms fo...
by RIP
Fri Jan 26, 2024 8:21 pm
Forum: General banter
Topic: What are you drinking now?
Replies: 704
Views: 69675

Re: What are you drinking now?

Thanks Bear, I can see that you've got enough on your plate (in your glass) there never mind holding my hand with this UXB....

Right, I'm going in, see you in the next world....
by RIP
Fri Jan 26, 2024 6:20 pm
Forum: General banter
Topic: Yay, it's cheery Friday.
Replies: 3944
Views: 483174

Re: Yay, it's cheery Friday.

He looks like someone's just confiscated his last bit of cake or something.

So does the owl come to that.

:wink:
by RIP
Fri Jan 26, 2024 6:15 pm
Forum: General banter
Topic: What are you drinking now?
Replies: 704
Views: 69675

Re: What are you drinking now?

I'm mildly apprehensive about this one (even though it's a stout, ho-ho). Might split it across two nights. On the upside I presume it's approved of by This Place, being from Bear Town, but then again it's disapproved of because it claims to be a "campfire treat" and obviously they're a no...
by RIP
Thu Jan 25, 2024 6:32 pm
Forum: Your Trips & Adventures
Topic: Bivvy a Month 2024
Replies: 407
Views: 19457

Re: Bivvy a Month 2024

Boab wrote: Thu Jan 25, 2024 6:22 pm a guided tour of some of the worst riding the fens have to offer
What a salesman :smile:
by RIP
Thu Jan 25, 2024 2:28 pm
Forum: Your Trips & Adventures
Topic: Bivvy a Month 2024
Replies: 407
Views: 19457

Re: Bivvy a Month 2024

samwise wrote: Thu Jan 25, 2024 1:32 pm Sadly their supply shed didn't survive storm Isha.
Blimey. That's a shocking sight for us shed bivviers. Poor thing. Looks like the flat-packing procedure has been reenacted.

I'm going to have to go and have a soothing pot of tea and a biscuit and a sit down after that traumatic sight.
by RIP
Thu Jan 25, 2024 2:24 pm
Forum: Your Trips & Adventures
Topic: Bivvy a Month 2024
Replies: 407
Views: 19457

Re: Bivvy a Month 2024

Another Reg-tastic selection of venues here... :smile: https://www.theguardian.com/travel/2024/jan/18/where-tourists-seldom-tread-part-7-five-more-uk-towns-with-secret-histories Excellent. Even Reg might draw the line at Slough though. Having said that, Stoke-on-Trent has already been earmarked for...
by RIP
Thu Jan 25, 2024 10:15 am
Forum: Your Trips & Adventures
Topic: Bivvy a Month 2024
Replies: 407
Views: 19457

Re: Bivvy a Month 2024

https://amp.theguardian.com/travel/2024/jan/23/i-love-britains-flat-landscapes-norfolk-fens-lancashire-cambridgeshire-suffolk Apart from the frequently fascinating reports from our esteemed brother Bob Boab it seems that Boners usually head for the hills and mountains. If you fancy an interesting c...
by RIP
Tue Jan 23, 2024 5:59 pm
Forum: General banter
Topic: Have tarps lost their popularity?
Replies: 36
Views: 1714

Re: Have tarps lost their popularity?

Not sure why I'm justifying my tarp fanaticism again, and each to their own obv. And hopefully Stu posted to inject a bit of friendly ribaldry/rivalry on a dull Tuesday :smile: . Often tent users seem to want to hide from 'bad' weather. With the increase in interest in 'gentler bikepacking' from non...
by RIP
Tue Jan 23, 2024 5:07 pm
Forum: General banter
Topic: Have tarps lost their popularity?
Replies: 36
Views: 1714

Re: Have tarps lost their popularity?

Bearbonesnorm wrote: Tue Jan 23, 2024 4:43 pm are they...... the shelter choice of weirdos?
Thank you :smile: . Compliment accepted :grin: .
by RIP
Mon Jan 22, 2024 11:36 am
Forum: General banter
Topic: What's your single best item you own for camping?
Replies: 29
Views: 1980

Re: What's your single best item you own for camping?

I would also like to add .... 'the people you go with' :wink: Heh heh, yes I like these "soft" (*) type of items too :smile: . (*) not as in "Stop Being Soft", as in "not physical" :wink: I've twice carved a rudimentary spoon when I've forgotten my spork.... It's a fai...
by RIP
Mon Jan 22, 2024 9:46 am
Forum: General banter
Topic: What's your single best item you own for camping?
Replies: 29
Views: 1980

Re: What's your single best item you own for camping?

I don't think I've ever needed a knife, let alone a leatherman type tool. That said, I do have a tiny Gerber (dime?) in my oh-sh*t-kit, although its never been used I think I'm with you John. As discussed in 'analogue/digital' a while ago, I can absolutely understand the pleasure and satisfaction o...
by RIP
Sun Jan 21, 2024 8:24 pm
Forum: General banter
Topic: What's your single best item you own for camping?
Replies: 29
Views: 1980

Re: What's your single best item you own for camping?

I find that a "Carry On Camping" DVD is always useful for inspirational purposes.

Consider me now banned from this thread for not treating it with the seriousness that it possibly deserves :smile: .
by RIP
Sun Jan 21, 2024 5:22 pm
Forum: General banter
Topic: What's your single best item you own for camping?
Replies: 29
Views: 1980

Re: What's your single best item you own for camping?

Good question.

A sense of the ridiculous :smile: .

If I can't have that, I'll go with "water filter".
by RIP
Fri Jan 19, 2024 1:19 pm
Forum: Your Trips & Adventures
Topic: Bivvy a Month 2024
Replies: 407
Views: 19457

Re: Bivvy a Month 2024

A nice solid opener there our Sean and Ralph. Interesting you can find little pockets of trees on the Isle. Presumably the % coverage is lower than average UK? Or is it?
by RIP
Thu Jan 18, 2024 8:28 pm
Forum: General banter
Topic: What are you drinking now?
Replies: 704
Views: 69675

Re: What are you drinking now?

I'll see that and raise you a 5.2% Tiny Rebel "Sleigh Puft" Caramelised Biscuit Ice Cream Marshmallow Porter, currently being consumed for emergency medicinal purposes (*). Strangely it's got a sort of caramelly biscuity marshmallowy creamy sort of taste. Pronounced "very nice" b...
by RIP
Wed Jan 17, 2024 11:54 am
Forum: Your Trips & Adventures
Topic: Winter Event 2024: Power Seekers - Watt did you do?
Replies: 38
Views: 2336

Re: Winter Event 2024: Power Seekers - Watt did you do?

WRT.. will bear, sorry, "Bear", in mind. Also I gather you're a Worcester man. Thinking of a couple of japes over there this year.. poss a sort of "cider trail" perhaps, although that could be "dangerous" :smile: . See what pans out.
by RIP
Tue Jan 16, 2024 8:38 pm
Forum: Your Trips & Adventures
Topic: Bivvy a Month 2024
Replies: 407
Views: 19457

Re: Bivvy a Month 2024

I like that red boots outfit. I think I might get one.
by RIP
Tue Jan 16, 2024 8:36 pm
Forum: General banter
Topic: What are you listening to now?
Replies: 1122
Views: 181754

Re: What are you listening to now?

#-O :smile:
by RIP
Tue Jan 16, 2024 7:37 pm
Forum: General banter
Topic: 8g meths stove help
Replies: 33
Views: 2628

Re: 8g meths stove help

Boooring. Top tip: armpit hair can be saturated with paraffin wax for a ready supply of tinder. In best BBB digressional traditions.... I'm prepared to offer a significant prize to anyone who attempts this with hairs from a somewhat lower region of the body. It would be quite easy to cook your tea ...
by RIP
Tue Jan 16, 2024 2:40 pm
Forum: General banter
Topic: 8g meths stove help
Replies: 33
Views: 2628

Re: 8g meths stove help

Also remember the sticking fuel and stove under your armpit trick to help warm them (*)

(*) Note: I find it's best to do this before you light the stove rather than afterwards
by RIP
Tue Jan 16, 2024 9:37 am
Forum: Your Trips & Adventures
Topic: Winter Event 2024: Power Seekers - Watt did you do?
Replies: 38
Views: 2336

Re: Winter Event 2024: Power Seekers - Watt did you do?

Fortunately we snuck in the Comedy Festival campsite for a cheeky uninvited incursion amidst VW's etc o:-) I'd forgotten about that! Very stylish indeed that was :-bd . I must tag along in your wake (*) sometime, I appreciate seeing connoisseurs at work :smile: . (*) nooo-o-o, not that sort of wake...
by RIP
Mon Jan 15, 2024 11:57 am
Forum: General banter
Topic: 8g meths stove help
Replies: 33
Views: 2628

Re: 8g meths stove help

Can't go wrong with a BBB 22g...
by RIP
Mon Jan 15, 2024 9:59 am
Forum: Your Trips & Adventures
Topic: Winter Event 2024: Power Seekers - Watt did you do?
Replies: 38
Views: 2336

Re: Winter Event 2024: Power Seekers - Watt did you do?

Nice one Neil, always enjoy your reports :-bd . George B was closed? Not good as it has been open on past WE's :sad: . Places to eat in BB Land are becoming ever more thin on the ground :sad: .