What did the Post bring today ?
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Andylaser
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Not posted, but a trip to the tip provided some bargains. Rummaging through their "shop" I managed to snaffle a Snugpak Sleeka and a handfull of ex mil stuffsacks for a fiver. 
Cambridge Audio AXC-35 CD player. Sounds just lovely. Wasn't expecting to see if for a few days yet.
This is to replace the old Denon I dug out of the garage and brought to Calgary (the experiment with a NAD having failed). Now, I can play some of the mountain of CD-Rs I have stashed out of the way.
This player has a digital output option which I imagine I will later employ with a DAC. But, I am also absolutely positive that, in real life, I wont ever get round to it. So, it will just stare at me, all baleful and filled with reproach. Luckily, it is at the back.
This is to replace the old Denon I dug out of the garage and brought to Calgary (the experiment with a NAD having failed). Now, I can play some of the mountain of CD-Rs I have stashed out of the way.
This player has a digital output option which I imagine I will later employ with a DAC. But, I am also absolutely positive that, in real life, I wont ever get round to it. So, it will just stare at me, all baleful and filled with reproach. Luckily, it is at the back.
Templogin
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The postie has had a busy week: -
Fluke T6-1000 Pro multimeter
Automatic wire stripper
Crimper
Crimps
Magic tricks various - hopefully to become the next Paul Daniels - I have the hair for it.
Digital voltmeter in a pen format
Circlip pliers
Silicon ear plugs
Private Eye
I ordered a re-stock of Amazon dried prunes today. 200g bags for £1.46 each. They are really tasty. I ordered 5 bags but they only had 3 bags left so I ordered those. I received my confirmation back to say that they will be delivered between 18 June & 19 November. They must still be on the prune bush, which reminds me...
Fluke T6-1000 Pro multimeter
Automatic wire stripper
Crimper
Crimps
Magic tricks various - hopefully to become the next Paul Daniels - I have the hair for it.
Digital voltmeter in a pen format
Circlip pliers
Silicon ear plugs
Private Eye
I ordered a re-stock of Amazon dried prunes today. 200g bags for £1.46 each. They are really tasty. I ordered 5 bags but they only had 3 bags left so I ordered those. I received my confirmation back to say that they will be delivered between 18 June & 19 November. They must still be on the prune bush, which reminds me...
MaC
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Water sports shoes...kind of thick nylon foot gloves with a grippy sole....got to be more comfortable than wellies when pressure washing the paths 
Private Eye
Two polo shirts for Son2
An embroidery hoop desk stand, to save my neck and eyes.
kg ground almonds
kg crystallised ginger
Private Eye
Two polo shirts for Son2
An embroidery hoop desk stand, to save my neck and eyes.
kg ground almonds
kg crystallised ginger
Beachlover
Moderator
Not the post, but the garden centre delivered six bags of compost (proper stuff and not that peat and goodness free crap) for the garden. and more importantly two pyracantha bushes to go in the gap between us and next door between our kitchen windows as I’ve have enough of them, their screaming heads, every delivery service and next door’s visitors on occasion using it as a short cut. Hopefully it will now become multiple lacerations as opposed to one short cut. Added deterrence until the bushes take and they all learn, is two bags of only partially rotted horseshit across the gap.
BorderReiver
Moderator
We had a tree in our garden which was here when we arrived that has beautiful blossom but has thorns like small caltrops. Took the saw to it a while ago but some thorns still lurk in bushes. That would deter the buggers.
CaptainBeaky
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Nothing quite like Pyracantha for making an evil spiky bastard-type hedge
Templogin
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Coils of razor wire and a Claymore mine sends a certain message.
Beachlover
Moderator
As it happens we have some razor as well as traditional barbed wire down the allotment predating the council banning it as perimeter security. I did mention it to Bev and it got a firm “Don’t you fucking dare!” as did my telling her that the woman next door liked the new ornamental flowering shrubs and was OK with some strands of “wire” to support them until they’d taken.
CaptainBeaky
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A pair of Wildtree pattern trousers.
bushwacker
VIP Member
didnt see that coming?
MaC
Moderator
Three North Face polo shirts for Himself....brand new, in original packaging, all three and delivery for under £23.
Bargain
Bargain
ElThomsono
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This lot just turned up, the usual Heinnie magic. The handle on the B35 is perfect, fits the hand just right. Blade seems fine but they usually are, to be fair it came with a razor edge, by our standards.
The wee E02 was after a bit of dithering looking at similar torches, turns out the charge port is micro-USB and not USB-C, which is somewhere between a niggle and irritating. I doubt it'll need much charging though, it's just to not need to use the torch on my phone like some sort of Gen-Z goober.
Beachlover
Moderator
This lot just turned up, the usual Heinnie magic. The handle on the B35 is perfect, fits the hand just right. Blade seems fine but they usually are, to be fair it came with a razor edge, by our standards.
The wee E02 was after a bit of dithering looking at similar torches, turns out the charge port is micro-USB and not USB-C, which is somewhere between a niggle and irritating. I doubt it'll need much charging though, it's just to not need to use the torch on my phone like some sort of Gen-Z goober.
It's hard to show how comfortably the handle feels in a pic. @Nice65 was on about convexing one of the other Lionsteels and I have to say that I've toyed with the idea of doing it to my B35 - So far I've resisted....
ElThomsono
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I'm not too fussed on grinds but unless it's on an axe I struggle to sharpen convexes. I had my Sebenza taken back into a primary (honestly can't remember the terms any more) and I don't at all regret it.
Beachlover
Moderator
Knowing Rich, he was probably trying to tempt me into doing it first to see if it worked..
Beachlover
Moderator
A Rab Xenon vest or if you must, gilet, arrived today c/o Ultralight Outdoor Gear whose service is on a par with Heinnie. Weighs bugger all and just the job for when the chill sets in of an evening. It was a toss between Rab and a Paramo Torres, but I went for the Rab as the Paramo sizing can be quite random.
I see the review on OutdoorGearLab has the Xenon for its 'unathletic fit' ... certainly a big selling point for me.
I have my finger hovering over Pay Now on one or the other Velez jkts at Foothills right this min. I know it should be the orange lightweight, but every time I load it in the cart the green regular one seems to sidle in next to it.
I have my finger hovering over Pay Now on one or the other Velez jkts at Foothills right this min. I know it should be the orange lightweight, but every time I load it in the cart the green regular one seems to sidle in next to it.
Beachlover
Moderator
Yep, the Xenon isn't for racing snakes, it's comfortable fit but not a sack either. I'd say it fits true to size.
I've got the Paramo Halcon jacket and I love the thing, but if I'm honest I tend to wear it to rainy day funerals. The Velez smock however, is my go to jacket for almost any occasion and I'd buy another in a heartbeat. For most of the time here, it goes over a t-shirt, but it's a wind-blocker, a rain jacket and just so bloody comfortable. The negatives for me and clearly I don't give a sod about them really is the lack of a key clip, so I sewed one into the chest pocket and the other is the totally useless zippy pocket under the lower front. It would work if it wasn't a pass-through, but one experience has shown me that pop something in the pocket, zip it up, take five steps and hear the item hit the floor because the zip on the other side was open. They'd have done better to have run a zip along the top of the pocket, or better still not have bothered and knocked a fiver off the price.
ElThomsono
VIP Member
The wee E02 is pretty good, 15 lumens on low which is perfect for getting my contact lenses out while Laura sleeps, and 200 on high which is pretty good for something so small. Micro-USB be damned, it's a nice little torch.
Viewers might prefer to buy the Olight i1R 2 Pro if they want USB-C but I just don't like the look of it.
Viewers might prefer to buy the Olight i1R 2 Pro if they want USB-C but I just don't like the look of it.
Nice65
Explorer
Correct.Knowing Rich, he was probably trying to tempt me into doing it first to see if it worked..
The M4 is chunkier though, but I’m not sure how Magnacut behaves if taken down to a fine edge. I soon chipped an ESEE3 in the usual 1095 after Longstrider had at it years ago. The M4 seems to be the closest thing to my much missed Rasul, it’s a lovely knife. Here along with some other bits I’ve bought recently. 2 Civivi Elementum flippers, wanted orange with black blade, flippers are hard to get now, nobody is chancing the restock, so got a burgundy black with the intention of swapping things around. Well, it’s all blue Loctite and silky smooth action and perfectly centered blades, and I have a knack for fucking these things badly so just kept both.
