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Fiesty: Milk bottles are a bad option, basically because the lids aren't the best (thats why you have a foil seal inside them). Pop bottles are better as they're designed to not leak either gas or liquid..... Your cleaning plan is fairly certain though, so I'd go with that using better bottles Run t...

I don't understand how it works
If you've got the right sized wick and the candle isn't in a draft then theres no dribble or spillage.

If you haven't then you sort the problem not come up with a solution that isn't needed

I don't have a ready packed rucksack sitting by the front door is that I really don't believe that such a sudden event is that likely. I agree with you, jansman and plymtom on everything except this - mine isn't by the front door, its 2 steps from my bed, and always packed - house fires! Thats a su...

cpslashm wrote:Inflatables - beware of nasty sharp objects just below the surface of nasty brown flood water, e.g. barbed wire topped fence.

Which is why when you see them on the news they tend to 'tow not row' unless they're running down the middle of a Sommerset road

timmyt79 wrote:.......Have some photos i may post of what can happen to navigation buoys when it gets REALLY bad.....tons of metal squashed by the sea like a coke can!

Now, those I'd really like to see

Must be a 'west' thing...... Never heard of them

Good score though

FEISTY wrote:I bought a Firesteel 2.0 (Army) (Light My Fire). Yet to be tested.

You'll have fun playing the "Lets see what else I can set alight" game

PM me your address and I'll send you an alky stove (a home built Pop-can one, weighes nearly nothing), you'll have to source your own meths and bottle though

Firesteel? (AKA Ferro- rod or Ferrocerium rod) http://ts4.mm.bing.net/th?id=H.5048559166360003&pid=15.1 Good basic system, no moving parts and can be used to light most things (I think I've seen Ray Mears on TV lighting an alky stove with his) I don't like the magnesium block ones though. http:/...

Thanks Jack, but I found the pics via google.
We're a Scottie household though, and the couple of months between losing our last one and the new furry tornado moving in were the worse time in the last eight years.

I just don't get how some people are willingly dogless.....