She is a beauty @steveo. Took the Glenfeshie Event on the chin. Not a drop got through.
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Today’s excitement in downtown balerno
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Petra also slightly more detailed than the gelert chap.
Never assembled a tent so light that you have to attach it to your rucksack as you assemble it. Excit8ng.
Excellent bit in the video where chap assembles tent and then undoes the spy hole to find another tent has popped up beside him. Nice Hillberg joke.
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I really don't use a tent enough to justify the cost of good one tbh given the £30 has covered me sufficiently for the last decade I think I've been bivvy institutionalised.
If anyone wants an entertaining yarn Ron Turnbull's "Book of the Bivvy" is in the library and very good.
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@gembo
The reality is that I will assemble your tent and you will help madame assemble our two-man (can sleep three but intimate). It is old and Scottish Mountain Gear refused to fit a new groundsheet on the grounds the old one had a bit of mould. Health and safety gone mad if you ask me. I have put it through the washing machine.
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IWRATS is a man of taste when it comes to tents - I also have an Akto. Nobody gets to borrow that...
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@fimm
Solidarity. It is good to share and @gembo is a man of honour, probity and temperance.
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Going average height and merry rather than too tall and drunk for tent. Will have spray for midges unless the Iwrats solution is superior like his tent is
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The solution is total but entirely personal. Avon Skin So Soft no longer repels midges. Only the old light blue bottles work. New go-to is Smidge. I tried it and it's OK.
I will be using jungle-strength DEET on socks, shoes, legs for ticks and my Personal Midge Protection System.
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With skin so soft the blue bottle had a nozzle that delivered a thin yet total covering to your skin. Shame they changed it
Does DEET repel ticks?
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Yes, DEET inhibits the bite reflex.
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If anyone wants some Smidge I've a part-used squirty bottle which did me absolutely no good at all last summer.
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I have crushed and battered bottle of smidge that goes everywhere with me as a talisman, I'm not entirely sure it works
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The only thing that works is nylon mesh. Carry a head net (and gloves if in glens Brittle, Desary etc).
DEET certainly inhibits tick biting so you find them wandering about looking like a bulldog chewing a wasp rather than implanted.
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Is tiso open for selling these meshes and tick removers?
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I bought a head net in Brunstfield Outdoor. It was the only object they sell at a normal price.
I will lend you the Overlander head net along with the Overlander tent.
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@gembo Mr Bill went to Tiso yesterday to get Smidge as we ran out of it last weekend and said Tiso was closed. But I directed him to a pharmacy in Dalry that I found on Smidge stocklist website and he obtained it there. The nets are also made by Smidge people so may be available from those places.
We used the head nets a lot this last weekend in Glen Shiel. Yet I still managed to get about 25 bites on my face.
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@bill, both good and bad to know
what size of mesh can midge get through??
When I were a lad about hundred years ago, golfing of a summers evening with my old boy. The midge never came anywhere near him (even after he gave up the fags).
Then I was once in a forestry commission pub up near Torridon when I was twenty and a French couple came in. I had to translate for the barman who was pretending to not understand their distress. I said - they want to know if you have anything for the midges. Barman slammed bottle of whisky down on the bar.
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Decathlon also useful for this kind of thing.
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@IWRATS - if I have your net what will you use. I know you have a personal solution but I am concerned
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He's the blood sacrifice.
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When you see the personal solution (darkly, through the mesh) your concern will evaporate.
Mind you I must move ahead and actually make the production model.
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I understand your caginess. As if it works you will want to patent it
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The prototype worked a treat but I cannot patent it. It is already in the public domain but production ceased and it was expensive.
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But maybe cheaper Eastern European version from GDR will work?
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There was a Soviet solution but it weighed 94kg and depended on a block of Thorium. Also it made you deaf.
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Ah yes but no midges bit you
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