Doing stuff is more fun than buying stuff! I like to try my hand at everything from creating outdoor kit, to repairing and restoring my cars.
There is an old saying that to become a master at something you need 10,000 hours of practice. There is not enough time for me to spend 10,000 hours on everything I am interested in but am pretty happy to reach a level of basic competence instead of total mastery.
There are a lot of projects on the go at the moment, too many, truth be told by a key focus for this blog currently, and the accompanying youtube channel, is creating and using a plastic free wild camping setup. To get the most out of this I am also answering a load of personal questions by testing different natural fabrics for insulation, performance when wet, durability and strength
Building a sustainable and brilliant clothing system for the UK mountains and wild camping out of natural fibres To complement my ongoing make your own gear (MYOG) project, where am working on a completely plastic free wild camping setup suitable for UK mountain and moorland areas, I am pulling together a clothing system to suit. […]
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Introducing a fun MYOG project to see if I can bring plastic free wild camping in mountain environments to reality An idea I have been playing about with in my head for some time is getting into making my own equipment using natural materials as opposed to synthetic. MYOG or “make your own gear”, is
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Have I found a magic bullet for restoring yellowing headlights? There are two things which make an older car look really tatty in my opinion (outside of actual damage and bits hanging off). Dirty wheels and yellowed cloudy headlights. For the trusty (ish) old Renault runaround yellowy headlights are an issue. Not to mention counterproductive
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An introduction to my rolling restoration of a 1979 Mg Midget 1500 I have owned this car for over 20 years, it was my first purchase after starting work post graduation, and took me on adventures from Cornwall to North Wales, the Suffolk coast to the Goodwood Festival of speed. It also served as my
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Note: This is republishing a post I originally wrote in 2009 in a long dead blog Disclaimer: this account of sauna building is what worked for us. It is entirely at your own risk to pursue such a project and a fire extinguisher to hand (stored outside of the sauna itself), never bathing alone and
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Common issues and fixes for Renault K4M Engine as fitted to the Modus/ Clio/ Megane and more We have been running a 2005 Renault modus 1.6l Automatic for the last 8 yrs and this is an overview of some of the common issues encountered and fixes. All are very achievable to address for the home
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