Christmas Selection Box Suggestions

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Welcome to the casual camping podcast, your home for the best camping discussion with in and out of the field.
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Here are your hosts, Tim and Aid.
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Hello and welcome to this week's episode of Casual Camping Podcast.
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Woohoo! I'm Tim.
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And I'm a maid! We're a bit excitable today because this is the pre-Christmas episode.
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Yes, it is.
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We should have some uh actually, you know what?
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Over this little bit, I'm gonna insert some bells.
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Insert bells here.
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Yeah, I was gonna start singing something, but we're not allowed to sing tune.
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Yeah, I don't even know if we're allowed to sing like Christmas carols or anything like that.
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It's um the bots will have us and take us down.
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Tim, Tim, nobody's coming here for the singing, that's for sure.
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Hang on, hang on.
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So they don't come for the facts, they don't come for the top tips, they don't come for the for the for the jokes, they don't come for what what are you coming here for, listeners?
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What are you doing this for?
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No, penance, penance is what they're doing it for.
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They've been bad in another life, you know.
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I'm right, listeners, you know I'm right.
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Yeah, you know who you are.
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Oh so similarly to uh the first season that we did, we got to early December, and you might not be listening to this in December, we know that, but similarly to last year, we uh took a break over the uh Christmas period and January and started again early February.
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We're gonna do the same this year, mainly so that we can keep our high energy, protect our voices a little bit, and come back with an excellent season three.
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So, yes, this is this is season two, closer.
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Oh my god, can you believe it?
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We've actually got two seasons of this podcast.
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Pim, I didn't know that we had two episodes in us, never mind.
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Lily comes in on a night and she was like, Have you found something to talk about again?
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I was like, Of course we have, of course we have.
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This is what we do.
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Um, we inanely witter about the things that we love, which is camping.
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And I guess if you're listening, listeners, you love it too.
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So thank you very much.
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Yeah, and that is that is a massive, heartfelt thank you, really, to uh to each and every one of you.
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You know, this this year's been a bit of a a mainly up with a couple of downs, um, but mainly mainly up, and uh and it and it's uh it's just fantastic that you've kind of stuck with us and our download numbers have been have been just kind of increasing and increasing and increasing because you must be going out and telling people that we're here and yeah, just thank you.
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Thank you, really.
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It's amazing.
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Well, yeah, I think some of the highlights um really are those those interactions that we've got for me.
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Uh a couple of the videos that people have sent through that have really inspired us to one get out there, one get recording again, uh, but also the fact that you do hear people, you know, saying that they're telling their friends about it and stuff.
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So, you know, really, really appreciate uh the love and support.
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It's brilliant.
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And if you haven't, and uh good time tom, this one uh is uh really for you.
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Subscribe for God's sake, don't just listen along, subscribe it.
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That makes all the difference to us podcasters, uh so yeah.
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Yeah, it's um so uh uh I'll explain what that means.
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So I I I went for a drink with Good Time Tom at the weekend, and uh and he he asked the he asked the question, when's the podcast starting up again after our little break?
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Uh I think we're about six episodes in, mate.
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So you're not subscribed, are you?
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He's got a busy life, you know.
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He's just a very busy man, obviously, uh, as we all are.
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So uh yeah, but no.
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Do subscribe, it does make uh the difference.
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It will tell you when uh our next episode arrives when we're back up and recording.
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This will be the last one of 2024 with maybe some highlighted bits around the new year uh thing.
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So uh it's just whether or not my tech guy gives me a bit of grief uh about how difficult it is to pull it all together.
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Hey Tim, huh?
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The um well I'll I'll all I can all I can say is that it is actually quite difficult to do all of that, but of course I will put less of the wing gin and just do it, okay?
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Yeah, tech guy, you get paid the same as everyone else.
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Nothing.
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Oh you're very shouty today, Eddie.
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Very shouty today.
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I am, I'm I'm really sorry about that.
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It's um no, so yeah, so we uh we will put an episode out probably mid-January with just some some bits and bobs on it from season two, just so that you you don't uh you don't don't um don't feel like we've left you in the lurch.
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Um and then we will be back in February, first first Friday of February.
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So make sure you subscribe everybody, press that little button and uh and we will just appear in your dirty little ear holes in February.
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Well, it's um yeah, there's a message in this one, isn't there, Tim?
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Top tips, subscribe, subscribe.
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So what have what have your highlights been of um of this year?
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So having uh thought about it long and hard over the last uh um couple of weeks, really, I think my biggest highlight really is meeting up with new and old friends this year.
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I think from the start of the year when we did the NEC show, we met up with some longtime listeners, uh first-time meetups, and that was incredible, you know.
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That people took, you know, I'm not saying that we were the biggest draw there.
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I'm sure camping products were the biggest draw.
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No way, AD.
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No way, it was us.
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It was all about they didn't want to see any of that camping stuff.
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They were they were all over the the air.
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They do look as funny, they do look as funny as they sound.
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It was that that kind of uh oh well.
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I'd like to see what they look like.
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Maybe yeah, I don't know, who knows?
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Who knows?
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But yes, so so that and that has continued throughout the year for me.
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Uh we have been at various shows, we've had various meetups from listeners, uh, and I think that interaction really has just really cemented my thoughts of how welcoming camping people are.
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You know, it's you know, we're uh yeah, from different sort of places, and yet, you know, meeting up, uh camping together, sat around a campfire, having a little vino or a beer, and you know, just getting along, which has been, you know, just the incredibleness all of this year.
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And uh yeah, you know, so that for me has been the biggest uh highlight.
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Um how about yourself?
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It's um, you know, it's it's it's the second season of all of this, and and the first season was we were very insular.
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Um, and you know, we had we had some interactions and that, but actually, you know, we we didn't meet up with anybody, we didn't do any camping meetups and stuff like that.
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And this year we'd really set ourselves the goal of we gotta get out there, we've got to go to events, we've got to get camping even more, we've got to try and meet up with people and and and all that sort of things.
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And as you say, that that has happened, you know, loads this year, and really for me, uh it's it's been a bit of a it's like I mess with my head, really, because this is just something that we do for a laugh for you and I, just so that we keep in touch.
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But actually, you know, the download numbers have just gone skyrocketed.
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Um we've met people who've just started listening and then we've actually met up with them, and then we've actually gone camping with them.
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Um, you know, it's um I've got people at work who kind of walk by and go, Oh yeah, I listened to your podcast the other day.
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And it's just like you know, it's it's it's become more than anything I thought it possibly would.
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And um and season two has just kind of exploded, really.
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And and I'm just my my my mind's a bit blown really with how fantastic it's gone and uh what a year it's been.
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Yeah, and and just to put that into context for the listeners, we started season two when we had our break from season one and uh finished off the year.
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We had a little bit of a meetup about some of the goals that we wanted to do um in season two about how we move forward, you know, not just repeating ourselves, and you all know we repeat ourselves quite a lot.
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It's camping, we will repeat.
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I will talk about Snow Peak, I will talk about Yeti, we will talk about various shows that we've been to, but we hit quite a lot of those goals of uh listeners, downloads, and and things within the first few weeks of uh season two.
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So it sort of said to us that we're onto a good thing, and you know, without putting too much pressure on it, we are enjoying just talking about you know, camping with my brother, uh having a bit of a laugh.
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This is like a phone call that we would have, but we are publishing it and giving you a little bit of an insight into the craziness of our conversations, maybe.
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Yeah, totally.
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Yeah, we we absolutely set ourselves some goals of um yet again.
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We wanted to get camping more.
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I have absolutely been camping more, not as much, again, not as much as I would really want to.
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Um Tim, that's your your your heart that's letting you down now, though.
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Your heart.
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I know, I know.
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I know, I know.
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It'll get better, it'll get better.
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Once they speed it up a bit, it'll be fine.
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It's uh but no, it's you know, we we we've definitely been camping more.
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We went to we've been to some fantastic shows and seen some really cool stuff.
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Yeah.
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Um, and we've been to some um outdoory festivals, bushcrafty festivals that was that was absolutely on our tick list at the start of the year, and it's um it's just been fantastic, absolutely fantastic.
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That that bell is the doorbell somewhere.
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Um but I know there's someone else in the house, so somebody will go and get that door, I'm sure.
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Tim, you're not on their time, you don't have to answer the door just because they come knocking and belling.
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No, yeah, but it might be Christmas present getting delivered.
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Oh, all right, yeah, see what you mean.
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Like them quality streets won't get delivered, will they?
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I'd better go and shut the door.
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I'm sorry.
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I'm pausing.
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So Tim was actually on their time because he paused the recording and went and saw just in case it was Christmas presents or some lovely camping stuff.
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Uh being ordering camping stuff, Tim.
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Black Friday deals.
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No, no, it was a Christmas present.
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It was a Christmas present for for my other half.
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Something to do with hair that she's mentioned, so here we go.
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Not hair removal or anything like that.
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She hasn't got a tash.
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She's not listening, she's not listening, but now every everybody is just uh imagining that you you you're with the bearded lady.
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Do not ever call Alex.
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Sorry, Alex.
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Sorry, Alex.
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She might be small, but she is nice and she will hurt you.
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Yes, yeah.
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I've seen those shapes she throws on the dance floor.
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Oh dear.
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Oh gosh.
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So yeah, we were just kind of waxing lyrical, really, weren't we?
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About what a fantastic year it's been.
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And um and how we've we've done so much more than than you know, camping-wise in general, not just podcast-wise, but um, but everything in general has just been better than I I expected it to be.
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We're you know, we're setting the bar you know quite high for for season three and for next year, but you know, I think I think we've got it in us.
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Yeah, I I think so.
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Uh, and I think that there will be some of those highlights that we've done this year.
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I think for me, the NEC show really kicked off uh some good product, uh, some touchy-feely stuff.
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I think this year I'll want to be seeing some new stuff uh off uh you know February.
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Um, and as we recommended at the time listeners, you know, get yourself to some of these shows because you get to see some fantastic product out there.
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The NEC One obviously is a bit far for some people, but it's quite near for us.
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Uh, or you could just listen to your favourite podcast because we will be coming from the show.
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Absolutely, absolutely, absolutely.
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It's um any kind of camping show, wherever you are in the world, it it's totally worth going and making the effort to go and wander around because they've also not only do you see some new stuff, they quite often have show discounts.
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So you you see some real bargains, and at the NEC there was some stuff, you know, that was significantly.
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Quite a few freebies, wasn't there?
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Yeah, and quite a few free stuff, which was quite free stuff.
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The show the show I loved the most, um, which I'm gonna say again because you didn't get to go to was the uh the trade the trade show in uh in Liverpool, and some of those stuff, some of the stuff that I saw there is still not out.
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It's not out till next year.
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And uh and it's it's just amaz it blows my mind, really.
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The stuff you get to see when you go to a trade show like that.
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You can't buy any of it, they're not giving any of it away, but you can have a look at it, you can have a play with it, and you can talk to the people who know loads of stuff about it, and then you can kind of get yourself all excited for nine months' time when it eventually gets released.
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Uh it's it's like those Kickstarter uh uh projects that uh promise you it in six months.
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So it's like, oh, I'm a bit more of a consumer for those things.
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I want it now, I want to be able to play with it.
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Um I did think it was good with that that oven, that camping oven that you were talking about a couple of weeks ago about fire pits and things like that.
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And you were talking about that and saying, Oh, it's on Kickstarter, and they're trying to get enough to get it going.
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And then out of nowhere they went, actually, we've made a hundred and we're selling them now, and we'll get them to you before Christmas.
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I thought, that's the way to do a Kickstarter.
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Actually, just chuck a hundred of them out there.
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Uh a really good way, has he taken a hundred uh uh things away from uh his Kickstarting project?
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Because they're about halfway through after uh uh ten days, I think.
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So let's see.
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I don't really know how Kickstarter works, to be honest.
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It's um I've never bought anything on it.
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I uh so so you pledge your money and you take your risk, and then if it doesn't get funded, uh they don't take the money and they they don't get it.
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Um but if it does get funded, you then they use your money to actually make up everything that they've kind of promised.
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But there still can be some RD product development stuff um going through.
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So yeah, I've bought a few things from it, but it does take six to eight months for them to come through, depending on what.
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And it has changed over the years for anybody that hasn't bought anything from Kickstarter.
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You can do it.
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A lot of people now set their um funding limit quite low so that they know that whatever it is, they'll get it going.
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Um, whereas actually, if you're starting from scratch and you go, I I need to be able to have 2,000 units people bought into it before I even start making it.
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And that that's the payoff, really.
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So yeah, but a lot of them set seem to set them quite low these days.
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So cool.
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Cool.
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I um it's not something I've I've looked at very often.
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You send me a few things from there, and I kind of go, oh, that's quite that's quite good.
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But I've never been brave enough to take a punt on anything.
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Yeah, and uh it's not something I've ever downloaded and kind of had a look.
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They've got an app, haven't they?
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I've never really had a bit of a look or a play at it.
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And and the there's a lot of things.
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I mean, there tends to be an awful lot of things like fire pits, knives, it's a lot of game development and book development things on there.
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People can uh uh go into those.
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Uh I stick towards the more camping things, but also some you know great uh that's where I got my um uh Madoc outdoors uh steel camping set.
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That's where found that they're really really nice.
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Your pans, and um anyone on our socials will have seen Aid cooking legs of lamb in those pans.
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That brilliant, they're just fantastic, absolutely brilliant, really, really nice, lighter than than your big sort of cast iron Dutch oven, but uh equal performance and really, really nice piece of kit.
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Yeah, yeah.
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So that that's where I eventually uh originally saw them.
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Um and yeah, they give you a discount if you're an early adopter, so you can get things quite cheap before they hit retail prices and stuff.
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So uh yeah, but it's how people that have got ideas get funded for stuff.
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But I think there's an awful lot of camping stuff on there as well.
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So so yeah, it's really really good to see how people do stuff.
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So yeah, isn't it right?
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I think that's a top tip, maybe.
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I think another top tip.
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I think that's an absolute genuine, yeah.
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Genuine, genuine top tip there from you, Ed.
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It's been a while.
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It's been I tell you, I'm slowing down, you know.
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I think it's been a while since either of us gave out any top tips, to be honest.
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I um I've got two, no less, two five-star mediocre reviews.
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Oh my god.
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I tell you, if these keep on coming, we're actually gonna have to take the mediocre off them.
00:19:52.400 --> 00:19:59.279
Imagine sending through an absolutely amazing review, and somebody goes, Well, it's five-star mediocre.
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It's an oxymoron.
00:20:02.480 --> 00:20:05.039
You know what we mean, and we love everyone.
00:20:05.759 --> 00:20:08.559
This uh, I can't remember when we started saying that.
00:20:08.640 --> 00:20:10.160
It was early on in season one, wasn't it?
00:20:10.319 --> 00:20:21.839
We were just desperate for any kind of reviews, and we were like, Well, you know, we'll take a mediocre five-star review, doesn't even have to be that good, and since then they just keep coming in, yeah.
00:20:22.720 --> 00:20:27.359
So this one is um, this one is from David Wilkinson.
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Dave O.
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Dave O.
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It's uh he says, Hey, I just found your podcast yesterday and been listening at work.
00:20:34.960 --> 00:20:37.599
Very good guys, great band set, good info.
00:20:37.759 --> 00:20:41.599
You've had me laughing out loud, definitely passing the day quicker.
00:20:42.480 --> 00:20:48.319
Oh, that's that's what we uh that's what it's all about.
00:20:48.480 --> 00:20:52.319
Making the day go quicker until you're out in the camping fields.
00:20:52.640 --> 00:20:54.319
Oh yeah, go for it.
00:20:54.480 --> 00:20:59.119
Oh, I'll tell you what, we are we are proper smiling ear to ear with that one, Dave.
00:20:59.200 --> 00:20:59.920
Thank you very much.
00:21:00.640 --> 00:21:01.599
Thank you very much.
00:21:01.920 --> 00:21:05.039
Assuming you know, we'll just call you Dave or Dave O from now on.
00:21:05.119 --> 00:21:07.839
So, you know, that's your name, butchered.
00:21:12.160 --> 00:21:16.480
Um, and our second one is uh where are we?
00:21:16.640 --> 00:21:17.440
We are here.
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Uh I thought it was about time I sent a five-star mediocre, or sorry, a mediocre five-star review.
00:21:24.720 --> 00:21:42.000
Uh, I do love the podcast, the banter is ace, and whilst the facts are dubious, they are definitely genuinely honest and with conviction, and I recommended it to everyone, whether they want me to or not, and that is from Rich, friend of the show, Rich.
00:21:43.119 --> 00:21:43.440
Rich.
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Very kind.
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How has it taken you so long?
00:21:50.640 --> 00:21:54.240
We're gonna have to set up a like a Spanish Inquisition for that.
00:21:54.880 --> 00:21:59.839
I mean, like, generally because he's speaking to everybody, he knows everybody in the country.
00:22:00.160 --> 00:22:05.119
Camping world, so you know it's probably that's why it's taken him so long.
00:22:06.240 --> 00:22:08.400
It's too busy connecting with everybody else.
00:22:08.480 --> 00:22:14.240
It's uh yeah, yeah, and doing his job and you know other things and doing all that.
00:22:15.440 --> 00:22:17.440
We'll let him, he's allowed.
00:22:17.680 --> 00:22:20.960
We'll let him off this once, just this once, mind you.
00:22:25.039 --> 00:22:33.440
No, so Dave's Dave's um Dave's uh review came via an instant message on our socials, so you can send one through that way.
00:22:33.519 --> 00:22:39.599
And uh and Rich's came through the uh link that's in the show notes of every episode.
00:22:39.680 --> 00:22:42.319
Uh so you can always just send us a message via there.
00:22:42.559 --> 00:22:49.200
So if you if you too want to send us a mediocre five-star review, that's how you do it, people.
00:22:49.680 --> 00:22:51.759
Uh couldn't be simpler, Tim.
00:22:52.000 --> 00:22:54.799
I I'm surprised more people aren't doing it.
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Oh do people get sarcasm uh over uh over the internet?
00:23:11.440 --> 00:23:17.039
I'm not sure if sarcasm travels beyond the borders of uh of uh of Yorkshire.
00:23:19.599 --> 00:23:20.400
Oh god.
00:23:21.200 --> 00:23:39.519
So with Christmas coming up, all right, we thought uh we'd uh maybe do a couple of lists of uh some of the things that might be on either mine or Tim's list or suggestions for your lists uh for others to get you.
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Or if you've got that certain uh lovable person that loves camping in your life, maybe you need some ideas.
00:23:47.039 --> 00:23:51.680
And yeah, we thought we'd just give uh uh I mean Tim said five.
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I've written a list, proper list.
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I think I'm up to about 10 or 15 things that you know roundabout, oh, and I like this, and uh I've got plenty, but you know it's the only time you can get me to write a list, Tim.
00:24:07.839 --> 00:24:08.720
Every every other time.
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Where's your bloody list?
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Where's your prep?
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I knew this would be an easy one because it's like Ed, go imaginary shopping for stuff.
00:24:16.880 --> 00:24:17.519
Yes.
00:24:17.759 --> 00:24:24.640
Oh where when Selfridge is gonna have a uh like a camping mystery shopper type thing.
00:24:24.720 --> 00:24:26.960
Oh that'd be my perfect job, I think.
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That'd be amazing, wouldn't it?
00:24:28.799 --> 00:24:32.319
That would be fantastic, not a mystery shopper, surprise!
00:24:33.200 --> 00:24:38.640
Um you know, one of those personal shoppers, that's what I meant to say.
00:24:43.279 --> 00:24:47.359
Oh you're jumping out from behind displays of tents.
00:24:49.200 --> 00:24:51.920
Nobody expects the 80 inquisition.
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Oh gosh, oh you need to do a little sticker of that for people to take camping.
00:25:06.880 --> 00:25:13.359
Oh gosh, we need to do a little video of that in a camping shop somewhere.
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Surprise, surprise, surprise, surprise.
00:25:20.000 --> 00:25:24.079
Um well I I don't know how you want to do this.
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Do you want to go back and forth?
00:25:25.440 --> 00:25:28.880
Although you've got more back and I've got more fourth.
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So I'll run out of fourth before you've run out of back.
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I don't know about back, you've got quite a lot of neck.
00:25:40.319 --> 00:25:41.119
Oh, sorry.
00:25:43.200 --> 00:25:43.759
Right.
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Um so so yeah, why don't you start with the cheapest thing on your list?
00:25:50.319 --> 00:25:50.960
Oh, okay.
00:25:51.039 --> 00:25:57.359
I you see, I I haven't actively looked at sort of the cost of things, and some of these some of these are rather expensive.
00:25:57.599 --> 00:26:10.480
Um but my cheapest thing is actually something that I've I've had on in um well, all of these are things that I've had in like my browser windows for for ages and ages that I've been kind of looking at and thinking, yeah, yeah, at some point I'd like that.
00:26:10.640 --> 00:26:11.279
I'd like that.
00:26:11.440 --> 00:26:16.079
This is something really little, um, but I think it's just really cool.
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It's um it's a tabletop, terracotta, a metal pizza oven.
00:26:21.440 --> 00:26:31.200
And it's and it's not like the one so a few episodes ago, I I had a go with my one that fits on top of the the fire pit, and uh and it's quite big.
00:26:31.359 --> 00:26:37.920
Um this is literally it's about the size of a of you know the the floor space of it is about the size of a laptop.
00:26:38.480 --> 00:26:54.160
And it just sits, you literally could do it indoors in in a house somewhere, sits on a tabletop, it works off a couple of gel burners and it makes little pizzas that are about 10-12 centimetres wide, and um and you just slide them in and they cook and you take them out.
00:26:54.240 --> 00:26:56.720
And I just thought, I really love the idea of that.
00:26:56.799 --> 00:26:59.839
That's just such a nice little cool, quirky thing.
00:26:59.920 --> 00:27:04.640
It looks really well built, and um, and it's£42 on Amazon.
00:27:04.880 --> 00:27:09.759
Wow, I did find it in a couple of shops for£40, um, but then there was postage on top.
00:27:09.839 --> 00:27:12.480
So Amazon, if you've got Prime, it's gonna be it's gonna be cheaper.
00:27:12.559 --> 00:27:16.720
It's not a Black Friday deal, it's just it's just a really nice thing.
00:27:16.960 --> 00:27:25.359
I thought, you know, what a cool and quirky little sort of yeah, camp cooking question um bit of kit that you could you could take out.
00:27:25.440 --> 00:27:31.359
And like the kids, you know, it's really safe because yes, there's gel burners there and that, so you've got to be careful, it will get quite hot.
00:27:31.440 --> 00:27:37.759
But actually, something that the kids could just make their own little tiny pizzas with out in a camping field if you've got if you've got kids, obviously.
00:27:37.920 --> 00:27:41.279
Um but it just I I really liked it.
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I really liked it.
00:27:42.160 --> 00:27:45.119
I thought it was a really cool, well made, looked really solid.
00:27:45.279 --> 00:27:52.640
I like the fact that the base is all metal, the top is all terracotta, it's got these little pizza slide things, it's got a couple of burners.
00:27:52.799 --> 00:27:57.519
You can make you could just make a load of little pizzas and just have a laugh doing it, and it'd be really good fun.
00:27:57.759 --> 00:27:58.400
Yeah.
00:27:59.119 --> 00:28:03.599
Well, yeah, I think I've I've seen the thing that you're talking about.
00:28:03.759 --> 00:28:13.039
Um, as uh yeah, it reminds me of those kind of Japanese, Chinese, are they called Biacchi burners?
00:28:13.680 --> 00:28:15.359
Yeah, there's there's something like that.
00:28:15.519 --> 00:28:19.039
It's um yeah, that's just showing you some pictures.
00:28:19.359 --> 00:28:33.119
It's just it's really it's really cool little um I'll try and pause that because I've done I've taken some um photos and stuff for socials and videos and stuff, but it's just it's a really cool little um little pizza oven.
00:28:33.599 --> 00:28:41.839
And it's it's called Arteza, A-R-T-E-S-A Tabletop terracotta oven, and it's for for making little pizzas.
00:28:42.000 --> 00:28:44.559
And at 42 quid, you know what?
00:28:44.720 --> 00:28:47.920
That'd be you'd be you'd be proper chuffed if that was under the Christmas tree.
00:28:48.000 --> 00:28:52.000
You'd be like, oh, oh, let's let's get rid of that turkey.
00:28:52.079 --> 00:28:54.079
Come on, let's have pizzas for lunch.
00:28:54.319 --> 00:28:54.640
Yeah.
00:28:57.039 --> 00:29:03.119
Oh, oh no, no, you're talking to uh uh a turkey man for uh Christmas dinner.
00:29:03.279 --> 00:29:06.240
Um boxing day, turkey pizzas.
00:29:06.720 --> 00:29:09.039
Brilliant, brilliant.
00:29:09.519 --> 00:29:15.759
Um, yeah, so I've gone with um uh a pretty standard thing really, uh for me.
00:29:16.000 --> 00:29:19.200
Uh fire lighters and matches.
00:29:19.440 --> 00:29:21.680
Yeah, you get those every year, don't you?
00:29:21.839 --> 00:29:22.559
You get those every year.
00:29:22.720 --> 00:29:23.519
I just do.
00:29:23.599 --> 00:29:29.599
I've I've still got some of last year's ones, which were strikable fire lighters.
00:29:29.839 --> 00:29:33.759
Oh, were they fire fire, oh gosh, what were they called?
00:29:34.559 --> 00:29:35.920
Fire flash or something like that?
00:29:36.079 --> 00:29:37.359
Yeah, something fire fast.
00:29:37.680 --> 00:29:38.400
Fire fast.
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And they were just brilliant to just you know not have to have uh matches as well, um, although the striker wasn't particularly brilliant on them, so I had to light a match to light them, but you know what?
00:29:53.839 --> 00:29:54.640
They went up.
00:29:56.640 --> 00:30:02.240
Everything burns if you if you get it hot enough, everything everything burns.
00:30:02.640 --> 00:30:11.359
Um, so yeah, I I put them down every year, and I know some people go, Oh, do you really want them again and stuff?
00:30:11.599 --> 00:30:16.400
Just they're so useful, and I'm such a tight ass that I don't go out and buy them.
00:30:16.640 --> 00:30:24.960
Yeah, you know, it's such an easy thing, but you know, it's like a camper's dream of you know what what what would you want?
00:30:25.119 --> 00:30:33.200
It goes that I've got little uh cases and tubs that they go in so that when I'm out camping, I know I've got that with me.
00:30:33.519 --> 00:30:35.519
Always gonna be able to have a fire.
00:30:35.759 --> 00:30:37.359
It's great, love it.
00:30:37.680 --> 00:30:41.440
Absolutely, it's it's uh uh a no-brainer, you know.
00:30:42.799 --> 00:30:44.000
Yeah, it's just one of those.
00:30:44.079 --> 00:30:47.359
That's like uh for me, it's like socks and pants.
00:30:50.160 --> 00:30:51.200
Yeah, yeah.
00:30:51.440 --> 00:31:06.400
I I think it's it's a really good idea for a Christmas present for anyone who's into the out the outdoors, and um, it's just you know, you always get them, and and you always get different ones, so it's not like you're just getting you know those cubes that stink, you know.
00:31:06.559 --> 00:31:22.400
People are obviously going out and trying to find you weird and wonderful ways of doing fire lighters, and um I I you know I I always think it's quite cool when you uh first camping trip of the new year, you kind of bring out your fire lights, it's like oh what have you got this year, eh?
00:31:23.440 --> 00:31:25.039
And it reminds you of Christmas as well.
00:31:25.119 --> 00:31:27.599
It's like oh I got these last Christmas, that was brilliant.
00:31:27.839 --> 00:31:29.519
Um, yeah, really, really good.
00:31:29.680 --> 00:31:32.319
What's uh new next on your list?
00:31:32.640 --> 00:31:34.319
So are we going up in price?
00:31:34.559 --> 00:31:37.839
Well, what that was your starting price, was it?
00:31:38.079 --> 00:31:38.720
42.
00:31:39.119 --> 00:31:41.119
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
00:31:41.279 --> 00:31:43.759
Wow, I got nothing cheaper than 42 pounds.
00:31:43.839 --> 00:31:44.319
I'm sorry.
00:31:44.640 --> 00:31:47.519
Oh god, you're uh you're an expensive date, aren't you?
00:31:47.759 --> 00:31:53.440
I am I'm not putting out for uh for a mackey date.
00:31:57.359 --> 00:32:00.160
Better take that, uh Carlin Kate.
00:32:00.240 --> 00:32:02.480
It's great to be you back then.
00:32:07.200 --> 00:32:13.039
To be honest, I've always said the same, and uh I got some bought for me uh leaving due.
00:32:13.440 --> 00:32:16.240
Uh I'm slowly way weighing my way through it.
00:32:16.400 --> 00:32:23.279
After your top tip earlier in the year, Tim, of get drink some nice stuff, get three in, and then pop one of them.
00:32:23.519 --> 00:32:24.319
Can't taste the difference.
00:32:26.480 --> 00:32:28.559
Drink your quality when you've still got taste buds.
00:32:28.799 --> 00:32:32.160
Then then when you've had three, you really don't care what you're drinking at that point.
00:32:32.240 --> 00:32:33.599
So switch over to Carling.
00:32:33.839 --> 00:32:34.079
You know.
00:32:34.319 --> 00:32:34.720
Boom.
00:32:34.799 --> 00:32:35.519
Yeah, good.
00:32:36.240 --> 00:32:36.480
Thank you.
00:32:36.640 --> 00:32:40.319
You can do the same on a night out, because then you save yourself a fortune as well.
00:32:40.559 --> 00:32:41.759
Oh, not sure.
00:32:41.920 --> 00:32:48.720
Oh you can pour it into a beer maretti glass.
00:32:52.640 --> 00:32:55.279
I don't do that, I don't do that, can I just say?
00:32:55.440 --> 00:33:00.240
Um, so yeah, I I purposefully I I didn't even think about the cost of some of this stuff.
00:33:00.319 --> 00:33:02.880
Um, it does it does get more expensive as things go on.
00:33:02.960 --> 00:33:06.240
So I'm jumping up to£95 for my for my next one.
00:33:06.480 --> 00:33:20.720
Um and it's a tent that um we saw at one of the shows that I I've absolutely been in love with, and at some point I've got to own this tent, and I'm so tempted to buy it now because it's come down to£95 from£160.
00:33:20.880 --> 00:33:26.400
It's the Van Gogh classic instant£300 that we we've talked about previously.
00:33:26.559 --> 00:33:33.599
Uh comes in orange or grey, it's got the feel and the look of an old um Van Gogh Force 10.
00:33:33.680 --> 00:33:43.519
Um, but it's got that modern materials, modern construction, it's got a pop-up style, but not the pop-up as in those ones where you really struggle to twist it and put it back again.
00:33:43.680 --> 00:33:49.200
It it springs out from the sides, and and because it does that, it creates an enormous amount of space inside.
00:33:49.599 --> 00:33:52.160
There's a lot of volume area inside, isn't there?
00:33:52.400 --> 00:33:58.559
Just unbelievable amount, and um, and it's an it's an absolutely brilliant piece of kit.
00:33:58.720 --> 00:34:02.960
And uh I I at some point I've already got six tents.
00:34:03.119 --> 00:34:05.039
I know I don't need another one.
00:34:05.279 --> 00:34:09.360
I um but arguably I haven't actually got a three-man tent.
00:34:09.679 --> 00:34:13.119
Tim, Tim, you're a tent man, I know this.
00:34:13.280 --> 00:34:15.039
Why are you limiting yourself?
00:34:15.280 --> 00:34:16.719
I know, I know.
00:34:17.119 --> 00:34:20.159
Tim has a tent for every occasion.
00:34:22.159 --> 00:34:24.639
But that is an epic tent.
00:34:24.800 --> 00:34:38.239
Um, it was it properly, we were we were stopped in our tracks when we saw it, and then when we got to play with it and have a have a proper player collapsing it and putting it back up again, it was just like this is a great piece of kit.
00:34:38.559 --> 00:34:41.599
Um, the scouts in the UK, it's gonna be their tents.
00:34:41.760 --> 00:34:51.199
So this tent is you know already getting out there on on the hills, and um, and at£95, you're really not gonna do better.
00:34:51.360 --> 00:34:54.239
You're really not gonna do better at the 95 quid for this tent.
00:34:54.320 --> 00:35:02.960
It's Vango, it's which means it's uh it's solidly built, it's um it's it's just a fantastic piece of kit.
00:35:03.199 --> 00:35:07.280
It's um did you is that because I did a thumbs up on the camera?
00:35:07.519 --> 00:35:08.320
Yes, it is.
00:35:08.480 --> 00:35:12.480
Sorry, um so AI is playing have it with us.
00:35:12.559 --> 00:35:24.719
So we're on Zoom at the moment, and um, and I did a thumbs up to aid on uh on the camera and uh and the um the for some reason you gotta put it all in the in the screen, Aid.
00:35:24.800 --> 00:35:32.000
For some reason, uh it automatically then added thumbs up to uh to the screens, which kind of confused the hell out of us.
00:35:32.079 --> 00:35:32.800
But anyway.
00:35:33.280 --> 00:35:36.239
So the Van Gogh Classic Instant 300.
00:35:36.480 --> 00:35:41.199
I would have it in bright orange, but it does look super cool in in the dark grey as well.
00:35:41.360 --> 00:35:58.000
Um, I think if you're if you're looking for a three-man tent or a two-man tent with a bit of space, or a one-man tent with a load of space that you could properly properly stay in for a while, or you're looking for something for your kids to get into camping, you know, you're not gonna go, you're not gonna go better.
00:35:59.599 --> 00:36:03.599
Imagine being a kid and uh unwrapping that on Christmas morning.
00:36:03.760 --> 00:36:08.320
Oh spending Christmas night in the garden.
00:36:08.559 --> 00:36:09.440
I know, I know.
00:36:09.599 --> 00:36:10.320
And you know what?
00:36:10.400 --> 00:36:16.719
If you get your kids camping stuff, then and they're really excited about it, then that means you've got to take them camping.
00:36:16.800 --> 00:36:18.480
So you get to go camping more.
00:36:18.880 --> 00:36:21.119
Chicken dinner, winner, winner.
00:36:22.559 --> 00:36:25.039
Yeah, come on, love that tent.
00:36:25.519 --> 00:36:27.199
Absolutely cracking piece of kit.
00:36:28.239 --> 00:36:33.119
Um, I I would so I went mainly for uh stocking type things.
00:36:33.360 --> 00:36:39.519
Um so my next one was um a foraging bag.
00:36:40.320 --> 00:36:41.440
Oh yeah, yeah.
00:36:41.679 --> 00:36:45.119
Have you seen them on uh various sort of sites and things like that?
00:36:45.280 --> 00:36:47.360
They fold up into a little thing.
00:36:47.599 --> 00:36:51.360
You like walking, you're walking in the woods, you find some mushrooms.
00:36:51.599 --> 00:36:52.880
Boo, where do I put them?
00:36:53.360 --> 00:36:57.119
Put them in my waxed cotton thing that's on my belt.
00:36:57.599 --> 00:36:59.920
Boom! It's a little stocking filler.
00:37:00.239 --> 00:37:03.760
They only cost about 15 pounds, but they look brilliant.
00:37:04.000 --> 00:37:16.719
And you can wrap them up with some maybe pre-foraged stuff, like some wood, some little bits of kindling, or maybe put those highlighters and matches that you've already got just there.
00:37:16.800 --> 00:37:18.880
You go, you've got a ready-made gift there.
00:37:19.039 --> 00:37:19.519
Boom!
00:37:20.079 --> 00:37:22.960
Yeah, that's a really good idea, Mr.
00:37:23.199 --> 00:37:25.440
Um Thornhill Ultra Heavy.
00:37:25.519 --> 00:37:26.880
Um, he does one of those.
00:37:27.039 --> 00:37:32.159
That's sitting in my watch list on um in my eBay account and has been for some time.
00:37:32.320 --> 00:37:36.639
That's um that's a really it's a really nice, really nice gift idea, I think.
00:37:37.440 --> 00:37:42.480
It's just one of those things that you you just you're happy to have and own.
00:37:42.639 --> 00:37:49.360
Uh, and you know, maybe you know, they're just they're just you don't have to use it for foraging, but it just come in really handy.
00:37:49.599 --> 00:37:50.320
Yeah, yeah.
00:37:50.480 --> 00:37:54.559
You know, it's and it's something that you're probably not gonna buy yourself.
00:37:55.599 --> 00:38:01.119
Because you're probably just not gonna get around to it, because you've always got pockets, and I'll always go, well, I can just put it in a pocket.
00:38:01.280 --> 00:38:06.960
It's um but actually having having a proper piece of kit for that purpose is is really nice.
00:38:07.119 --> 00:38:24.880
It's you know, that's what that you know everyone knows where uh we're uh we're into the gear, we love the gear, and having having something that's just for that purpose, it's what it's all about when it comes to if you want that thing that's special that's just for that, and you don't use it for anything else, that's quite cool.
00:38:25.199 --> 00:38:26.400
Yeah, yeah.
00:38:26.639 --> 00:38:31.679
Yeah, so so that no, there's there's things in that vein.
00:38:31.760 --> 00:38:33.599
So I'm I made a bigger list.
00:38:33.840 --> 00:38:48.159
Do you remember going to the bushcraft show and every store that we went round had a little square of um waxed cotton with a fabric back to actually kneel down on?
00:38:48.239 --> 00:38:49.440
And you bought one, I think.
00:38:49.599 --> 00:38:50.480
I did buy one, yeah.
00:38:50.559 --> 00:38:51.199
I I bought one.
00:38:51.360 --> 00:39:12.159
It's that same sort of thing of local craftsman find it from somebody that's actually made it locally or uh you know uh close to your area, you know, craftsman, you don't find them in in big shops, so you have to go and find them, but they're just nice little things that you tend to, and I I was like, Oh no, I'll buy one next time.
00:39:12.239 --> 00:39:17.199
I've always looked at them, don't have them, and yeah, you know, it's just something like that.
00:39:17.440 --> 00:39:29.360
And I and I love that, and I um I I bought it there the last day of the bushcraft show, and they were there was a a discount on it as well, so it it it wasn't a you know, it was I think it was about 12, 13 pounds, something like that.
00:39:29.760 --> 00:39:54.880
How much it might have been 15 at most, but it wasn't it wasn't a lot, and um, and it's just a really nice, you know, piece of waxed cotton, um, and it's it's backed on the other side with a bit of tartan and um and it's all nicely hemmed and seamed and everything, and it just means you can kneel down and not get your knee really wet, or it's um uh you can sit down, so it it lives in my backpack for when I'm going out hiking and stuff like that.
00:39:54.960 --> 00:40:00.239
And and if you want to sit down and eat your sandwiches, means your ass doesn't get wet because you've just got something to sit on.
00:40:00.400 --> 00:40:04.639
Yeah, it's like that's really nice, and doesn't weigh anything, so it makes sense, yeah.
00:40:04.880 --> 00:40:07.519
Simple, does what it says, yeah, amazing.
00:40:07.840 --> 00:40:09.119
Really nice bit of kit.
00:40:10.239 --> 00:40:12.000
No, cool, cool.
00:40:12.400 --> 00:40:17.280
Shall I um shall I shall I go what expensive uh other thing have you got there?
00:40:18.239 --> 00:40:25.119
I mean, like uh I I thought I might get some ideas for you here, but uh I think you're going out of my price range.
00:40:27.840 --> 00:40:36.719
So so um yeah, so this is Fall Raven, love it.
00:40:37.519 --> 00:40:42.239
Um so this is the Fall Raven Vardag pile fleece jacket.
00:40:42.719 --> 00:40:48.480
Vardag is V-A-R-D-A-G, and it's a really nice fleece jacket.
00:40:48.559 --> 00:40:52.079
Um, it's really thick fleece, so it'll be really super warm.
00:40:52.239 --> 00:40:54.159
It's got six pockets in it.
00:40:54.320 --> 00:40:56.159
Don't you just love a load of pockets?
00:40:56.320 --> 00:41:04.079
Um it's got canvas panels on on the front so that you know when you're dribbling your food, it it's easy wipe.
00:41:04.800 --> 00:41:06.480
No sparky burns either.
00:41:06.719 --> 00:41:08.800
No sparky burns, no sparky burns.
00:41:09.199 --> 00:41:40.639
And if I'm writing thinking um they do their so the the cotton is their own specific sort of weave of is it F5000 or something, their their cotton, which is the stuff so instead of impregnating it with uh lots of chemicals and stuff, they just you you can buy uh some uh bar of uh wax uh that you rub on like you would soap, and then you you get near a fire source and it it melts it in.
00:41:40.880 --> 00:41:42.000
What's proof set?
00:41:42.400 --> 00:41:45.840
Oh fantastic, yeah, very very cool, very cool.
00:41:46.719 --> 00:41:49.840
For a couple of months, so you know, really, really good stuff.
00:41:50.400 --> 00:41:52.079
Buy quality, you buy ones.
00:41:52.239 --> 00:41:59.199
It's um you know, I I tried this on the other day, and um and I it was it was just so nice.
00:41:59.360 --> 00:42:04.800
It was it was really, really nice, and I thought, God, that'd be bloody great for in a camping field.
00:42:04.880 --> 00:42:08.559
It's how much I'll get to that in a minute.
00:42:08.719 --> 00:42:14.960
I I well what I really liked about it was the fact it was longer in the body, um, and being a tall chap, it it was quite nice.
00:42:15.119 --> 00:42:19.440
Some fleeces you put on, and uh they're a little bit like you know, showing off my belly button.
00:42:19.679 --> 00:42:26.320
It's um so it was it was quite nice that it kind of went a bit low and would keep the drafts away when you're sitting down in your camping chair.
00:42:26.559 --> 00:42:28.719
It's um really nice piece of kit.
00:42:29.119 --> 00:42:51.519
Um it was in in the place that I tried it on, it was£170, and in most places it is£170, but in doing an internet search for it, I have found it in in a few places that's down as cl as low as£120, so still it's an awful lot of money, but that's£50 off.
00:42:51.599 --> 00:42:55.920
And those weren't Black Friday sales, they were just companies that were just pricing it differently.
00:42:56.239 --> 00:43:02.480
It's um and if you signed up for like their email newsletter, you got an extra 20% and and stuff like that.
00:43:02.559 --> 00:43:06.000
So if you did all of that, I did find it for£120.
00:43:06.159 --> 00:43:28.800
I haven't bought it, it's still£120, it's a lot of money, and I do have a lot of fleeces, but it's um it was a bloody nice piece of kit, and again, you know, if you were looking for a big ticket item, you know, no one's gonna be angry at getting a full Raven fleece in uh in the I think that's great.
00:43:29.119 --> 00:43:41.039
Um I bloody love uh Four Raven stuff, and every year they bring out uh either different colourways or or new uh things, and I just go, Oh, I love it, love it, you know.
00:43:41.199 --> 00:43:41.840
It is nice.
00:43:42.079 --> 00:43:49.840
I uh uh I I would be, and I am actually somebody that has an awful lot of either snow peak or four raven stuff.
00:43:50.159 --> 00:43:54.400
Yes, you know what they say about too too much branding on one uh in one thing.
00:43:54.559 --> 00:43:56.400
I need to mix it up a bit.
00:43:56.719 --> 00:44:06.000
Um but for me and I'm gonna I'm gonna put two things together for this next one, for uh like I did with that last one.
00:44:06.320 --> 00:44:10.559
Axe or knife, axe or knife, Tim, axe or knife.
00:44:10.880 --> 00:44:18.239
If if somebody said here's a present, here's an axe, would you be disappointed if that axe turned out to be a knife?
00:44:18.559 --> 00:44:26.400
No, no, no, I see you played axey knifey game before.
00:44:30.000 --> 00:44:33.679
I'd be questioning the person that gave it to me if they can't recognise the difference.
00:44:33.840 --> 00:44:35.679
I know, I mean, bloody hell.
00:44:36.159 --> 00:44:43.760
No, well, I I I put uh I put down knife and then I went, Axe, oh yes, this is where my list grew, you see.
00:44:44.239 --> 00:44:54.000
But I thought they're similar types of things, they are generally something that you would uh have forever.
00:44:54.239 --> 00:44:57.519
Uh I I mean I I've got countless knives.
00:44:57.679 --> 00:45:04.159
What I don't have is a a nice single-blade wooden-handled one with a leather pouch.
00:45:04.400 --> 00:45:22.880
Uh we went to the bushcraft show, the um LeVu on the farm, uh, and saw some incredible uh people that were forging the steel, that were maybe not forging it, but getting blanks and actually doing the handles for them.
00:45:23.280 --> 00:45:41.039
And they ranged from the kind of the standard off-the-shelf stuff that you can buy, you know, in go outdoors for about£100, going up to you know four, five, six, seven hundred, you know, and beyond, probably.
00:45:41.360 --> 00:45:53.840
Um, and just the differences between those uh longer blades, shorter blades, what you're doing with them, you know, uh and what kind of woods that they're made out of.
00:45:54.079 --> 00:45:56.400
I could I could own thousands of them.
00:45:56.559 --> 00:46:07.199
And if you want to get a special gift for somebody, my god, you know, yeah, it's something that they will take care of, it'll last a lifetime, and it'll be such a special thing.
00:46:07.440 --> 00:46:13.199
And you know, those ones that are at£100, they don't look like they're just cheap.
00:46:13.360 --> 00:46:15.119
They do look incredible.
00:46:15.440 --> 00:46:18.960
Yeah, yeah, no, they're they're they're not gonna hell Hella.
00:46:19.360 --> 00:46:23.199
Uh, have you seen those Hella ones with the curly birch handles and stuff?
00:46:23.360 --> 00:46:25.360
They're you know, they look incredible.
00:46:25.440 --> 00:46:29.119
You can buy them and go outdoors, and they're like 90, 100 pounds.
00:46:29.760 --> 00:46:37.920
Um, and then they're you know, like I say, they're all of the we we looked at some from York knife and various other places.
00:46:38.000 --> 00:46:42.320
And I think was it the guy from TP Knives?
00:46:42.719 --> 00:46:45.679
Yes, he was he was such a such a nice guy.
00:46:45.840 --> 00:46:58.079
I mean, he he told us a horrible story of how he'd he'd he was using somebody else's knife and uh and cut into his his hand with it because the blade slipped, and that made him get into making knives better.
00:46:58.159 --> 00:47:05.360
So he uh he then set up set himself up and started making um better knives with better grips so that your hand didn't slip on it.
00:47:05.440 --> 00:47:10.800
And um they were beautiful knives, really, really beautiful knives, felt really nice in your hand.
00:47:10.960 --> 00:47:15.920
It's um yeah, that's a that's a great, a great idea for a gift.
00:47:16.079 --> 00:47:20.800
It's um and like you say, it doesn't have to be a doesn't have to be a 700 pound knife, you know.
00:47:20.960 --> 00:47:25.280
Uh one that's 90 quid is is absolutely is absolutely lovely.
00:47:25.760 --> 00:47:30.159
Um somebody will have that for their life, you know.
00:47:30.480 --> 00:47:35.280
I I don't throw away knives, I have different knives for different things.
00:47:35.599 --> 00:47:50.159
Uh I I use them all from my Leatherman to uh my um Mora knife, I use that the most, but that you know that's not a very expensive one, but it's just got such a good blade to it and stuff.
00:47:50.400 --> 00:47:57.199
Yeah, uh so yeah, you know, I I thought that and and similarly, axes are the same.
00:47:57.440 --> 00:48:04.960
Um, I've had my grandpa's uh grandfather's books axe for 10-15 years.
00:48:05.119 --> 00:48:13.199
I went to one of the outdoor shows, they had a uh a forge there, so they were actually doing stuff and doing show and tells.
00:48:13.440 --> 00:48:16.719
And I yeah, bought my axe.
00:48:16.800 --> 00:48:19.039
Uh it was about 70 pounds then.
00:48:19.280 --> 00:48:26.320
Uh they're 150 quid now, so you know, they're uh but it's it's as good as it ever was.
00:48:26.559 --> 00:48:28.239
I absolutely love it.
00:48:29.920 --> 00:48:37.119
You know, I I'd like uh like a uh small um for uh no, I've got the small forest axe.
00:48:37.199 --> 00:48:41.760
I'd like uh uh a small splitting axe, they do.
00:48:42.000 --> 00:48:43.920
They do a small one and a large one.
00:48:44.000 --> 00:48:46.880
The small one I think is probably uh uh thing.
00:48:47.039 --> 00:48:51.840
But yeah, you know, it's nobody's ever gonna go, oh no, I've already got an axe.
00:48:51.920 --> 00:48:52.960
I don't need another one.
00:48:53.199 --> 00:48:54.159
Yeah, yeah.
00:48:54.320 --> 00:48:56.719
It's um at one point I had four axes.
00:48:56.800 --> 00:48:58.320
I uh now just have two.
00:48:58.480 --> 00:49:17.519
It's um I did at one point have a big long-handled splitting splitting axe for for splitting up logs and stuff, but I um I got my I I've got a couple of fiskers, uh an X5, little tiny thing for doing kindling, little hatchet, yeah, and um, and then I've got the N10, which is lovely.
00:49:17.599 --> 00:49:31.360
It's kind of the Fiskers head, um, so modern at one end and then a lovely hickory handle on it, and it's it's it's just a really really lovely axe, and not as expensive as as you know, some of the um some of the ones that you're talking about.
00:49:31.440 --> 00:49:37.519
You know, it's under it's under£50, but it's a beautiful axe, and I'll I'll you know I'll never have another one.
00:49:37.679 --> 00:49:46.960
It's um there uh those two are kind of in enough for me for for my needs, and uh, but it is a brilliant, a brilliant idea for a gift.
00:49:47.039 --> 00:49:49.920
It's uh we did buy somebody an axe, didn't we, earlier this year.
00:49:50.000 --> 00:49:54.480
So uh when we went downstairs, yeah, just talking about it.
00:49:54.559 --> 00:49:55.920
It's been a long year, hasn't it?
00:49:56.159 --> 00:50:02.559
And although we did highlight Rob, if you're listening, I still haven't forgotten.
00:50:02.719 --> 00:50:04.320
I want to go back to the woods.
00:50:04.559 --> 00:50:06.239
I want to go back to the woods.
00:50:06.559 --> 00:50:15.679
That was uh undoubtedly uh uh a key highlight of how somebody else is living my dream and stealing.
00:50:17.119 --> 00:50:25.599
And uh Rob introduced us to swag uh camping, which is amazing, one of the best nights' sleep I've ever had is in my swag bag.
00:50:25.679 --> 00:50:26.320
So yeah.
00:50:26.480 --> 00:50:34.000
So the Birk and Wills swag and uh and Rob from Birk and Wills earlier in the year uh invited us down to their woodland.
00:50:34.239 --> 00:50:38.719
And uh and what what a fantastic, what a fantastic weekend we had.
00:50:38.880 --> 00:50:46.239
And uh like you say, he is living a lot of people's dreams down there and and such a nice bloke for it as well.
00:50:46.400 --> 00:50:48.639
He's um such a nice chilled out bloke.
00:50:48.800 --> 00:50:55.840
But we um as a thank you, we sent him an axe to which he he opened letters and boxes and all sorts of things.
00:50:56.000 --> 00:50:58.320
So good on yeah.
00:51:00.960 --> 00:51:05.440
It's uh so an axe is a an excellent gift to get somebody.
00:51:10.639 --> 00:51:11.599
Shall I go next?
00:51:11.840 --> 00:51:14.239
Um it's gonna get more expensive again, I'm afraid.
00:51:14.400 --> 00:51:29.679
So um so this is something that I I I am seriously looking at at the moment, and um so it's the Eco Flow River 3 You are Power Station.
00:51:30.000 --> 00:51:40.400
Yeah, so it's it's um so it's their updated version, so it's half the size, but gives the same capacity as the la as the larger one that they previously did.
00:51:40.800 --> 00:51:42.480
So new technology.
00:51:42.719 --> 00:51:47.840
Um it's uh it's about the size of a couple of house bricks sat next to each other.
00:51:48.079 --> 00:51:50.639
Um it looks lovely, I've seen it.
00:51:50.719 --> 00:51:52.320
Yeah, you sent it through to me.
00:51:52.559 --> 00:51:53.840
It's really, really nice.
00:51:54.000 --> 00:51:59.519
It gives what 245 um watt hours, it's got multiple ports on it.
00:51:59.679 --> 00:52:05.599
What I really like is it's it's got a um a conventional plug socket as well on it.
00:52:05.760 --> 00:52:15.599
I've got the Jackery that that you very kindly gave me, and uh and that is absolutely fine for 99% of my camping electronic uses.
00:52:15.840 --> 00:52:24.800
Um it's um its outputs from it are are a couple of USBs and a USB-C, which is absolutely fine because most of the stuff I need to charge up is USB.
00:52:25.119 --> 00:52:37.199
But then I'm just thinking on a on a longer trip away, particularly if if my other half is coming, there's more stuff to plug in, and there's potentially stuff that might need a might come with a conventional plug.
00:52:37.440 --> 00:52:42.239
So I'm just just kind of looking at that and thinking, it's really nice.
00:52:42.400 --> 00:52:55.760
The the nice thing with it is it's stackable, so they do an extra battery that's the same size that you can buy at a later date, and they just sit on top of each other, and then it bumps it up to 572 watt hours.
00:52:56.079 --> 00:53:01.920
And the really cool thing with it is it charges to full capacity in an hour without damaging the battery.
00:53:02.239 --> 00:53:09.199
Wow, so it's fast charging, um, high capacity, small size, less weight.
00:53:09.440 --> 00:53:16.079
It's it's absolutely absolutely brilliant, absolutely brilliant, and it will fit the existing sort of panels that I've already got for the Jackery.
00:53:16.320 --> 00:53:20.480
So um, you know, cost£240 though.
00:53:20.559 --> 00:53:25.440
So it's which isn't bad in in in regards to those things.
00:53:25.599 --> 00:53:25.920
No.
00:53:26.239 --> 00:53:32.800
I bought an Anchor 521 this last year, um, and I got a really good deal on it.
00:53:32.960 --> 00:53:46.559
It was a returned open box via eBay kind of thing, uh, and I got it for 130 quid, you know, when they were retailing for 189 or something, even with discounts.
00:53:46.719 --> 00:53:55.280
Um, but they similarly have also updated theirs, um, so it's got uh slightly more power, it's got a lovely little shape.
00:53:55.440 --> 00:54:07.440
It comes with a little uh attaching strap, which uh uh why you would ever need, I do not know, but it also had it's doubled its secret capacity, yeah.
00:54:10.800 --> 00:54:12.239
That's the other short term.
00:54:12.559 --> 00:54:28.159
Oh sorry casual camping podcast after hours there's no subscription service next year.
00:54:35.679 --> 00:54:44.719
I can imagine the subscription is two points for ten years.
00:54:51.840 --> 00:54:53.280
Someone will pay for that head.
00:54:53.599 --> 00:54:55.280
Oh god, this went dark.
00:54:57.199 --> 00:54:59.519
Do you want to watch Tim remove his walking boots?
00:54:59.679 --> 00:55:01.039
There could be blood.
00:55:03.760 --> 00:55:04.800
Check us out on Only.
00:55:05.199 --> 00:55:10.000
Are they muddy boots or just bloody boots?
00:55:11.679 --> 00:55:12.639
Oh dear.
00:55:12.800 --> 00:55:13.679
Oh, good story.
00:55:14.239 --> 00:55:33.039
Yeah, so that they they've updated theirs, so the capacity is more, the shape is different, comes with a couple of other things, but instead of one UK plug socket, it's got two, and mine's not even a year old, but you know, they just know me that I'm like, yeah, I might I might sell this.
00:55:33.119 --> 00:55:37.519
I'm sure I should be able to get more or less what I paid for it to then buy that.
00:55:37.840 --> 00:55:39.039
Yeah, but yeah.
00:55:39.280 --> 00:55:52.559
I I do have the most, I mean I picked the the EcoFlow, but most of the brands out there, the technology is moving so fast with this stuff that the sizes of these are getting smaller and smaller and smaller, yeah, but the capacity's the same.
00:55:52.719 --> 00:56:04.880
So so if you can if you can decide how much power you need, you know, the the the size of of of tech that you're gonna need to power all that up is just getting smaller and smaller and therefore lighter.
00:56:05.039 --> 00:56:09.840
Because some of these bigger ones, they're they're on wheels because they're that heavy, you can't you can't you can't pick them up.
00:56:10.239 --> 00:56:10.480
Yeah.
00:56:10.639 --> 00:56:26.719
And and I have to say, while I've taken mine away for weekends and stuff, uh, that actually the only time that I really used the size, and mine is the smallest one, uh, the Anchor 521.
00:56:26.880 --> 00:56:28.159
So it is the smallest one.
00:56:28.320 --> 00:56:33.119
The only time I really needed that was when I went away for a week.
00:56:33.599 --> 00:56:36.320
So um I think that's the thing.
00:56:36.400 --> 00:56:40.239
I you you can go really big with these things depending on what you're doing.
00:56:40.320 --> 00:56:48.159
And if you're driving around in a van and doing lots of other things, then of course those are the the things that you need.
00:56:48.800 --> 00:56:57.440
But uh yeah, really I I had to really talk myself out of getting something really bigger because I was like, you know what, you just you don't need it.
00:56:58.079 --> 00:57:06.800
Well that that um uh that Jackery100, you know, it's it's what 98 watt hours um on it.
00:57:07.119 --> 00:57:18.239
It's more than enough for me for like three, four days camping because all I'm charging up is my phone, maybe a torch, you know, maybe a lamp or something like that if it's if it's gone off after a couple of days.
00:57:18.480 --> 00:57:20.960
That that is all I'm doing, and that is more than enough.
00:57:21.039 --> 00:57:24.320
And the solar panels I've got for it actually top it up in a day anyway.
00:57:24.480 --> 00:57:27.039
It's um so so for me, it's absolutely fine.
00:57:27.119 --> 00:57:31.599
I'm just thinking of those longer trips if I'm if I'm going away with with my other half.
00:57:31.840 --> 00:57:36.400
There's the possibility that we'd we'd have more stuff that we need to need to open up.
00:57:36.800 --> 00:57:42.320
There will be, you know, hair curlers and stuff, yeah, those sorts of crazy things.
00:57:42.480 --> 00:57:45.599
But um, but it's a nice piece of kit, and I really like the shape of it.
00:57:45.760 --> 00:57:50.239
I really like the fact that it's sort of short and squat and um and doesn't take up loads of space.
00:57:50.400 --> 00:57:50.639
Yeah.
00:57:50.800 --> 00:57:56.719
But uh, you know, some of these some of these ones are so big you go think, well, they're never gonna get it in the car with everything else.
00:57:56.880 --> 00:57:59.920
It's um yeah, whereas uh that one's that one's a good size.
00:58:00.239 --> 00:58:01.119
Ecoflow.
00:58:01.199 --> 00:58:09.599
I mean, I'm sick of watching YouTube channels where somebody's been given, you know, one of the big 3,000 pound battery packs to test out.
00:58:10.400 --> 00:58:12.559
Is anybody testing out the small ones?
00:58:12.639 --> 00:58:14.239
Hey, that's all I'm saying.
00:58:14.400 --> 00:58:17.519
We're here, we're ready, we're available.
00:58:19.199 --> 00:58:21.280
Change my mind on anchor.
00:58:23.519 --> 00:58:24.400
Yeah, yeah.
00:58:24.559 --> 00:58:26.239
Switch me from Jackery.
00:58:26.320 --> 00:58:27.440
I dare you.
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Challenge thrown down.
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Will they accept?
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They will ignore.
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Yes.
00:58:36.639 --> 00:58:37.920
They ain't listening, Tim.
00:58:38.079 --> 00:58:39.360
No, they ain't listening.
00:58:39.440 --> 00:58:40.800
They ain't listening.
00:58:41.280 --> 00:58:44.000
Oh, well, that that's a good one.
00:58:44.079 --> 00:58:48.800
Uh, so for me, uh, have we done four yet?
00:58:49.280 --> 00:58:50.719
Um, that was my fourth one.
00:58:50.800 --> 00:58:51.760
That was one of the things that was yours.
00:58:51.920 --> 00:58:59.679
I've got this one to come and uh yeah, my fifth one will cause a sharp intake of breath, I'm sure, by a number of people.
00:58:59.920 --> 00:59:04.400
It's not an island, it's not like last year where I bought an island for Christmas.
00:59:05.039 --> 00:59:15.199
Well, for so for me, I I went more about uh things that either we've talked about an awful lot or just sort of quite simple things.
00:59:15.360 --> 00:59:21.599
Uh the thing that I think anybody should have in in their kit is a blowtorch.
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A blowtorch.
00:59:23.039 --> 00:59:24.719
Oh yes, yeah.
00:59:24.880 --> 00:59:29.280
Uh I've just bought one for work uh um recently.
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It cost me 11 pounds.
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It's just a a very simple butane thing, it just twists onto the lid, and you can start barbecues, bonfires, whatever.
00:59:41.280 --> 00:59:45.920
I do also have uh a snow peak blowtouch.
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It's been my go-to for a long time.
00:59:49.679 --> 00:59:55.199
It's inspired you to get one, it's inspired my uh uh mate Mark to get one.
00:59:55.440 --> 00:59:58.880
Uh, it's just a very sensible bit of kit to have.
00:59:59.519 --> 01:00:04.239
Certainly if you're doing more than just summertime camping, yeah.
01:00:04.400 --> 01:00:11.360
You know, springtime and autumn time and winter time, it's an absolute must, I think, uh, to have that with you.
01:00:11.440 --> 01:00:17.840
Uh just so that, you know, worst comes to the worst, you'll be able to get something, uh, some fire going with that.
01:00:18.159 --> 01:00:19.280
No problem at all.
01:00:19.440 --> 01:00:24.559
And I think, you know, it doesn't have to be anything like a snow peak one or anything like that.
01:00:24.719 --> 01:00:30.079
I think uh just a little blowtorch that is wrapped up in a foraging bag or something like that.
01:00:30.400 --> 01:00:31.119
That'd be great.
01:00:31.360 --> 01:00:32.239
Yeah, yeah.
01:00:32.480 --> 01:00:34.880
And it it is a fantastic piece of kit.
01:00:35.039 --> 01:00:37.360
It's a really cool toy to get out and play.
01:00:37.440 --> 01:00:40.320
It's a serious toy, don't mess around with it, you will cause some damage.
01:00:40.480 --> 01:00:44.159
But it's um, it's a serious, cool, big, big boys toy to play with.
01:00:44.320 --> 01:00:51.599
It's um, and actually, on the back of us talking about it, some of our listeners have bought them and you know put videos on the um on the socials.
01:00:51.840 --> 01:00:53.039
I think it's Gash.
01:00:53.199 --> 01:00:55.280
Um, off the top of my head, I think it's Gash.
01:00:55.440 --> 01:00:59.760
Gar Gary uh went and bought went and bought a blowtorch and got it going.
01:00:59.840 --> 01:01:04.960
And I think he was a little bit skeptical, but actually he was a complete convert and he got his fire going.
01:01:05.119 --> 01:01:08.880
So um you know, you they they're not for every time, you know.
01:01:08.960 --> 01:01:19.360
Sometimes you want to make fire stick, uh feather sticks, sometimes you want to uh try and um uh use your fire steel with other things.
01:01:19.519 --> 01:01:20.880
It's just one of those things.
01:01:21.039 --> 01:01:31.760
Sometimes when you need it, sometimes you don't, you know, you're you've set up in the rain, you're a bit you've done all of the other things, uh and it's you're out of breath.
01:01:31.840 --> 01:01:34.079
You just you know what, I'm getting that blowtorch out.
01:01:34.719 --> 01:01:36.079
Yeah, I need fire now.
01:01:36.320 --> 01:01:40.320
I use it most when I um if I'm putting charcoal on the on the fire pit first.
01:01:40.400 --> 01:01:42.559
Yeah, it's great for a cooking charcoal.
01:01:42.880 --> 01:01:45.280
It just gets the charcoal going so quickly.
01:01:45.440 --> 01:01:47.280
It's such a great piece of kit for that.
01:01:47.440 --> 01:01:52.800
I um again, you'd be you'd be gobsmacked if that was uh under the Christmas tree.
01:01:53.920 --> 01:01:54.480
Great idea.
01:01:55.360 --> 01:01:56.320
Great idea.
01:01:56.639 --> 01:01:57.920
Come on then, Tim.
01:01:58.480 --> 01:02:06.719
Eager ears uh uh are waiting to hear what uh your uh isn't it funny?
01:02:06.880 --> 01:02:20.800
The roles have been reversed here because uh I think our listeners expect me to go, oh well, Yeti have come out with a new uh uh something or other, and uh and yet actually um the roles have been reversed.
01:02:21.039 --> 01:02:25.199
Tim has uh thrown the baby out of the dishwasher uh bath water.
01:02:25.920 --> 01:02:27.039
I want the pause.
01:02:29.840 --> 01:02:35.760
I um yeah, I wasn't I I genuinely wasn't looking at the price of stuff, I was just looking at stuff that I I really want.
01:02:35.920 --> 01:02:39.280
Um, so this is this is just a list of stuff that I'd like for Christmas.
01:02:39.360 --> 01:02:41.280
I know I'm not getting any of it.
01:02:42.880 --> 01:02:45.840
Well, you know, Richard's listening.
01:02:50.000 --> 01:02:51.760
We hope he's listening.
01:02:52.320 --> 01:02:54.880
He's not listening, he's he's not listening.
01:02:57.119 --> 01:03:00.480
He's doing like first 10 minutes, fast forward.
01:03:00.559 --> 01:03:01.280
Yeah, lads.
01:03:01.440 --> 01:03:03.039
Love love to start.
01:03:05.440 --> 01:03:07.119
Oh, don't tell me people do that.
01:03:07.199 --> 01:03:09.119
Oh, yeah, you made me cry.
01:03:09.280 --> 01:03:10.880
I've just looked at at the time.
01:03:10.960 --> 01:03:12.800
We're we're getting longer and longer, Tim.
01:03:12.960 --> 01:03:13.920
People don't have the time.
01:03:14.000 --> 01:03:17.360
They're they're oh man, how long have we been going now?
01:03:17.679 --> 01:03:21.039
Well, that's I think oh over an hour.
01:03:21.440 --> 01:03:25.440
Okay, okay, so um big ticket item.
01:03:25.599 --> 01:03:30.000
This is something I I would dearly love to do if I had the money to do it.
01:03:30.079 --> 01:03:34.559
It's a lot of money, it's not a ridiculous amount of money, but it is an awful lot of money.
01:03:34.719 --> 01:03:38.480
Um, I would really like to build my own Canadian canoe.
01:03:38.800 --> 01:03:55.440
Oh and uh and there's a company in uh Windoneer in the Lake District in the UK who do a range of um wooden boats from rowboats and all sorts and kayaks and things like that, but they do specifically a 15-foot Canadian canoe um in wood.
01:03:55.599 --> 01:03:59.679
It's all pre-cut, it's a kit that you get, you get full instructions.
01:03:59.920 --> 01:04:05.920
Um should take you um, if you were able to do it in one go, it would take you four days to make it.
01:04:06.000 --> 01:04:20.480
But you can spend my ideal would be spend the winter, spend the winter in the garage making a 15-foot wooden canoe that you can then take out next year and uh and actually take out and go canoe camping.
01:04:20.719 --> 01:04:22.800
Um it's absolutely beautiful.
01:04:22.960 --> 01:04:26.159
I uh I've got pictures of it which I'll put up on socials.
01:04:26.400 --> 01:04:33.840
Um they do the the company uh they're called Finn Boat Kits, so FYNE boat kits.
01:04:34.239 --> 01:04:51.440
And um and you can actually go and stay in Windermere and camp and then use their use their workshop and their tools so you can build the canoe there, and then on the fifth day on the Saturday, you launch it on Lake Windermere and go canoeing on Lake Windermere and take it home.
01:04:51.920 --> 01:05:06.639
So, um so which is quite cool, but you have to pay more for that because that you have to use their their workshop and stuff, but it's um just for the kit alone, which would they will send for you, uh send to you, it's uh it's 965 pounds.
01:05:07.360 --> 01:05:10.480
Yeah, not not not for what you get.
01:05:10.559 --> 01:05:15.760
I mean, if you go and buy a Canadian uh canoe, they're pretty expensive.
01:05:16.079 --> 01:05:20.880
I couldn't find one for less than about two grand, two and a half grand, one that was made.
01:05:21.039 --> 01:05:31.760
Um, but I just think that's a really that's a really you know, if you're quite handy and you're and you you're you're alright with tools and you're used to working with wood, then then actually what a lovely thing to do.
01:05:32.000 --> 01:05:43.360
To to put that together, uh, you know, either on your own or with a mate or your partner, and you spend all that time putting it together and building it, and then you actually go on adventures in it, you know, bloody hell.
01:05:43.519 --> 01:05:45.360
That's yeah, that's awesome.
01:05:45.599 --> 01:05:56.400
And at some point, I'm gonna save up and I'm gonna buy myself that kit, and I'm gonna spend a while putting it together and building it, and then I'm gonna stick it on top of the Jeep, and I'm gonna go for some canoe adventures.
01:05:57.840 --> 01:05:59.440
Amazing, amazing.
01:06:00.239 --> 01:06:01.760
Um yeah, yeah.
01:06:01.840 --> 01:06:03.679
Well I I can't top that.
01:06:04.000 --> 01:06:06.400
I um it's not a competition.
01:06:06.559 --> 01:06:07.199
It's not a competition.
01:06:07.440 --> 01:06:08.480
We've just gone for different things.
01:06:08.559 --> 01:06:09.440
We've just gone for different things.
01:06:10.320 --> 01:06:14.639
Those just happen to be five things that are in my browsing history at the moment and I keep looking at.
01:06:17.119 --> 01:06:17.679
Good.
01:06:17.840 --> 01:06:24.719
Um, so for my final thing then before we uh wrap up, um I love playing with fire.
01:06:24.800 --> 01:06:29.039
Don't know whether anybody's really you know twigged that over the last two seasons.
01:06:29.440 --> 01:06:42.079
Um but um I I own uh a blow poker, uh, which sounds a bit rude and suggestive, anybody that knows what they are.
01:06:42.239 --> 01:06:49.119
So it basically it's a fire poker, but actually it's tubular and it's got a mouthpiece at one end, and you can blow on the fire.
01:06:49.199 --> 01:06:51.199
So like bellows uh things.
01:06:51.679 --> 01:06:57.840
Um there's a company called Petramax that do a quite a small one that extends up.
01:06:57.920 --> 01:07:01.840
I think I bought one for you, uh Tim, that you threw away or something.
01:07:02.159 --> 01:07:11.360
Didn't you threw away or didn't like or you you you spat on it and uh threw it in the bin on Christmas deal.
01:07:14.239 --> 01:07:16.639
You ungrateful wretch.
01:07:16.880 --> 01:07:22.079
Um but they're 24 quid, 25 quid, depending on where you get them from.
01:07:22.159 --> 01:07:32.559
Uh Petramax is a wonderful company that uh I think does I think they license stuff from other people, so uh they seem to just have a lot of things on.
01:07:32.719 --> 01:07:36.000
So I have a blow poker, uh, which I use.
01:07:36.159 --> 01:07:37.119
It's quite long.
01:07:37.199 --> 01:07:39.039
I'd like a uh a smaller one.
01:07:39.119 --> 01:07:46.880
I've got a tiny little one in my fire kit that uh extends like uh like a car aerial, one of those type of things.
01:07:47.119 --> 01:07:55.199
And one of those is just sort of a medium size, which uh I think would be appropriate to have in my uh firebox.
01:07:55.360 --> 01:08:00.639
That means that I don't have to get my face as close to the fire uh and I can play around with it.
01:08:01.199 --> 01:08:08.800
Yeah, you um you did get me that and you got me that for a one Christmas a few years ago, and uh and it was beautiful and it was used a lot.
01:08:08.880 --> 01:08:19.119
And at that time I was living in a house that had an open fire and it lived next to the fire because it was used you know almost on a daily basis, and I loved it very much.
01:08:19.199 --> 01:08:25.600
But when I left that house, um I didn't wasn't able to take all of my things that I loved with me.
01:08:25.680 --> 01:08:28.399
So sadly, it's one of those items that's still there.
01:08:28.640 --> 01:08:34.960
It's um I wasn't probably has now been it's probably has now been spat on and run over.
01:08:36.159 --> 01:08:40.079
Yeah, it's probably been used to unblock a toilet, you know, all those all those things.
01:08:40.159 --> 01:08:47.039
But yeah, it's um so yes, I'm very sorry that I don't I don't still have it because it is a really lovely, really lovely piece of kit.
01:08:47.279 --> 01:08:52.720
And again, it made a great Christmas present, so it would definitely make somebody else a really great Christmas present.
01:08:53.039 --> 01:09:08.159
Yeah, if if you're stuck on something to buy somebody, uh have a look on Petramax's uh website because they do an enormous range of various things for buyers and camping and loads of stuff.
01:09:08.319 --> 01:09:12.720
Uh um they're a really good company, uh often liked their things.
01:09:13.199 --> 01:09:17.359
Beautiful um Dutch ovens and potato ovens and stuff like that.
01:09:17.439 --> 01:09:19.920
There is some really lovely cast iron stuff.
01:09:20.239 --> 01:09:22.079
Beautiful stuff, yeah.
01:09:23.199 --> 01:09:26.399
No, well, so Christmas is upon us.
01:09:27.279 --> 01:09:32.800
There's a few ideas for you all um of of varying expense to to consider.
01:09:32.960 --> 01:09:35.039
There's still time to go out and get some of those.
01:09:35.279 --> 01:09:41.600
Um if uh if you want any of them, then just get your other heart to listen to the show and get them to subscribe.
01:09:41.760 --> 01:09:44.319
It's um it uh it all helps.
01:09:44.560 --> 01:09:46.960
And um I saw what you did there, Tim.
01:09:47.039 --> 01:09:47.840
Well done.
01:09:48.960 --> 01:09:50.800
Drop some hints, yeah.
01:09:50.880 --> 01:09:51.760
You don't have to leave.
01:09:51.840 --> 01:09:53.119
Uh just listen to this.
01:09:53.199 --> 01:09:56.720
It's so uh uh about minute 200.
01:09:56.960 --> 01:10:00.880
That's when there are we that long now.
01:10:01.199 --> 01:10:02.079
Probably, probably.
01:10:02.319 --> 01:10:03.680
Bloody hell, bloody hell.
01:10:04.159 --> 01:10:07.039
People can listen to this in two halves if they want to, yeah.
01:10:07.920 --> 01:10:17.279
But yeah, no, it has been genuinely a fantastic year of camping and adventures and meeting loads and loads of people.
01:10:17.439 --> 01:10:22.079
It's um but I uh oh it's he's he's he's running off.
01:10:22.159 --> 01:10:22.720
He's running off.
01:10:22.960 --> 01:10:28.399
God, I've had the door, he's got the phone now, so um I'm gonna oh God.
01:10:32.720 --> 01:10:39.279
What a an incredible adventure we've kind of been on with this podcast, and it just keeps getting better and better.
01:10:39.359 --> 01:10:54.880
We've met some amazing people, and just a genuine heartfelt thank you to all of our listeners out there from Aid and I for tuning in every week, for for taking part and and interacting with us on the socials, for sending your five-star mediocre reviews in.
01:10:55.119 --> 01:11:00.479
Um, we uh I haven't mentioned, but I've I've sent a ton of stickers out all over the world this year.
01:11:00.560 --> 01:11:09.520
There's literally it's been within a week that I haven't had to go to the post office and send something to another part of America, Canada, Germany, Australia.
01:11:09.680 --> 01:11:12.079
You know, there's there's stickers all over the world, which is great.
01:11:12.159 --> 01:11:15.039
I've got some more to get to go out um tomorrow.
01:11:15.279 --> 01:11:22.239
So if anybody wants any stickers, then just uh send us a direct message on uh some of our socials and uh with your address.
01:11:22.399 --> 01:11:27.359
We don't keep that, we don't have a mailing list, we're just using it to send out stickers and we chuck it away again.
01:11:27.520 --> 01:11:31.680
Um, but yeah, it's just you know, what a hell of a year, what a hell of a year.
01:11:32.000 --> 01:11:46.560
Yeah, you know, and okay, you're listening to you two Yorkshire guys uh talking through around camping, taking the mick out of each other, having a bit of a laugh, trying to keep it as friendly and as innocent as camping really is.
01:11:46.640 --> 01:11:51.359
Uh, but we couldn't do this without you, and thanks for turning up week after week.
01:11:51.520 --> 01:12:00.560
Uh, we know that friends and family do as well, but you know, I think uh we both think of uh you know the wider community as our friends and family as well.
01:12:00.720 --> 01:12:02.239
So thank you so much.
01:12:02.560 --> 01:12:10.800
All the best uh over the season, be kind, and uh yeah, maybe don't get too drunk.
01:12:11.359 --> 01:12:12.479
Ah, don't be silly.
01:12:15.920 --> 01:12:17.520
Have a great Christmas, everybody.
01:12:17.680 --> 01:12:19.359
Have a fantastic new year.
01:12:19.520 --> 01:12:23.920
Um, if you're going camping during during uh our off season, absolutely brilliant.
01:12:24.000 --> 01:12:26.000
Stick it on our socials, we'd love to see it.
01:12:26.159 --> 01:12:34.159
But we will be back um first week of February 2025 with the opener for season three of Casual Camping Podcast.
01:12:34.319 --> 01:12:35.520
See you next year, everybody.
01:12:35.600 --> 01:12:36.479
I've been Tim.
01:12:36.800 --> 01:12:37.920
I've been aid