Er, not for me. I need a proper flashlight, after dark, in case of encountering a stretch of pavement where the stret light is out or blocked by a truck or something. (Night blind in one eye, poor vision in the other.) So it's either an LED Lenser or MagLite LED torch for me.
Phone tethering is unfortunately an expensive extra over here (and the cellcos allegedly use DPI to enforce it). Plus, I keep the mifi on a different network so that if the regular mobile network has no coverage the mifi might be okay.
Not sure how you define "folio" -- over here it's a sheet of paper, or a type of book.
]]>I'm surprised to hear that. I have a Galaxy S 2 with a Vodafone SIM, and have never had any problems with that on either expense or usage. Is it something to do with perhaps your phone provider and/or iPhone?
(Power drain, yes, running a WiFi hotspot eats battery.)
]]>(My total contract including data is less than that, and it's one that was including the cost of the phone.)
]]>Sounds awfully wasteful at first sight, but washing and drying is not free or environmentally friendly.
Indeed so. And if you can produce these disposable products without involving washing and/or drying or other water usage in their production, then you might be onto something. But for now, original production uses quantities of water that make mere clothes washing look positively parsimonious. (Farewell Aral Sea, victim of cotton farming.)
Disposable products not only require more material input, they also require more shipping, and they cause more waste.
Reusable diapers (to take the worst possible item to want to wash) at worst aren't particularly worse than disposable ones regarding environmental impact, and at best can actually be better. For anything else, the washing requirement is less. (How messy do your napkins get?)
]]>Typically worn by me: jeans, cargo pants or whatever. In the summer, a tee-shirt and sandals; in the winter, a tee, a long-sleeved shirt and a pullover, with a pair of Dr Martens on my feet (currently steel-capped, since they were on sale and in my size). While my ankle was healing from a bad twist, I forewent the DMs and wore a cheap pair of trainers. Footware only goes on when I go out; I make do with bare feet or socks at home.
For pockets, I wear a denim jacket in the summer. If it's terribly hot, or I have too much to carry for my pockets, I carry a satchel, manbag or camera bag. In the winter, a very cheap leather coat I picked up at Primark on sale.
Oh, and a hat. To keep the sun off in summer and the wind and other elements out in the winter. At the moment I sport a peaked cap of some design I don't know the name of; in the coldest days of winter I'll wear a Russian-style fur hat.
Things I carry: wallet, house keys, car keys, change in my trouser pockets; sometimes a phone, compact camera, iPod Touch or Mifi widget in my trouser or jacket pockets. Key fob includes mini wind-up LED torch and USB stick. Satchel might contain camera and accessories, drinks flask, iPad or laptop, rain jacket, notebook or sketchpad, pens, map, etc. Oh, and there's usually a light-weight, folding umbrella in coat or jacket pocket or bag, because this is Britain, and I might get rained on at any time, even in the summer.
I wouldn't know what to do with the forty-odd pockets in Charlie's Fleece. Lose a lot of stuff is my guess, and serendipitously discover it far later.
]]>I wear blue Levis, mostly 'cuz I'm too lazy to go look for a brand to switch to.
I wear the same no-name sneakers I did a decade and more ago. Every time the heel on the right one blows out, I go get an identical replacement. Sometimes at the store, I'm tempted to shuffle the contents and buy two right ones as if they were a pair, but that would be cheating.
]]>Alas, I'm about 20 years too old and 20 kilos to heavy to be their target demographic, although some of the tee shirts fit ...
]]>I reserve my wool Stetson for the rain; when it rains pretty much continuously for 6 to 8 months out of the year, as it does here in Portland, you damn well need a hat with a brim, or a hood with a visor, or all you're doing is transferring the water from the top of your head to back or side of your neck. I've had the Stetson now for about 15 years, and it's just become nicely worn in; I wouldn't be surprised if it lasts another 15 years.
]]>I have coming up a dozen hats, and I feel naked going outside without one on. When travelling somewhere that may be hot, the Foldaway or a felt hat will be in the case and the Norman on my head, since the Norman really doesn't pack well.
I don't like stiff hats such as bowlers or top hats, or totally floppy ones like the Tilley. I don't disapprove of them, I just don't enjoy wearing them.
]]>Indeed. Love the feel of it, but it's quite easy to ruin microfiber fleece. Also -- and this is particularly an issue for me in that I own a large German Shepherd x St. Bernard mutt who somehow sheds more mass than she consumes in kibble -- microfiber fleece attract animal hair like few other fabrics.
]]>And #1 technique for keeping animal hair off of microfleece is to hang the fleece up when not wearing it.
(Washing the SeV 5.0 fleece in accordance with the instructions worked fine; the only gotcha is to avoid tumble driers, so it takes rather a long time to dry. Airing cupboard for 48 hours did the trick.)
]]>As someone of Scottish descent (see, I too can cite irrelevant tribal characteristics!), I consider Utilikilts to be fantastic.
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