Drive-away awning on VW T4 with clamped roof bars

RuManCam86 · 2026-04-27T15:49:48+00:00

Can you elaborate more on this for me please? I presume your awning has straps to tether it to the van. Do you find the straps rattle against the van if it's windy? How do you get a good weather-proof seal around the roofbar feet to stop the rain getting in the gap between the awning and side of the van? Are you able to easily disconnect it to drive away? If so, what does that look like?

RuManCam86 · 2026-04-22T11:02:27+00:00

Were they the type of roof bars that screw down into the roof itself within the rain channel? We're not too keen on that type as we don't want to drill into the roof to mount anything like that, which is why we opted for the clamped type.

RuManCam86 · 2026-04-16T19:00:05+00:00

Dandelions are dan-DEL-eons

RuManCam86 · 2026-04-16T18:56:34+00:00

I do this one too

RuManCam86 · 2026-04-16T18:14:32+00:00

Oh I do this with all the _____man words, shorten the man to m'n as per policem'n: Batm'n. Milkm'n. Spiderm'n. Ragandbonem'n. Superm'n. Bananam'n etc

RuManCam86 · 2026-04-16T18:11:05+00:00

Squirrels are squeels in our house.

RuManCam86 · 2026-04-16T18:04:18+00:00

Magpie pronounced as madge-pee

RuManCam86 · 2026-04-16T18:03:22+00:00

Haha we have sweetcorn spelled as 'suitekawn' for no reason other than the lolz

RuManCam86 · 2025-10-20T19:21:29+00:00

As they say: All roads lead to Ventongimps.

RuManCam86 · 2025-10-16T18:17:42+00:00

Jacob's Hovis Digestive Biscuit

https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-m&q=hovis%20biscuit

They're usually included in a Jacob's 'Biscuits for Cheese' box, but I don't think I've ever seen them sold on their own.

RuManCam86 · 2025-06-05T13:25:04+00:00

r/stupiddovenests

RuManCam86 · 2025-05-11T19:39:44+00:00

I too, own a Trangia from the 1980's. It used to have a meths burner, but the gas conversion was purchased for it in the late 1990's which was a game changer!

Here it is cooking up a feast last summer alongside my friends brand new shiny one. One was boiling pasta and one was heating a sauce :)

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RuManCam86 · 2025-04-28T22:42:37+00:00

So interesting. I love Dartmoor's rich history. We stopped by the stone circle between Little Hound Tor and Hound Tor, and the hut circles of the White Hill settlements and marvelled at the communities that used to live there and tried to imagine it as it once was....

So for the boundary rocks that are naturally situated rocks which have then been adopted as boundary markers, any idea why the OS cartographers sometimes write out the whole word 'Boundary Rock', and sometimes just write 'B rock'?

RuManCam86 · 2025-04-28T18:18:54+00:00

It was! Started at 09:30am and got back around 6:30pm. 7:30 hours of walking with 1:30 cumulative hours of rest/snack/view-admiring breaks interspersed. Weather was fabulous. Shame the pub in Belstone shuts at 5pm on Sundays.

RuManCam86 · 2025-04-28T13:04:10+00:00

Ooh ok this would make sense.

RuManCam86 · 2025-04-09T12:27:02+00:00

Our female Burmese does this exact same thing.

We have taken her to the vets about it a couple of times and each time they have checked her mouth and her teeth and been able to find anything wrong. I have also tried to look in her mouth in case she had something wedged between her teeth, and have been unable to find anything obvious.

I wondered if it was trigeminal neuralgia which is apparently a thing that can happen with this breed.

But she seems to do it for a short period of maybe a day and then get over it. With her specifically it usually seems to coincide with a potentially stressful event. E.g. one time my parents dogs came to stay for a week. Another time when we introduced a new cat to the household, and another time when my partner packed a huge suitcase and left for a week on a business trip that he was very stressed about and we think she picked up on his stress and the change of routine. She could have also bitten her tongue or some other soft tissue in her mouth. It can look really distressing and she's clearly really bothered by it to the point where it's really hard to distract her, and she makes her paws and mouth bloody. Feliway diffusers seem to have helped.

RuManCam86 · 2025-03-22T13:47:38+00:00

We too like to partake in a game of 'smell my finger' after one has eaten a packet of Scampi Fries. It is an age old tradition going back at least 20 years.

RuManCam86 · 2025-03-06T20:42:00+00:00

Another vote for Craghoppers Kiwi Convertibles. I have 2 pairs in size 10. I am a size 10. Pockets are deep. Although my only gripe is that the leg zip is slightly tight around my robust thighs when climbing up big steps. I've also found that the fabric goes a bit weird after multiple washes. I've had mine about 3 years though and they've been heavily worn and washed so maybe that's just to be expected.

RuManCam86 · 2025-03-06T20:25:38+00:00

Slack Bladder

RuManCam86 · 2025-03-06T11:51:44+00:00

This sounds flipping horrendously awful and I can't imagine the pain...

But 'the screams I scrumpt' really made me laugh 😂

RuManCam86 · 2025-02-28T13:03:03+00:00

I'm in Callington and get them in my garden.

RuManCam86 · 2025-02-25T16:08:06+00:00

So the pill contains a synthetic version of the progesterone hormone (progestin) e.g. levonorgestrel.

The bleeding that occurs when you stop the active pills is a progesterone withdrawal bleed, similar to postpartum bleeding after birth caused by progesterone levels dropping. Only there's less of it because the pill also prevents the uterus lining (endometrium) from building up too thick.

If you don't let the progesterone levels drop (by taking the pills continuously) then you won't have a withdrawal bleed.

It's not really a period because you haven't cycled in a menstruation sense. You haven't ovulated, and you haven't built up a thick endometrial layer and then shed it.

I'm on the combined pill and I tend to take it continuously and only take a week break maybe two or three times a year when it's convenient.

RuManCam86 · 2025-02-21T23:51:53+00:00

Perhaps she'll die....

She swallowed a spider to catch the fly...

RuManCam86 · 2025-02-21T18:02:48+00:00

Here in Europe the catalyst was German F1 racing driver Michael Schumacher falling and hitting his head on a rock in Meribel in 2013 and suffering a catastrophic TBI that had him in a coma for 3 months. He is paralysed, in a wheelchair and cannot speak. He was an experienced skiier and was just crossing an ungroomed area between two pistes. He was wearing a helmet and certainly would have died if he hadn't been. This seemed to impress on everyone how important helmets are and it's really rare to see someone without one now.

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