Useful Things
Candles
Batteries (20 x AA)
2 x Shemaghs
The other half’s kitchen blowtorch (sort you use to finish off a crème brulee)
Fire Blanket
Playing cards
Bic lighter
Tools for building model aircraft (gradually acquired over a number of years – I wont list them all but includes various tweezers, craft knives / scalpels / filler (putty) / hands free magnifying glass (sits on a small stand with crocodile clips attached to hold things)etc, etc
Unusual Things
Khanjar (Omani ceremonial dagger)
Arabic for dummies phrasebook
Pasta maker (hand powered)
Approx 20 unbuilt 1/48th scale model kits (mostly modern jets)
Federal Republic of Germany Flag approx 6 feet x 3 feet complete with the bits at the end to run it up a flag pole (don’t know what they’re called)
Printed and bound copy of the complete Alternative Survivor’s Guide to the United Kingdom by Dave Ross (sorry, couldn’t resist)
Artist’s easel, paper, and selection of acrylic paints (also other half’s)
Hi Viz Vest with “Fire” on the back
Sinclair ZX Spectrum 48K home computer (the one with rubber keys) that almost certainly no longer works plus various games (Manic Miner, Atic Atac, Jetpac, etc)
Dartboard and darts
Warsaw Pact Beret, exact origin unknown but I think it’s East German (it was bought in Budapest in 1996, and is a similar sort of red as a British Military Police beret
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Author of the unofficial and strictly non canon Alternative Survivor’s Guide to the United Kingdom
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