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http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Gortex-Military-Bivvy-Bag-/120775757791?pt=UK_Collectables_Militaria_LE&hash=item1c1ecbcfdf

this is the sort i used in the army

Okay I've made a bid for that...but also sent off for that SAS tunnel thing.

Thanks for helping me with this.

god knows what it will do for the opinion of neighbours of me in the street.

But they know I'm someone who isn't like them already. And the new neighbours are students...the otherside no-one has lived in for years.

And there's an artist across the road who has painted eyes all over his house. So I'm hardly the weirdest.

Off to start looking at top of the range sleeping bags.

I absolutely can't wait to start doing this. I think it might well improve my dreadful sleeping.

It appears its impossible to buy this thing as it keeps telling me my password is wrong for the card.

I now have to re-apply and its asking for a cardholder number.

What's that?

Actually a cardholder member number.

Okay I've sorted it. Sorry to bother you with this stuff.

It says its great for down to -11C and it's not one of those 'mummy types' I'll be able to thrash around a bit in it.

I don't know what's going to happen. I'm suddenly seeing that the product is no longer available...but they are thanking me for my order.

But I won't give up.

The SAS thing is confirmed.

Sorry Taff for pestering you like this. Please feel free to ignore. But I really am quite unwell.

It's no longer available, because you've bought it?

Guessing, as I've never used eBay.

TRiG.

I don't know and I don't care.

They are thanking me for buying it. They can take all my money for all I care...

Actually that's not true my father would have a fit...I don't know what'll happen about it. I'll contact the company tomorow about it.

Do you know, I've never slept outside. In at tent, yes, but not outside. The way you describe it makes me think it's something I must do.

Ben

Yes sleeping outside is hard to describe. You are so vulnerable in a way...but everything can come in on you.

It appears my sleeping bag which was described as 'unavailable'..is now described as 'processing'...so I'm hoping for the best.

Plus if it does exist it'll be silver, which will be brilliant.

Oh woohoo Black's just emailed me to say it's coming..

And the SAS thing will now be coming. I suddenly realised I hadn't paid for it on ebay. It took me god knows how long to work that out with paypal..I'd forgotten...and my brain gets worse for these things.

And I'm still the highest bidder on the other military thing.

Yay! So it was your order made it go out of stock? You must have got the last one.

Yes and its 17 hours left for the thing Taff recommended that goes over the sleeping bag.

But I'll also have the SAS thing.

I'm going to try to sleep out as much as possible once all the equipment has arrived.

I could maybe do a guide entry on it.

But I'll be very careful about that. If things start going badly wrong again I won't push it.

I just got a message from ebay to say I hadn't paid for the thing I paid for yesterday. So I've paid again. I hope I haven't paid twice. Hopefully I made a mistake yesterday.

I'm sick of making these mistakes. My brain is just not working for this type of stuff.

And I've got stuff to face about numbers and banks.

And I got the final thing now. So it will be an SAS kind of small tunnel thing. And the polar sleeping bag covered by the army bivvy thing Taff suggested.

And that other payment thing is sorted.

This will be such a weird adventure.