"Janet Tweedy" wrote in message
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My brother and his wife have got a fairly new allotment and put up a shed
in October. i was going to get them (for a christmas present) some means
of boiling water so they could have some tea and maybe a light.

Anyone recommend anything please?


One thing nobody has so far mentioned.
You can get a kettle with a hollow central tube which you fill with twigs
and then set fire to.
Boils water for a cuppa, and no need for gas or electricity.
Saw some lovely fancy ones in NZ.
A more boring one in Cotswold Outdoors.
http://www.cotswoldoutdoor.com/kelly...?id_colour=180

"Never buy fuel again! A fiendishly simple idea, the Kelly Kettle is
basically a double-skinned metal chimney. Its tapering shape means a fire
lit beneath it in a vented metal base draws very efficiently and lights
easily, heating water which you pour into the chimney's hollow walls. Using
whatever solid fuel is naturally occuring in the area - sticks, grass, pine
cones, birch bark, even dry animal dung - the Kelly Kettle works in harsh
weather conditions, bringing water to the boil within a matter of minutes.

Boiling around 6 Mugs of water at a time, the Base Camp Kettle has
traditionally been used by Irish Anglers but is also suitable for car
camping, garden allotments, picnics, hunting trips and wilderness survival
or even use by humanitarian aid groups: anyone living and working in the
outdoors!"

Cheers

Dave R
--
No plan survives contact with the enemy.
[Not even bunny]

Helmuth von Moltke the Elder

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