8 Oct 2022 Garand Picture of the Day

[Mark in Rochester]

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[Flying10uk]

One of the many stories that my late father once told me was about a "friend of the family" who was a WW1 veteran and when my father use to see him in the 1950's/1960's the veteran was getting on in years. My father use to like to chat to him about his WW1 service and, apparently, one of the things that the veteran kept "going on about" was "having to shave in ice cold water every day", while on active service at the front and sometimes, even, having to break the ice on the water in order to shave. Apparently the veteran spoke about "shaving in ice cold water" once too often and my father replied "well lets see you do it". I believe that the veteran did proceed to go outside and have a "wet-shave" courtesy of a rain-water-butt but what I don't know is if the shave was proceeded by any "ice-breaking".

[browningautorifle]

These guys have an immersion heater in the water. That could bring the water to a rolling boil. We used those regularly to heat water and used a bilge pump to make a shower in the field. There's no ice on that water. Cold water washing and shaving is unpleasant in cold temperatures.

[Flying10uk]

There's no ice on that water.

I didn't suggest there was.

[RASelkirk]

Immersion heater ... I spent 35 years in refinery operations. We had a little steam coil (1/4" copper tubing) in the control room for making coffee, it would boil a pot of water in less than 5 seconds!

Russ

[CINDERS]

I was pulling a gold mine down contracted to a company we had no power, no running water, no anything we slept on a gutted switch room floor.
I was there for only 5 days 4 nights only having one shower care of a thunderstorm that came through around 11:00 one night.
Heard it coming got out of the swag run out into the rain soaped up and had a shower that way it was not very warm to say the least.
Whilst there I saw 1 crow and 1 fly and that in Aus is rare as especially for the fly population.