Having access to clean drinking water is obviously important, and something a lot of us take for granted, but when we’re camping or green-laning...

After he had bamboozled me with all the science he scooped some of the dirty brown water, and poured it into the bottle, and asked me again to take a drink…

… they’ve moaned that some bystanders may mistake the coating for blood, I can see why!

I explained that I wanted a good, dependable general purpose camp knife, a knife that can easily cut rope, feather branches, slice food and so on.  I didn’t want anything fancy or ridiculously expensive either as I have a bad habit of losing things!

I never thought I had much in common with The Prodigy, but I have to say they have nailed me with this lyric:

'I'm a fire starter, twisted fire starter'

OK maybe not the twisted part, but definitely the fire starter bit. I got to play with the Bear Grylls Fire Starter in the

The Bear Grylls survival series of products are not your usual 'lets slap a celebrity name on our normal products' type of thing. Bear is very involved in the design process of all the items in his range, after all, with his face all over the packaging, he doesn't want to be associated with any old guff. With Gerber’s 75+ years of making damn good products, and Bear Grylls' extensive knowledge…..