Make fire with reading glasses

April 2016

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April 2016

If you’ve got to the age when reading glasses are a part of your life, you have a handy little trick to impress your smug, better-sighted tramping counterparts who have forgotten their matches and lighter. If the sun’s shining and a fire needs starting, assume your best James Bond pose, whip off those reading specs, […]
Meghan Walker

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