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    THE SHARPEST TOOL IN THE SHED

    Oct 18, 2018 3 minutes
    WORDS_ MARCUS O‘DEAN

    over 30 years I have been known as “Captain Contingency” by my best man and walking companion, Mark. That moniker came about when we were cross-country ski touring one year and one of our party’s pack straps came adrift. Now most experienced walkers carry a small sewing kit; in the Army we called them a “housewife”. I don’t know whether they have changed the nomenclature, what with all the political correctness that has pervaded the services now, but I digress.

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