The boys picked up stones and twigs from a flat area, and then we laid a groundsheet down and unrolled our sleeping bags under the sky.
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The bottom surface of a sleeping bag may be moderately water repellent, but a plastic tarp or groundsheet is often used to protect against moist ground.
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From here a short passage and another pitch leads to " Groundsheet Junction " where the " Leck Fell Master Cave " is entered.
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They were initially hand-printed, limiting deliveries by January 1939 to only 8, 400 groundsheets and 6, 800 helmet covers and a small number of smocks.
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This included a personal weapon, such as the SMLE rifle or Sten Gun, ammunition, grenades, a machete or Gurkha kukri knife, seven days'rations, groundsheet, change of uniform and other assorted items.
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Even this seems certain to fall far short of the costs : the cash payouts, a package of supplies that includes plastic groundsheets, 330 pounds of wheat for every family, shelter materials like beams and doors, and tools.
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The pilot Marc Haucheauchemaille recorded in his diary that . . . " There are 6 or 7, 000 men in the camp a miracle of English organisation in a few hours we have tents, groundsheets, cooking utensils . ", although proper medical facilities took longer to organise.
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The film, described by one critic as " a voyeur's delight ", In this film, St . Cyr plays'Jersey Lili', a stripper in a Honolulu night-club and girlfriend of a soldier who boasts to his pals that he has her picture painted inside his groundsheet.
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The research teams take as many precautions as they can to minimize their impact on the cave : staying on narrow marked trails whenever possible, laying out mylar groundsheets under their campsites, eating over plastic bags to catch any crumbs, and carrying back out everything they bring in _ including bagged and bottled human wastes.
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"66 indicating Flags, 80 Axes, 100 picks and handles, 800 water buckets, 800 wash basins, 82 picket ropes, 81 brooms, 5000 groundsheets, 13 roberts cookers, 13 horse troughs, 20 overall suits, 1320yards galvanised iron piping, a 2000gal water tank, 1 large swimming bath, 11 flagstaffs, 500 nose bags, 566 pairs of boots, 455 Mattress covers, 500 blankets ".
