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I spent a couple hours this afternoon trying to start a fire with a cheap magnifying glass. If I had a decent tinder bundle I would have succeeded. Amazing how easy it is to get something smoking. Burnt a whole bunch of stuff, just never managed to get to fire.

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I used to draw on planks of wood with a magnifying glass when a I was a kid. Could add another thing for you to do!

May I suggest dryer lint as tinder. I keep all of mine in a bucket for just that purpose.

I'll have to give that a try next time.

We have some Lamb's Ear [1] in our garden that I had a decent amount of success with, but I used up most of the dead stuff from last year over the course of the afternoon.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stachys_byzantina

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