[b]wow[/b], what a great site! at last!

[RAPPLEBY2000]

:-D
hey This is the site i've been looking for for years!

ok about me,

i am presently a student on "Diploma of outdoor activities" (college of west anglia). anyone that loves outdoor sports should do it!


previously i had worked in two outdoor shops: "Blacks" and "outdoors(scout shop)" both in Norwich.

i have been into survival(or should i call it bush craft?) for most of my life i went through scouts and eventually joined the TA to see what it was like, but it turned out i passed the grade but it wasn't for me.

after my course i will hope to find a outdoor activity instructing job.

i am 30 years old
i am married and have a 2 year old boy

both my son and wife enjoy camping and walking.

it's really nice to find a "survival" site without paranoia!

chears

 

[Tony]

Thanks for the introduction. It's good to have you on board :super:

 

[boaty]

it's really nice to find a "survival" site without paranoia!

Welcome, and what a good point! Bushcraft seems (to a newcomer) to be all about embracing nature and working with it, while survival has connotations of a titanic struggle to overcome the elements (and those who are out to get you :roll: ) and return to "civilisation"

 

[bothyman]

it's really nice to find a "survival" site without paranoia!


Welcome, and what a good point! Bushcraft seems (to a newcomer) to be all about embracing nature and working with it,

Well I have got to admit that is what I thought it was.
I prefer the word "Woodcraft" but this seems to have been hijacked by everyone who does anything with wood.
Much like the word "Bivvy" which now seems to mean a Fisherman's Tent.
Survival to me is being in a situation you don't really want to be in and living through it.
But some people like "living" in the Woods??? or should that be Bush??, and find no hardship doing it.

 

[RAPPLEBY2000]

on my college course we had to choose any subject and do a presentation on it for 15 mins, i chose "Survival", as part of the talk i had to include a section on how i'm not into guns and rambo attitudes!

darn, i i'd done the presentation on "bushcraft" i wouldn't have had to!

 

[Stuart]

hi RAPPLEBY2000

make your self at home :-D

 

[RAPPLEBY2000]

thanks, what a realy nice welcome!
:notworthy
i feel i could introduce anyone to this site!

 

[Ed]

Please do the more the merrier

Ed

 

[Jack]

Dear RAPPLEBY2000.

Please do make yourself at home or, is it, please make yourself a home.........never sure which one it is!!

Best wishes.

Jack.