Date Sunday 14th May, meet at 10am in Horspath Athletic track car park.
Take the Oxford ring road, and head for the east side of Oxford. At the BMW Mini car plant traffic lights, Head towards Horspath. (right or left depending if you're coming from the north or south) As a land mark there is a big building called 'BIG YELLOW STORAGE' and incredibly the building is yellow !! (we don't just throw these names together here in Oxford you know!!)
Follow this road for about half a mile and turn left into the Athletics track/rugby pitch car park.
We'll do this anyway, even if only a few people come along.
As I said earlier if you want to camp you'll have to arrange that yourselves. I'm doing this completely free for fellow members of the forum. And will enjoy the chance to meet some new faces and catch up with some old
If we start with the workshop for Bow drill say about 2- 3 hours or so. Then have lunch, and after lunch go for a stroll around Shotover country park and see what plants and trees we can find. Say till about 5 or till we get bored. If anyones already OK with Bow drill then please come along anyway if you can. It's always good to learn from others how they do things too
and maybe you could give a hand with some of the practice for the people who are new to it.
Please bring a Wild flower guide book if you have one and we can look up plants if we all get stumped.
The Country park is owned by the council so we can't really go hacking the woods about too much. I'll supply drills and hearths to those who need them, but if you can bring at least a bow, bearing block, and maybe a few tinder bundles that will save a lot of time and we can concentrate on getting the technique and ember. Please bring you own lunch. We won't be able to have a fire so if you want a fresh brew, please bring something to heat your water on, or a flask.
I'm going to check the weather the afternoon before (saturday 13th) and if it looks atrocious we'll pospone it as it'll be no fun if it's pouring down with nowhere to change or get dry. I'll post on the forum if this is the case.
Think that covers everything