Bushcrafter or Countryman

[Graywolf]

I would have to go along with the same sentiments as BorderReiver,I am just a bloke who likes wild places,and feels very compitent away from the maddening crowd.But likes the company of like minded individuals occasionally,lol.

 

[Laurentius]

I would not consider myself either, I joined this forum as a reaction to something I picked up on google and felt I had to defend, but have stayed because I do have a certain sympathy with the general ethos here.

I grew up on, and today live on the margins of the countryside, neither one thing or the other, but I did grow up with a respect for nature and an attitude where you looked after yourself.

I guess I have always done bushcrafty things. Ok, I have never made a fire bow yet, but I have never needed to, I used to have fun making fires with a magnifying glass though in those lost summers of childhood. I have grown my own vegetables and foraged (not that I would have recognised the word) in order to make country wines.

It is to my shame that I am not sure if I could skin a rabbit, though my brother has done that (and much else besides) I'm mostly vegetarian anyway.

I could easily live without electricity, only really need it to power the computer, as do we all, and charge the batteries for my camera I suppose.

Bushcraft? in a way it is all bollox, I am a camper, worse than that have been a caravanner (shock horror) I can live as rough as is necessary or as comfortably as I can.

Well a dozen or so years ago my mum was looking to buy a wood, and my brother and I were really into that, but it never came off. Scared the hell out of some of the locals when we went surveying the woods particularly in the Chilterns, we looked at one over mature wood and we had a definate commercial outlook over it, it was over ripe and dying and had not been managed, but the locals who essentially used it as a "usufruct" did not like the idea of anyone coming in and changing there status quo, but that wood was dying and was in desperate need of management. We stepped back in the end.

 

[waterman]

Being new to the forum,my understanding of bushcraft was not so much that there was a tiltle of bushcrafter to describe what I enjoyed but a craft to be learned and preserved. The craft consisting of deep understanding of nature and the ways we can use it for our pleasure and perhaps to supplement our reliance on supermarket foods. my past relations were travellers who would have lived very much off the land and the skills we practice would have been part of their every day survival. In some ways I envy their way of life and would love to have known them and shared their skills.It is very reasuring that previous posts give a similar input, a love for the outdoors and the simple pleasures we can enjoy.

 

[Toddy]

I'm just a housewife with some interesting habits

Seriously, I reckon Robin's response is incredibly valid,

"I think folk get bothered about "comercialism" when it really is mainly popularism. I don't see many (any?) folk that are in this game purely for the money. Do we want to keep it for ourselves? "

Cheers,
Toddy

 

[greeneggcat]

I am an Earthling..... problem sorted!

 

[Barn Owl]

I'm an old Punk Rocker (to give me a label ), that's grown up in the country.

Had a life in the city too...

Give me the country anytime and you can call me anything you like,

Labels mean nothing... but I'll take the above along with bushcrafter or countryman and so will most of the guys I know too.

From labourer to surgeon,being out 'there' brings us all together.

 

[VtBlackdog]

I sometimes think there some people out there who use bushcraft as a badge and think it gives them the right to do what they like where they like..

God forbid people do what they like where they like :-0

 

[Barn Owl]

God forbid people do what they like where they like :-0

Well up here,every time I've tried to be polite and tell the nearest dwelli ng/Farmhouse i intend having a night or two,it's usually met by a 'it's not my land anyway',

So I usually do as I please,as the right to roam dictates,jeez,it's the same as common sense!
Would you believe it!

 

[Everything Mac]

I am a cider drinker thru n thru!


i think we would be here forever if we tried to label everyone - encompassing everything that they do.

so i will simply relay a quote from a Robin Hobb novel

"You are who you are and who you ever need to be."

kind regards

andy

 

[Bushwhacker]

I'm a Hedge Monkey.