North wood february 25-27 to coincide with the outdoor leasure show

[cwillson]

A Herring.

Oh! Come and see the violence inherent in the system! Help, help! I'm being repressed!

...any preference between pickled or whole herring though? ;o)

 

[MartinK9]

Oh! Come and see the violence inherent in the system! Help, help! I'm being repressed!

...any preference between pickled or whole herring though? ;o)

You'll fit in fine

 

[Andy2112]

its ok chris, he's normally harmless but just in case, might be an idea to brush up on tripwires/early warning devices.

Just dot John Smiths cans around the set up, he'll never make it then, lol

 

[PREPER]

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Got a one day pass so far, working on extending it.

 

[addo]

Good to catch up before the Mrs pops out another. Not sure what days or times yet though.

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[woodspirits]

'Good to catch up before the Mrs pops out another. Not sure what days or times yet though.'

be good to see you down here addo

 

[cwillson]

Nah, someone newer will turn up

Hmmm, that'll be me then! lol I'll be bringing along my newly purchased underblanket too so I'll happily bear the brunt everyone's mocking SimonD!

Got meself a full weekend pass to now, so will be down on the Friday. Have to leave pretty sharpish on the Sunday before the missus disowns me, but otherwise we're all good!

Chris

 

[woodspirits]

nice one chris, there will be someone there early on the friday so whatever time you can make it is fine.

steve

 

[Twodogs]

Its getting closer , Friday arrive for me now ,,yarrrrrrrr

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[woodspirits]

good man cliff, hoping to get there first thing friday myself, get the noise out the way so as not to disturb our other 'guests'

 

[Neumo]

The list is getting longer, so it sounds like it will be a good meet. Cant't wait & it will be good to put some more faces to names.

 

[Karl82]

Hey Steve im up for some sorting out with the CS weather premitting i managed to book the friday off work so will be down early to give you a hand befor everyone arrives.

 

[woodspirits]

sounds good karl, thanks for the offer mate

steve

 

[SimonD]

well im glad i won't be the only one trying to figure out my underblanket

i haven't got a license steve but i have used chainsaws in the past. i'm happy to help and should be there mid-dayish fri if you want another pair of hands.

and on a different note, i've just got back from a solo overnighter in my new spot, last one in my tent hopefully, and wanted to ask about deer noises. i got woken up around 2 by what sounded a little bit like a cow mooing but not really, more a one note honk for about 3 seconds, really loud. it went on for about 20 minutes and seemed to be a call and answer. there's loads of fallow deer in the forest and i was wondering if they make this sort of noise??? or was it the ghosties

 

[woodspirits]

hiya simon, an extra pair of hands will be welcome sounds like location calls of deer, plenty of info on utube if you want to i.d it. i recall being woken in the middle of the night half way up a mountain in scotland by unearthly roaring only to realise it was a red deer stag, unnerving at the time!

 

[SimonD]

just been on youtube, it was definitely deer calling. wasnt actually that unnerved to my own surprise, i almost immediately assumed it was deer but i couldn't sleep til yhey'd stopped, bloody loud! the only time i was a little unnerved was when i had a play with my night vision and couldnt help thinking of blair witch

i also tried out my special 6 shirt i got off martin at the dec meet without any other layers and it was amazing! just swapped it for a long sleeve thermal at bedtime and used it as a pillow. my new favourite bit of kit!

 

[woodspirits]

i think the dec' meet temperature was a bit exeptional! hopefully it wont be that cold, but there is another wintry snap on the way... believe me, waking to a stag roaring 20mtrs away is a bit different to a grunting doe!

might be worth bringing your n.v to the meet, i used mine to try and see the badgers but i think we were too close to the sett.

steve

 

[cwillson]

Had a play around with the UB this afternoon. It seemed to work well, so looking forward to the opportunity to spend a night in it. Also refining the rigging with some expert help! Didn't do anything with the tabs along the side. Couldnt see how they might be used to be honest.

Had my daughter in tow. She loves the hammock too, but I think I'm gonna be pulling Skips crumbs out of it for the next few weeks to come!

Aiming to get down there around lunchtime on the friday. Would love to muck in with any woodland maintenance that might be going on. never used a chain saw before but more than happy carting logs around if help is needed.

Chris

 

[cwillson]

Had a play around with the UB this afternoon. It seemed to work well, so looking forward to the opportunity to spend a night in it. Also refining the rigging with some expert help! Didn't do anything with the tabs along the side. Couldnt see how they might be used to be honest.

Had my daughter in tow. She loves the hammock too, but I think I'm gonna be pulling Skips crumbs out of it for the next few weeks to come!

Aiming to get down there around lunchtime on the friday. Would love to muck in with any woodland maintenance that might be going on. never used a chain saw before but more than happy carting logs around if help is needed.

Chris

 

[SimonD]

i think the dec' meet temperature was a bit exeptional! hopefully it wont be that cold, but there is another wintry snap on the way... believe me, waking to a stag roaring 20mtrs away is a bit different to a grunting doe!

might be worth bringing your n.v to the meet, i used mine to try and see the badgers but i think we were too close to the sett.

steve

i will be bringing the nv this time, see what we can see.

with regard to the deer/stag calling i wasn't questioning your testicular fortitude steve it definitely wasn't a stag i heard, had a look at a good few vids on youtube and it seems like it was does'.

we're at the other end this time aren't we mate? i never got down there in december