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Barn Owl

Barn Owl

Old Age Punk
Apr 10, 2007
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Anyone else do this sort of thing.
In the summer mind.

When me and my mates were younger, we would go down the woods and make a basha (3 sided big brush affair), have a big fire pumping heat into the enclosure.

Plenty alcohol, sausages ,ferns to sleep on and only the clothes on our backs.
These being denims or surplus lightweights, doc martens, biker jacket and t- shirt.
Plenty 'baccy and if on a weekend some girls and a ghetto blaster with Sabbath, Quo, some punk.

After the sausages were finished it was on to the veggies, being, tatties mainly with a rabbit shot by a very weak .177 rifle.

I'm reminiscing tonight can you guess.:vio:

Could beat the five items then easily.:240:
 
aye barn owl qualty days eh! i could build a better camp then than i can now!..lol..i used to live up in the highlands so thats all we done...qualty...i need to get out for a cpl of nights..atb Shogun
 
I've just thought, the last few 'mosh' meets have been like them apart from using grown up sleep systems and a dearth of fragrant floosies.

Think i'm just jealous 'cos i've not been to a festival either this year...
 
Nothing so exciting for me, I grew up in the London suburbs, so the only big fires I had was when I set fire to railway embankments, couldn't afford food & didn't smoke, plenty of girls though but all we did was play doctors & nurses.
 
i took my 2 lads and a cpl of there pals away camping for a cpl of days...they wernt into it because of there phones they just sat about on there phones on youtube and facebook...lol i dont get it...
 
blacktimberwolf said:
Nothing so exciting for me, I grew up in the London suburbs, so the only big fires I had was when I set fire to railway embankments, couldn't afford food & didn't smoke, plenty of girls though but all we did was play doctors & nurses.
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I spent many a bushy night dahn sarf London when younger.

Poaching at Hampton Court (sshh).

Out on Wimbledon Common, Hampstead Heath, Richmond Park but mainly the common at the top of one of my aunties roads.;)

Think i've blagged more bunnies and fish in London than out in the countryside.;)
 
Used to go off with my girlfriends, down the Clyde estuary, camp up on the foreshore or on one of the farms along the lochsides. The farmers were usually fine with it, just ask politely at the door. They usually showed us where the farm taps were and suggested where to get firewood. Along near Rhu or across at Kilcreggan. We avoided Dunoon and Helensburgh, too many sailors and the like, and four girls could get into enough trouble on their own, they didn't need any help :)

Didn't need the alcohol to be enjoying ourselves though. Maybe because it was expensive and we didn't have money to waste on it ? Still like that tbh. The company was good, the places we went were beautiful and there were always folks happy to meet up :)

I still love the sound of that almost silent ripple of water on the shingle at the still calm of dawn :)

My pack back then weighed as light as it does now. I've always hated carrying a heavy pack, especially if I've to take it on and off buses and trains or up hills.

We usually had a trannie along though, just to catch the weather reports and listen to some music.......that's a transistor radio for the younglings out there :rolleyes: :D

Fry up for breakfast, loads of wild mushrooms, I was never fond of eggs but usually the farmer's wife had eggs for sale, tattie scones and buttered rolls :D and a Fry's chocolate cream with a cup of tea :D Filled us up right through 'til supper.

Slept under a boat a couple of times too, surprising how comfortable you can make shingle. Roaring fires with driftwood in Autumn before the days became too short for it to be worthwhile going.

We always seemed to find someone who was making something though. From boats, to ropework, beekeepers to basketmakers, once a lady who made the most beautiful mosaics from seawashed glass.

I don't think things change all that much tbh :)

cheers,
Toddy
 
shogun said:
i took my 2 lads and a cpl of there pals away camping for a cpl of days...they wernt into it because of there phones they just sat about on there phones on youtube and facebook...lol i dont get it...
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Need speakers...

That's how the bush mosh pit started.
 
That's a good point Richard, I don't think I've ever had so much kit in my life.

We didn't have that, a three man tent slept four of us :rolleyes: we had one change of clothes, three of knickers, two flannels and a wee bar of soap. A lightweight cagoule, one pair of boots and a nylon sleeping bag, and that was it.
Porage oats, tea and sugar, bread and cheese and a bar of chocolate for each day. One of us carried a pot that we used as a kettle too, another carried the wee lightweight frying pan, the next one took the tent poles and the last one the tent. Sorted.

Nowadays it's a logistical nightmare sorting out what (or what not) to take for an overnighter let alone a week :sigh:

Tell a lie, we carried a triangular bandage and two or three elastoplasts too. That was the entirety of the first aid kit. Oh, and we each had a sheath knife, 'cos it was handy to have :D

...........and we didn't mangle, splice or otherwise damage ourselves :D

cheers,
M
 
Def' need to try the less item challenge, really is so easy when you think about it.

Also brings to mind sleeping in bus shelters after being at a gig and missing the last train home.
 
I reckon we need more kit as we get older just to keep it bearable. Looking back usually involves rose tinted glasses and we forget we were a lot younger and forget we were freezing cold at times. Yeah! Grumpy old man I know. :vio:
 
Sniper said:
I reckon we need more kit as we get older just to keep it bearable. Looking back usually involves rose tinted glasses and we forget we were a lot younger and forget we were freezing cold at times. Yeah! Grumpy old man I know. :vio:
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Ah, so true John.

I love rose tinted specs though.
 
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