Hi Guys
Like Sam I would also be interested in any future meets.
I am a "newbee" to the bushcraft scene, but I am quite keen having attended one of Fenlander's excellent intros to bushcraft days last saturday. There were only 2 of us plus Fenlader, so we almost got 1 to 1 tuition! We spent about 7 hours there in the forest and the course was great value, very practically oriented (which I needed!) and covered fire making (with flint/steel, firesteel, and the bowdrill.), shelter building, cordage, knife & axe craft, campcraft and so on. With the bowdrill I got as far as producing smoke but no ember but it was raining all afternoon so my excuse was that everything was pretty damp! No problems with the flint or swedish firesteel methods though!
I've done some camping before but not quite the same thing as bushcraft which I am really keen to learn and I am now in process of getting a few things together like a knife, saw, basha etc On the subject of bashas I was pretty impressed with Fenlander's Hennessey Hexfly but I know there are alternatives like the Ex military version, Tatonka etc - what are your opinions?
I guess I'm old enough to be the father of most of you, recently retired (!) and living in Mid Suffolk, but in the apparent absence of a current East Anglian group or a Sufffolk group, I hope its OK to join the "Narfok" crew?
Cheers
Ray