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    Skill sharing weekend. March 12th, 13th, 14th, 2010

    id be totally up for it but the last two weeks of any month clashes with my shift pattern at work oh well maybe ill get there at some point
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    "Best" bushcraft book...?

    id proper appreciate it ..ta muchly
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    Music around the campfire

    bothie steps mandolin or ukele usually playing black flag or the amebix....and folk stuff i love hearing people play even badly as long as its not oasis spontaneous sessions work well tothe mmore playing the better
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    did your parents...

    i was lucky i grew up feral on the south downs and going everywhere by bike or thumb and learning a lot of stuff by trial and eror that said i was heavily influenced by the military careers of various members of my family and learnt stuff as a matter of self reliance rather than as bushcraft.....
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    how many of us are first aid trained?

    basp 2 day emergency swift water rescue technician both up for renewal this summer wooopee thank the the gods for work training budgets
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    2nd Group Buy for Coccoon Hammock Sleeping Bag.

    Carbuncle: 2 PAID Gleams: 1 PAID harryhaller: 1 PAID Wentworth: 1 PAID richard.laverty: 2 smarvell: 1 PAID widu13: 1 PAID Korvin Karbon: 1 PAID KiltedPict: 1 PAID smokoe: 2 PAID TeeDee 1 javi: 1 PAID Neanderthal: 1 PAID old skool : 1 PAID Richard Laverty x 2 please xpolex...its...
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    Hobo Stove Gallery (Probably picture heavy)

    ohh **** guess whos of to the arcade for a coffee tin and a drainer :D...maybe being stuck in the city's not so bad after all....
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    How much has this site/ interest cost you?

    errmmm 2 ways of looking at this..hoboing has cost me next to nothing as i tend to hammer my gear until it is truly ridiculously unusable...my gear for work..financially has been a bit of a millstone but then i spend all day every day running around hills and guiding on sea kayak expeds so after...
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    I'm not a bushcrafter.

    if we gotta have a label that'll do me...on a lighter note in a recent conversation with my mother about the current social climate she stated she worries about my youngest brother and sister ...tounge firmly in cheek i asked what about me? the reply was youll be fine with all the stuff you get...
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    Deer Advice wanted....

    it has been known for stags to charge but i never heard of a doe doing it id agree wit rich and bike thing that it was "probably" herding.oh and stags normally only attack in rutting and then only if you get between two that are having a go (easier done than people think the buggers have rows...
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    Pennywort (i think) - edible? Inedible lookalikes?

    cheers john will be trying that out.
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    Going to scottland in september

    yer welcome over in applecross if you make it over....campsite here is cheap enough or you can wild camp and just pay to use the showers....
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    Pennywort (i think) - edible? Inedible lookalikes?

    pennywort is great with mixed rocket and wild onions/garlic on baked spuds also good for canine herbal remedies....
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    The very best military surplus kit

    had a bizzare eastern european smockwhen i was younger that i wore till it disintergrated and ive still got the same knapsack ive had since i was about 14 but now it gets used for foraging instead of school books
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    Frosts mora / clipper - possible group buy

    id be up for one as well..spark plug just the blue tipped would be fine for me
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    Carving knife in the hat

    cool right the deal with antler is this i need to find out postage rates for the stuff and how to package iti dont really want anything for it and although its not the hardest stuff to come by in my locale but a paracord bracelet would please this aul' heathen....and launditch sedition are oot...
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    Comments about bushcraft uk

    its all goos ive already ranted about the passion and openess on here elsewhere so ill keep it short..but having been put off forums by the heirahcies before its cool that theres none of that here...iwas warned the place is addictive and damn they were right..........
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    Cree Hunters of Mistassini.

    cool after watching that i think i can safely say ill be binning the coursework for the afternoon and watching more...hehehehehe
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    I'm not a bushcrafter.

    me thinks the saddletramp has battered the nail on its noggin...i recently (well the last few years) made the discovery that a lot of my peers in the "outdoor industry" knew nothinig about foraging, fire lighting,making and repairing stuff and generally being outdoors for any other reason than...
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    I'm not a bushcrafter.

    can we use xylarias reply as a site heading myabe get a banner made with it on or summat or then again tshirts or tattoos imjust playing huckleberry finn and that'll do me.