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    2005 retrospective

    highpoint---stealing some time to watch perigrines on the nest and in the air.son getting his first job.Finding this site ,think its about a year to the day.I learnend, laughed and was astonished on a regular basis. lowpoint----family health problems and working altogether,much to hard, much...
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    Recovering after exercise !!!!

    complex carbs- porridge bannas (normal ammounts dont 'carbo load') etc before you excercise plus plenty of fluids,then loads of fluid afterwards.ditch or cut back on the junk food I dont mean sound dead macho(ive got trouble fighting sleep) ,but if the headaches and sick feeling dont last...
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    Checking in!!

    good to hear from you,.looking foward to a tutorial on desert bushcraft. how many others have watched news footage of squaddies in iraq and thought 'wonder if thats spamel?'stay safe mate.
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    Cuppa?

    :) a pot of strong tea ,assam or english breakfast,with very slighty burnt toast ,on a wet morning,when you feeling a bit under the weather.you can keep your aromatherapy, this does it for me. I cannot abide tea made with a teabag in a cup,complete with milk and sugar in it ,before a slug of...
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    Calling All Central Scotland Bushcrafters!!

    yet again I find myself posting for a meet up,hopefuly this time work and more recently family illness,wont get in the way now we are not so shortstaffed and mrs ronsos has learnend(hopefully) to suffer in silence. either the 3rd or 4th will do nicely.
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    Pacific Crest Trail book

    I enjoyed the online book and am glad he got a publisher. seemed really down to earth guy( well he is a kiwi I suppose),but he made a dream into a reality now theres a bushcraft skill. : :beerchug:
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    Thesis ideas

    how about researching an areaof old growth forest logged about 30 or so years ago and its recovery (or not).Is intervention required?necessary?whats the costs. Now ,time to stop procastinating,and get on with my essay. Right after I check out the gallery.And perhaps B.B. Best put the...
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    Animals You would like to see in the wild

    Seen golden eagles quite a few times(once about 12 miles from Glasgow),sea eagles about ten feet above my head-its like a small glider going over.Otters on Skye and Glasgow,most uk deer species apart from muntac.Dolphins in the north sea.And most fasinating of all a possible Wildcat in...
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    BushcraftUk's own novel.

    Auld Jimmy sat down trapped in the room in his nursing home despite all his experince,knowing he could never leave untill Ronso finished a 6000 word essay by next week .....
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    BushcraftUk's own novel.

    Jimmy woke up,stiff,sore ,with his sheets and duvet soaked through.The small ,institutional room he had lived in in the nursing home gradually came into focus.He could rember the nurses putting him to bed ,as his tempreture soared, vomiting so hard his top teeth had to be fished from the toilet...
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    Manufacturers, are you listening?

    Oi! Craghoppers! Put a cargo pocket on the other leg of your otherwise excellent trousers.And sizes to fit monkey porters obviously.......
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    I'm back!!!

    keep yourself safe mate.have a wee look at this. www.theonion.com/content/node/42163
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    How to hunt brown bears

    I think this thread shines an interesting light on to our attitudes to the wild and personnal safety The old line 'nature red in tooth and claw ' has two sides,one a bear in the wild is a threat that has to be conquered or destroyed.Chris Kavanaughs post shows how difficult this is...
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    banjo

    Whats the difference between a banjo and a parrot? One is loud,noisy and obnoxious,the other is a bird. Whats the difference between a Harley Davidson and a banjo? You can tune a Harley Davidson. Just joking. I love Flatt and Sruggs.
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    One for the ornitholgists

    obviously a young velociraptor.
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    Just wondered

    I tend to browse mags in the shop and buy ones which have stuff I want to look at in more detail.These include Great Outdoors( bit gear obsessive but nowhere near as bad as Trail who buys a new goretex jacket every month?),Jim Perrins column is always worth a read and I once understood him on...
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    Please help to protect swedish nature!

    Ive been unable to get out and about for ages,done nothing but work , had a serious family illness to deal with but I helped save a forest!How cool is that? Well done everybody,that will show them( take your pick of who of 'they' are).Big thanks to Abbe Osram for starting the thread.Will...
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    Which watch?

    I remember reading David Hempleman-Adams account of crosing Antartica solo.His sponsers supplied him with a hugely expensive watch ,all bells and whistles apart from an alarm.On the way to the airport prior to departing the uk,he bought one from a garage for a fiver.This one kept going all...
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    A fight in the office..........

    I was stuck in traffic listening to Radio 4,when someone did Burton saying this-made me laugh(is this what kicked off the workplace debate?).I always thought something was missing in Rays ' RealHeroes of Telemark,now I know what. Make a great ringtone though..... 'ONLY A FOOL IS...
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    Scottish Meet Up!! - Archive

    great photies of what was obviously a great weekend.The ones of doc and doc jnr with the fire bundles spoke volumes.Need to make the next one.Will make the next one. 'Its a fools life,a rogues life and a good life if you keep laughing all the way to the grave'-Ed Abbey.