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    Father and Son

    Can anyone reccomend any good father and son bushcraft courses. Im on the Wales/England border in Gloucestershire. Im considering it as a Christmas gift for my lad!
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    Delivering a baby

    I delivered my 3rd child. She was a whopping 9lb 4oz and it took my wife less than 15mins. My word of warning is they are slippy as hell when they come out. Try not to drop them. Shortly afterwards the first responder arrived, followed by 2 men in an ambulance, then the midwife, and another...
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    Grand Canyon Inversion

    You get this quite a lot in the Forest of Dean and Gloucester Vale. Nowhere near as striking tho!
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    Help! - Fire Lighting Demo

    we had a firelighting demonstration on the survival training bit of a charity expedition and the poor man really struggled getting things going with a lot of the ways he was showing us, whoops, talking later he was very experienced and showed us a variety from all natural through to things you...
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    Native Americans in South Alberta

    Hi as many of you know im going to medicine hat in canada for two weeks and looking into it found out it was blackfoot confederacy territory. I know the confederacy was made up of 4 different tribes and i was wondering if anyone knew where i could go to find out more about them while i was...
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    Wild Boar cull in the FoD

    Its typical just days after i post saying i have never seen a wild boar i come back from walking the dog to find two in the garden. I have taught our dog to go home and wait in the garden for me which i sent her to do at the end of the walk. Luckily someone had seen the boar and followed them to...
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    How much water from a billy can of snow - picture heavy

    found this when doing survival training in sweden they always advised to get ice rather than snow as there is so little return because of how much air there is in the snow although id imagine it takes more energy to melt the ice??
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    need these boots

    does anyone know if you can get these in calgary or in medicine hat?
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    Self heating ration packs

    i have a gas stove and billy cans may just get some ration packs for me but i want something simple and foolproof for SWMBO as she will probably have little one with her
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    Self heating ration packs

    Hi im doing a survival kit for mine and SWMBO's car due to our driving to work on dodgy roads and one of the things i wanted to incorporate are self heating ration packs. Does anyone know a good value place to get these and can reccomend any that a child would like?
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    Wild Boar cull in the FoD

    Whilst alas i have never seen a wild boar i have seen the damage they do along all the roads i drive to work. Im neither for nor against the cull as they do not have any impact on my life.... however i would fully back a reintroduce the mammoth campaign for the forest... great tourist...
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    First winter overnight of the season

    Beautiful dog and tent im not at all jealous
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    Snow Hole

    Thanks for all the replies ive no intention of sleeping in it overnight but would love to do something like that for the little one to have an experience in it
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    Minus 17 degrees C...

    Experienced -24 overnight in a sleeping bag and bivvy which wasnt designed for it and i wouldnt reccommend it everyone was getting up every few hours to run and warm up a bit. Doing stuff during the day wasn't a problem with layers in fact had to keep taking layers off
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    sledging

    spent 3 hrs out with the lad today thankfully we all have our winter gear so there were no tears about the cold from anyone :o)
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    Green Man (finally finished)

    A stunning picture makes me sad i cant draw
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    Merry Xmas One and all

    Merry Christmas one and all from a snowy little village in the dean
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    Its snowing

    it snowed so much had to abandon my car a mile from home and walk and i was still smiling and singing all the way.... many others were not so cheerful. Considering i crashed my new car on black ice on saturday and had to borrow SWMBO's you'd have thought it wouldnt still make me so cheery...
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    Snow Hole

    When i went to Sweden this february we made a snow hole to sleep in for one of the survival nights. Basically piled up a load of snow on the first few days waited for it to settle and freeze then excavated it. Im taking my lad to Canada in january and would like to do the same (albeit on a...
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    Horn neckies..

    hey cap'n do you have any giraffe designs?