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    Urban Fatigue.

    I'm off sea fishing again, going to camp out at a spot that I know where there is a spring for fresh water and greater reedmace. Not taking any food with me so to eat I've got to forage for seaweed, shellfish and roots etc. Shame i've got to take my tablets as well or I'd get tempted to stay...
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    East Anglia Group!

    Anyone wants a coastal forage I'll be between cromer and overstrand for the next 48 hours. Will be sleeping near overstrand where the greater reeedmace grows. Anyone is welcome to pay me a visit.
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    East Anglia Group!

    Happy Hannaukah, Finally got through the snow and Ice to a computer. Looks like I'll be having to live bushcraft in a months time as just got notice from the landlord. Added a few more scars and stitches to my face curtousy of real ale. Apart from that I'm doing OK and will be off to the...
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    Urban Fatigue.

    Thanks for all your messages of encouragement and support, at the moment the doc has given me a sick note but I've had to spend so much time chasing around dealing with burocracy that so far I've only managed one day out of the city, sea fishing (didn't catch anything). Hopefully he'll give...
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    Urban Fatigue.

    I've been off these boards for a while becaise of health problems including having a run in with half a dozen 'hoodies' at work that meant a visit to the hospital. I'm recovering OK but the person I'm seeing for counselling has suggested that I'm suffereing from 'urban fatigue' ie I've been in...
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    East Anglia Group!

    I've got myself sorted out with a PFD so now can get onto the water a bit, hope the weather stays warm until I get a day off work again!!! then I'll be up for a bit of water based fun.
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    sherwood pines

    The only thing I wouldn't reccomend letting kids do in the sherwood forest / clumber park area is dig or use a metal detector as it used to be a massive arms dump during the war. My dad cleared and demolished alot of the bunkers, are there still really good chestnut stands in clumber????
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    Is it true bushcraft

    Remember that even the oldest and most traditional technology was once new and modern. Flintknapping has several distinct phases of development from the eolithic to the neolithic, likewise every fire and shelter making method was once the latest thing. No matter what you decide is the cut off...
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    What would a 'Bushcraft Code' for the United Kingdom include?

    While I can understand the desire to see more land made available to bushcraft I am extremely wary of the establishment of a national organisation or going down the legislative route. I've seen how this can lead to factions and splits with other groups when things don't take the direction hoped...
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    Lightweight open canoe

    Well it floats!! , and it floats with me in it so I guess that makes it a viable boat design. Also it took me 20 minutes to carry it to the river so it wasn't much less than my normal walking speed of 3 1/2 miles an hour. I think it's more suited to paddling with a double bladed paddle, Kayak...
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    Lightweight open canoe

    It's similar to the designs shown but shorter as it's made from one sheet of plywood. the main influences that I used while working out the design were the Phil Green 'micro', cajun pirouges, and the norwegean 3 plank canoe shown in the victorian book 'the art of travel'. I think that the...
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    Lightweight open canoe

    The lightweight open canoe I've designed and built is ready for testing, although I'm not sure if I am but I'll probably feel less nervous once I get it to the water. The design is simplicity, a basic three plank design scaled to be made from a single sheet of plywood stiched and taped...
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    East Anglia Group!

    I'm sure Tesa took a load of photo's and think she's had them developed but I've not seen them yet. She's up in Birmingham for a couple of weeks but I'll ask her when she gets back to Norwich. PS. the canoe is taking shape nicely and looks like it'll meet my requirements verry well indeed...
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    Kayak or Canoe, thus is the question

    I prefer the open canoe to a Kayak, easier to get in and out of, bit like the feeling of an open topped sports car or 4x4 compared to being in a closed box. One thing alot of people forget is that you can use a double bladed paddle with an open canoe if that's what you're used to. I think...
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    East Anglia Group!

    Certain people who shall remain nameless were fortunate enough to find an ice cream plant, and sample it's fruit!!!! Other things found were: foods: elder berries Apples (although most had fallen and were rotting on the ground) Squirrel Pidgeon Rat Note no animals were hurt...
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    Swamp Cajuns & Katrina

    Does anyone have any word on how the rural population of Louisiana is doing after Katrina??? in particular what's happenning with the Cajuns who live in the more remote areas, have they been ignored in favour of the city dwellers? on the news they don't seem to get a mention. Could it be that...
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    Fuel protests heads up!

    Given that every time you change the form an energy is in you loose about 10% it makes more sense to not bother making biodiesel and drink the old chip fat then use that to give you the energy for your journey, either on foot or by bike, that way you avoid having to pay duty on it or the risk of...
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    East Anglia Group!

    2Pm on the 11th is good, found another path onto the heath from my new house that takes me past a few good fruit patches. It's a good place to stock up on tinders, I've seen about a dozen types of fungi when I've been there recently, masses of blackberries, elderberries and things like...
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    East Anglia Group!

    How about sunday 11th sept?? any of you available that day? I've got to go to work at 7 pm but it looks like I'm free all the rest of the day. The giant redwood seems as good a place as any to meet, I'll put directions etc up for anyone who doesn't know where it is in a day or two.
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    Escargot recipies

    I've been using a biological anti snail method on my veg patch, namely eating them, after all they're recycled lettuices, and want to vary the way I cook them so any recipies / ways of cooking them would be appreciated. The way that I've having them so far is fried in butter with a bit of...