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Home made windproof matches
Bic Lighter
Ferro
I always have a film cannister with cottonwool/vaseline
I collect old pitch pine knots when can or old gorse butts
Tried most things including flint and steel with dried camel dung!
To me the faster the fire is going the faster I get a hot...
I know what you mean about a camp site feeling like it doesn't want you - come across a few of those over the years.
There's a little wood I look after down by the A303 near Ilminster - odd place. Used to have a cross roads of the old A303 right by it, so most likely a gallows or gibbet at...
Wish I had your skills...
Have job carving a roast let alone anything more than feather stick.
However I do have access to wood so just say if you want some
I look after 1300km (approx) of linear vegetation, covering in excess of 1700ha, this winter alone we will spend over £500K thining and pruning that little lot. So for me to grab a few sticks is quite easy and a pleasure to do
Blackthorn like one or two rosaceae, including apple has a an interesting lichen growing on it that can cause eye problems and makes wounds mildly septic.
Blackthorn makes a nice cudgel or nightmans stick but that's about all; if mystical is what you want then you opt for Rowan, Oak, Hawthorn...
There's a chap down by Honiton who would make you some of those for a sensible price, makes kitchens and such stuff. Used to make church organs so his timber craft is fair
Just and estate car and a roof box - you don't know how lucky you are! This year the family holiday required an estate car, land rover and sankey. Okay I know the toddler requires a lot of kit...
Mind you I do like a nice airbed and douvet and the 8 berth Outwell is a nice tent!
Yup sorry - Bampton is near Tiverton on the way up to Exmoor
Blackberry camp is between Honiton and Branscombe
The Wellington site is on the edge of the Blackdowns looking west
I went to a Forestry Commison seminar on this a few years ago. Not just big cats but all the other oddities out there. It was very interesting. They also talked about the various re-introduction ideas that were being banded about - this being my personal favourite...
October is looking less than good for me now as I have promised my only spare weekend to my eldest daughter and a couple of her friends - roughcamping in the woods! Believe me you do not want to be spending a weekend in a wood with three 'almost ten year old' girls!
November is looking okay...
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