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Thanks to Chief and Vice-chief BCUK-NES for arranging it all. (I would have said Chief and Squaw, but I want to be invited back)

Unlikely to make it this time (Scouts are planning a jolly). Look forward to the photos.

Hope you're better. Will follow your lead, date-wise.

Back on the beach with a new handle for the rope swing. No baskets or gilets, but an improved confidence in splicing. Trivia moment: instead of a rock or old nut for a surface monkey's fist, subsea ones are often made with a buoyant core. They serve as usefully flexible handles for WROVs...

I'm bumping this only because it came up in a search for "offshore". With fingers ragged from making polprop monkey's fists, I'm asking what other BC distractions are there to pass transit and WOW time offshore? I don't have any whalebone for scrimshaw. (they frown on lighting fires, it turns out)

No to cider. We did just make nettle soup thickened with pignut, to go with beech/lime/hawthorn/ramson/dandelion salad; but it didn't last long enough to ferment. Prompted by your question, I've gone and found where Mrs Chance had been hiding last year's, thankfully unexploded, seabuckthornade...

Is this the point at which I say "a blunt knife is safer than a sharp one"... and sit back and count the posts until someone compares me to [insert dictator of choice]? And nickliv, it's irresponsible to encourage the mixture of cider and sharps; with or without Kevlar or Dyneema.

Good shot! Apart being a little out-of-focus.

I wonder if anyone else following the meet has had the same woodworm problems as KiltedPict noticed in his wooden crate? I've since had a report from another attendee of a hole in a piece of 4x2 which, measured using a nail, was 18mm deep. Bugling, for some reason, appears to encourage...

This is the parachute before we've generated a lot of hot air.

It's perfectly acceptable to make an improvised bugle to herald your Dutch pheasant (that's not slang; at least, I hope it isn't). And it's amazing how well a duck tape mute works.

CBJ, link to constellation-finder: http://www.bushcraftuk.com/forum/showthread.php?t=60805

Another use for a parachute: as an indicator of temperature/pressure. In this illustration, showing a low relative pressure within the parachute; as distinct from its evening billow. Or the frost's weighing it down.

Sixthing the thanks to Chief BCUK-NES (there'll be an anagram in there).

If any of the Thursdays have the facility to post remotely, I'd be grateful if you could report on whether it'll be better to bring a tent... or a kayak. (yes, I know, "hammock" is the answer - but only if you bring a ladder long enough to reach above the flash floodline)

(+ one or two who have expressed a keen interest, but are historically likely to discover conflicting priorities)

As a comparison from the shoddier end of the Craft scale, an example of how to cheat if you're in a rush: I needed to fix the chicken run, and my carved one doesn't fit through chicken wire. Yours now looks even nicer.

CBJ + 3 confirmed Pandabean + 1 - Need to sort days off. Charles Lockerbie KiltedPict Bronskimac - Chris Nickliv, Mrs and mini nicklivs permitting. Adze, (on a similar basis to Nickliv above) Chance (ditto to the TBC)

Thumbs up!

I've been asked if I know of anyone in the Northeast that can teach taxidermy. A friend of a friend is interested in stuffing/mounting a pheasant (stop sniggering, it's undignified).