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family, definately. My 3 year old daughter is constantly asking to go on a daddy daughter day, or to go camping with me, anything outdoorsy. Need to bring her into the lightweight camping at least, otherwise I'd be bringing 5 plastic ponies, 2 stuffed animals, her blanket, and probably a 2...

I looked up the trucker's knot you're on about, and it's a lot more complex than a similar knot taught to me by an old trucker years ago. Secure the rope at one hardpoint as you chooose, run rope over your load, make an overhand knot in a loop( knot A), run the tail through the other...

Don't know about locality, but if you can get your hands on hickory or mesquite then you've got some mighty fine smokin' wood.

Having come from California, to the UK, the knife laws that I thought were draconian seem quite liberal now They've changed in Cali since I was there last, but if memory serves, you could carry up to a 3" blade concealed, 3-3.5"" blade partially concealed (got a half serrated folder that shows...

re: w00dsmoke, yes there is a lot I don't know, and I would cater my presentation to who I was speaking to. I wouldn't be stupid enough to call what I'm doing a chav camp or Neb prison. I have contacts in the social work department, and it is my wife that is already doing counselling. I may...

No teaching qualification, but I'd be willing to get one.

just learning my way around the forums. There's a few families we know who have teamed up, and are running a school for the kind of kids that the local authority can't or won't teach. I suspect they'd be of use, for contacts etc. I wonder if I could do a small ranch and get access to enough...

I live in Scotland, about halfway in between Aberdeen and Inverness. My wife would like to put together a "Brat camp" style school, specialising in adolescent pregnancy, and providing suopport and education to the young mothers. We'd need a heck of a lot of land, or very isolated land, to add...

I'm new here, to the forum and the UK. I have limited bushcraft experience in the US, but have a lot to re-learn. Anyhow, I've been "advised" to follow my heart/spirit/dreams/whathaveyou, to get out of a situation I've found myself in, and I was wondering what kind of careers are available...