Are you the only bushcrafter in the village?

[xylaria]

I say I am the only bushcrafter in the village, apart from I don't live in a village I live in city. I know I am not quite the only bushcrafter in the city from the BB map, but I feel really isolated.

I have never met another woman like me. 'Normal' women don't make any sense at all. They are all obsessed with the superfical, the never be too rich, too thin, too fake culture! I don't get it, I never have done. I do have female freinds, who are green and hippy, but they are not quiet in to alot of stuff I do. If I want to talk foraging I can talk to mrX, woodwork I can talk to the bloke in the tool shop in town, and thats it!!

I can't wait to get to a moot, there is women who I can have a conversation with.

 

[andyn]

There are at least two other bushcrafters that i've seen on this forum that live in the same town as me.

 

[Womble]

and several others not a stones throw away...

 

[Tengu]

I do not know, as I take very little note of anyone.

I know how you feel, Xylaria, I have nothing in common with women either. They are too interested in getting men.

What they dont realise is to get men you have to be a very interesting person with lots in common with them. The only men who are interested in how you look (many men are intimidated by clothes horses) are voeyers and they arent interested in `real` women.

Failing that, get the most exciting car you can.

 

[woodwalker]

Suprisingly there's quite a few near me.

Especially now all the Scouts are interested in bushcraft
woodwalker

 

[demographic]

How is it that (at the time of writting) there are 2 votes for 'what's bushcraft'?



Matt.

<Whistles innocently>

 

[JonnyP]

I do not know, as I take very little note of anyone.

I know how you feel, Xylaria, I have nothing in common with women either. They are too interested in getting men.

What they dont realise is to get men you have to be a very interesting person with lots in common with them. The only men who are interested in how you look (many men are intimidated by clothes horses) are voeyers and they arent interested in `real` women.

Failing that, get the most exciting car you can.

Do I not get that, because I am a man...? I do admit, I am intimidated by clothes horses, you load them up with clothes and then they collapse on you, trapping your fingers.....

 

[fred gordon]

As I live out in the wilds I'm not really surprised to be the only one. I have made contact with other bushcrafters in the area though and hope to find more.

 

[Matt Weir]

<Whistles innocently>

LOL

Matt.

 

[xylaria]

I do not know, as I take very little note of anyone.

I know how you feel, Xylaria, I have nothing in common with women either. They are too interested in getting men.

What they dont realise is to get men you have to be a very interesting person with lots in common with them. The only men who are interested in how you look (many men are intimidated by clothes horses) are voeyers and they arent interested in `real` women.

Failing that, get the most exciting car you can.

HEY!! There is two of us, we can form a Clique

I swear normals act the way they do because need to compeat against each other. Spend any time with Mother Nature and you know you only have to compete with yourself.

 

[Toddy]

I'm lucky, even if I am the only Bushcrafter in the village, I have a lot of friends who share my interests or are at least tolerant of them
I love the synergy of chasing ideas around with crafts folks from different backgrounds. There's always someone to go walkabout with, see the seasons and the natural resources change.

There are a lot of females out there but generally they just get on with things quietly in their own way, (think hedge/ kitchen witch instead of covens), but they are friendly to other like minded folks.
Personally I have no issues male/ female among my friends. I like being female, but I do appreciate the differences.

atb,
Toddy

 

[Silverback]

I do not know, as I take very little note of anyone.

I know how you feel, Xylaria, I have nothing in common with women either. They are too interested in getting men.

What they dont realise is to get men you have to be a very interesting person with lots in common with them. The only men who are interested in how you look (many men are intimidated by clothes horses) are voeyers and they arent interested in `real` women.

Failing that, get the most exciting car you can.

Speaking as a man I am sure I am not alone when I say that my wife and I have very little in common apart from the fact that we love each other to bits, but that came a while after we got together. I unashamedly admit I was attracted to her initially purely by aesthetics alone and responded to my primitive instincts for which I have no control over. The secret of a long successful relationship is not so sharing the things you have in common so much as learning to accept the things you don't. Those initial weeks/months when you first get together are not called the 'honeymoon period' for nothing, this is when we are giving in to our most primitive instincts and loving every minute of it, the result of which, if left unchecked, would most probably result in procreation. I am guilty of some of those characteristics mentioned in the ‘clothes horse’ part of your post but I am not ashamed of them, I am simply responding to my instinct as a male. It is only when I fight against instinct and apply logic and civility that I take on the characteristics mentioned in the first part of your post.

Don’t be so quick to pack us into neat little boxes girls we are far more uncomplicated than that!

I await a veritable roasting!

 

[xylaria]

I thought I should clarify my orginal piont to save this thread from going and desending into a gender war.

Nature dictates that we select potental mates who are physically healthy. Women are fed (by other women) grosslly unhealthy icons of beauty in the media they choose to read. Then compeat with each other to become the size zero, super human who has it all. If you refuse to buy into this ideology, cliques will form around that exclude you. Trust me women can be very isolating to those that don't fit in. It also indiscribely boring to have people constantly going about their diets, so in way i proberly exclude myself.

I do feel an empathy with TMKTCs' avatar, when I saw the original pixar cartoon I thought I am that geeky bird

 

[Too Much Kit To Carry]

I do feel an empathy with TMKTCs' avatar, when I saw the original pixar cartoon I thought I am that geeky bird

Hi xylaria,

I think that everybody feels like that once in a while

Phil.

 

[Silverback]

Xylaria no clarification necessary, I understood perfectly where you were coming from I just thought it might be interesting to hear it from an honest male perspective as for some reason the thread had temporarily drifted into the complexities of male/female courtship behaviour . I am all too aware of stereotyping. As an ardent bodybuilder I have had to accept that I am a steroid induced, stupid, vein, meathead when in reality I abhor the use of performance enhancing drugs, struggled with my own self worth for a long time after a childhood of bullying and am actually a bit of a softie (did you notice how I didn't defend the stupid bit )

For the record I am the only bushcrafter in the village (that I know of) however there are several in the neighbouring town who for my sins I seem to find myself hanging out with (one is rather hairy and the other is a buffed young pup who weilds a chainsaw )

 

[Mikey P]

I'm pretty certain there are other people around my area (where I normally live, not where I am now) who are doing things that we would put under the umbrella of bushcraft.

I see people out collecting plants/berries/etc, enjoying walks in the countryside, building things out of natural materials, etc. The Germans seem to be a bit more attuned in my area but I guess that they don't consider things to be 'bushcraft', they are just things that their families have done for years (picnics, foraging, hunting). I reckon they'd probably think it a bit funny that we like to do these things in our spare time!

I occasionally come across furtive-looking people who seem to be doing the same thing I am - or looking for the same stuff that I am: Get Away From My Sloe Berries! - but, because of my lack of confidence speaking German, I don't really talk to them much.

Nature dictates that we select potental mates who are physically healthy. Women are fed (by other women) grosslly unhealthy icons of beauty in the media they choose to read. Then compeat with each other to become the size zero, super human who has it all.

Let me get this straight - if you are a Size Zero, does that mean you disappear altogether?

 

[Ed]

There are loads of us over here in Aberdare ...15+ adults at least.... and another 20 odd from surrounding towns and villages....and that doesn't include the kids.

Its almost a right of passage as a kid around here to take a sleeping bag, no tent, and spend a few nights 'up the mountain'. Hence the reason for the courses here to educate the masses on how not to destroy our local resources.

It can be pretty busy in the wilds during the holidays though


Ed

 

[Bisamratte]

I think I'm the only Bushcrafter in the village, its hard to tell as nobody here has heard of Bushcraft. I have seen people mushroom hunting and berry picking but I still get funny looks when I do these things Maybe its because I'm foreign :togo: or is that just me being paranoid again

I really need to get out more

Andy

 

[pierre girard]

Inspired by a recent thread I'd like to ask: -

"Are you the only bushcrafter in the village?"

Cheers,

Phil.

Well, I live about 40 miles from the village, but most people there do "bushcraft" to varying degrees, though I would get odd looks if I referred to it as such.

I was rather surprised when we got a new officer recently, a local boy who has spent his whole life here - except for college - who'd never shot a deer and didn't know how to dress it out. Rather unusual up our way.

 

[Justin Time]

I've a suspicion that there's someone else who plays in "my" woods, not just because one of my sites has been used for a fire but because some of the wood I've been keeping an eye on has been harvested, eg a fallen ash which was seasoning nicely has been sawn and removed. If you're in Bridgend and think this is you, give me a shout