Does anyone....

[wolf_diver]

Does anyone keep a pocket book with wood types and uses and locations of food etc, i know people use the google maps n stuff. but im talking pencil to paper posh note books, leather bound and hand made.What do you put in them too???



Cheers

Jay

 

[Kerne]

No - but I know that I should.

When I did the Woodlander course with Woodsmoke I kept a notebook and often browse throuh it and think - why don't I do this every time I go out? Then I go out and am too "busy" to do it...

I also think that, if I could draw, this would be a better option than photos. Jamie Oliver did a series where his recipes/ingredients etc. were presented on screen in notebook form with sketches and diagrams and it looked like exactly the sort of thing I should be doing. But still I didn't do it...

 

[Shewie]

I've started printing out A4 maps of where I'm going and numbering the P.O.I with a red pen and then writing any corresponding information on the back. I started doing it to mark suitable camping locations and put ins/take outs when I was out in the canoe, but I also scribbled other notes on the back and just got used to it on walks and weekends away as well.

 

[Toddy]

A long time ago we had an entire thread on this topic, and it was astonishing how many of us do keep a notebook or journal. Time to bring the topic up agan
Mine ends up full of sketches, mixed in with bits of dried leaves and flowers and silly quotes , such as, "Do not meddle in the affairs of Nature, for you are small and biodegradeable "
Some folks journals looked like works of art
There was even some advice on making journals with tooled leather covers

I do what Shewie does with print out maps for places I'm working, and HWMBLT does it for his hillwalking.

cheers,
Toddy

 

[Man of Tanith]

I keep a moleskine notebook as a journal which i complete when i return from any exploits, it has the two tunes from the wood lore not woodlore thread sticky from this forum, i write up any courses i have attended in it, any camps i go on, recipes of successful meals prepared whilst out and about, new kit i have bought and my impressions of it, i occasionally write the kit list i take with me as a method of monitoring what i have taken and not used or not taken and regretted not having.
eventually i hope to have a little collection of the notebooks that i can refer to as a diary of my journey through this wide subject.
Cheers
Sam

 

[BigShot]

"Do not meddle in the affairs of Nature, for you are small and biodegradeable "

A statement as hilarious as it is profound! Nice work.

I have a somewhat rough, hand-drawn map of a local park with locations of all the various plants I've been in looking for. Blackberries, elder, rosehips, hawthorn and more besides. One day I'll find the blackthorn I know is in there somewhere and will add that with pride and a certain degree of smugness. One of the park rangers knows where it is and another who the first won't give the secret to still hasn't found it!

 

[Tengu]

I keep it in my head

 

[durulz]

Yup.
I have a little A6 (?) booklet that I use to make notes on things that I know I seldom use and will forget. I have glued into it a list of all the woods and which burns best/longest/hottest etc, a list of knots, a list of different tarp configurations, as well as a host of other odd bits and pieces.

 

[MartiniDave]

I have cheap A6 notebooks dotted around various coats, bags, shed etc for initial scribbles, notes jottings and working out. Then I use a "black and red" A5 to put the best bits in, in a tidied form.
Its an occasional thing though, and tends to happen more in winter, acompanied by whistful thought etc!

Dave

 

[drewdunnrespect]

yes i have one just an a5 note book that i have scribbled down how to sling a tarp and hammock, what knots to use and kit list of all kit i have and how to set up a fire in genral IE build small but then burn big so build a small tipee then light that then gradualy burn bigger stuff.

also have a a4 card binded sketch pad which has a drawing on the first page then aventually will become a posh and neat version of the above note book but with drawings as well. I also plan to leather cover it.

drew