Forgive me Bushcrafters, for I have sinned

[Harvestman]

I need to confess. I've done a terrible thing, which will probably haunt me for the rest of my life, and taint my reputation as a bushcrafter. It is this:

On a recent walking trip, last week, I, well... I... I camped at a Camping and Caravanning Club site.

(Oh, the shame!)

My justification was that the view was superb from the site, and I needed to be able to leave my kit for a day, but all the same, it was wrong, and I'm really sorry to have let you all down like this.

I'm not going to hide. I'll take my punishment like a man. Get Biker to send Bushcraft Betty round to me and tell her I've been a very bad boy...

 

[Mesquite]

...Get Biker to send Bushcraft Betty round to me and tell her I've been a very bad boy...

I was going to lets sort a lynch mob until I read that last bit... you're just trolling for Betty really... that's your real crime

 

[JonathanD]

You must attend 24 hours of lectures by Southey on the merits of grass and pelicans within the world of porcelain production. Without a break or beer.

 

[Barn Owl]

Your punishment is to give all your gear up seeing as you've passed a thousand posts,in a comp'.

 

[Retired Member southey]

Come with me my friend, I shall give you your penance. NO! no, I have a habit you can borrow, yes, we will be a while.

 

[JonathanD]

Come with me my friend, I shall give you your penance. NO! no, I have a habit you can borrow, yes, we will be a while.

The lecture will be just fine. Not a single man alive would want to join in your weird nightime habits of barking at the moon through a telescopic peanut.

 

[The Cumbrian]

I can provide the feathers if someone else can bring along a tub of hot tar....

 

[Barn Owl]

The lecture will be just fine. Not a single man alive would want to join in your weird nightime habits of barking at the moon through a telescopic peanut.

Don't know about the peanut but barking at the moon and scopes are in my reportoire.

Peanuts are for beer time.

 

[JAG009]

Tam its after the beer you Bark at the moon !!!


Jason

 

[Barn Owl]

Tam its after the beer you Bark at the moon !!!


Jason

Yep, never get me snoring, it's big wolf growls...

 

[drewdunnrespect]

surely southeys raddishing gun needs to be brought out and a round off raddishes up his backside would be good enough punishment

 

[Fin]

My name is Fin...and I too have used a camping/ caravanning site...(sob!) - The circle now has to pat me on the back and murmur "Well done mate - that's the hard part out of the way - you're on the road to recovery...etc"

My crime was last weekend in fact. My French other half and I were planning a weekend excursion and she decided on Étratat in Normandy where as she put it in that charming way when she speaks English - "You may see a cleef with a 'ole in it" (she was talking about the cliff erosion - which creates arches in the chalk cliff spurs). "No problem" says I - I'll load up for two and we'll wild camp in one of the abundant and huge forests that are a feature of just about every department of this country...except Normandy it would seem! Inland around Rouen - no problem - but near the coast - forget it. I searched every sparse woodland on the map and it was either private or on the side of a cliff! After a few hours wasting petrol, Maryline headed for "Le Camping" and got out to talk to the owner whilst I sat sulking in the car. A few minutes later she came back and said "It's 10 Euros a night, we can light a fire and the bar is open until midnight."... What's a man to do!!

Harvestman - I'm with you man - we can beat this thing together...

 

[Harvestman]

My name is Fin...and I too have used a camping/ caravanning site...(sob!) - The circle now has to pat me on the back and murmur "Well done mate - that's the hard part out of the way - you're on the road to recovery...etc"

My crime was last weekend in fact. My French other half and I were planning a weekend excursion and she decided on Étratat in Normandy where as she put it in that charming way when she speaks English - "You may see a cleef with a 'ole in it" (she was talking about the cliff erosion - which creates arches in the chalk cliff spurs). "No problem" says I - I'll load up for two and we'll wild camp in one of the abundant and huge forests that are a feature of just about every department of this country...except Normandy it would seem! Inland around Rouen - no problem - but near the coast - forget it. I searched every sparse woodland on the map and it was either private or on the side of a cliff! After a few hours wasting petrol, Maryline headed for "Le Camping" and got out to talk to the owner whilst I sat sulking in the car. A few minutes later she came back and said "It's 10 Euros a night, we can light a fire and the bar is open until midnight."... What's a man to do!!

Harvestman - I'm with you man - we can beat this thing together...

No, NO, I won't share Betty, I won't!

 

[Fin]

Damm! - worth a try though!

 

[The Big Lebowski]

Please tell me we are going camping in the woods Saturday....

or am I going to wake up under an Avondale Sunday?

Be strong brother!

 

[Biker]

No, NO, I won't share Betty, I won't!

Who says she'd even talk to you after that confession? Besides she's still sulking at me about not being able to brand Southey as a reminder to him to be nice to Emma.

Really funny thread this, thanks for sharing. Started my day off perfectly.

Ooooh I've just had an idea for a Betty drawing. Thanks chaps!

Hey Fin, know what you mean about the woods and forest in Normandy, or lack off. Sounds like you got a good alternative though. Rough camping is frowned upon over here, at least not without prior consent from the land owner. But by the sounds of things if you can light a fire at a campsite it's almost as good. The plus side there's the shower and toilet facilities.

 

[Tony]

Well, if this is the thread for admitting sin then I need to step up.....Grange over Sands last week, lowefell campsite.......with the family.......and a ........caravan

 

[Biker]

well, if this is the thread for admitting sin then i need to step up.....grange over sands last week, lowefell campsite.......with the family.......and a ........caravan

BURN THE HERETIC!! Lest his sin defile us all!

 

[Tony]

My only defence is that I don't own it, we just borrowed it, for a very short while....

 

[Biker]

My only defence is that I don't own it, we just borrowed it, for a very short while....

Oh that's ok then. Been there, done that too. Phew, you had me worried Tony. Burn the heretic rally cry retracted.