Goals/aims/plans for 2013?

[Man of Tanith]

Right i reckon as we are now in spitting distance of 2013
what are your goals for 2013?
i've two goals that are not 'craft orientated
1 get a new job i've been in mine for 6 years and worked in care for the last decade i reckon its time i made a change
2 (again) learn to drive kind of vital for no 1 really

crafty orientated
obviously there is the kit list oath i made recently here as the biggy

however there are more (always more!)
1 make it to the bushmoot this year
2 improve/continue fire by friction ability from one off fluke to regular success
3 Work through the outdoor survival handbook and complete as many projects from it as i can
4 Get out more, even if it is just a bimble once a week
5 walk to and from my permission with all my kit whenever i camp up there, varying routes
6 complete first Self bow, make second better one


So how bout you folks?

 

[Elen Sentier]

Thanks for giving me the heads up to do this but it's worse than i thought !

Feels like a lot of change is happening for me right now, all good. No change of home, that connection just gets deeper and deeper, but the writing is taking off with a vengeance (publisher’s asked for 2 more proposals by 12[SUP]th[/SUP] night! Eeeek!) which is excellent, and so is the teaching.

1.I need to get out more, so hope to get to lots of meets and the Moot, and meet folk, learn from them and enjoy the company and the places.
2. I need to walk every day … roll on wearing the boots again! 4. 3. Hope to get out for some longer 1-day walks too.
4. Must get into wood carving. Antler and bone would be nice too.
5. Must get the weaving going.
6. Must get into drawing and painting again.
7. Have begun the Fair Isle patterns, must continue.
8. Make birch-hoop/roe-deer-skin drum – have the stuff, need to make the time.
9. Make reindeer drum.

· Make deer-toes rattles.

Ummmm … bother !!! Hope I can keep it all up

 

[Chris the Cat]

Maybe get to the Moot!?
Plan a winter trip to Finland.
Best.
Cat.

 

[Shewie]

Plans for the 2013, get some more courses under my belt, hopefully an instructors course if I can work out the finances and work leave. Do some more canoe coaching and get back up to Scotland paddling each month again.

Snowboarding trip in winter and camping in Austria in the summer

 

[Man of Tanith]

What courses you looking at Rich?
Elen nice to keep busy aint it
chris trip to finland sounds fun dont forget the photo

 

[Shewie]

What courses you looking at Rich?

Hopefully get on Da's instructor programme, failing that either the coastal forager or native with Woodsmoke, then again I'd like to get on Patricks' courses too.

 

[Niels]

1. Replace my current diet with wild-food
2. Replace all of my current equipment with naturally made primitive equipment.
3. Sharpen my skills until I can fully depend on them year round.
4. Find a group of like-minded people, drop out of school and move to Belarus to live like a hunter/gatherer.

More realisticly though, I want to stop buying archery equipment, and start making it, I want to make more friction fires and I want to learn more plants and fungi.

 

[Elen Sentier]

Wow Niels, that sounds fantastic, do hope you get it all

 

[DaveWL]

Non Bushy

1. Make sure 50% of my contracts are outsideLondon
2. Lose another 15Kg

Bushy (ish)

1. Go on a bimble every weekend to the woods with the kids
2. Refresh my first aid course
3. Make it to some of the Sussex group meets at Broadstone
4. Change from tent to tarp
5. Walk Scafell Pike

 

[Elen Sentier]

The gods only know how I ever had time to go to ordinary work, Sam

 

[DaveWL]

Oops!

6. Make my own bow

 

[Elen Sentier]

Non Bushy

1. Make sure 50% of my contracts are outsideLondon
2. Lose another 15Kg

Bushy (ish)

1. Go on a bimble every weekend to the woods with the kids
2. Refresh my first aid course
3. Make it to some of the Sussex group meets at Broadstone
4. Change from tent to tarp
5. Walk Scafell Pike

Scafell Pike is amazing! Not been for 30 years but was fantastic. with the weight and the contracts.

 

[Home Guard]

Wow! This is a great idea of a thread.

Non-bushy:

Progress with my current job whilst starting my part time degree.
Get a better car, but it still has to be a Land Rover. My 51 year old machine can make it over any ground and carry all my tools or bushcraft equipment, but she's too thirsty and slow for me to travel more than 5 miles.

Bushcraft related:

Get out there more often, this year I've only been out twice which was severely disapointing.
Get a good sleeping bag, as wrapping up in a thin blanket has proven to be highly inefficient.
Learn to forage more as living of rat packs is silly!

I'm very much looking forward to 2013.

 

[Ahjno]

1. Move house (def. somewhere in the first quarter).
2. Keep this job (in case of a contract extension this summer), and/or
3. Find a better (paid) job.
4. Get my diving / scuba license (fingers crossed, holiday, with a good mate somewhere in Asia).
5. Make it to the Moot.
6. Go on an Exped. and/or bushcraft course

EDIT:
7. Buy a whole shed load of shiny gucci kit, just because I can and no soul on the world to tell me I can't have a dedicated kit room

 

[WULF]

I would like to make myself a knife from scratch,getting the steel,shaping,grinding etc etc.Sure im going to need some advice regarding heat treatment and sure i will get that from you wonderfull people.Quite boring really but that my goal.:sulkoff:

 

[Scots_Charles_River]

Make a midgy net that curtains down from a tarp.

Make a pop up canoe sail.

Sea kayak Lewis and Harris for 3-4 days in Aug

 

[Harvestman]

1. Work on not having panic attacks, and dealing with them when they happen.

2. Have fun.

 

[Teepee]

Normal life;

Keep healthy, fit and keep bringing those pennies in. No solid plans to change just yet as my business is still successful (although increasingly boring and frustrating).
Get to Canada to get a feel of the place and research work before making an effort to emigrate.

Bushy stuff;

Get to late spring with all extremeties still attached.
Spend the summer planning winter trips (again)
Get further Sea Kayak instruction as I'm not confident going to sea.

 

[Everything Mac]

I'm not sure. The main one is to follow through with the promise I made to myself to quit this job and find something else.

Late 2013 I'd like to go to Australia.

I'd like to build a decent forge when I get home then focus on saving up money and becoming a better smith. I've managed to purchase most things I need to further it all which is good. Just need to crack on.

All in all I hope 2013 will be better than 2012!
Andy

 

[crosslandkelly]

Build a bigger man cave, do more carving, leather work and greenwood work. Go to the bushmoot again, and generally get out more to the other meets.