Hello from North East Hampshire

[Baldman Jump]

Hi there,

Been lurking for quite a while, so finally signed up.

I'm on SOTP and recognise a few names on here. Been canoeing for about 3 yrs, and rediscovered my love of camping (ie cooking bacon!) and just spending more and more time outdoors.

Had some great wkends with folk from SOTP and done a couple of solo wild camps.

Increasingly find myself on here, learning more and more stuff to supplement my canoeing camping.

Dog walks have become an extension of all this, with little missions for my daughter... This week she took her penknife and firesteel, and had to find her own tinder (birchbark, dry grass, a couple of downy feathers (!?), a the fluffy top of a thistle), to start a small fire so she could have her hot chocolate.... Success!!! And memory money cant buy!!

I currently have a splint on my right hand having severred a tendon in my little finger...so she had extra pressure because I wasn't much help! Cant do much outdoorsy stuff at the mo... but mini adventures like this will get me through the next coupl of months of frustration.

Cheers

Baldman Jump

 

[crosslandkelly]

Hi, welcome and enjoy.
Heal well.

 

[ozzy1977]

Hello and welcome

 

[Dreadhead]

welcome aboard

 

[Baldman Jump]

Thanks for the welcome folks

 

[John Fenna]

Hello and welcome!

 

[Blundstoned Love]

Welcome

SOTP? Song?Sound of the Paddle?

 

[Baldman Jump]

Thanks.

Enjoy your reviews John (although there must be plenty of other halves that curse you when credit card bills come in! )

Yes, sorry...Song of the Paddle....a must for anyone even vaguely interested in canoeing

 

[21st century pict]

Hi and welcome to the forum from Bonny Scotland.
When your fit again, get yourself up here and do the Great Glen Canoe Trail, an amazing trip with great scenery and camping and more than enough Midges for everyone get well soon Bro.

 

[Mesquite]

Hello and welcome to the forum

 

[mick91]

Hi and welcome from Sunderland. Hope you're back to health and back outdoors asap

 

[Insel Affen]

Welcome to the forum. Get in touch with Bombodoggy, he's from round your area.

 

[birchwood]

Hi BMJ, and welcome, another refugee from SOTP here.
Say hi to daughter and dog from me, see you on a paddle soon.

 

[Baldman Jump]

Thanks very much all for the warm welcome and good wishes

 

[Baldman Jump]

Hi BMJ, and welcome, another refugee from SOTP here.
Say hi to daughter and dog from me, see you on a paddle soon.

Aah - a birch by any other name

Hello from us.

Hope you're well and it's not too long before I can get out and about for a paddle.

Cheers

 

[birchwood]

Aah - a birch by any other name

Indeed

Hope you mend soon, we are missing you all.

 

[richardhomer]

Hello and welcome

 

[SiWhite]

Welcome Baldman!

I'm not a million miles away from you, just outside Sherfield on Loddon.

My my wife and I are planning our first Canadian canoe adventure this week - paddling from Hay on Wye. In support of that, we are hiring a canoe for a practise some time this coming week from Odiham for an hour or two on the Basingstoke Canal.

if it goes as well as I'm imagining, I'd be surprised if we'd not bought our first canoe by the end of the year!

 

[Baldman Jump]

Welcome Baldman!

I'm not a million miles away from you, just outside Sherfield on Loddon.

My my wife and I are planning our first Canadian canoe adventure this week - paddling from Hay on Wye. In support of that, we are hiring a canoe for a practise some time this coming week from Odiham for an hour or two on the Basingstoke Canal.

if it goes as well as I'm imagining, I'd be surprised if we'd not bought our first canoe by the end of the year!

Hello,

Not done the Wye yet, but on the list. Canoe hire at Odiham is where I started... lovely part of the canal, cant go wrong.

Plenty of friendly paddlers around this area, and quite a few options within an hours drive (B'stoke canal, the Wey, Thames, and tidal waters of Hamble, Itchen etc around the Solent area).

Good luck, hope all goes well and see you on the water some time

Cheers

 

[andyn]

Welcome Baldman. From Bstoke but work in fleet myself. Enjoy the forum. Check out the Hampshire camping thread if you fancy coming along to a meetup in the future.

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