Hahaha that would be great watching and might actually make the telly become of some interest to me.
Interview with Uncle Ray in today's Guardian
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Hahaha that would be great watching and might actually make the telly become of some interest to me.
I'd rather see something a bit like "River Cottage" where a "host" visits experts in their field Stovie making cider or on a scout camp, Cegga making an axe, Xylaria foraging, Jon herping, Harvestman looking at scary wrigglies, Hillbill knife making, Kepis spoon making, Robin on bowls, Tom making rushlights...would be fantastic!
Thanks for that, for what's its worth I like Mears, I like Grylls As well. Then again I liked watching Les Stroud, Cody Lundin and Dave Canterbury, there all good and there all different?
Yes I agree with you there they all different things about them that makes us like them for different reasons.
Sounds like the kind of thing RM tried to do with his country tracks and was able. But, by the sounds of him in the article its something that is less likely to happen now due to the restrictions of the media=£
Shame.
I know too
but surely everyone dreams about the coveted pink spork of bushcrafting! .
Cheers Red. There is an episode of Country Tracks out there with me in it banging on about adders to Ellie Harrison.
Perhaps Ray has never mentioned Mors directly because the interviewer hasn't asked him his views on Mors. Most journos don't have much knowledge of 'this thing of ours'. Maybe Ray never read his book. I don't think it's anything sinister though.
Ellie Harrison. now there's a lass I'd like to spend a night in the woods with! (Purely for her love of the great outdoors of course.)
Ray has done more for bushcraft and promoting man at one with nature in his shows than anyone else on British TV ever. I don't say that lightly. He's a one man crusade, a solitary light in a sea of hype. His manner may be a bit dry, even a bit nerdy and lacking in obvious humour but I will take that over sensationalist twaddle any day.
His series on Wild Foods was both informative and entertaining with his eccentric sidekick, Professor Gordon Hillman. His series on the Northern Wilderness was unusual and illuminating for the characters he unearthed showing the pains they went through. Two other highlights for me in his illustrious career were Birch Bark Canoe; an entire episode devoted to the making of... a birch bark canoe! I was mesmerised by the skill his subject had in crafting a thing of beauty out of what he had to hand. He also did some stuff with some forest people in Russia who lived with reindeer. The toddlers were strapped into a cot that was hoisted onto a reindeer when they moved camp. The nappy was dried wood. Ray commented that the babies were very quiet and rarely cried. Perhaps they knew they were onto a good thing living in the forest.
His series on Wild Foods was both informative and entertaining with his eccentric sidekick, Professor Gordon Hillman. His series on the Northern Wilderness was unusual and illuminating for the characters he unearthed showing the pains they went through. Two other highlights for me in his illustrious career were Birch Bark Canoe; an entire episode devoted to the making of... a birch bark canoe! I was mesmerised by the skill his subject had in crafting a thing of beauty out of what he had to hand. He also did some stuff with some forest people in Russia who lived with reindeer. The toddlers were strapped into a cot that was hoisted onto a reindeer when they moved camp. The nappy was dried wood. Ray commented that the babies were very quiet and rarely cried. Perhaps they knew they were onto a good thing living in the forest.
At the 2006 moot Mors said "I've never met Mr Raymond Mears" quote (I heard him say it) and by 1987 Ray was already well 'into' bushcraft plus he's often referenced works from writers that far pre date Mors.
Its all happened before.
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I always thought Grylls was a bit off TBH. "I'm going to climb this tree for no reason, jump off the top and land on my HEAD!" Just not into all that Alpha-male stuff. I have it on excellent authority, that his supposed oppos of the SAS (which he rarely ceases to bang on about) also have a rather austere opinion of his showboating. I get the impression that whilst Grylls was jumping out of trees, biting stones to show how tough his teeth were etc, Mears would have built a shelter, picked a bunch of berries for his supper and got a brew on.
However, I distinctly recall Mears saying on some TV show that he'd undertaken one expedition where he'd neglected to take enough food and had killed and eaten his dog, and I'm afraid that damned him utterly and for all time in my opinion.
However, I distinctly recall Mears saying on some TV show that he'd undertaken one expedition where he'd neglected to take enough food and had killed and eaten his dog, and I'm afraid that damned him utterly and for all time in my opinion.
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That was benedict allen.
Mears did spark my interest in bushcraft, and I do like his shows. I met the guy briefly in 2003, I just wasnt as enamored by him as a lot of people seem to be.....all down to personal preferences really.
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Are you absolutely certain about that? I distinctly recall it and I've never heard of Benedict Allen.
