Jimmy,s Forest

[JAG009]

Just seen a wee clip of this could be worth watching ,,starts tonight 9pm on more 4



Jason

 

[BigM]

Yeah, hope it's good, have it set to record on the telly box.

 

[bushwacker bob]

Yeah, hope it's good, have it set to record on the telly box.

Your going to be watching Dr Alice Roberts skinny dipping in a moorland pool on wild swimming then?

 

[Robbi]

 

[Stringmaker]

I saw this last night and said to SWMBO "I bet there will be a discussion about this on the Bushcraft forum".

I have to say that I enjoyed it a lot; I was trying to categorise it as I went along but I thought it was an interesting mixture of subjects.

If you have it recorded but not watched yet then I won't spoil it, but make sure you catch it next week to see Will Lord.

 

[Beefy0978]

I thought this was very good but I agree is difficult to pigeonhole. I guess it is what it says on the tin, the story of jimmy's wood throughout the year. Not enough focus on jimmy's wife though... ;-)

 

[BeerHunter]

Deeply envious of that tree house!

 

[pauljm116]

I thought it was good,a bit more bushcrafty than I was expecting. I met Jimmy and Michaela last year on a trip to Jimmys farm and they were both really nice and down to earth, even though they were very busy they still made time to have a chat.

I want to build a tree house now!

 

[atross]

May be worth checking out "the tree house diaries" by Nick Weston, the series almost seems to be built around this book

 

[Totumpole]

i saw a clip for that and completely forgot about it. might see if its on 4od. cheers for the reminder

 

[British Red]

Good show I thought. I quite like the guy - his interests mirror mine - bit of farming, bit of outdoorsy stuff, some "can I make that at home with some kitchen chemistry?" interest.

Generally strikes me as a guy who is curious, likes to look into all sorts and share what he discovers.

He did dip a toe into the vogue for being the "food police" which put me off (as it did with H F-W), but thankfully that seems to have passed.

 

[Stringmaker]

Generally strikes me as a guy who is curious, likes to look into all sorts and share what he discovers.

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That's a good summation. His business is over near me so I was aware of him but didn't know his original biology/entomology training. The two items on the woodpecker and the badger were fascinating and new information to me.

Being a bit of a pedant, the only point I would whinge about was that the birch tree was not shown being plugged after tapping. It was mentioned but not actually done; when he collected the bottle the tap was still in the tree.

 

[Wayland]

I enjoyed the first episode.

I'll interesting to see how it goes on.

 

[velvetmonkey]

I take it there'll be a rush now for making cured hams from roadkill badger??

 

[Stringmaker]

I take it there'll be a rush now for making cured hams from roadkill badger??

Judging by his reaction to the aftertaste I would think not!

I did wonder if it would be better smoked and dried?

 

[launditch1]

I would hate to smoke a Badger.

Interesting series though.i liked the device he hammered into the birch tree..ingenious.

 

[crosslandkelly]

Hi all. "Jimmy's forest" is on again tonight 21:00. Enjoy.