Mesquite's Bank Holiday Birthday Bash - Very, Very Picture Heavy

[MartinK9]

A great birthday was celebrated at Rough Close,

Skills passed on and learnt, great food ,company and stories told around the fire. Fantastic

Many thanks to all friends that attended; old and new.



Bowdrill:

Food - Cake:

 

[MartinK9]

Communal Area:

Food - English Rarebit:

My Set Up, Before, During and After:

Food- Prawns:

Food - Roast Lamb Slow cooked over coals:

Food - Roast Lamb and Veg cooked in Dutch Oven:

Food - Both lamb Legs Done:

The best fed of all of us:

 

[MartinK9]

Bowl Burning:

Ponassing Salmon:

Pizza on the go as well

 

[MartinK9]

Last lot. Well; from me anyway

Set Ups:

Spag Bol:

Wood Prep:

Happy Birthday Steve.

 

[Karl82]

Happy Birthday Steve looks like you all had a good time.

 

[shaggystu]

some great photo's from a great weekend there martin, thanks for that.

thanks again to all that attended, as always it was great to spend some good quality tree time with friends old and new. special thanks to gary and deb's little dog, we'd never have managed to finish salmon off without you!

cheers

stuart

 

[Mesquite]

Happy Birthday Steve.

Thanks Martin

For those that don't know I am very shortly to celebrate my half century and decided to have a long weekend celebration at Rough Close with friends.

I'd like to say thank you to all those that came along to spend time with me in the woods. I had a great weekend with all of you, thoroughly enjoyed myself and didn't want to come home today.

There were others invited but sadly life got in the way of their coming along but you were missed and you missed a fantastic meet

Here's my little gallery of pics as well

Peoples pitches
Lindsey's

Decorum and Rosie's

Mine

Martin's

Wayland, Debs and Skadi the dog

Stu's

Sean's

Roly's second pitch (I didn't get a pic of his first nights pitch, but by all accounts it was a wind tunnel hence this pitch)

Wayland demonstrating to Roly (Dr Jones)how to pitch a Tatonka TC1 as a Baker style tent (he did call it by a particular name but it eludes me )

And Rolys 3rd pitch for the weekend

Around the communal area

Wayland processing wood for the weekend. He'd just got some new splitting wedges and wanted to play with them

 

[JonathanD]

Really sorry I couldn't make it mate. I'm away from home till Thursday. Never been so busy. Hope you had a great time.

 

[beenn]

Glad to see some of us still enjoy lightweight camping

Cracking pictures and the food looks beautiful- and happy birthday

 

[shaggystu]

not bad that little camera steve, i especially like the way that it show's up gary's halo on the last two shots! maybe the sun really does shine out.............i'll leave that well alone i think

stuart

 

[Mesquite]

Part 2
Fire drill
Roly (Dr Jones) getting his head down on the bowdrill watched closely by ShaggyStu

MartinK9 with camera at the ready to get the perfect picture of Roly breathing fire to life

My mate Sean trying his hand at bowdrill for the first time assisted by ShaggyStu

Lindsey (Firecrest) having a go as well. Sadly none of us got any pictures of the rather novel technique she tried later. This being a family forum I shall refrain from what we called it

Roly's walking stick (unfortunately I couldn't get a good picture of the whole thing)

Food, Glorious Food
Now that's what I call a bacon sarnie

In it goes ShaggyStu made very light work of it

Ponassed Salmon

If only yuoui could smell this...

Spag Bol

English Rarebit by Wayland (and very delicious)

Slow roast lamb

Dutch oven lamb

Pizzas

The communal area after we packed up

And finally... one contented Skadi the dog

 

[Lupin Rider]

Awesome! Looks like a great weekend was had. How about a celebratory pint at the moot??

 

[Shewie]

Om nom nom, looks a great weekend lads

Happy birfday Steve, whenever it was.

 

[Frogo]

Looks like some real good food, made my hungry just looking at the pics

 

[morch]

Looks like a fantastic weekend. Some great set-ups and the food looks very good. Am i right to assume that the English Rarebit is Wayland's Gin Gan Goo? It looks similar. I've tried to reproduce it many times and never even got close to Gary's, which is too die for. We must make it to one of these meets soon

Thanks for sharing the pics

Dave

 

[Gailainne]

Looks like a brilliant weekend Steve, I'm glad you guys kept to the basics, cooking wise

Happy half century, it doesn't hurt, already had mine.

Stephen

 

[shaggystu]

....Am i right to assume that the English Rarebit is Wayland's Gin Gan Goo? It looks similar. I've tried to reproduce it many times and never even got close to Gary's, which is too die for.....

yep, one of the many culinary highlights of the weekend

stuart

 

[Dark Horse Dave]

What a great set of pics! That looks like a brilliant fun weekend, and really good to see the wide variety of set-ups. I'm particularly impressed with the communal areas & inventive cooking techniques.

Glad too that Mesquite had a good b'day (mine's not too far off either..)

Thanks for sharing

 

[Mesquite]

Awesome! Looks like a great weekend was had. How about a celebratory pint at the moot??

Oh for sure... I'm sure we'll quaff a jar or two John

 

[TinkyPete]

Happy Birthday Steve, glad you had a great weekend, sorry I could not make it. Just got back from Germany this evening.