North Wood February 2014 Pictures (lots of em!)

[woodspirits]

what a fine meet, very relaxed with a real community feel.

Mark (preper) volunteered to provide a communal meal on Saturday evening, this was to be a game stew with various birds and veg. this was soon polished off by the hungry hordes! alongside this was freshly baked bread by Sally (turbogirl) delicious.

it was decided that we would create a new and 3rd communal area to rotate between. we spent a few hours clearing all the self seeded scrub and thinned out the area to accommodate not only our new parachute but allowing plenty of pitches.

the whole of this ancient woodland is an absolute carpet of bluebells around April / May and it will be a joy to camp amongst it.

to round the Saturday evening off, a few of our younger members gave us a rendition of various assorted tune ups with drum guitar and flute. (just kidding lads) it was well received by all and was a welcome break from knives, scales and other kit chat!

anyhow enough waffle, here's a few (I lie) pics.

http://s797.photobucket.com/user/redfox-/slideshow/north wood feb 2014

 

[Mesquite]

Looks like you all had a great time there Steve

 

[woodspirits]

thanks Steve, yes it was a good meet.

 

[Big Stu 12]

Looks like a lot of work done, , thanks for showing

 

[woodspirits]

yes Stu there was, but worth the effort for new pitches.

 

[Big Stu 12]

I know the feeling we have a 10 acre wood , and only really use a 1/4 of it, so we are now looking to open new areas but will keep the communal area in the same place.

This should allow those that want the quite camp, and familes to camp at the same time

 

[woodspirits]

I know the feeling we have a 10 acre wood , and only really use a 1/4 of it, so we are now looking to open new areas but will keep the communal area in the same place.

This should allow those that want the quite camp, and familes to camp at the same time

good move mate, have to pop down to one of your meets.

 

[Big Stu 12]

You'd be welcome anytime

 

[nolightweight]

Yarrrr........ Cracking set of pics, Steve. Nice one.

 

[Dreadhead]

cracking photos, missing northwood indeed!

 

[MartinK9]

Thanks for sharing Steve, some great pics there.

 

[PREPER]

Excellent pics as usual, thanks for sharing,

PREPER............

 

[jimbo75]

Sorry couldn't make it guys.... Hope to get back to north wood soon....

 

[crosslandkelly]

Great pics, thanks for sharing.

 

[TurboGirl]

What super pictures, Steve SUCH a wonderful weekend, workparties, fine food (cheers Prep, a masterpiece of a game stew!) and fabulous company x

 

[TinkyPete]

Was a great meet and indeed very relaxing, the clearance was done and Martin even had time to do a spiderman impression whilst testing out the new chute support branch

 

[TurboGirl]

I'm going to lash a couple of mine on here, they're mostly for the Woodland Trust facebook page

The moats weren't as full as I was expecting but I did amaze myself at not falling in as it was just behind my pitch!

Rev taking a well earned standing break

Walking round with Darren on Sunday morning was a really informative break from the norm- he thinks this birch is around 30yrs on an oak trunk.

I think he refered to this folding as 'cat face'... the hole in the trunk was amazingly deep and long.

Turkey tail, a highly medicinal polypore taken as a decoction and very decorative. It seems quite common here in Leicestershire too, it sprouts on my woodpile regularly

Darren puts our beautiful yew at about 300yrs and mentioned that its rare to such an uncluttered, fine trunk. No, you can't have it for bow staves....

It was a wonderful mix of companionship, good food and the usual laugh and craic at Northwood meets, much gratitude to Steve for organising, Prep for the smashing stew and all my workparty colleagues, as well as the fine folk who make it such a great site to chill and chat Catch you all again at the bluebell meet!

I do wish I'd seen K9 doing Spiderman though.... That would have deserved a full video

 

[MartinK9]

I do wish I'd seen K9 doing Spiderman though.... That would have deserved a full video

Think Jack Black's version:

[video=youtube;2LhEMrDvkOU]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2LhEMrDvkOU[/video]

Rather than Tobey Maguire http://www.bushcraftuk.com/search?s...AA&ei=ej4LU9OIKezB7AaRyIDQAw&ved=0COwBEMQNMBw

 

[Bushcraftsman]

Was a great meet thanks for organising steve! Thanks again to the two chefs! Stew and bread was beautiful! Cant believe Bills flute wouldnt play under pressure! We were literally playing for 10 mins before we came down! Typical!

Anyway, still thoroughly enjoyed ourselves!

Jordan

 

[TurboGirl]

Ohhhh K9 I could be your wonderwoman... or was that role filled by OvaryBoy

Eat yer heart out, Papa Biker....