Made 10 lb of Blackberry and Apple Jam last year - didnt last too long though. Gorgeous stuff !. Looking forward to gathering some more pretty soon. There's a good crop just about ready outside the back of my workplace so there'll be a bit of lunchtime foraging going on soon !
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Snufkin said:I'll be on the bramble and apple jelly production next week. Also going to have a go at bramble whisky and bramble wine. Although those won't be ready for the next meetup
Like the sound of the Bramble Whiskey - may have a go at this meself since I'm partial to a regular nip !
R
RayS
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RAPPLEBY2000 said:
Hi Guys
What about a meet in the next few weeks before the weather changes. I'd like to meet everybody get your ideas and put faces to names.
Cheers
Ray in Suffolk
befre the weather changes? it's nice you can plan the weather like that! yup i totally agree even if it's for a short meet up it would be a good idea, i'll see if i can find space in my diary to get together again.
Hi all N & N group
Yeah im up for a meet in a few weeks time as said it would be good to put faces to names and learn something along the way and get a chance to get out from working all the time so a meet in the next few weeks would be excellent
weekender
and if anyone can do something about the weather. . . . .
Yeah im up for a meet in a few weeks time as said it would be good to put faces to names and learn something along the way and get a chance to get out from working all the time
so a meet in the next few weeks would be excellent weekender
and if anyone can do something about the weather. . . . .
How about us tying in a meeting with the gathering and going as an East Anglian group? Tell me what you think folks!
Hi everyone. My name is Joel and Ilive In Lowestoft. I have ray Mears to blame for my interest in bushcraft, although I have long been interested in "nature". I am a boatbuilder, woodworker and now work as a woodworking tutor as well as carving signs. I enjoy making "things", I like canoes, wood, and even skin on frame, (and can'tl think of anything better to build than a birchbark canoe) , not the plastic variety, they may do the job but there is no spirit there. Anyway, enough of me. I did not realise until I found this site a little while back, that there was quite that much interest. I would quite like to join in and get to know a few people. Do you have any dates for further meetings??
(sorry for late reply late night)
Hi jojo, feel free to join us, we will be meeting soon!
it sounds like you may be able to teach us a thing or two in the craft area!
you'll be happy to know that KevB lives not too far from you, we did talk about a meetup local to lowerstoft, which would be a nice change for us innercity Norwich dwellers!
prehaps a seashore forage? (seriously, is the water clean enough?)
i will be organising soon, just the last two weeks of kids holidays then back to normal....phew!
by the way whitlingham lane (where the fire lighting photos were taken), is full of ripe wild fruits!
Hi jojo, feel free to join us, we will be meeting soon!
it sounds like you may be able to teach us a thing or two in the craft area!
you'll be happy to know that KevB lives not too far from you, we did talk about a meetup local to lowerstoft, which would be a nice change for us innercity Norwich dwellers!
prehaps a seashore forage? (seriously, is the water clean enough?)
i will be organising soon, just the last two weeks of kids holidays then back to normal....phew!
by the way whitlingham lane (where the fire lighting photos were taken), is full of ripe wild fruits!
Well, I don't know about that! If anyone wanted a, let's skin-on-frame canoe or kayak, or paddles, I would be on firm ground to show them how to do it. As far as "buschcraft" is concerned, the ground is becoming rather boggy and the mist starts to rise
The only camping I have indulged over the years has been with my wife and daughters whose idea of roughing it is at least two hot showers and hair wash a day!
So what I really would like out of this is learning new skills, such as fire making, and confortable camping with little equipment, as I believe the fewer things you have the free-er you are, that would me safer and more comfortable away from camp sites. We spent a few days in the lake district last month, on the shores of Windermere, a NT campsite, there was a sign there telling people the site was little developed, to keep the sense of "wilderness" I could not even find the energy to find it funny .If I had looked, I would have found TVs there!
The place was beautiful, no doubt, but no wilderness. Ha well, that's "rant of the day" over
The only camping I have indulged over the years has been with my wife and daughters whose idea of roughing it is at least two hot showers and hair wash a day!
So what I really would like out of this is learning new skills, such as fire making, and confortable camping with little equipment, as I believe the fewer things you have the free-er you are, that would me safer and more comfortable away from camp sites. We spent a few days in the lake district last month, on the shores of Windermere, a NT campsite, there was a sign there telling people the site was little developed, to keep the sense of "wilderness"
I could not even find the energy to find it funny .If I had looked, I would have found TVs there! The place was beautiful, no doubt, but no wilderness. Ha well, that's "rant of the day" over
R
RayS
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GearGuru said:
Hi Gear Guru
I am seriously thinking of going so perhaps we could meet up if you are going too? I would probably take my tent and stay for the friday & saturday night. Anybody else going from East Anglia?
Ray
Hi All
Just thought I say hello, just haven't penned anything for a while, read JOJO and thought of a similar family background and had a chuckle, we must be on a parallel universes, Suffolk and Norfolk with your camping experiences.
Look forward to the next meet, hooked up with Rappleby today and did a bit of fishing.
all the best.
Just thought I say hello, just haven't penned anything for a while, read JOJO and thought of a similar family background and had a chuckle, we must be on a parallel universes, Suffolk and Norfolk with your camping experiences.
Look forward to the next meet, hooked up with Rappleby today and did a bit of fishing.
all the best.
Damascus "hooked up"? (terrible!
)yet again, you showed me how easy fishing is! sorry about my over-active boy!
can't make it unfortunately
, but nice offer, prehaps the other guy's can, I'm all for getting a group together for this sort of thing, you get to know each faster, just a shame i can't come this time.feel free if you want to head up a group!
I'd love a canoe, i got my 2* a few years back, i don't think a skin one would last long with me though!
JoJo and RayS,
there is a wealth of teaching we can give you!
we don't claim to be experts, but feel free to join in and get learning!
at present we seem to specialise in firestarting with the following methods:
Bowdrill
Hand drill
Firesteel(you can probably do this already)
Flint and steel (rock and iron type!)
i've been playing with reflected and magnified light fire starting.
also various ember holding materials, natrual and man made.
and each of us have some knowledge of edible foods, the group includes 2-3 active hunters!
tell us what you want to learn and we'll try our best!
Don't forget Lord Lurcher, our resident camp fire chef!RAPPLEBY2000 said:Damascus "hooked up"? (terrible!
yet again, you showed me how easy fishing is! sorry about my over-active boy!
I'd love a canoe, i got my 2* a few years back, i don't think a skin one would last long with me though!
JoJo and RayS,
there is a wealth of teaching we can give you!
we don't claim to be experts, but feel free to join in and get learning!
at present we seem to specialise in firestarting with the following methods:
Bowdrill
Hand drill
Firesteel(you can probably do this already)
Flint and steel (rock and iron type!)
i've been playing with reflected and magnified light fire starting.
also various ember holding materials, natrual and man made.
and each of us have some knowledge of edible foods, the group includes 2-3 active hunters!
tell us what you want to learn and we'll try our best!
We all just get together to learn and share knowledge. Even if we can't help with practical knowledge of a skill we'll be happy to offer moral support
.And JoJo, I'd be interested to see some of your bows.
I'd love a canoe, i got my 2* a few years back, i don't think a skin one would last long with me though!
Hi Rappleby. (not sure how to use the quote thingy)
Actually, a skin boat is much stronger than mose people think, because they behave much in the same way a trees does, it flexes out of the way, bends gracefully rather than trying to resist. An American guy called Wolfgang Brink has written a book on alaskan kayaks and rates them as "somewhere between fibreglass and polyethylene". What I like about them is they are light, made of natural material, and are quite beautiful. They can be made of canvas, willow branches, pine from the local diy, and conventioanal house paints.l Of course if you wanted to go down Niagara falls, you would choose something else How about a nice simple plywood canoe for less £100???
Fire lighting, I can do quite well, with a box a matches, in my wood stove, inside a dry, comfy lounge Different thing outside when it wet and windy, different fire for different purposes etc, I would like to learn to do that. The bow drill is almost mystical, although at the moment, I would have to give it a miss, because of trapped nerves in my neck. :aargh4:
Foraging, I am interested in, a knowledge of the wild foods that are out there is quite appealling, learning about mushrooms, etc.
As to the bows, no problems, just a question of meeting somewhere, sometimes!
Hi Rappleby. (not sure how to use the quote thingy)
Actually, a skin boat is much stronger than mose people think, because they behave much in the same way a trees does, it flexes out of the way, bends gracefully rather than trying to resist. An American guy called Wolfgang Brink has written a book on alaskan kayaks and rates them as "somewhere between fibreglass and polyethylene". What I like about them is they are light, made of natural material, and are quite beautiful. They can be made of canvas, willow branches, pine from the local diy, and conventioanal house paints.l Of course if you wanted to go down Niagara falls, you would choose something else
How about a nice simple plywood canoe for less £100???Fire lighting, I can do quite well, with a box a matches, in my wood stove, inside a dry, comfy lounge
Different thing outside when it wet and windy, different fire for different purposes etc, I would like to learn to do that. The bow drill is almost mystical, although at the moment, I would have to give it a miss, because of trapped nerves in my neck. :aargh4: Foraging, I am interested in, a knowledge of the wild foods that are out there is quite appealling, learning about mushrooms, etc.
As to the bows, no problems, just a question of meeting somewhere, sometimes!
sounds like you'd enjoy our group!
theres been some discussion about boats and construction though we are at just below experimental stage a guy called Rbowskill actually made a ply wood canoe/boat but we never saw it.
for me it's a head thing, plastic or glass fibre to me "seems" less expensive and i have no problem if i dent it or whatever.
a natrual material boat (canoe) seems to me more of a "work of art" though saying that i've not tried it, i love the freedom a canoe gives you!
as for the fire lighting prehaps before winter we should go to the woods and fire light after it's rained, you can do it and find dry wood i'll show you how!
it's same as anything, if you know where to look you'll find it!
Bow drill.....
i used to think it was mystical, but i timed myself with the group and made a coal from wood in 33 seconds! it's really easy once you know how! also alot easier if you see someone doing it right infront of you, explaning the process which i can do for anyone that asks!
i'm teaching some air cadets bowdrill tonight!
as for quoting
as you write below there will be a history of the last few posts, use you mouse to highlight a section you want to copy (like in microsoft word) and then press this button
(just above and right of your typing area)
(p.s. adding pictures is a seperate issue! )
the text will then be shown be shown as
theres been some discussion about boats and construction though we are at just below experimental stage
a guy called Rbowskill actually made a ply wood canoe/boat but we never saw it.for me it's a head thing, plastic or glass fibre to me "seems" less expensive and i have no problem if i dent it or whatever.
a natrual material boat (canoe) seems to me more of a "work of art" though saying that i've not tried it, i love the freedom a canoe gives you!
as for the fire lighting prehaps before winter we should go to the woods and fire light after it's rained,
you can do it and find dry wood i'll show you how! it's same as anything, if you know where to look you'll find it!
Bow drill.....
i used to think it was mystical, but i timed myself with the group and made a coal from wood in 33 seconds! it's really easy once you know how! also alot easier if you see someone doing it right infront of you, explaning the process which i can do for anyone that asks!i'm teaching some air cadets bowdrill tonight!
as for quoting
as you write below there will be a history of the last few posts, use you mouse to highlight a section you want to copy (like in microsoft word) and then press this button
(p.s. adding pictures is a seperate issue!
)the text will then be shown be shown as
(you'll have the word
either end of the selected words whilst typing).
my advice is to try all the buttons for internet page links and pictures it's taken me years to bother to learn but it's actually very easy to do!
(not a technical thing at all)
send me a PM and try it out i will send it back to you so you can see it
hope that helps
Rich
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