Only thing guys - the bars not open :shock: but tea & coffee available.Meet in the car park by my viechle (has my logo on the wheel cover).
Neil
Neil
possibility of a Devon Meetup?
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Where is this Buckerall Lodge Hotel?
There are plenty of other pubs in Central Exeter
May I suggest
The White Hart just the other side of Cathedral Green
http://www.english-inns.co.uk/Eldridge-Pope/WhiteHart-Exeter/
or a list of them here:
http://www.exeter.ac.uk/~jbdavey/pubs/#centre
Mal
There are plenty of other pubs in Central Exeter
May I suggest
The White Hart just the other side of Cathedral Green
http://www.english-inns.co.uk/Eldridge-Pope/WhiteHart-Exeter/
or a list of them here:
http://www.exeter.ac.uk/~jbdavey/pubs/#centre
Mal
So....we are meeting at a 3-star hotel and you are bringing edged 'tools'.
Marvellous. If you can turn up is full camo aswell we will not look out of place at all!
Mal
p.s. shall I get a release 'chit' from the local constabulary in advance?
Marvellous. If you can turn up is full camo aswell we will not look out of place at all!
Mal
p.s. shall I get a release 'chit' from the local constabulary in advance?
Don't like to throw a spanner in the works but it won't be easy for us to get there, it's a bit out of the way... I wouldn't fancy walking there from the centre or getting a bus :?: Also in terms of people who don't know the area getting there. Would there be a possibility of meeting perhaps in the centre and then going there?
I really don't mind where we go, I won't be bringing kit as I feel a little uncomfortable wandering round cities with any tools and everyone has seen tarps etc before, I do not mind meeting people before hand, I have to get into Exeter by 10am anyway to look at a room (I'm moving to Exeter). I guess its really up to you guys,
Greg
Greg
Mallow Man said:
Mal, it was a suggestion and there was the "if" statement in there, at the time no one else had made any suggestions and no one else had checked to see if the Well House was open.
Neil1 and I were talking about the White Hart today and saying that it was a fair suggestion because it is easier to get to than The Buckerell Lodge.
My suggestion is this, we meet at 3 PM in cathedral square outside the Well House as originally planned, then move onto wherever takes our fancy, some of us may meet on the train or at the train station, you never know.
This also means that anyone that has not been keeping up with the thread will not get to the Well House find it closed and nobody there to meet them
That sounds good.
The hotel was merely a suggestion, I have met with other bushcrafters before and know that bits of kit normally are handed around, people want to look at rucksacks or smocks and sometimes knives! I was giving people an option.
Neil
The hotel was merely a suggestion, I have met with other bushcrafters before and know that bits of kit normally are handed around, people want to look at rucksacks or smocks and sometimes knives! I was giving people an option.
Neil
Hey guys. I was just being flippant (one of my finer traits I am afraid) :rolmao:
I just saw the funny side of going kitted up into a 3-star hotel! I know it was a suggestion. Suggestion and ideas are good
Yup lets meet as per original. If anyone arrives late check out the obvious pubs in the area:
The Ship (down side passage of Clarence Hotel) - just off Cathedral Green
The White Hart (walk down right-hand side of the Cathedral - if you are facing the front of it - through the Church buildings, bear left, past the obvious medieval gate-house), round the right hand bend past Braaz (posh restaurant/bar) and onto a main road - diagonal opposite is the White Hart Hotel - has a public bar with fire and snugs (and full of aging alchies. If this does not take your fancy then a new Wetherspoons has just opened virtually opposite it in a converted Methodist Church (total distance from Cathedral Green 350 yards.
The Rectory (cafe restaurant) in the Cathedral (if open on a Sunday)
Can someone pin a small note to the tree opposite the Well House (nearest tree to it on the Cathedral Green telling latecomers where everyone has headed off to?
And...just ignore my humourous dig at ourselves in the earlier posting - it was unhelpful. But if you can't laugh at yourself sometimes then we all start to lose perspective on things. Without perspective we lack the ability to keep to the path......
MAL
I just saw the funny side of going kitted up into a 3-star hotel! I know it was a suggestion. Suggestion and ideas are good
Yup lets meet as per original. If anyone arrives late check out the obvious pubs in the area:
The Ship (down side passage of Clarence Hotel) - just off Cathedral Green
The White Hart (walk down right-hand side of the Cathedral - if you are facing the front of it - through the Church buildings, bear left, past the obvious medieval gate-house), round the right hand bend past Braaz (posh restaurant/bar) and onto a main road - diagonal opposite is the White Hart Hotel - has a public bar with fire and snugs (and full of aging alchies. If this does not take your fancy then a new Wetherspoons has just opened virtually opposite it in a converted Methodist Church (total distance from Cathedral Green 350 yards.
The Rectory (cafe restaurant) in the Cathedral (if open on a Sunday)
Can someone pin a small note to the tree opposite the Well House (nearest tree to it on the Cathedral Green telling latecomers where everyone has headed off to?
And...just ignore my humourous dig at ourselves in the earlier posting - it was unhelpful. But if you can't laugh at yourself sometimes then we all start to lose perspective on things. Without perspective we lack the ability to keep to the path......
MAL
A big thank you to those who got there :biggthump (Mal, Greg, Chris, leon), it was great to meet you all.
Probably won't be able to make the Widecoombe Meet (half trem!
), but I'll start putting an over-nighter together for another time soon. Hopefully this will be the start of many.
Neil
Probably won't be able to make the Widecoombe Meet (half trem!
), but I'll start putting an over-nighter together for another time soon. Hopefully this will be the start of many.Neil
Yup,
It was a good evening. Nice to see a bunch of people from very different walks of live passionate about the same thing. It was also good to see that everyone could learn from someone else no matter how little or much the experience. As middle-learner (so to speak) I picked up hints from young and old (not that anyone is old mind you!). :You_Rock_
Last night I heard wisdom on firestarting, I saw a wonderful, rare Fjallraven top and a stupendously beautiful Allen Blade (thanks Leon for bringing them along). I heard about future sub-artic circle expeditions, axes, opinel saws, jews ears, winter truffles, tinder fungus, types of wood, a lovely birch bowl (thanks Neil) army sleeping bags, frozen eye-balls, ticks, limes disease, gutting deer, cold campsites, the wonders of unpredictable Dartmoor, collectible bushcraft books, why everyone dislikes bill-hooks, ventile and why we all got involved in bushcraft - glad to see many are philosophical but pragmatic about it! I even got myself a mild hangover in the process! Thanks all who turned up
I think that another meet-up would be good. A series of overnighters would be a good idea and would be easier to set up. I also think Neil's idea of a room at the Buckerall lodge sometime in the future to look at kit would also be a good idea (apologies for my initial scepticism!). Next time - can we bring the knowledge of wild food with us so we have something to cook on the marvellous fires we will (hopefully) start.
):
Cheers to all
Mark (MAL)
It was a good evening. Nice to see a bunch of people from very different walks of live passionate about the same thing. It was also good to see that everyone could learn from someone else no matter how little or much the experience. As middle-learner (so to speak) I picked up hints from young and old (not that anyone is old mind you!). :You_Rock_
Last night I heard wisdom on firestarting, I saw a wonderful, rare Fjallraven top and a stupendously beautiful Allen Blade (thanks Leon for bringing them along). I heard about future sub-artic circle expeditions, axes, opinel saws, jews ears, winter truffles, tinder fungus, types of wood, a lovely birch bowl (thanks Neil) army sleeping bags, frozen eye-balls, ticks, limes disease, gutting deer, cold campsites, the wonders of unpredictable Dartmoor, collectible bushcraft books, why everyone dislikes bill-hooks, ventile and why we all got involved in bushcraft - glad to see many are philosophical but pragmatic about it! I even got myself a mild hangover in the process! Thanks all who turned up
I think that another meet-up would be good. A series of overnighters would be a good idea and would be easier to set up. I also think Neil's idea of a room at the Buckerall lodge sometime in the future to look at kit would also be a good idea (apologies for my initial scepticism!). Next time - can we bring the knowledge of wild food with us so we have something to cook on the marvellous fires we will (hopefully) start.
): Cheers to all
Mark (MAL)
Good to meet you all, I had a good day :biggthump
I would like to thank Greg for suggesting the meet in the first place, cheers. Arctic Hobo (Chris), good luck with the Norway trip, Mal you weren't the only one with the mild after effects in the morning
Next time hopefully we will all meet up on the moor or somewhere similair :wave:
I would like to thank Greg for suggesting the meet in the first place, cheers. Arctic Hobo (Chris), good luck with the Norway trip, Mal you weren't the only one with the mild after effects in the morning
Next time hopefully we will all meet up on the moor or somewhere similair :wave:
I'd like to echo that, had a great time with you lot :biggthump
Neil I didn't realise that the 18th is half term :shock: hope the moor isn't overrun by families etc. :?: I'll be going anyway because I've already booked it off. What did I miss after I left? :wave:
Neil I didn't realise that the 18th is half term :shock: hope the moor isn't overrun by families etc. :?: I'll be going anyway because I've already booked it off. What did I miss after I left? :wave:
No point in repeating what everyone else said but I will say it was a good night with excellent company. I would also say a few overnighters/meetings/walks in the wood etc would be in order at some point.
You didn't miss much, had a few more beers and went home!
Greg
You didn't miss much, had a few more beers and went home!
Greg
Neil/Leon can i go a little OT and ask what is/where is your Avatar from if Neil has it on his car.. is i a logo for something?
The logo is my own design and is there to remind me of my relationship with the natural world, a partnership where my actions have an impact on the planet and vice-versa. I'm good to it -its good to me, hopefully :shock:
Neil
Neil
